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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1895
Page
1
We intend to make the year 95 the most successful of our business life in Bristol. We offer hosiery at low prices with many items listed, including gents wool socks, merino socks, children’s wear, and ladies undergarments. Large selection of dress goods and cottons, advertised as low prices.
The department offers Grass Cloth in all colors Silk Orinolisse Linen Canvars Obamis Fibre and the newest hair Cloth along with Selissa and Osmbria fabrics. A line of dress ginghams in fast colors and latest styles is offered at 6 and 8 cents a yard, worth 10 cents.
The note lists favorable values for four, six, seven, four, nine, ten, thirty two and fifteen cents and invites viewing an all linen Crash product for sixty three and an eighteen inch width.
A compact study of Abraham Lincoln as a backwoods driven statesman and diplomat. The piece notes his ties to the plain people, his mastery of political craft, decisive acts like emancipation and wartime decisions, and two epochal speeches at Gettysburg and in the first inaugural. References to Seward Chase and Meade illustrate his cabinet and battlefield diplomacy.
The passage portrays Lincoln not just as a historic statesman but as a figure of deep humanity. It praises his sorrowful humanity and compassionate nature that reveal why Lincoln remains Lincoln.
In a discussion during tense times with England, Lincoln recalls a boyhood memory of two bulldogs separated by a fence. They race and snarl until both reach a hole, then retreat in opposite directions, illustrating how England and America would confront conflict by avoiding direct clash.
A well dressed man registers at the Markham House in Chattanooga with a glib tale and racks up charges. After staging a staged “robbery” he borrows a cloak, flees to Kimball House, then returns to claim clothes and cash from the hotel, leaving with $85 and no baggage.
In a Mid country village a yarn recounts an English tailor who rose to Afghan royalty in Kabul then sent for his English fiancée. She becomes one of the 800 wives of Abdurrah, and Afghan law supposedly calls for all wives to be shot at the ameer's death. Diplomacy is urged to help the English wife amid the family uproar and gouty ameer.
Ambergris, a fatty ocean substance from whales, is believed to form mainly in the intestinal canal of sperm whales. Lumps vary from half an ounce to hundreds of pounds, with the largest humpbacked history lump weighing 182 pounds sold to the Dutch East India Company over a century ago. American whalers average around 100 pounds annually with market values around twenty eight thousand two hundred dollars for the year referenced.
Boston readers report a rock called a fairy stone that resembles petrified earth with a cross mark. The stone is said to originate from Rising Trick Virginia near a fountain of stones planted by fairies since the crucifixion. Locals mount them as pins and watch charms.
Toronto capitalists show caution toward a proposed million dollar hotel project. The Ontario government would provide a site and the city would guarantee interest on the anticipated building costs. The Montfest Gazette notes investors remain wary.
Journal of Education notes a remarkable gold leaf achieved by electro chemical processes at four millionths of an inch thick, exactly 12 798 000 of an inch. This shatters prior records, beating the previous thinness of 1 867 650 and is about 10 584 times thinner than ordinary writing paper.
An exchange from the Washington Star notes that one woman questions the behavior of her spouse while another quips she is luckier since her husband speaks in his sleep. The brief reflects intimate domestic humor.
In the Union Signal excerpt a boy tries to name newborn twins in Back Bay. He suggests Peter and Repeater then Max and Climax then Kate and Duplicate. His mother rejects each idea as unsuitable before his head injury ends the episode.
A shaggy haired man refuses to have his hair cut or trimmed while demanding only a shave from a barber. The barber remains silent for ten minutes and then mentions a brother with a similar head shape, implying a potential family connection.
A story describes a tanrier traveling through an Irish region where many places bear names like the Devil's bridge and Devil's glen. The traveler jokes that the devil is the largest landowner, and a local jurvey replies that the devil lives in England, calling him an absentee landlord in Ireland.
A dialogue notes critics did not truly think about Lofty Sarcasm’s play but merely wrote about it. The exchange questions whether critical engagement occurred and reflects on reception.
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