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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1896
Page
1
A Bristol catalog advertises a week long sale of ladies undergarments and gowns. It touts quality style and lower prices on chemises drawers skirts night gowns and corset covers with quantities and marked down prices from 25 cents to 2 dollars.
A lyrical meditation on decay and departure as spring blooms fade to death. The speaker lists many flowers including zinnias marigolds lilies daisies dahlias asters hollyhocks violets and roses to evoke time passing and the end drawing near quoted from St James Gazette.
The article recounts Governor Bob Stewart of Missouri pardoning an aged ex-convict he recognized in Jefferson City. A second anecdote notes Stewart's later notoriety and an encounter with Senate colleagues. It also discusses education through reading as a substitute for college, citing Edward Bok.
The statistician M Bertil lon reports Paris has the most foreigners of any European capital with about 1 781 560 foreigners excluding 47 000 palatialized. Germans number 26 868 in Paris while Berlin holds 897 French residents.
A fragment notes that most European ruling houses originate from German lineage. It claims German descent for British, Austrian, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, and other royal lines, with French, Portuguese, and Italian houses as the few non German exceptions. It also mentions rulers in former Turkish provinces as German by origin.
In Chicago social notes, Brown wears a striking gown as MMra confesses a misstep in the ceremony. The husband blurts out a remark about dresses while a playful exchange unfolds.
O E Borchgrevink recalls Arctic survivals explaining how listening to the ice roar reveals the gale’s direction. He notes open water forms beside moving icebergs, who push floes forward yet leave swaths of water behind. He warns correct judgment could save a vessel from destruction.
The twice a week New York World becomes thrice weekly with three six-page papers per week totaling eighteen pages a week for one dollar per year. Each issue contains eight columns per page, six pages per paper, and forty eight columns per issue. New subscribers pay two dollars fifty cents for one year.
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