12 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1881
Page
1
A jumble of quirky exchanges and medical pitch from a bygone column. Turopore Hook responds wittily about verse making while an ice cart driver endures cold despair. An ad promotes Liebig Co Arnicated Extract of Witch Hazel as a cure and mentions various ailments and dosages.
An Ohio correspondent reports on Hood's Sarsaparilla praised as a spring blood purifier amid impure blood and weakened vitality. The piece then describes a hairless horse afflicted by humid exanthema and its unlikely sale. Danish porcelain details cover quality, translucence, and decorative styles from Copenhagen's Royal Porcelain Works, noting creators like Thorvaldsen and Jerichau.
Dr. David Kennedy offers Favorite Remedy compounded from nature’s own remedies to treat vast complaints of the River, Kidneys, Bowels and Blood. First collected from woods and fields, these remedies are condensed into a formula promising relief for one dollar. Doctor’s office at Rondout, New York. Write him with your case.
In December 1880 James H. Manchister a nurseryman promotes an aikali adsorbent priced at 50 cents. The note claims relief for rheumatism neuralgia nerve disorders and inflammation. The fragmentary text contains crude language and unclear attribution.
Minchen, the young girl known as Minken, disappears after a birthday voyage with Grandpa Gramp on the Sally. Yanks search ends when a rescued Minchen reunites with Frau Schmidt and Herr Schmidt, while Grandpa Gramp declines city life but visits the village. Yank and Minchen plan future visits as she returns to the San Francisco family.
A reclusive 81 year old man, lifelong New Yorker and heir to a large fortune, was found dead in his East Ninth Street room amid piles of books and manuscripts. He kept others out, met visitors at libraries, and left valuable property estimated above 100000 dollars to his 75 year old brother unless otherwise disposed. An inquest wasn't required as death was believed natural.
The piece describes Japan’s wooden sandals worn by thirty five million people. Each sandal has a separate great toe compartment and a clacking street sound. Straw slippers are carried for travel, cost about a cent and a half a pair, and are worn outside the house, not indoors.
A compilation of aphorisms urging self discipline, honesty, prudent living, and reliance on scripture. The passages advocate speaking truthfully, avoiding idle dreaming, applying common sense to belief and business, and valuing God’s word as a treasury of wisdom. They urge personal reflection to know oneself and to seek diffusion of useful knowledge.
A Rochester Herald item details A Pickle of Newfane New York sharing his family of twenty four siblings and two eyes with unique pupils. He describes two daughters tall growth and a single man with remarkable height. The report then explains guano islands, debating their soil, flora, and the ammonia rich deposits, noting differences by Pacific and South American islands and the colonial mining process shipped to Hamburg for Europe.
The report recalls Dr Hyrtl's Vienna birthday anecdote about a ballet dancer's shoe hiding a deathbed message from Wanda, a pupil of the Imperial Dancing Academy, linked to a plea to spare her humiliation. It also shares practical tips on horse balling prevention with gutta-percha and on cleaning painted wood and oil-cloth finishes.
A Berlin octogenarian woman died after nearly fifty years of solitary life. She kept a servant as her sole human contact, lived in luxury yet never allowed cleaning, wore one boot and one shoe, and wore gloves day and night. She left most of her estate to a grandniece in England with remainder to an asylum for dogs.
A sick child of a stylish clan is given medicine via a drugstore prescription. The clerk warns that if the first powder cannot stay down, a second should be given. The shopkeeper asserts they are not poor and would not repeat the same remedy.
A witness recalls the defendant's mother crying at the event, weeping with her lone left eye down her right cheek. The judge asks how this could be, and the witness explains she was awfully cross-eyed.
A brief item notes a seal skin jacket is stylish yet prone to catching cold and advises ladies to keep Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup handy priced at 25 cents. It ends with a warning that resolutions formed without thought bring disasters without remedy.
A circus keeper transporting an elephant from San Francisco to Philadelphia devised a stove free plan. After permission was denied for a fireplace in the car, he filled a box car with stable compost surrounding the elephant. As heat rose the compost was watered to produce warm vapor, enabling the journey to proceed safely to the owners.
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