07 Jun 1884
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1884
Page
1
The passage extols happiness in affection and warns against frivolous disputes. It urges training the mind as a servant to the heart, lists four empties including a purse without money, and counsels avoiding impudence by acting without shame for what one should not be ashamed of.
A Jefferson saying extols farmers as the chosen people of God and honors those who labor in the earth in their calling.
A moral reflection compares a single bad trait to a jarring instrument spoiling harmony. The text notes how quickly fortunes reverse, granting relief from a charity once driven by personal piety. It urges persistence in pushing through crowds to reach a gate everyone desires.
A reflective piece argues that action mirrors inner will and charity reveals virtue. It contrasts hopeful misdeeds with disciplined goodness, urges seizing the present, and likens life to seasons of beauty when good deeds mature. It praises temperance purity modesty humbly calm spirit as true beauty. It warns grief can overpower strong spirit if one yields to tears.
A fragment discussing good manners as essential lifelong habits and their social value. It contrasts habitual politeness with youth temptations, praising early restraint and moral reform. The excerpt cites Rev J S Perowne on sin, repentance, and the danger of complacency in youth.
A promotional note asserts that recovery is possible even after doctors give up. It cites Michael Gnuilfoyle of Binghamton New York who allegedly cured rheumatism after ten years. It also notes R W Mosher a local druggist sold over a thousand bottles citing its reputation for cures.
A traveling boy named Harry buys bread with his last penny and shares a simple meal with a stranger, an old widow who serves coffee and becomes his Jim for a morning. He cherishes the kindness, leaving with funds and a plan to visit the station again to repay a generous gesture.
A traveler notes January sun warm in Florida yet few blossoms and brief twilight. Boots fill with sand while orange trees glow over gray sand and wild oranges prove sour. The journey reveals gaunt beasts, yellowed residents, and Mr. Julius Lemon’s shouts.
An ad promotes Dr Kaufmanns book on diseases with finely illustrated plates. Readers can obtain a free copy by sending two 8 cent stamps for postage to A P Ordway Co Boston Mass. Snooxs wife is noted to enjoy bread making as it cleans her hands.
An advertisement extols Bur dock Blood Bitters as a cure for foul breath and stomach troubles. Claiming the remedy is the best stomach medicine, it links impure breath to an unhealthy stomach and promotes the product as superior.
Physicians are startled by its daily cures for patients given up to die prompting many to adopt the remedy. Trial bottles free at J. H. Young & Co.'s Drug Store. Regular size $1.00.
Biggs recalls buying a large stone dog to ornament his grounds and finds its presence produces endless comic chaos. Pedlars beggars and salespeople flee at the gate, while a wary old lady здаturns back from the yard. The stone sentinel brings laughs and practical savings.
In early days of Portsmouth New Hampshire a pleasure party of twenty set out in a stout pilot boat for a harbor trip. A delay caused the young academy prince to miss the voyage and he watched the boat depart. The vessel never returned and both boat and passengers were lost, with the sea guarding its secrets until time reveals them. The lone survivor, the Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, later became a renowned Harvard educator and exemplar of Christian virtue.
A little girl testifies to her mother's exhausting routine by saying she cannot see the top of her head because she is always busy and never sits down. The remark highlights the extent of the mother's fatigue and overwork.
The advertisement touts Ayer's Cathartic Pills as a prompt and thorough cure for indigestion, constipation, and related symptoms such as backache, side stitches, inflammation and soreness of the bowels. It claims the pills serve as dinner pills and digestion aids with unparalleled effectiveness.
A playful exchange between an old wheel and a wagon-maker ends in a quip about weariness and patience. The humorous line captures rustic wit and rural life implied in the brief dialogue.
An 19th century advertisement touts Ayer s Sarsaparilla as a highly concentrated extract of sarsaparillas and other roots with iodide of potassium and iron. It claims superior control over scrofulous diseases compared with other medicines.
An 1884 act requires non incorporated foreign insurers to appoint a written Attorney to the state Insurance Commissioner and to deposit detailed financial statements. It imposes agent licensing, reporting, and fees, sets capital and investment standards, outlines investigations, penalties, and effective date upon passage.
The act amends provisions on trustee process and claims to personal estate. It allows claimants to join actions for title to attached property, declares trustee sworn answers presumptively true, permits further allegations, and outlines trial and jury options. It also details recording requirements for future earnings assignments and sets recording fees and cost apportionment rules. The act becomes effective July 1, 1884.
The act amends Chapter 74 to specify who pays costs for apprehending examining committing and detaining insane persons. If the person has an estate the costs are charged to him. otherwise the State pays until a town assumes liability by proper proceedings. The act takes effect upon passage.
Chapter 435 amends public statutes exempting towns and cities from costs when insane paupers are admitted to state asylums or Butler Hospital. The state will assume full expense, replacing prior provisions. The act becomes effective July 1, 1884, and repeals inconsistent laws.
The act requires public school funds maintained by district organization to be apportioned equally among districts based on the number of schools each district has, distributing the town's share of the one hundred percent.
The act provides twenty thousand dollars from the State and at least one fourth more from town funds plus other revenues to be split into two equal parts. One part goes to districts by prior year attendance, the other at the committee’s discretion, with a minimum district apportionment of 180 dollars. It repeals conflicting statutes and takes effect May 1 1885 as certified by Secretary of State Joshua M. Addeman.
A Rochester man bought a bedroom set at auction and found forty dollars in a bureau drawer. He returned the money to the owner after verifying the bills were genuine and then learned they were counterfeit, earning a reputation for honesty and prudence.
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