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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1883
Page
1
A patent dust proof open face watch is described as solid without joints, opening in front only for strength and durability. The bezel holds a strong crystal with waterproof cement, screws to form an airtight, dust and moisture resistant case fit for railroaders travelers miners and miners lamps.
Miss Dorothy and Uncle Jabez face a mortgage threat from Squire Higby after borrowing to fund peat processing. Gertie’s marriage plans reveal the estate’s fate, culminating in Lewis Higby restoring the home as administrator. Dorothy learns the cost of debt, forgives, and preserves family dignity through resilience.
An 19th century advertisement touts Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache Plasters for backache rheumatism and similar complaints priced at 25 cents sold by J H Young & Co The copy pridefully cites Ben Johnson on speech and extols Wheat Bitters claim of making users speak well asking readers to try them.
Charlie Sullivan, an impoverished Irish youth on Wesang oH street, found a wallet with several hundred dollars in checks. He restored it to A. P. Ordway & Co., proprietors of Sulphur Bitters, receiving a liberal reward and six bottles of Bitters for his rheumatic mother.
An advertising snippet extols Fortune visiting all classes worldwide. It advocates Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh, claiming safe use by children and rapid relief. A testimonial from S. M. Greene of Catskill confirms instant relief after trying the product. Mail-order offer at 60 cents from Ely's Cream Balm Co. in Owego, New York.
A collection of moral maxims and reflections on virtue and effort. It urges kindness, honesty, and toil as paths to excellence, with short pointed quotes by Bishop P. Wilson and Z. B. Thayer and a parable about forgiveness through a deaf mute observer.
Many fruits stay sour until frost sweetens them and nuts cling until frost opens and ripens them. Likewise, elements of life do not become sweet and beautiful until sorrow or age arrives.
An intimate friend recounts Hawthorne receiving notice of dismissal, returning home with a heavy heart. His wife in acts of support kindles warmth and sets writers tools beside him, prompting him to write The Scarlet Letter which becomes a resounding success aided by his steadfast spouse.
A nurse terrifies a child with a bear under the bed tale. The mistress later frightens the nurse with a burglar under the bed, causing hysteria. The child’s fear shows the harm of cruel sleep stories and ends with the nurse losing the job.
The former mayor of New York Stephen Allen, a man of noted integrity, died in a steamboat disaster. A pocket slip found on him lists maxims urging virtue, frugality, honesty, self control, and lifelong learning with instructions to read the maxims weekly.
A statesman once visited Baltimore and gave a colored girl a hundred dollar note thinking it was a dollar. She used it in a grocery, the merchant suspected theft and kept it. The note was verified as genuine, the statesman offered it for safekeeping, and the girl’s honesty was praised. Years later the heir recovered the funds from court and received the money.
The excerpt describes diamond mining in Africa with Kafirs supervised by a white overseer who watchfully discards large diamonds while washing gravel. It contrasts harsh mining life with advice on bright sunlit rooms and spring cheer, urging use of sunny spaces for health and morale.
A sketch shows a gargoyle lion carved in stone on Heidelberg Castle with a bird nest in its open mouth, partly vine overgrown. The note recalls Longfellow and a reader in May urging readers to visit and look for this peculiar bird home during summer travels. A nearby missionary tale prompts reflection on sending workers for foreign missions. Turning over a new leaf and trying a new brand of cigars.
A humorous tale centers on a grocery clerk’s performance of honesty mistaken by customers over undersized sweet potatoes. A young suitor then recounts his first romance, describing nerves, a kiss, and a frugal father who values money over indulgence while promising a future filled with desire and risk.
A reformer who first rejects office ends up nominated for Overseer of the Poor. He plans sly electioneering and faces a neighbor named Van Hooflinger who pledges support, promising to campaign for him and secure votes from the local German community. The exchange reveals tense expectations and civic pressure on the reluctant candidate.
A bank in Indiana hires a watchman with mixed experience. The president warns against strangers entering at night and to watch the cashier. The cashier jokes that the watchman must watch both men, noting the cashier’s remark that the watchman is the squarest man in Indiana but should be watched after hours.
A shopper at a Wall Street stand questions the freshness of maple sugar cakes. The vendor refuses to lie, offering six cakes at five cents and insisting the product is old sugar polished up, while appealing to patrons to support the “poor but worthy man.”
A Cincinnati Enquirer notes palmistry in this country remains little known yet gains interest. It describes three hand types square, round pointed and spade shaped and links finger joints to body mind and spirit. Lines on life head and heart reveal character, intellect and love, with practical trends favored by most.
Artemas Ward recounts a Connecticut incident where a runaway horse chased a wagon near a girls school. He turns the scene into a humorous moral about elopements and the dangers of attachment, concluding with a quip about his own heart being crushed by the audience.
A historical note describes Vegetine as a blood purifying remedy that renovates and invigorates the whole system. It lists medicinal properties as alterative tonic solvent and diuretic, highlighting its perceived therapeutic actions.
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