15 Mar 1884
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1884
Page
1
In a Bilberry town, Ruth and Naomi two orphans drift through a crowded poor house and a wealthy home. Demas Dodd returns with Naomi as his daughter and Ruth discovers true love in a town where the pair unite as sisters and wives.
A reflective excerpt on sorrow and virtue describes contentment for pure conscience and the sunlike pull toward goodness. It compares the human heart to a well and notes humility heightens true value in an able, humble person, warning sin advances without retreat.
One of the drawbacks of married life is sickness of the little ones. For a Cold or Cough you cannot find a better remedy than Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Nearly all physicians prescribe it and no family should be without it.
The Woodcock mother is described as the kindest and most affectionate to her young. She carries her offspring by clasping them with her feet, not by the bill, as a Western sportsman observed the bird fly low with a tiny youngster between her feet. The narrator praises the Woodcock mother and notes her proud view of her young.
D Lewis of 22 Bowdoin Street Boston recounts months of dyspepsia and misery until Sulphur Bitters cured him with three bottles. He says the remedy restored his health and restored his spirits after feeling friendless and unable to eat.
C L Easton of Hamilton Ontario reports great benefit from Burdock Blood Bitters for indigestion and constipation of the bowels.
A reflective quotation from George MacDonald on cheerfulness endurance and renewal. It contrasts darkness and dawn, describing the world as full of resurrections and life breaking from death.
A Dickens quotation asserts that nothing innocent or good dies and that a cradle death lives on in loved ones through redeemed actions, even if the body is cremated or drowned. It emphasizes faith in enduring remembrance.
A family dinner yields a boy's three wishes: first a good character, second good health, third a good education. He notes fame wealth mean little without virtue and learning, promising they will enable him to earn what truly matters. The father nods at the prudent choice.
The essay extols conversation as a social skill with value in daily life. A skilled talker lights up rooms, draws shy people out, and balances wit with tact to make others feel at home. True conversational talent requires broad knowledge, ease across topics, and the ability to shift from light to serious discourse.
In a New England cotton mill a weary widow endures twelve hours of labor with only a thirty minute respite. She supports two daughters, a twelve year old nearly blind and a three year old, while her youngest eye injury stems from chemicals used in stamping cloth. Poverty binds them as she fights for daily bread.
An anecdote from Ben Perley Poore recalls young Burnside at West Point showing leadership and mischief. He and Heth trick a newcomer called The Bison with a fake cadet barber shop, prompting an encounter with the superintendent and earning Burnside the nickname cadet barber.
Physicians are startled by a cure that Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and throat and lung diseases is daily curing patients given up to die. Hundreds of doctors are using it. Trial bottles free at J H Young & Co's Drug Store. Regular size one dollar.
A concise quotation urging personal reflection and action by looking inward to one’s own surroundings rather than seeking change elsewhere. It emphasizes self-reliance and domestic focus as a practical path.
Morris Mostel arrives in Dallas seeking his wife Margaret Weber whom he married in New Orleans seven years earlier. He was drugged and forced aboard a German ship to Cardiff, then pressed into Berlin’s army and later deserted. He learns she married Edward Kronan, then plans to locate her in Abilene after Kronan’s relocation. A self acting sofa promises novelty and comic danger with a winding bell and dramatic split.
From the 1884 acts, Chapter 390 allows the Adjutant General to hire a clerk at 250 dollars annually. Chapter 391 details fiscal year 1884 appropriations, listing salaries for governor to various officials plus staff, clerks, and pages for the General Assembly.
The document outlines appropriations across state functions including General Assembly stationery and expenses, judicial costs for jurors witnesses and trial justices, education funding for public schools and institutions, support for the insane and disabled, public printing, military affairs, court houses and jails, jailer and inmate care, fuel and gas, rents, and state library acquisitions. Notable allocations include five hundred dollars for stationery, twenty-two thousand for juror fees, ninety thousand for public schools, ten thousand five hundred for the Rhode Island State Normal School, thirteen thousand for general printing, and twenty four thousand for militia.
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