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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1894
Page
3
A struggling artist in Lambert Street paints a widow cleaning woman Maggie and learns her secret past. When Maggie dies, the neighbor Dr. Davis reveals a son, Dick, and the tale of a long home and ties across class and time.
The article profiles Johann Heinrich Schulze a 17th 18th century German medicine professor from Halle later Altdorf and Halle who pioneered early photographic experiments. It notes his key roles at Halle Altdorf and St Petersburg and his death in 1744. It credits Schulze with the first photographed image using silver nitrate on chalk in 1727 and experiments printing words on glass.
A San Francisco Post excerpt recounts image peddlers selling plaster busts in a grocery on Van Buren street. A shopper buys two busts Shakespeare and Bacon for 26 cents each, then reports seeing the items smashed near a fire plug at Third Avenue by a butcher boy, a curious tale of counterfeit art and street commerce.
The Philadelphia Record notes lace shoes that are dainty yet strong, offering a fashionable alternative to sturdy leather footwear. The piece praises leather options that ventilate to prevent heat and dampness, highlighting comfort as a key benefit.
Farmers attention. Stockbridge Manures contain on average twice as much plant food as ordinary fertilizers, so a ton of Stockbridge will go farther at less cost than two tons of other kinds. Mapes' Fertilizers.
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