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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1904
Page
3
A mother recounts abandoning bookish theories of child training after lectures and conflicting authorities. She notes efforts to study science of parenting but finds a nursemaid or governess common, and returns to direct child-rearing while children still misbehave. The tale hinges on practical experience over theoretical methods.
An Omaha tale relays a Sioux belief that each new moon signals all mice to form four armies that travel from the earth toward the moon. They nibble the moon until it finishes, then descend, explaining the moon growing old and fading away in ancient days.
In the early 14th century a Hamburg Lubeck and Bremen delegation of seventy seven members confronted King Valdemar at Vordingborg demanding more trade rights. The king jailed them in the heavy tower and erected a stone with a pejorative line about houses and geese. A gilded goose statue topped the tower.
English artist Phil May rose to early fame in Australia. A broke minister asked for charity and served as a model. As a joke May demanded the pensioner keep a skeleton after death. On departure May complained of the trick, the old man replying he would honor his word by staying in Sydney longer to prove his integrity.
The excerpt outlines approximate averages by subject area in printed books. Law and sociology about a quarter, literature one fifth, applied side topics one eighth, history and geography one tenth, theology and reverence one tenth, philology and languages about one twentieth, and natural sciences and poetry blending into smaller fractions, noting some terms appear garbled.
A Yonkers Statesman snippet quotes a man and a woman debating a proverb about a person’s character. He likens a man to a watch after the clock strikes fourteen, asserting deeds reveal him, while she retorts that a wound-up man stalls and cannot go.
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The special financial campaign has closed successfully with $500 secured by May. Forty-five contributors supported the effort, and the association appeals to others to help fix up the old gymnasium into an attractive social room. An $800 effort could yield a markedly nicer space. A bowling tournament was replaced by prizes for top strings in June. About 85 boys heard H. W. Gibson speak on Camp Life, enjoyed ice cream, and viewed photos. A wheel ride and baseball game is planned for Saturday morning at 8 45 from the association building.
The Boston Traveler describes summer outreach sending hundreds of Boston children to countryside homes in New England for July and August. The paper asks readers to host a child for a week, promising travel paid and the child kept clean and orderly. The Traveler will arrange rail fare and cover preliminary costs and offers a year’s subscription as thanks.
Describes humble Colombian huts built from logs with bamboo sides and mud chinks, wooden shutters, and bamboo sleeping benches. Peons enjoy music and dancing, smoking, cockfighting, and wear bare feet with mantillas for special occasions, while peasant women display polleras and jewelry.
France produces about four million pairs of wooden shoes yearly. Alsace and Barriers use machinery while Lozere produces by hand. In Lozere 1,700 workers manufacture over a half million pairs annually with maple soles and monogram designs on carved vamps.
A Kansas City Journal item reports lawyers in Iola district court debating attire. A lawyer boasting of being a good provider recalls marrying, while his wife learns a girlhood friend judges her dress. The wife counters she wears the same clothes as before.
Mr George K Babcook was thrown from his wagon and severely bruised He used Chamberlains Pain Balm freely and called it the best liniment he has ever used The well known North Plain Conn citizen praises Pain Balm for sprains and bruises claiming it cures in one third the time of other treatments Sold by McH Budingwon thee te.
Keiths New Theatre bets on a lavish Albee Stock Company staging of The Sporting Duchess at Providence next week. The production uses two carloads of scenery. eleven scenes. over seventy five onstage. features William H Turner and Lisle Leigh in season debuts. The display is billed as a spectacular, costly, must see of the season.
Theodore Hawley of Bristol is praised as general superintendent of the Rumford Falls mill, described as a young but capable executive who rose from Bristol office work to leadership after the Elsas Paper Co. merger. The piece notes his private residence in Paper City, civic involvement, and the regard of 500 to 600 employees. An ad for Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets follows.
The 1904 schedule outlines northbound and southbound electric car service between Bristol and Providence Fox Point. Weekday trains depart Bristol from 5:45 a.m. to 11:15 p.m. with multiple express runs, while southbound service from Fox Point begins early morning and runs through night. Sunday timings separate north and southbound sets with additional noon and evening departures. Arrivals at Bristol from Providence occur throughout the day with varied minute marks.
Regular service between Providence and Bristol follows a weekday and Sunday timetable. Weekdays depart Dorrance Weybosset at 5 45 a m with 80 minute intervals to 11 15 p m, Bristol terminus at 5 19 p m and hourly to 10 49 p m and later runs to Riverside car house. Sundays start at 7 45 a m with 30 minute then hourly runs to 10 15 p m, Bristol departures at 6 49 p m with 30 minute then hourly to 9 49 p m and late to Riverside car house. Cars leave Branklip streets roughly 15 minutes after terminus departures.
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