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Newspaper

Bristol Phoenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1895

Page

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Hosiery and Garment Bargains In Plain and Fancy Fabrics

Local retailer promotes a wide range of low priced hosiery including children s black cotton hose at 25 cents per pair and ladies Lisle hose at 37 to 12 cents. Gloves corsets shirts waists and wash fabrics like jacquard Dutchess and London pique are offered with various price points and a complete line of men s shirts collars cuffs and ties. Duck suits and sailor suits for boys feature hot day wear at affordable prices. Large stock of fabrics and linings advertised for garment making.

Childen Jacdénet Dutchess Plesse Royal London Atsc

Monument Designs Offered by Red Peterhead and Partners

Sixty new and original monument designs announced with names of granite varieties and popular stones such as American Quincy Clark's Island Oak Hill Concord Barre and Bay of Fundy. Orders may be left at D A Pieror's Cloth-Lag More Meta pegeh Beisel Hj.

Kenney Dyce Persley American Quincy Clark’s Island Oak Hill Concord Barre Bay of Fundy Werterly Hallowell Fox Island Black Diamond Red Beach D. A. Pieror's Pegeh Beisel

Solar Blue Violet Rays Kill Germs Bacteria

Professor H Marshall Ward tested the solar spectrum on bacterial spores observing that blue and violet rays are most effective at killing bacteria and fungi. Glass lenses reduced blue violet transmission, but quartz allowed strong results. summer exposures were feasible while winter would require impractical lengths.

H. Marshall Ward

The French Expedition to Egypt and Its Library

A 19th century age of study sent scholars with advanced gear to Egypt to grab pharaonic and Ptolemaic treasures for Paris. Their library mixed ancient classics with modern thought, spanning Homer to the Bible and including Rousseau, Goethe, and Mercier. Caroline Bonaparte gifted a pocket library to Napoleon, and readers noted marked passages in Bacon, Stael, and Mercier entries.

Egypt Paris Homer Virgil Ossian Tasso Rousseau Heloise Goethe Werther Montesquieu Caroline Bonaparte Bacon Mme. de Stael Mercier Professor Sloane Napoleon

Dinner talk and a sly invitation in a room tale

In a conversational scene Haw kins recalls a overheard exchange about plans and dinners. Snooks teases Webb about future engagements from Tuesday to Thursday noting a dinner with the Blakes and a witty aside about a Boston budget. The Kentucky river name origin is given as Kain-tuk-ee meaning at the head of the river.

Hawkins Smooks Bruffkins Snooks Webb Snook Blakes Boston Kentucky

A Man's Wisdom and His Friend's Folly

A proverb about a man whose wisdom contrasts with a friend whose folly leads to risk or error. The saying highlights value of prudent judgment over impulsive actions.

Nature's Instrument Brook Song Reminds Reader of Joy

A quotation from Joe Cone in the Boston Traveller describes a brook's music as nature's instrument. The passage recalls boyhood joys and a healed spirit when wandering past stones and brush, contrasting worldly irks with the brook's calm cadence.

Joe Cone Boston

When Woman Is Not Grateful and Looks Absurd

London Graphic argues that women appear ridiculous in many everyday tasks due to clothing, pockets, and burdens, contrasting with men who navigate streets and travel with ease. It claims grace only in rest, carriage, drawing room, or dancing, reflecting era stereotypes.

London Graphic

Touraineans Emerge as Comforting, Content People in All Seasons

A narrator admires Touraine residents for their steady, contented demeanor. Women in blue cotton gowns, wooden shoes, and white stockings appear picturesque with dark eyes and lively smiles. Men are a hardworking, festive crowd who cherish their province, recalling Prussian raids a generation past, and praising a climate with sun even in winter.

Agnes Sorel Touraine

American Officers Witness Fatal China Fight For 4 Cents

A group of American naval officers in China during the late war hired two Chinese fighters for 4 cents. In a staged bout one fighter killed the other after a dispute over a stone strike. Authorities ruled the murder not a concern of the officers, noting they had effectively secured a fight, a killing, and an execution for a trivial price.

China

Nobleman Confined to Siberia Turned Home by Prank

A conspirator against the Russian emperor was sentenced to Siberia with eyes bandaged and a dark carriage ride that lasted seven days and nights. At last he believed they were in Siberia, only to find the carriage had circled St. Petersburg and ended at his own home, a frightful trick that cured him.

Siberia St. Petersburg Apna Ladi Jourpal

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Wardwell Lumber CO Bradford Street State Street Lisle Sec T. Allan The Monarch Dye House CEQ Salter, Jr Providence, R. I Prairie Avenue John Lake Ger High and Constitution Ste the Graig & Richards Granite CO Quincy, Mass WM. W. Smith Attleboro, Mass Bristol Phenix Nature’s Instrument Tourainers Seth Paull W.f.peters & Co Hope Street Bristol Providence Jerrey Vastu Buderick Lowando Warren Monumental Works JUICE Warren, R. I Cornelius Harrington Prop R. L. Reed CO H. Herbert Bosworth L. B. Bosworth Agen. Rame Office OG. A. Greene Isaac B. Munro Cor. High and Bourn Btz B. I Wipthams, Baiotol
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