13 Mar 1896
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1896
Page
1
Readable ad lists heavy ribbed hosiery and cotton hose at low prices, plaid fabrics, blue serges and cashmeres, with discounts from 24 to 25 cents and 75 cents to 2 50 for latest styles. Full stock includes fibre chamois and silk materials with lowest prices claimed.
A quantity of waste paper suitable for fire lighting can be obtained at the Phoenix Office for carrying away.
An offer invites readers to receive 28 fully written news letters printed and mailed weekly for a year to a friend living elsewhere. It promises possible savings on postage and appeals to those who enjoy gossip from this state.
Jeannette Gilder argues against the so called new woman and the obscene themes of English periodicals. She praises healthy American fiction and condemns Degenerate writers like Grant Allen and Mary J Pondered while naming Kipling and Mrs. Humphry Ward as more popular authors.
A description of a Jesuit missionary in northern China life at dawn to night. He studies matins and reads prayers while catechists handle more rites, filching time for local disputes and divorce questions. He travels with muskets, trades pigeon for pork, reads La Croix, brews rice wine, and sustains solitude through religious books.
A speech at a banquet for President Hayes and his cabinet in Omaha features Evarts delivering a long eloquent sentence ending with a paradox about the west. He praises the west and its public men and jokes that the wiser men came from the east, reflecting a humorous contrast.
In Herod’s amphitheater in Jerusalem a crowd watches chariot races, sword duels, and gladiator combats. Professional fighters clash with captured foes, culminating in condemned captives pitted against hungry predators for public spectacle, as described by W. O. Stoddard in St. Nicholas.
The text traces sacred music's rise and Augustine’s Roman influence in 597, noting Gregorian chant shaping church sound while early 13th century English music shows secular forms first in manuscripts. It contrasts fixed service music with freer secular composition and mentions Blackwood's Magazine.
The piece outlines wine pairings for courses: berry with soup, fish with chablis or sauterne, entrees with claret, roast with champagne hock or moselle, cheese with port, dessert with burgundy. Serve red at room temperature, white slightly chilled, avoid ice, and pour modestly. Begin dinner with lesser wines, save the best vintages for last.
Editorial notes endorse electing women to town boards of overseers of the poor in Massachusetts. It argues women are naturally suited and active for this work and that every town should have at least one competent woman on such boards, citing Springfield Republic. The piece closes with a quip from the Philadelphia Record and a humorous line from The Bachelor.
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