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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
4
A New York Press excerpt explains men’s tailors sit crosslegged to keep the back straight and eye level for fine sewing while knees form a near face level table. Women’s tailors sit on chairs because sewing is less fine and they must frequently rise to the manikin, which tires them.
A young woman with an incurable disease seeks hospital admission in the south. Facing imminent death, she begs for a painful operation to gain a few months more for her babies. Her heart too weak for anaesthesia, the surgeon explains the brief respite, but she chooses the operation to live for her children. Delineator reports the act of motherly sacrifice.
Marlborough House, built by Sir Christopher Wren at forty four thousand pounds funded by the duke, housed the great duchess who waged social warfare until her death in 1744. It hosted a bedbound deputation from London’s lord mayor and sheriffs, later leased by Leopold and granted to Queen Adelaide as dowager of William IV.
A Chambers Journal excerpt recalls pikes attacking bathers and even a giant pike with a baby’s body found inside. It recounts a retriever bitten above the hind leg near Richmond and naturalist Cholmondeley Pennell struck by a pike while landing it. A stick pried the jaws apart.
An ambitious saloon keeper is appointed police magistrate in reward for faithful political service. At the first case the magistrate questions the defendant who pleads not guilty. The defendant claims he never drinks, while the magistrate offers him a cigar as Isis humorously polishes the desk.
A Wart notes the inventor claims a device to increase motor car speed while a patent attorney counters that the true need is a device to increase pedestrians speed to dodge the fast traffic.
A Chicago Record-Herald item quotes a preacher calling man a worm and a remarried man in a rear pew adding woman is the early bird. The exchange reflects humorous, old fashioned sermon banter.
A humorous exchange is recounted with a Cleveland Leader quip about marriage. The husband asks why she married him and she replies she thought he was different from other men. When asked for divorce, she says not because of mistaken impression but because she was right.
A brief attributed line from Groves exults in laughter and love as guiding forces for hope and faith, inviting a lighthearted view of life and relationships.
The excerpt cites Defoe criticizing fashionable servant girls who imitate their mistresses. It notes the shift from practical shoes and stockings to high heels and silk gowns, with plain country Joan becoming a city madam who drinks tea and carries herself proudly.
Berliner Tageblatt notes criminals who rob during funerals mirror an ancient Dion Cassius tale from 2600 years before Christ. Greek marauders reportedly plundered Memphis palace, were captured, and vivisected for science, a fate modern thieves should not fear.
The piece recalls a Boston Herald note about a newsboy who proves his trade with papers and a cigarette butt he picked up to prevent a gutter fire. It praises the newsboy as a future fire chief and hints at lessons readers can learn from him.
The Stroller in the Portland Express describes a group of hungry men outside a popular restaurant on Congress Street. They compare themselves to actors, joke about eating their words, and lament their hunger as the chef flips griddlecakes into the air.
The excerpt notes that many animals have different electrical susceptibility. A leech on copper and zinc plates cannot move due to weak electric action. Horses feel minor potential differences. An ox treated for rheumatism with electricity died from a current harmless to humans.
Little Mrs. Hunter, aiming to prove herself a savvy housewife, asks the marketman for two French chops and one hundred green peas. The comic miscue highlights mispronunciations and the playful barrier between aspiration and practical cooking.
A humorous exchange depicts Mabel asking her husband for money and his timid reluctance to provide it. The moment captures domestic banter and social graces in a playful tone with a focus on gender roles and financial negotiation. The dialogue reflects a coy, ready wit between mother and daughter in a family setting.
The speaker repeats a line about a mutual acquaintance, quipping that the man is so thin he can only swallow macaroni one piece at a time, drawing a quiet burst of amusement.
A brief dialogue shows a mother asking Dickie if he enjoyed his ice cream soda. Dickie replies yes, noting seven other boys watching him through the window, hinting at a social moment or scene.
