Bristol Probate Court notices for guardianship in 1881
Probate court in Bristol on July 5 1881 considers James B Martin minor guardian choice of father William A Martin and Rebecca Smith estate account for Frederick Martin minor guardianship with notices to be published fourteen days in Bristol Phenix. Peter Gladding, Probate Clerk.
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Peter Gladding
Bristol
Joseph M. Blake
Bristol Pianix
Spore
Biistol
Patrick McWay
Bridget McWay
Thomas Church
Samuel W. Church
Bristol Phenix
James
Martin
William A. Martin
Robate Court
Rebecca Smith
George P. Smith
Beistol
Frederick Martin Minor
Frederic Martin
Air Probate
Lemuel P. Cummings
Mary L. Cummings
Constitution Street
Benjamin L. Weat
John B. Pearce
Margaret McIntyre
Thomas N. Allen
Lown
RHIS
George McClellan Smith
Elizabeth
Smith
George J. Smith
John Lawhens
Edward W. Branson
Hezekiah W.church
Bristo
Athaniel Waldron
David Waldron
James Lawder
John M. Munro
James D. Wardwell
Robate Colley
James’ D. W. Perry
Clarence J. Seymour
Josgph
James D. W. Perry
Julia
Perry
Said - Bristol
Beth Gladding
Mother's lonely ascent from house to hope after fire
A burned-out mother faces homelessness as her children rally only with reproach. She vows independence, seeks work with relatives, and finds support from a kind helper, Rowena Alpen. The piece reflects on filial ingratitude, enduring self-respect, and the quiet resilience of mothers.
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Mother
Julia
Jessie
Jule
Andrew
Jim
Isabella
Mercy
Mamma
Alpen
Rowena Alpen
Mrs. Alpen
Aspen
Christian Weekly
Harvest of Thought on Seedtime of Character
A reflective line contrasts harvest of thought with seedtime of character. It notes a remark that a fine honorable old age is the childhood of immortality, implying that true wisdom grows from early virtues. The piece frames aging as culmination of cultivated character.
Adage on health and friendship defies adversity
A terse maxim states that good health and true friendship empower a person to laugh at misfortune and defy worldly pressures. The line elevates resilience, suggesting strength rises from healthful well being and loyal companionship in facing hardships.
Horsh Sages Advocate Justice Over Kindness
A quoted exhortation declares that counsel has no effect like hammers on anvils. True benevolence loves all, repays injury with justice, and kindness with kindness. Virtue finds present reward, with no unlucky outcome to regret.
Blossoms and Truths Through A Gardener's Lens
Flowers sweeten the air and eyes while actions reveal character. Beware friendships with the infected though guarded by antidotes. Human happiness tied to more than wealth, life moves forward despite foreboding. Those who dwell on future evils may meet them on the road. Reflecting on misfortune can mislead or direct.
Seeds of Truth Sowing Everywhere
A reflective line notes how daily actions shape others, planting seeds of honesty or deception in people’s lives and guiding future choices.
Measure by Your Own Yardstick, Not Others’ Woes
Opinion argues people should be judged by their own standards rather than blaming others for different treatment. It contends fairness comes from applying the same yardstick to all, even if it is painful to face personal bias.
Gossip Circulator Worse Than Originator Warns Reader
AAN who helps to circulate a piece of gossip is as bad as the one who originated it. To put your fist into a tar barrel and then go round shaking hands with somebody is what some people like to do.
Time to Read Tales Beyond the Living and Dead
Tre will yet read to the living an unpublished story of the dead. Time may explain silences which shall make strong men weep. Time may teach our hands to be quiet or our voices to be tender and low. Time may lead up out of the valley of humiliation troop of penitents to weep at every grave.
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Tre
Pond Bass as Pets and a Mountain Hermit Tale
An illustrated piece on pond bass as intelligent pets, detailing a three hundred fish tank made from washing machines, their tame behavior, and a fatal clash with a goldfish. A remarkable Asheville hermit Mary Burt Howe’s life story unfolds from cheerful village girl to reclusive teacher, then reunion with her former lover Robert Fletcher. Also a Raleigh style note on brakemen’s peril and insurance challenges for railroad workers.
