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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1910
Page
4
Holly Springs Mississippi Mrs Willie Epwards reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming a tumor and surgery avoided a return to illness She credits advice from the company and endorses the remedy for female health issues and invites confidential letters to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass
Calt High School baseball played 14 games this season with 8 wins and 6 losses. The report lists batting averages, base hits, home runs, sacrifices, fielding figures, strikeouts, and walks for players such as Hamill Sisson Ingraham Morrissey Fish Coggeshall Morris Garvin Perry Collins Isaacson. The final note adds a joke about speaking French with the student mispronouncing gesture.
A procession led by Hose Co. 1 and others moved through Warren streets to the Bristol Opera House where Governor Pothrey reviewed the parade. Afternoon program featured prayers, readings, melodies, and band selections, including Oberon Overture and Remick’s Hits No 7, with Milo Burke directing.
A Milo Burke Band program features marches overtures and solos at 7 30 p m with a fireworks display from 8 to 9 30 p m on the common. A cutter race near the harbor between U S Tacoma and Rhode Island Naval Battalion crews drew crowds. Tacoma won by about five boat lengths amid favorable remarks for the local crew trained a week.
Chief of Police John H. Morrissey and Officer James W. Goff captured a gang of Boston pick-pockets and sent them out of town in the forenoon. Two Bristol Neck residents reported robberies near High street before the parade, each taking about 11 and 5 dollars respectively, amid confusion during a run of Coal Colt's historic coach. The chief detailed Goff and several constables, then donned civilian clothes to pursue the investigation.
Police halted a 14 member Boston pickpocket gang after a half hour chase along the street. A railroad yard blaze burned a discarded fish net valued at 300 dollars. No fatalities reported. Fireworks caused minor injuries and library steps wounds. Tacoma harbor celebration featured a ship parade, a governor’s float, and a 50 recruit shipout for Central American waters.
A Bristol event drew orderly crowds for a grand parade with the Bristol and Warren artillery companies. Naval Reserves and firemen also marched, yielding a fine military display. The Napoleon Garden in Fall River attracted attention with two arrests for intoxication and for a partner demonstrating Johnson’s knockout, while revolvers were seized from three men. Opera House exercises featured Miss Mary B Reynolds reading the Declaration of Independence and Governor Pothier delivering a commemorative oration. Chief Marshal Wendell K.R. Davie earned praise for coordinating the Governor’s review and stage arrangements.
A short Life magazine style meditation on the benefits of thinking for oneself versus adopting opinions from others. It argues ownership of one’s mind fosters personal interest, value growth, and careful self-curation versus neglect in a rented mind.
Three physicians discuss dream length as a patient wakes from a nightmare after a junk dealer’s cart bells ring outside. The patient reports a dream of illness and a son’s bells ringing, suffering tortures for an interminable span, yet waking immediately when the doctor arrives.
A butterfly hunter narrates swamp life describing a spotted turtle catching a large terrapin. The creature slowly chews, then smiles and flaps forelegs, like a child at the breast, before tucking under roots for a nap in a watery world.
A humorous exchange defines tact as a woman's skill to make her husband feel he is in control. The quote attributes the line to Lippincott's, framing tact as a gendered notion within a witty domestic banter.
A short clipping cites the Atchison Globe and Burton on hatred consuming time energy and health. It notes dividends are pitifully small and unsatisfactory and debates the folly of living like a wretch to die rich.
An aphorism notes some men believe success in business requires making others wait in the anteroom. It also quotes a German proverb: Happy are the miseries that end in joy.
A Virginia City boarding house rivalry targets Mark Twain with a turkey leg trick at Thanksgiving. The landlady helps plant a wooden leg, and Twain quips about a changed poultry dealer as he tests the leg’s truth with a sharp whack of his knife.
The text describes immense forests across the globe, noting Canada’s vast forests larger than Britain, the Hudson Bay region spanning 1,000 by 1,700 miles, a forest from Alaska to Washington, the Amazon basin about 2,100 by 1,300 miles, Central Africa about 3,000 miles north to south, and Siberian pine larch and cedar forests measuring roughly 3,000 by 1,000 miles.
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