The phrase attributed to Cato suggests a minimalist stance toward gear and adornment, favoring simplicity. It reflects a classical caution against excess in material possessions.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports on a creature called pyrophore or pyrophor, an inch and a half long firefly that lights as one or three lights. It can read fine print and illuminate a room, aiding Brazilians on dark forest paths. When light fades, a cold-water duck restores its glow. the insect is known scientifically as Coleoptera serricorn stérmose elaterides.
A Swansea captain faced doom in a fierce gale. He sent his wife below to sleep and stayed on deck with the mate to decide the ship’s fate. With fires out and boats useless, he told his crew to save themselves. He chose to go down with the vessel while his wife slept.
In a bustling cafe an affable young man announced a 10 cent raffle for a dollar bill. Fifteen men joined, drew slips from a hat, and the winner pocketed the bill. He thanked the crowd, noting the sale netted a dollar and a half for his ride home.
Two centuries ago students at St Andrews paid no room charges, but quarter and session rates funded meals at the high table. Costs ranged from £3 10s per quarter to £5 11s 1d for six months, with breakfast at 7 a.m. of oatmeal loaf and beer, supper of bread and beer, and meals at both high and second tables featuring broth, beef, and occasionally merring and flounders. A brew house supplied abundant beer and porters sold ale to students.
A bishop at a London church congress banquet responds to a bald vicar bending for a napkin by noting his bald pate at elbow level and declining melon in favor of pineapple in a humorous exchange.
The first line carrying rockets were invented in 1820 by Englishman Trengrouse and adopted by the Massachusetts Humane Society for use at its stations. They proved successful, though today brass cannons are used to throw lines to wrecks.
A snippet depicts Weary beneath an apple tree asking for an apple while Warmer notes ripening four months away. Weary responds he can wait, saying he is not in a hurry as life stalls to a patient rhythm.
A dialogue fragment shows a father refusing to give his daughter in marriage and a determined suitor pressing the point. The exchange dramatizes tension over marriage arrangements in a vignette cited by Meggendorfer Blatter.
Hewitt says money troubles pause him. Jewitt remarks women have different ways to obtain funds. He notes his wife kisses him when she wants money.
A Kansas campaign tale recounts a candidate who sought the endorsement of a local Black man to win the town's Negro vote. After socializing and sharing cigars, the candidate pressed for broad support, only to learn the man claimed to be the sole Black resident, underscoring local racial dynamics of the time.
A New York Tribune report recounts feats by historical strongmen. Charles Louvier of Paris rolled a tin basin into a cylinder and carried a sleeping sentry on guard to a churchyard wall. Danish locksmith Knud Knudson lifted a half bullock with one hand. Augustus the Strong bent horseshoes and broke coins at a blacksmith shop, paying with a thick silver piece and later a louis d or. Luigi Bertini of Milan broke nails a finger thick and other metal. The Duke of Grammont bent a twenty franc piece at Napoleon III’s court.
Cellini recounts an early Italian surgery in which a chipped steel fragment lodged in his eye was removed by a surgeon who used pigeons. The surgeon made small wing-vein cuts and blood from the pigeons' wings flowed into the eye, providing relief and aiding recovery within two days.
A district school teacher in Pennsylvania analyzed the phrase bank note and reported a pupil’s paper defining it as a compound word. The student argued bank means the side of a stream and note means to set down, thus bank-note means to set down by the side of a stream.
A dialogue frame from the Philadelphia Record quotes Tommy Pop and Tommy as they discuss what makes a gambler. Pop asserts a gambler is judged differently by a wife and by friends, depending on loss or victory.
An old ad extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as the best kidney and bladder remedy. It urges readers to treat weak kidneys first to prevent body-wide failure, claims mild immediate benefits, and offers samples by mail with a pamphlet. It notes availability from druggists in fifty cent and one dollar sizes.
The notice states that Hartford Railroad electric car service begins or continues in effect on May 27, 1909, outlining the new or ongoing streetcar operations for the public with potential schedule or route implications.
Readable fragments indicate a Bristol and Provident Company timetable with arrivals at Newport on the 12th day at 7:00 am. Details are limited but show travel and departure notes for a local service.
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