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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1877
Page
1
Poem speaks of unwithering flowers and evergreen trees that shade, guiding footsteps toward a brighter horizon. It contrasts enduring beauty with lingering fears and fatigue, ending with a hopeful, cheering ray in dark times.
Three London sisters Besse Kate and Alice endure poverty after their father’s ruin and illness. Blind Kate inspires with stories while Bessie and Phil Lushington help, leading to publication success and a hopeful escape to health. Katie dies happy, her sight fulfilled in heaven.
A brief fable-like meditation contrasts five foxes named By and By I Can No Use in Trying Forgot and Dont Care with the harm they cause to vines and fruit. The piece portrays self excuses and neglect as hidden enemies to growth.
The speaker extols the Book of Job as one of the grandest writings ever, beyond creed or patriotism. He praises its universal scope, epic melody, and timeless questions about human destiny and God’s ways, asserting its unmatched literary merit and universal humanity.
The piece argues against elevating female suffrage to a national constitutional issue, urging state by state consideration. It critiques petitioners in Western states like Colorado and suggests growth of support is needed before Congress acts, warning against overreaching national scope.
Mrs Petigru Carson recounts the St Michael's Charleston bells rescued from war wreckage. After sieges and looting, the church sought new chimes from London through C R Prioleau. Meares & Co. rebuilt the set using original molds, reuniting the beloved voices in St Michael's steeple. A second tale recalls a Detroit old man who smiles through family betrayal and a hidden fortune.
The text argues that jest can harm and provoke lasting enmity, while satire aimed at social taboos and political evils has historically exposed and reduced abuses. It cautions against light banter toward sensitive groups but endorses pointed critique of corruption through logic.
A humorous tale contrasts a flaxen-haired boy chasing an auger hole, a boastful young man aiming at banking riches, and a pretty girl debating idle luxury. The narrator notes the folly of chasing easy gains and the futility of misusing a gimblet.
The article describes two traditional preservation methods. One uses a butter firkin lined with dry salt to enclose eggs large end down, stacked without contact, then covered with salt. The other uses a tight vessel with a two inch lime base, eggs placed upright small end down, packed with lime, and refilled as the column rises.
Advertisements cost $1.00 per inch for one week and 25 cents per week for each subsequent insertion. Twelve lines of nonpareil type equal one inch. Special notices for marriages and deaths are 15 cents per line. Yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms. Transient ads must be prepaid. Privilege for yearly advertisers limited to their own business. Ads due by Thursday noon to appear in the next issue. Religious obituaries and political notices charged as advertisements.
A Zerald of Health column warns diphtheria requires broad care including bowel cleansing, air, lemon for kidneys, and fevers treated with baths. Local throat treatment uses ice water compresses and a carbolic acid mix with sulphurous acid and perichloride of iron applied as a spray to affected areas.
Titus Salt, the British philanthropist and manufacturer, died recently. He discovered alpaca fiber after a Liverpool broker showed him shining hair samples. He bought the stock, developed Alpha hair into a dress material cheaper and more durable than silk or wool, and built a fortune that boosted Bradford and Yorkshire. Salt remained called by his Christian name by his workers, a mark of affection born in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
An English observer recalls a French scientist who denied God roaming the Sahara with an Arab guide. The Arab kneels to pray daily, prompting the scholar to ask how God can be known. The guide answers with a parable about footprints in the sand and the sunlit desert, implying divine order beyond human sight.
In the valley of Cashmere within the Himalayas lies Dal Lake with floating gardens. Reeds and water lilies form a raft when cut from shore roots. Leaves spread over stems create a trestle for soil. Seeds are planted and the garden ripens on the water.
Farmers mechanics and all readers urged to obtain Dr Pierce memorandum book free from druggists. The Grand Invalids Hotel at Buffalo to open in June for chronic disease patients with elite medical faculty from American and European schools. The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser priced at $1.50 with 900 pages and 282 engravings, almost 100000 copies sold. Crate of West Alexander Pa. endorses Pierce preparations as highly satisfactory.
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