Bristol Store Seeks A Year Of High Sales In 1895
Boston Store proclaims intent to make 1895 the most successful year in Bristol. Advertises gents socks at 16 dozen merino and all wool options, ladies underwear, skirts and dresses at reduced prices, and wide range of fabrics and notions with bold per yard and per pair pricing. Highlights double width Cottons and Tricot.
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Bristol
Providence
Ivers& Pond Piano CO
Tremont St
Masonic Temple
Boston
Mass
Linings and fabrics offered in complete stock
Advertisement notes complete stock of fabrics including Grass Cloth Silk Orinoline Linen Canvass Chamivs Fibre and hair cloth in Selissa and Cambric. Dressinghams in fast colors priced 6 to 8 cents a yard, value up to 10 cents.
The World the Flesh and the Devil Against Her
A Brooklyn letter discusses personal suffering and blame for misfortune. It argues the world flesh and devil are excuses while urging individual responsibility and self reliance. The piece cites moral reflection from Eleanor Kirk and notes featherbone corsets by Lord Taylor and others.
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Lgrge
Commandments Moral Guide on Family and Society
The piece outlines sins against the commandment to honor parents including disobedience privacy intrusion and marriage without parental knowledge. It condemns public officers and employers for abuses and calls employees to faithful service. Also notes an Harper's Bazaar mushroom article by W Hamilton Gibson and fashion items from Worth.
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Harpers Bazar
W. Hamilton Gibson
Worth
Paris
Pullman's Narrow Escape Nose Knocks on a $1000 Offer
Baron Otto von Fritsch visiting Pullman recounts a Chicago episode where a newspaper offered $1000 to pull George Pullman's nose in public. The baron, once the duke's agent, competed over a settled account and then offered to do it for half, but negotiations collapsed.
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Otto von Fritsch
George Pullman
Chicago
Transportation
Pullman
New York Recorder
Albert Memorial in Hyde Park Terribly Criticized
Kate Field writes from England that the newly erected Hyde Park statue of Albert is the most hideous sight, a gilded seated figure in a robe. She likens it to a gilded pill and notes the Prince of Wales exclaimed My awful dad when first seeing it.
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Kate Field
England
Hyde Park
Albert
Prince of Wales
Charles Mathews
Edinburgh Memorial
Kingsley Couple Wed at North Adams Parsonage
Elisha Kingsley aged 92 and Julia Howes aged 70 wed Thursday December 14 at the North Adams Methodist parsonage with Rev. Dr. George W. Brown presiding. The couple now honeymoon at their Boston home on Felgen Street.
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Elisha Kingsley
North Adams Methodist Parsonage
George W. Brown
Julia Howes
Kingsley
Felgen Street
Boston Globe
Rules for skaters from Captain Johnson of the Libbey
The Oshkosh Northwestern reprints Captain O. W. Johnson of the tug D. L. Libbey advising skaters on ice safety. He urges carrying a cord with a weight to assist others, staying away from downriver holes, not climbing out alone, using a pole to help in rescues, and avoiding currents while noting he has saved 18 lives.
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O. W. Johnson
D. L. Libbey
Winneconne
Captain Johnson
Oshkosh Northwestern
Monument of Bankruptcy Tower Aims at Wembley Park
A grand tower planned at Wembley park north of London aims to surpass the Eiffel Tower in height as a monument of bankruptcy. The project has spent 500000 dollars and the first platform has not yet been reached.
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Great Tower
Wembley Park
London
Eiffel Tower
Amises
The Current French Spy Mania and Harsh Penalties
A Paris letter notes a surge of French laws cracking down on espionage with harsh penalties. The proposed measure would criminalize handling defense information with five years in prison and a 10 000 franc fine. Opposition denounces the bill as excessive and dangerous to civil liberties.
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Dreyfus
London
France
Paris
American translator Hyde translates Horace amid duties
General Thomas W. Hyde of Bath translates Horace in his spare time and writes to English author William Ewart Gladstone after reading his work. Gladstone replies from Hawarden Castle, December 1, 1804, noting the honor of shared effort. Augusta Journal, Maine.
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Horace
Thomas W. Hyde
Bath
Gladstone
Atlantic
W. E. Glapstorx
Hawarden Castle
Augusta
Cape Conception Named After Cortes Fleet Weasel
Cape Conception in California is said to have taken its name from a weasely member of Cortes’s fleet. The origin link ties a navigator’s anecdote to a rocky promontory famed in local lore.
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Cape Conception
California
Cortes
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Lumber Yard Foots OF
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Foot OF State ST
Hope Street
R. I
T. T. Allan
Deans ST
Prairie Ave
Providence, R
Bristol Phenix
Brooklyn Letter
Brooklyn
Greene Ave
Lord & Taylor
Eleanor Kirk
Cholly
Lackawanna
Plymouth
Mt. Hope
Franklin
Seth Paull
Thames Street
W.F. Peters & CO
W. F. Peters & GO
OEY Cagvecec Payments
Johnson
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