19 Jul 1895
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1895
Page
1
A local shop advertises children's black cotton hose in plain and ribbed styles, ladies' hose and shirt waists, silk shirt waists, duck suits, boys' washables, and wash fabrics. It promotes latest designs, prices per yard, and a full range of gents' furnishings, lining materials, and fabrics for garments.
The ad lists gloves in various styles and colors with prices 12½, 25, 37 and 50 cents, plus Lisle hosiery and silk mitts in all sizes. It promotes a large stock of black and new shade kid gloves and a full line of corsets, including black corsets priced 50 cents to 1.25 dollars.
The Craig & Richards Granite Co of Quincy Massachusetts promotes Red Peterhead Gray Rubis Kenney Dyce Persley and Dalbeattie granites plus American Quincy Clark's Island Oak Hill Concord Barre Bay of Fundy Westerly Hallowell Fox Island Black Diamond Red Beach and more Sixty new original Monumenta Designs. Orders may be left at D A Pierok's Cloth-Bore State Street Bristol BT.
A Bristol Phoenix item narrates a child’s church moment with a playful image of puppies in a cushion scene. The piece shifts to a New Orleans Ames Democrat anecdote about mislaid charity and hesitation over changing money, then cites Mark Twain and a discussion on pyjamas and chilly nights from The Graphic and London Lancet with notes on cold risks at night and the idea of wearing warm garments.
William Dean Howells narrates a dilemma of charity and conscience as he encounters a beggar without hands on a quiet street. He debates giving a half dollar versus a smaller coin while weighing moral versus economic pressures and contemplates whether to respond to the appeal.
Ashland Kentucky manager Fowler creates a steam whistle attachment for telephones in factories and shops. The device uses a magnetically driven lever to release a weight that starts the whistle when the bell is rung and keeps it shrill until the call is answered and steam is turned off. Installations planned at a steel plant tannery sawmills and similar sites.
Simpson and Pelissier differ in height and temperament. Pelissier, a stout Norman, hugged the English general in a fervent gesture after their city’s capture, prompting amused remark from the English staff. Simpson quipped in his dialect that he could not resist the moment.
A historical quip recounts Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth debating how much smoke is in a pound of tobacco. They weighed the tobacco, burned it, weighed the ashes, and concluded the smoke equals the preburn weight minus ashes, noting oxygen’s role in ash mass. A dramatic scene ends with a woman demanding the ring back.
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