23 Jul 1895
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1895
Page
1
The advertisement lists children’s black cotton hose in plain and ribbed styles with fast colors, ladies vests and corsets, silk and jersey garments, gloves, mitts, and various shirt waists. It promotes duck suits, boys sailor suits, and a broad range of fabrics and linings, all offered at sale prices across multiple departments.
The Craig and Richards listing catalogs granites including American Quincy Clark's Island Oak Bay Concord Barre and others. The piece mentions popular granites such as Red Peterbesd Gray Rubis and Dalbeattie Scotch with a note of sixty original monuments.
The Bristol Phenix presents The Poet's Gift by Henry Coyle. A poem extols the poet seeing nature as a divine unity, with lines about earth melody, sea moan, birds, and all living things as geese, a child of nature, and God near.
A Western railroad president visited New York and misplaced his false teeth. The dentist recovered them from a pillowcase after a hotel-room search. The executive paid double for the expedited work and approved proceeding with the order.
A Union Square barber engages in brutal domination of a gruff customer as the barber slides into a sharp, taunting shave. The customer vents sarcasm while the barber exacts silent control and grisly indignities, ending with a savage boast and a chilling smile.
The article reviews the nebular hypothesis as the origin of suns and planets. It explains a primordial nebula contracting to form a central mass becoming the Sun while offshoots near the equator condense into Jupiter Saturn Earth and other planets per a British writer. It cites the St Louis Republic as the source.
A writer in a mechanical journal argues the main obstacle to efficient water wheels is lacking engineering skill in applying power. Many waters are underused due to improper control and turbine choice. Early turbines were used singly. now they are used in pairs or triples.
The report notes that power capacity has expanded from 500 horsepower turbines to 5,000 horsepower units due to expedients in turbine construction and water economy. It also contrasts foreign and domestic education practices, praising Prussia’s natural history teaching and Swiss school hygiene, while Vienna calls for more playgrounds run by experienced teachers.
A frontier duel tale from Syracuse Post describes Broncho Bill and Firewater Jake facing off over a youth’s courage and a hidden stash of five aces as the crowd watches in frontier streets.
A 24 hour feeding plan using six to eight half pint bottles. Fill each bottle with the correct amount of formula per feed and seal with cotton batting. Stand bottles in a pan with a perforated plate and water, boil then rest in a cooler area for an hour before chilling.
The passage traces ancient wills from oral to written forms with moral binds and imprecations. It mentions Noah and Sennacherib as early will examples and notes ancient Egyptian wills. It contrasts this with modern royal girls whose wills concern beds clothing ornaments and masses.
W F Peters and Co advertises Pur Ladies and Children items in plain and fancy colors. A Black Silk Parasol priced at 1387 claims to rival any 175 market parasol.
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