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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1883
Page
1
In a domestic vignette a daughter rejects marriage for a man without vices while her father tenses about strangers. A tramp seeks aid in a country shop and takes cheese bread coal and departs. An ad promotes Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup promising quick relief for a cough at 25 cents.
The notice outlines advertising rates for one inch one week one dollar with 25 cents per extra week Twelve lines of nonpareil make one inch Special notices before marriages and deaths double rates Transient ads must be prepaid Yearly ads offered on reasonable terms Yearly advertisers limited to their own business Ads due by Thursday noon for next issue insertion.
In a village sewing circle Nettie Rice debates marrying for money versus love. she balks at Minnie’s mercenary view. At Judge Wilton's party she meets Arthur Jason a charming banker’s son posing as a clerk, while Mr. Teen wooes with wealth. Nettie rejects money and accepts love, learning Jason’s true identity after a dramatic reveal aboard a Rhine voyage.
A narrator recalls dining with Pascal in Strasbourg and an odd Paris encounter during the Commune. Pascal recounts as the train stops a key request by a Parisian woman to travel under his escort, testing his accent and social behavior in tense postwar France.
A miscellany piece urges living for a purpose and serving others. It reflects on ignorance as a path to learning, the sponge analogy for absorbing knowledge, and the duty to bless others through kindness. It laments neglected maternal care and encourages daughters to ease their mothers' burdens.
Lieut Fredk Schwatka describes Esquimaux hunting Reindeer along Arctic ridges. They mark a line of stone monuments, lure the herd into a constricted angle, then close in with bows arrows and spears. Reindeer swim and run to escape while hunters risk danger from surf and broken kinks. Morser Swan's tonic advertised with claims of curing fevers and ailments.
In Sharon Georgia Lorenzo Dow tests his flock with a joke by hiring Gabriel the boy to blow a horn from a pine tree. The plan triggers a loud trumpet call that unsettles the crowd while Dow finishes with a grim note on the day of judgment.
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