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St. Ni
D.C
Morehead City
N C
Asheville
Mary Bart
Hermit
Vermont
Robert Fletcher
Fletcher
Citizen
Burt
Mary Burt Howe
Miss Howe
Maine
Boston
Liverpool
North Carolina
Miss. Howe
Mat Bitters Build Up Nervous and Muscular System
An overview notes Mat Bitters as a remedy that strengthens the nervous and muscular systems to overcome disease, promoting overall vitality. The claim emphasizes tonic benefits and general health improvement without citing clinical evidence.
Quote on a professor and a student over a charge
A professor asks where the greatest charge on record lies and an absent minded student replies with a playful price of seventeen dollars for hack hire for himself and a companion for two hours.
Lregig Co's ARNNCATED Extract or WitcH Haze Claim
Advertisement by H R Stour M D Jacksonville Florida promotes Lregig Co s ARNN CATED Extract or Witch Hazel as superior to any Witch Hazel on the market. Claimed cures include piles salt rheum painful monthlies and weak eyes offered in fifty cent and one dollar sizes.
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Lregig Co
H. R. Stour
M. D
Jacksonville
Fla
Untitled Opinion on Trust in Humanity
A reader argues that the world is not growing wickeder and that trust is easier to gain now than three months ago. The piece asserts that faith in fellow humans, a beautiful idea, is gaining ground.
Huxor in the Stomach Cures Highlight Hood's Sarsaparilla
The article claims many stomach ailments including hypepsia chronic diarrhea and related distress are caused by humor in the stomach. It asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla cures numerous cases with remarkable results and builds public confidence in the medicine.
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Hood
Smoldering Ruins and Nobles Seek Czar Amid Debris
A 1992 Russian report notes the ruins still smolder, twenty five nobles play among debris, and the safe remains in place until tomorrow night. Belief exists that the czar, uninjured, may be found among the wreckage, hinting at a dramatic recovery in progress.
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To-Torrow
Watt's Listie a Long tiger informally advised health note
Fragmented ad style text urges patience with disease and references remedies. It mentions November corn planting and a remedy from Kennedy's pharmacy. A doctor in Ronda is cited, with vague guidance to obtain medical advice. The passage reads like an early 20th century home remedy snippet with uncertain legitimacy.
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Watt
de Ayid & Kennedy
Ronda
N. Vere
Drunk Sparrows On Ash Heap In Kingston
An entomologist emptied preserved insects on his yard ash heap. Sparrows drank the spirits, fought in groups, toppled nests, and caused chaos. Within half an hour the drunken spree ended, cats killed over fifty sparrows, and the neighborhood saw no sparrows afterward. It is unclear if the cats drank as a result.
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Kingston
A Goop Mothers Plan For Home Evening Fun
A mother recounts inviting her lively sons to stay home for evenings filled with reading, games, plays, and treats. She argues against harsh views of children’s amusements, noting shared readings and questions after history chapters, and emphasizes spending calmly at home to nurture growth into home-loving, modest young people.
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Ibut Ag
Rale
Boston Baked Beans Reach All Social Strata on Sunday
The Western Rural notes Boston and New England tradition of baked beans as a universal Sunday staple. Rich and poor share the same dish, prepared in a bean pot and baked from Saturday night to finish at morning breakfast, with beans parboiled, pork, and sometimes molasses. In the countryside the method varies, slow baking in a coals fire yielding prized beans.
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Boston
New England
Piri
Beacon Hill
North Street
Sophia Perovskaia the hanged Nihilist and her trials
Rochefort notes Sophia Perovskaia, sixteen when she joined socialist propaganda, worked as a harvester, endured detentions, and was transported north. Her journey included disguises, peasant life, and night journeys back to St. Petersburg as part of a railway mine conspiracy.
