12 Jul 1884
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1884
Page
1
The mind controls the body like a living machine and active reading builds will, concentration, and discipline. Reading, even of erroneous content, strengthens reasoning, and farmers especially should read to improve thinking and increase farming success and profitability.
The ad asserts scrofulous poison lies in many and that Ayer's Sarsaparilla will thoroughly eradicate this evil from the system. It links scrofula sores, ulcers, eruptions, rheumatism, and organic diseases to the condition and promises relief.
A reflective note on how a young lady requires ample room in a horse car yet can endure a cramped space in a top buggy, highlighting contrasts in carriage comfort and social expectations of women.
Children dread castor oil but for necessary medicine Ayer's Cathartic Pills offer a sugar coated option. They combine essential cathartic principles and are easy to swallow for young patients.
A moral reflection praising a generous disposition that prefers deception over suspicion and forgoes personal rights to uphold charity, aligning with the apostles’ teaching that charity never fails.
A detective confronted Miss Jane Percy aboard the Alaska and exposed a plot to abduct Charles Burton, the Beenham Lodge heir. The nurse and spinster sister devised the scheme to seize the estate, but the detective recovered the child in Liverpool and earned a substantial reward from Sir Edward Pordage.
This miscellany blends aphorisms on will, prayer, and daily conduct with rules for comfort. It argues for restraint, humility, and care in living, links prayer to spiritual renewal, and warns that vigor wanes from excess and neglect of preventive living.
A reflective travel piece notes China as a land of graves where coffins lie in fields and by roadsides. It recalls coffins bought for about two dollars and the scattered inland burial practices amid a history of ancestor worship.
A writer details birds’ long autumn journeys from Florida through the Gulf to the Amazon and back to the North, noting flocks resting at Tortugas forts and weathering storms. He cites English and Northern European species, storks bearing riders, and sea wanderers blown to sea or drawn to fishing boats.
A fourteen year old New York messenger boy traveled to Baltimore to redeem a pawned gold chain worth fifteen dollars. He left New York after receiving fare money, retrieved the chain from the Consolidated Loan Company, and returned to New York the same day. The chain belongs to a man briefly in financial trouble who wished to wear it at a New Year’s reception.
An advertisement touts Parker's Hair Balsam as a non oily non dye hair dressing that stops hair loss restores original color and makes hair long thick soft and glossy. It argues women can have desirable hair without envying younger girls and highlights cleanliness and purity.
An editorial note from Editor Weekly American declares Sulphur-Bitters offers renewed strength for those with chronic diseases. It claims the remedy builds up the entire system and restores vitality, urging readers not to despair.
The humorist Artemus Ward answers a colonel about whether he fought in the war. He explains he sent a substitute, kept away from General Lee, and vowed to defend his homestead with buckshot if Lee approached with fifty thousand troops, prompting laughter and Ward's departure.
The passage touts VEGETINE as a pleasant root and herb remedy suitable for children. It laments the uncertainty of prophecy and elections while claiming Thomas' Electric Oil as a reliable cure for aches and pains, linking a mother shipton style warning to a health product.
J H Young & Co secure agency for Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption and lung ailments. Guaranteed relief and trial bottles free, regular size $1.00. Suitable for coughs colds hoarseness asthma hay fever bronchitis throat and lung issues.
A traveler’s detailed account of a route from Nice to Genoa via Villefranche Beaulieu Eze Monte Carlo Mentone and other Riviera towns. Descriptions cover sights palaces cathedrals and notable sites including the Saracenic tower at Eze the Columbrs monument in Genoa and Palazzo Doria Tursi with Columbus manuscripts and Paganini’s violin.
The advertisement extols Ayers Cherry Pectoral as vital for throat and lung diseases. It warns ordinary coughs may lead to fatal sickness and urges immediate use of the remedy to combat these insidious illnesses.
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