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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1896
Page
1
A Bristol advertisement promotes Ladies fast Elk cotton hose and ribbed men’s hosiery with prices slashed from 75 cents to 62 for undervests and drawers. It touts a wide display of plaids, all wool serge fabrics, and cheap shirts, with spring prints arriving and a broad stock of fabrics and notions at the lowest prices.
The Bristol Phoenix notes the first Providence appearance of W S Gilbert’s His Excellency at the Providence Opera House for three nights and a matinee. It highlights Dr Osmond Carr as new in America, a Bristol Train of Artillery rifle meet, and features on Major General Henry Lee in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly along with various poetry and fiction contributors.
Captain Isaac F Williams has left the National India Rubber Company after five years of service including two years under his late father. He directed freight operations and claims adjustments for three years and will relocate to Jersey City New Jersey to enter real estate with E F Emmons’s firm. He is connected to Bristol and Warren Water Works and served on Gen Kendall's brigade staff.
A French medical paper reports a 4000 B C tonic for hair prepared for an Egyptian queen. It lists odd ingredients like dogs paws and sea hoofs boiled with dates in oil and notes minerals known before Columbus. Pliny records sympathetic ink from new milk as a curiosity.
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