24 May 1879
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1879
Page
1
A vivid allegory compares ongoing conflict to nature's renewal. Youthful vigor battles decay as new growth, colors, and warmth emerge each day. We see weeds, ferns, willows, and water-plant forms advancing like troops in a hopeful, dawning crusade.
In a storm on a Santa Fe route stage, a wealthy merchant helps a young governess and companions escape bandits. When their hat lining hides a thousand in gold, a daring escape ends with restitution and a royal repayment of treasure. The merchant reveals two thousand in bills and a diamond as thanks, restoring the traveler’s joy.
The article urges women to cultivate cheerfulness and natural grace as the main charms. It advises self study in dress to suit body type, avoid extremes, and pursue confidence, work, and social grace rather than succumbing to self pity. It contrasts vanity with practical self-improvement and ends with a Boston Journal of Commerce observation about restaurant life.
An advertisement extols Hop Bitters as a great disease conqueror for malarial fevers, constipation, torpid liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness and neuralgic ailments. It claims the remedy repairs ravages of disease by converting food into rich blood and restoring vitality to the aged and infirm.
A Persian reflection urges mercy toward others and warns against nitpicking relatives. It notes often love is choked by harsh words within homes where people speak ungentle things, harming growth and harmony.
The quote argues that true greatness is moral nobility and integrity, not the position one holds. It claims anyone can be noble, from servant to king, and that virtue shines as brightly in humble settings as in wealthy ones.
A legend speaks of a vessel nearing a mountain magnet whose force tears iron bolts from its timbers, causing the ship to break apart. Skeptical science cannot anchor without acknowledging a moral force in nature that Scripture and reason cannot deny.
A speaker warns that idle, able bodied men who rely on others harm themselves and others. He argues such dependence diminishes self respect and robs the productive of fairness, noting many rely on a few and that many dependents could support themselves.
An assortment of brief excerpts reflects on daily life and faith. Aegis of patience and kindness quotes Sidney Smith on spreading happiness, a child’s wonder at God’s spring, and a parable about a man blaming a newspaper for his own misstep.
Advice to girls about marriage and practicality. It cautions that men seeking wives value stability and family potential over mere adornment, urging women to become worth catching through real merit rather than relying on charm or decoration. The piece stresses balancing romance with domestic practicality and self-improvement.
A governess travels to an Earl’s estate and learns the lord she shunned is the very nobleman in whose family she hoped to serve. He rebukes her for vanity, insisting on proper decorum before his grandchildren, a lesson on humility and dignity.
A would be editor storms Pacnix office violent scene ensues as Baldy Sowers pursues the intruder. The would be editor crashes from stairs and wrecks a soda fountain. he scrambles away down Hope street. The office frosty with ambition but the plan collapses. Mr Sowers was mistaken in the office but hits the right man.
A Topeka man named Schmidt possesses a Cheyenne chief outfit from Weltbelly. The regalia includes a horned head-dress, feather trail, buffalo horn shield fringed with scalps, long otter skin quiver, and a bloodstained spear from the Custer fight. The equipment will be taken to Europe for exhibition.
A family experiment in strict truthfulness over a day reveals how everyday speech narrows toward honesty, with laughter and corrections highlighting habitual exaggeration. A later note from Willis C. Shelton, a promising young musician, laments impending loss to consumption and imagines a final moment with his organ in a church.
An irate aged woman mocked a young mother for infant handling, declaring a woman should know how to hold a baby. The mother, Nora, calmly retorted that she spoke no tongue in response, maintaining composure amid the jeers.
Years ago near Philadelphia, farmer Jerry Foster sold his roasted pig to a tavern landlord for 75 cents and waited for lunch. His roaster was served to his own benefit as he sat with plates full of potatoes and bread, while the landlord’s guests were away. He finished dining alone and never returned.
A foreign journal recalls a French Catholic scholar who, determined to renounce superstition, made himself a ham omelette on a Friday. During the meal a thunderstorm struck, he jumped, and after finishing what remained he threw the omelette from the window, exclaiming in disgust at the uproar about an omelette.
An advertisement urges ladies to study hygiene from the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser priced at $1.50. It promotes Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for female weaknesses, with mailing to R V Pierce M D at Grand Invalids Hotel Buffalo New York.
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