17 May 1884
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1884
Page
1
A small religious society plans a clapboard supper to raise funds for a chapel. Attendees bring bundles of clapboards and are treated to baked beans and adina pudding in a rustic, humorous community event described as the clapboard supper.
Mr Drake visits Desperation Hall seeking antiquity and a ghostly muse for his writing but encounters a real ghost from the Land of Shadows. The haunting frightens him into rejecting the lease while the sleepy country mansion stays on the books as a listed property for sale or rent.
By land or at sea or in city life these pills are touted as convenient effective and safe for purgative use. They claim relief for sluggish bowels torpid liver indigestion bad breath flatulency and sick headache with a sure remedy.
A medley of aphorisms on charity, self mastery, kindness to animals, patience amid obstacles, and enduring friendship. It urges honest effort for reputation, prudent debate after mastery, and happiness in the present moment. It emphasizes tenderness in family life and steadfast friendship through hardship.
The 1884 act governs admission of out of state surety companies to Rhode Island. It requires appointment of the state Insurance Commissioner as agent, filing certificates, annual statements, and deposits of capital set at 250000 dollars. It prescribes agent restrictions, fees, examinations, and possible revocation of authority for noncompliance. takes effect on passage.
A London Spectator cor report describes Pixie the Scotch terrier learning to respond to commands and even to words from its owner during a six week absence. The account discusses whether the dog understands intent rather than specific sounds and notes the difficulty in proving language comprehension in animals. Also advertised are VEGETINE for spring illnesses and Dr King’s New Discovery for lung diseases with testimonials and trial bottles.
An advert urges readers to use Ayer’s Sarsaparilla to prevent acrofula and purify blood. It claims several bottles can safeguard constitution and benefit future offspring.
Readers learn how various individuals find relief from headache earache and toothache using Thomas selectric Oil. The standard medicine is sold by druggists everywhere and presented as helpful reading.
An advertisement invites readers to obtain a free copy of Dr Kaufmann’s illustrated disease book by sending two 3 cent stamps to A P Ordway & Co. in Boston. The pitch urges self cure and warns against humbugging.
Summary of a colonial act package: rules for distributing fines to the state and complainant via the General Treasurer and State Auditor, a $1000 appropriation for half-fine payments, followed by requirements for physiology and hygiene instruction in public schools, and amendments to the attorney general’s office establishing an assistant attorney general with a fixed salary and term.
Rates specify one inch for one week at one dollar with each extra week at twenty five cents. Twelve lines nonparial type per inch. Special notices before marriages and deaths double. Transient ads paid in advance. Yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms limited to immediate business. Submit ads by Thursday noon to insure insertion.
Defines boundary line of tide water between Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and Massachusetts. Establishes starting point at land boundary, drawing a line perpendicular to shore to a point at latitude 41 25 05 and longitude 71 03 28, one marine league south of the shore. Signed by Secretary of State Joshua M. Addeman.
Mr Lewes noticed her vivid powers of observation and memory and urged her to write a story. She stayed in to write Scenes of Clerical Life, and the tale Amos Barton astonished publishers who could not tell who authored it. Lewes introduced George Eliot at a dinner with Marian and Blackwood present.
A cryptic note reports a drunken man who avoids injury from a fall and may not be harmed by a spring if the water is good. A variable damsel named Miss Illinois Aneous appears in the text.
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