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Sopate Perowskaia
M. Rochefort
Sophia Perowskaia
Volga
St.Petersburg
S.dreas
Frente
Animals Sense Impending Earthquakes in Ischia
Italian writer notes animals in Ischia show clear premonitions before shocks. Cows moo anxiously, sheep push against enclosures, birds take flight, dogs bark to wake their owners as tremors approach. Horses shudder in stalls, indicating widespread animal unease prior to the quake.
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Ischia
Fashionable women urged to adopt low heels
A Home Journal excerpt argues that comfortable shoes and low heels improve bearing and grace. It condemns high heels for distorting posture, causing awkward hobbling gait, and mocks tight boots. It urges fashion to embrace ease and rebuke painful, tall footwear.
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Home Journal
Locusts Previewed: Assaf Pasha Enlists 500 Men
Assaf Pasha sends 500 troops to the Troy plain to combat locusts. By using sheets to gather insects and stamping them with feet at dawn and dusk, observers note darker cloths attract more locusts and early morning or evening rubbing proves most effective. A hatch weighs about 100000 tons per line of marching insects.
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Assaf Pasha
Troy
Soda for Burns Plainly Explained in Plain Terms
The passage describes relief for burns including scalds and sunburns using a soda solution. It notes that dry soda alone does not work unless wrapped with a moistened cloth to dissolve it and recommends washing the wound with a strong soda solution, keeping a bottle on hand. It mentions the notion that pain comes from albumen hardening and that soda may relieve pressure, or that the burn produces acid which soda neutralizes.
The Kinder Dyke Child Dyke Story From Flood Legend
In the Maas region a flood two centuries ago drowned thousands and submerged Friesland. A cradle and an old cat saved a baby on a floating cradle as the waters rose. The cradle survived the voyage and the island was named kinder dyke in memory of the unlikely rescuers.
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Holland
Maas
Friesland
The Blind Bridle and Cruel Horse Practice
An author argues blind bridles injure horses by forcing oblique vision, misaligning eye axes, and impairing sight. He notes most draft horses wear them, yet owners cannot justify the practice, linking it to eye disease and possible blindness.
Washington Looxep General Washington Character Portrait
In 1798 a writer described General Washington as tall and well made with a dignified air. He notes his manly features and blue eyes, deep brown hair, a long face marked by smallpox, sunburnt complexion, and a composed thoughtful countenance. The portrait highlights candor sincerity affability and simplicity as key traits.
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Washington
Nesney Claim on Mankind’s Ills and Kidney Tonic
An old advertisement proclaims Nesney cures all ills by keeping chroma liver and kidneys in perfect order. It asserts no medicine works as quickly and surely without interfering with duties, naming Barker is Ginger Tonic as the product.
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W. N.H
L 'Hoon’ T Co
Lowell, Mass
Clemen
Lowell
Meier
Lincoln Portrait Gift From Civil War Train Ride
Ex Senator H C Lord recalls guiding a special I C C and road train for Lincoln in 1861 from Indianapolis to Cincinnati. Lincoln, weary and solitary, drew his name on a worn valise and presented a small picture to Lord’s wife, while Lord admits he did not vote for him.
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H. C. Lord
Ohio
Lincoln
Mr. Lord
Washington
I. C. and
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Jefferson Davis on Lincoln and the past
A Port Huron report quotes Jefferson Davis denying a $400 million offer for slave liberation and denying consent to any overseas bid to rescind secession. He says Lincoln was wise and legal, and he rejected Senate ambitions, insisting the past should be left alone.
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Jeff Davis
Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Port Huron
Mich
Hampton Roads
Davis
Lunch basket meals face opposition on eastern railways
The piece defends lunch baskets as an alternative to eating houses. Passengers telegraph for a lunch, a waiter delivers it on arrival, and baskets are collected later. Critics warn of unsanctioned meals and lack of redress, preferring dining rooms or riskier exits.
Yankee Rubber Baby advertised in London papers
The London press touts a new American novelty sold as a washable durable unbreakable infant toy. Described as life like and cooing yet screaming when spanked, it promises laughter for families and claims even experienced fathers are deceived by the product. The ad mentions a white dress, 14 stamps, and twins with postage free.
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America
John Bull
London
Bucket
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