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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1893
Page
1
A chaotic Pullman ride dissolves into a tender moment as a young girl in a night dress consoles a distressed child while a train crosses rugged sounds and murmurs. Passengers’ voices fade as a mother steadies her child and a quiet night settles over the car.
Fragmentary OCR shows list of names including Christopher Lippitt Dutee Wilcox Joffrey Davis George Cranston and others. No clear event, date, or location is readable. further text needed for a proper summary.
At the annual meeting held on Monday at 9 A M the following officers were elected for the ensuing year President William H Spooner Vice Presidents Henry God Auspins O Bourn John G Watson Trustees Charles H Hlern Gretracht Farrington Thomas G Ibelmes nit Colt J B Pearce I F Wilhar Pound Berreshoff Ezra Dixon Altrecht Wilm Hodgtingen.
An old Providence ad lists Sheldon and Binney at 28 Westminster Street offering Prensack General Banking Tusnese Dealers in Stocks and Foreign Exchange. It mentions interest on deposits payable on sight and notes private telegraph wires to cook and grow with signatures HARLER H. SEELDON, JE WM LINNEY, JB.
A tale of Pink Dyer a red headed Wyoming miner shown from boyhood to his last walk home. The narrator recalls Pink’s humble start in Coloray and Denver, his work as a cowpuncher and miner, and his devotion to family before a fatal shaft accident in a mining district. He dies after a shift saving a fellow worker, choosing to go home to his mother and siblings.
A clothier plans to distribute ten thousand sheets of blotting-paper bearing his ad for Al Wool Trousers at two dollars. The printer doubts the tactic noting Volkies may mistake the blotting paper for a sample of the goods.
A collage of humorous exchanges and wry lines from multiple papers. Jokes range from a parrot’s swearing to quarrels over peaches, and quips about vacations, recipes, and city life. Several named papers cited include the Washington Star and the New York Times.
A historic Persian carpet, claimed as the finest in the world, measures 34 feet 6 inches by 17 feet 6 inches. It features a pale blue ground, intricate floral workmanship, a central medallion, and sixteen minaret-shaped arches. The border holds an inscription praising the mosque lamp and a line about refuge at the threshold.
A fragment notes nervousness and a trial bottle by mail with a receipt of 25 cents in stamps from Rumford Chemical Works Providence Rhode Island.
E C Morris & Co advertises safety deposit vaults and bank safes at 64 Sudbury St Boston claiming the best safe in the world with 10000 in use. It cites fire experience from Lynn and Chicago and urges sending for circulars. Also notes advertising opportunities via Geo P Rowell & Co of New York.
A Philadelphia Press note recalls a blind Chicago boy who built a miniature wooden house inside a four ounce bottle with forty pieces of wood and a cork that cannot be removed without tearing the bottle. It adds a medical warning about iced foods and beverages harming health and urging restraint in hot weather.
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