12 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1879
Page
1
An essay argues that success hinges on childhood burdens and parental discipline. It contrasts harsh upbringing building responsibility with indulgent parenting that enables shirking, claiming the world eventually rewards toil and accountability. It also notes small village scandal and urges readers to mind their own business.
In a warm June countryside Rose and Bell Melton, two wealthy young women, clash over class and compassion. A beggar man seeks aid. Bell gives him money, inciting Rose’s scorn. Bell attends a grand reception at Fernery Court with Lionel Granville, who reveals the beggar was him in disguise and that Bell’s kindness moved him to trade a sovereign for her happiness. Bell later buys back the coin, becoming mistress of Fernley Court while Rose remains distant.
A brief miscellany extols sunshine as the best medicine for body and soul. It claims sunlight aids liver issues neuralgia rheumatism melancholy and improves mood and household atmosphere. It urges building sunny rooms to invite daylight and radiate cheerfulness and faith.
A Young Folks Rural reflection on parental duty to train daughters in labor. It warns that rich children raised to despise work become helpless if misfortune strikes, while every daughter should be taught to earn a living and families should educate children to work.
A printer Samuel Woodworth visiting Mallory’s saloon proclaims brandy superior to water until he recalls the old oaken bucket of the well. His memory of fresh spring water inspires half an hour of writing that births the famous song The Old Oaken Bucket, now household lore.
A wife argues for harmony over a husband’s smoking and games at home, urging companionship over habit. The piece reports the Shenandoah’s fate after Civil War service, sinking off Socotra with only a few survivors, detailing its surrender in Liverpool and sale to Nicol Fleming & Co for the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Locusts swarmed the Georgian town of Jelizawetpol near Tiflis on April 20. Merchants shuttered shops and residents faced bread shortages as canals filled with insects and homes became crowded with the pests. Authorities demanded daily dead insects from households under threat of punishment. Priests carried relics through streets amid masses of locusts as police measures finally eased the attack after gardens, orchards, and vineyards were stripped.
A Metropolitan Elevated Railroad worker recounts the dangers of drunk passengers and near misses on board cars, describing three ways intoxicated men try to board and a dramatic rescue. The piece shifts to notes on orange trees, their varieties, and origins, then to a Russian hatter mistaken for a savior of the czar, who is theatrically ennobled by the court.
An Indian tale shows humor at a white man banquet where a raw mustard spoon brings tears. A chief, faced with the potency too, cries as well, then retorts that the other man should have died when his father did, in savage wit and irony.
An Englishman newly arrived in Philadelphia laments the prevalence of left tailed dogs in the streets. He argues this trait signals low breed and danger, linking it to hydrophobia and discouraging his visit to the Beach Show of dogs. He notes right curled tails are safer and more respectable.
A Massachusetts teacher describes a classroom experiment in the national Journal of Education. With the desk placed behind students the teacher can monitor all pupils, reducing whispering and mischief. The method isolates recitation groups, prevents signaling, and enforces a single rule that pupils must not glance around.
In Flanders cobblers gained precedence over shoemakers and bore a boot with an imperial crown. Charles V visited a cobbler’s stall on St Crispin’s Day, drank, and the cobbler requested honors: a boot crowned emblem and precedence over shoemakers, which the emperor granted.
A Henry county Alabama woman abducted a young man to wed, hiring herself and him to pick cotton until a marriage license could be paid. Two brothers arrived, beat the man and then attacked the woman, leaving her to fend for herself while the couple fled, the attempt ending in a dusty retreat.
English newspapers critique outfits worn by North of England visitors at a picture exhibition. Mayfair questions why Blackburn and Oldham ladies choose bright silks and green with salmon edging while a Yorkshire woman sports crimson cashmere and seal-skin.
In Strafford New Hampshire Bow Pond hosts a large pond with a drifting island. The island bears white birch trees and blackberry bushes yielding notable fruit. When rains swell the pond the island drifts as the wind pushes it and settles when water subsides or touches bottom.
Tips on contacting editors emphasize brevity and directness. Do not linger during business hours. State news or suggestions quickly, avoid excuses, and be prepared for the editor to judge. Writers should present fresh material, accept the editor’s final say, and remember editors seek public approval.
The new Queen faced language trouble after learning formal Dutch from a university tutor. She mastered an archaic style thinking it was the common tongue, only to discover her attempts to speak with burgomasters and common folk failed as if addressed in high German. Her honeymoon was spent acquiring a second Dutch language.
An elderly fruit can transformed into a irrigation device helps water ground near plant roots. A quart can is pierced with small holes and buried near strawberries tomatoes or other crops. Water drips slowly through the holes sustaining growth during dry spells and boosting yields.
A prospector finds a dead cat at his shaft in Iowa gulch and, superstitiously unsettled, abandons work. He travels to town where he drinks heavily for days. While he is away, neighbors mining nearby strike mineral and survey him in, costing him a fortune.
Rates for advertising include one inch for one week at one dollar and twenty five cents for each extra week. Special notices and marriages or deaths double the rates. Monthly or yearly contracts exist with restrictions. Ads must be submitted by Thursday noon for the next issue.
The essay explains quarantine as a forty day period rather than a place for ships. It traces its legal and linguistic roots from monastic and military times, noting its origin linked to Lent and its evolution in English law and treaty practice through medieval and early modern references.
Take four fresh fish such as cod haddock or bluefish four to five pounds two onions and thin salt pork. Fry pork until crisp then cook onions add layers of fish salt pepper and pork with hot water and crackers. Simmer cover boil fifteen minutes add milk ten minutes more optional oysters added before serving.
In India four partners bought cotton but a cat owner injured a leg. A rag soaked in oil on the leg caught fire, the cat fled into cotton bales, burning the stock. The court ruled only three usable legs could carry the fire, so the owner of the injured leg must be compensated for his share.
A walking stick patented in Germany by Herr Herb of Pulsnitz includes a signal spike on one side of the handle and a knife on the other. The middle handle houses a compass and a screw-off hollow for a six-glass microscope, ether or chloroform vial, thermometer, sand glass, and a 2 metre measure. The ferrule accepts a botanic spatula or an ice point, with a knife above and a glacier-point option.
An old report estimates water flow over Niagara Falls at 100 million tons per hour and a concurrent 14 foot fall plus rapids totaling 164 feet. The main fall’s power reaches 16.8 million horsepower, which would require about 266 million tons of coal annually if generated by steam.
A townwide ad spree leaves one man isolated as he stubbornly refuses to advertise. His fortunes crumble until the day after bankruptcy when he must hire an auctioneer to promote the sale of his business for creditors.
The piece muses on population estimates and density, then pivots to marketing Dr. Pierce products. It touts Golden Medical Discovery for scrofulous throat and lung diseases and Sage's Catarrh Remedy for catarrh. It cites testimonials from women and advertises the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser at $1.50, with over 100,000 copies sold, from R V Pierce M D Buffalo NY.
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