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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1885
Page
2
The May public debt declined by $3,350,833 and New Orleans exposition ceremonies closed on Monday. Reports include mills in Fall River starting up and eight shutting for a week, Cuba aiming to expel filibusters with help from the governor general, and a 1,000,000 turnout for Victor Hugo funeral pageant in Paris.
A Paris driven sugar method replaces beet root with potatoes. Electrics extract the saccharine matter, drawing attention from Paris capitalists for a new process arrival.
The German army experiments with two diet regimens at regimental stations, keeping all extra foods from soldiers. An English sponge antiseptic made from cotton expands when wet, is cheap, and intended for single use.
An English medical authority links tissue exhaustion from toil privation and anxiety to higher cancer death rates over the past fifty years, arguing the era’s strenuous labor history explains the trend.
After thirty years of litigation a Broadway surface road will connect Fourteenth Street with the Battery. The first car on the new road will end the stage line, with the railroad company buying the stage route and selling stages at auction. Summer thunderstorms to be studied by the New England Meteorological Society. The Boston Young Men’s Christian Union’s Country West program has given poor city children ten days in the country since 1875, aiding health and moral development. Families can host children in summer. contact Miss Enron H. Ramsy, 18 Boylston Street, Boston. Fares are paid by the committee.
A list reported by Franklin H. Hough shows Rhode Island citizens granted U S patents on June 2 1885. Entries include B B Lederer Providence bracelet No 318997 R S Matteson Providence ornamental chain No 319326 and W H Sawyer Providence electrical conductor. The total patents granted to U S citizens reached 474.
In Washington on June 1 1885 rumors swirl that President Cleveland plans a broad clean sweep of federal offices. Dismissals are already underway with four division chiefs removed, while politicians from several states push for more GOP removals and postmaster shifts as Decoration Day passes.
The piece reviews dress trends and fabrics for summer wear including chalice, mounsselin de laine, cashmere, and velvet brocades with fruit patterns. It highlights Erich's Illustrated Fashion Quarterly, a 150 page guide with prices and images, and notes Pinn's Irish poplins as versatile, light, and uncrushable. It cites Erich Bros. shop details and a 50g yearly subscription.
Four weeks remain until the Fourth of July with Barnabas day noted for next Thursday. The remains of Benjamin Wardwell were brought in for interment last Friday. Senator E. P. Hale of Maine visited town this week as guest of Col. E. P. Colt. A large elm at Hope and Franklin streets was felled to improve the sidewalk. Rev. E. D. Hall’s sermon at State Street Church last Sunday will be repeated tomorrow evening at 7.
The Bristol town council convenes with probate court actions approving wills and guardians, appointing administrators, and real estate sales. A sea wall bid is approved, and a social license granted. A lengthy recounting of Lt. J. Schenkelberger's Bull Run wound and amputation follows, linking to a local preservation note and historical records.
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