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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1904
Page
4
The Kansas City Journal notes the Kickapoo Indians select wives by mutual agreement without scandal. Husbands and wives live as a true couple, crime is rare, and robbery is unknown. Possessions would fit in the street, and trust is strong. Religion centers on two spirits with daily dances and tom-tom beating.
A philosopher muses on how simple marriages can yield complex kinship webs. He explains scenarios where marriages create cousins twice removed and other relations, arguing that complex outcomes arise from straightforward causes in family ties.
A New England senator recounts a Providence businessman's famed frugality. A ratcatcher billed ten dollars to rid his warehouse of rodents, prompting the man to question if he earns any value for the rats. The anecdote underscores the bounds of thrift in business.
The brief note reports Young Mrs Mead hiring a man and his wife as new servants. She expresses happiness for their marriage and hopes they remain harmonious. The man retorts that they have a large family but keep Bridget in the dark to avoid disruptions, implying tensions and a lighthearted, provincial exchange.
A vivid note describes enormous spiders in Java forests weaving strong webs and forming airships. A Texas spider supposedly constructs a balloon four feet long and two feet wide, attaches it to a tree by a single thread, and transports its young to distant lands before the thread is cut.
In a Philadelphia Press column, Mr. Crabbe refuses an extravagant bonnet, prompting his wife to propose a plain cheap option that she would gladly wear, revealing a widow's bonnet as the chosen item in a light domestic exchange.
Edwin answers with cheerful conviction that he would not regret bachelor life even if he lost Angelina and that he would marry again, showing his happiness and commitment in a light, affectionate exchange.
A Washington Star gag contrasts two men debating spellings for an insult. One asks whether gibbering should begin with gs or a j. The other refuses to spell the insult, preferring to say it aloud, calling writing foolproof.
Miss Keedick offers Mr iilley a postal card to Miss Durley which she declines. She prefers sealed proposals, saying they can satisfy a friend not seen in twenty years, though if it is forty years the hour must be shortened. Atchison Globe.
A curious Nature note describes an inch long black ant with brown wings dragging a larger cricket along a roadside near Bordighera. An opportunistic brown lizard on a wall below the scene darts up, grabs the cricket in its mouth, and carries it away, while the ant circles and flutters in a frantic search.
Hall Caine once served as a publishers reader and judged manuscripts. He reportedly rejected The Romance of Two Worlds, which later became a major success. A writer appealed for kinder words, arguing his year’s labor deserved more time. Caine replied with a wry maxim about impartial judgment.
A new theory explains hunger as due to emptiness of the stomach blood vessels. Hunger rises with blood rush to the stomach after eating and starting digestion. In anemia, appetite may be absent though stomach is empty as vessels congest instead. A tongue nerve stimulus from spice can increase appetite, while tongue nerve disease may reduce it.
A Sunday school lesson on returning good for evil meets a blunt response from a child. When a teacher suggests giving an apple to a struck classmate, a girl quips that the classmate would strike again for another apple, highlighting practical doubt about the proverb.
A Chicago Post fragment recalls a girl in blue calling treachery, another in gray notes a pact to refuse a proposal, and a bet placed that she would. The plan fails as she accepts, revealing a trick within a romantic exchange.
A speaker reflects on waking after two weeks with a sprained ankle to find the world turning as before, noting how life continues despite personal pain and questioning how little individuals amount to in the grand scheme.
The exchange shows Mr Author explaining that criticisms of his books sharpen his intellect. Kansas City Journal notes the witty interaction reflecting literary self perception and public reception.
The exchange features a young man declaring the world owes him a living and an older judge remarking that the man is not a preferred creditor, highlighting a judgment or legal theme about financial entitlement.
A cryptic French proverb notes that overreaching effort exposes futility. The saying warns that ambitious attempts to demonstrate certainty may backfire, underscoring restraint and measured claims in argument.
The author compares the mind to a gate kept by a sentinel that admits only sensible ideas while awake. In sleep, irrational words flood in as the sentinel rests. He begins with the chant abracada bra, noting words repeating faster until a colorful pattern dissolves as sleep takes hold.
The Atlanta Journal notes that despite praise for American profiles as refined, a profile portrait in shadow can exaggerate flaws. A slightly upturned nose or above average nose size can appear disproportionately prominent, making a once fine face look deformed in a side silhouette.
Describes head hunters as professional assassins harvesting the heads of those hired to kill or sell for sacrificial purposes. Enemies offer shell money as proof of death. Hunters use cautious, long-term schemes, sometimes betraying trusted friends to strike. A hateful, gain-driven vocation.
A Prince towardsland Legend recalls a chain ball from a British attack on the French fort at Point Prim. The ball supposedly toppled the old church steeple, sent its bell into the sea, and locals say a phantom bell tolls at eventide warning mariners of looming storms or danger. The tale appears in Donahoes Magazine.
A physician with a large practice claims an egg remedy cures bone felons. He instructs cracking the larger end of a fresh egg to insert a finger into the shell, forcing the finger into the egg, wiping away the leak, binding with cloth, and leaving overnight. If needed, a second application completes the cure.
In a Stray Stories vignette Fweddy, nicknamed Perkins by others, commands a line and eventually helps unhook a fish. He muses that fishing strengthens bonds and that sometimes they reel in a slippery catch as a blithe reflection on the pastime.
A conversation recalls Fogg Munnsworth as a farsighted man whose ventures prospered yet critics say he overlooks local suffering. He is praised for charity abroad while questioned about domestic needs.
In a Life magazine cartoon style exchange a judge questions a man about being struck by his wife with a plate. Rastus insists the injury isn’t visible but argues the plate did the damage, highlighting a humorous racial stereotype of the era.
Fragment from Houaston Post quotes a paper sign about reducing a chin with a dismissive exchange. Henpeck- replies “perhaps so, but she’s never let me try” reflecting local flavor in a brief newspaper snippet.
Keith’s New Theatre in Providence unveils a capital vaudeville bill led by Frederick Bond the renowned comedian in a condensed My Awful Dad. Supporting acts include the Entzer Trio the Three Crane Brothers the Quaker City Quartette Marion Lamont Ryder’s monkeys John and Bertha Gleason Dorothy Kent Emerson Omega Yackley Brunell Leon Adeline and Biograph with a lively mix of song dance comedy and spectacular novelty performances.
Fresh from road triumphs the Empire Theatre hosts a week long rep of the melodrama Her First False Step. A simple country girl Edna Allen suffers amid jealousy and deceit as Jack Walters fights to prove his faithfulness amid a den of vice and danger.
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