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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
3
The Chicago News notes the term Blizzard emerged as a snow squall in 1880 81, with earlier awareness in the west. It cites an 1834 English toast usage and 1840s references describing a rattling volley versus a simultaneous broadside used by sportsmen on the Atlantic coast.
A West Australian native serves his sense of duty by seeking to kill for his dead wife. His master warns of life imprisonment but the man wanders for a year in misery. He later returns, having speared a woman to death to appease the spirit, with no legal charges traced to him.
Leigh Hunt is praised as a brilliant poet, essayist, and critic whose knowledge shaped writers like Keats, Shelley, Lamb, and Carlyle. Although cash troubles limited his output, a pension of £320 per year allowed greater leisure and produced essays of remarkable power.
A village in eastern Middleboro debated adding a church organ. A fiery opponent hurled a hard jab claiming the speaker feared the organ, joking he would have hung one on the wood pile years ago. The remark echoes a Boston Herald quip.
District Attorney questions James Bruce of Boston, mass as the defendant admits previous five year state prison term for burglary six years ago and claims to be changed since. The DA presses to confirm identity while Bruce acknowledges the prior sentence.
The knife chair is described as a torture instrument used in Taiping religious ceremonies. It is a straight backed armchair fitted with long blades touching the body where it sits and rests. Blades are placed horizontally on the back, seat, and base for the feet, with sharpened edges along the arms for the sitter’s arms.
A dialogue between Mrs. Gayley and Gayley recalls a long poker related ruse. Mrs. Gayley quips she has worn her dress for three years since the last time she caught him in a game, implying a longstanding habit without direct accusation.
In a dialogue a daughter asks why she may sit up late with young men while her father had forbidden such gatherings. She suggests it would be more interesting if the judge were barred from certain late conversations.
In a bold aside the Dallas News invites readers to confront themselves without flinching, urging direct self-scrutiny and decisive personal stance. The remark frames courage as facing one’s true self in plain view.
In New York a dramatic Whitefield sermon to sailors used a vivid sea storm metaphor. He spoke of clear skies turning to a tempest as sailors cried out to take to the longboat, with hands gripping pews and wild excitement, urging duty and flight.
A prominent local businessman finds his old safe jammed and pays a Philadelphia expert $20 to pick it by removing dust from the key with a wire. After the job, he secretly offers $40 to keep the matter quiet, fearing public knowledge would ruin his business reputation.
A Kansas City Star excerpt notes two women in a red gown and pink discuss how a husband’s poker results reveal his win or loss. The red dress woman says he won last night after a late business meeting, causing him to reprimand lights and expenses.
The Arctic hunt extends from Norway northward to Spitzbergen and Shetland. Bomb harpoons launched from small steamers strike whales, which drag the ship until exhausted and die. Brought to anchorage, blubber is removed and used for oil, bones for manure, flesh for fodder. Started by Svend Foyn in 1868.
The first graveyard in New York City was created in 1633 on the west side of present day Broadway above Morris Street. The oldest recorded grave is that of young Richard Churcher, son of William Churcher, who died April 5 1681 at age five years six months, marked by a sandstone slab with skull, cross bones and winged hour glass.
A native of the Emerald Isle meets a former powder factory workmate from the same logon crew of a factory that blew up. They recall leaving the arsenal and joke that if still there he would have died a year earlier. The piece preserves the Irish vernacular and light humor.
Exchange at the village barber’s involves a quip about why the shop is hung with sacred pictures. Beine explains it is for customers to call on saints while being shaved, a merry bit of local humor illustrated by Meggendorfer Butter.
An observer argues against proposing on a Friday as unlucky while another says luck favors boldness. The exchange notes a man who proposed and was refused, illustrating contrasting views on superstition and romance.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reviews Mark Twain's travel writings noting his critique of the ant as industrious or wise. It highlights Twain’s description of an ant carrying a burden and climbing grass stems, suggesting his blindness to ant eye sockets. The piece argues Twain overlooked blind ant species.
A traveler describes a Tibetan tale of a swarthy woman with three husbands and a turquoise back locket, gifted as Buddhist charm to ward off bad luck. The narrator recalls flattered feelings and the humorous moment of admitting she has no husband.
Selectmen of Fianover New Hampshire imposed a poll tax on Dartmouth students of legal age. The students paid the tax to vote and quickly seized control, electing a moderator and clerk at the annual meeting. Within minutes Hanover voted to build a brick schoolhouse and a plankwalk from Reed Hall to Lebanon, a town with a female seminary. The tax collector ceased troubling students for years.
An excerpt from Fortnightly Review muses on the top hat as a universal emblem of democracy and freedom. It recounts a silk hat milking a cow in a London park, provoking stares and a mild riot, then questions why personal liberty should limit a hat’s odd acts.
A temple complex at Mayalipmam in India features seven rock carved temples, each hewn from solid granite. The smallest stands 24 feet high, 17 feet long, and 12 feet wide, illustrating the vast scale and centuries of labor involved in shaping these ancient structures.
A Montana mining camp shares a rustic quip in the vein of early American humor. A miner jokes that the rock is so hard they used six barrels of drills and barely scratched it, followed by another tale of nine barrels of drills on a ledge yielding only six inches.
A bright four year old named Fritz is taken to school for the first time. After receiving a desk and starting work, he raises his hand and asks the teacher when the holidays begin. The humorous moment comes from his earnest inquiry.
A coinage tale reports a poor woman lamenting her misfortune as her son swallows a sent. Her friend calms her, noting a cent is not a great sum, reflecting thrift minded wit from Scaccin pensiert.
A brief Boston Transcript quip features a stranger asking terms and a clerk offering a poetic twist. The exchange turns on a dollar down versus a dollar up, highlighting a playful negotiation between a poet and a clerk.
A compact quotation fragment notes that empty men are the trumpets of their own deeds. It emphasizes self-importance and absence of action, reflecting on empty virtue and hollow reputation without further context.
A New Hampshire hotel worker is puzzled by a guest who descends nightly for water. After offering polite help, he discovers her bell is a fire alarm by her bed, mistaken as a trigger, until the truth is revealed.
The article traces early fly fishing origins from the first artificial flies to modern patterns. It notes the red cock’s hackle as the initial insect lure, feathers as the first materials, and the ongoing evolution with salmon flies and bass and trout lures. It highlights the red hackle and peacock hair as enduring favorite components and mentions the expanding numbers of fly fishers over centuries.
A Big Bear救 story explains why Indians paint faces with stripes. A hunter chased by a Hon prayed for help from the grandfather of man. Bear aided him by scratching and blood sprinkling, scaring away the lion who touched the blood. The hunter kept the dried blood on his face, forming stripes as a hunting charm.
The article argues that longstanding bias against the left hand lacks natural basis. It notes a healthy person’s left hand and arm are as strong as the right, and physiology shows muscles ligaments and joints function equally on both sides. The bias persists due to unequal exercise of the left side.
Charles Lamb, famed for gentleness and wit, could blur t out with a sharp personal jibe at a friend during a whist game saying God James if dirt were tramp s what a hand you would have.
A quotation from Dorothy Dix in the New York American reflects on gossip as social control. It argues that fear of neighbors tongue keeps people in line and that gossip acts as the world’s real police.
A quotation from London Ladies' Field notes that each person in a small organism carries a germ whose proper development leads to realizing ambitions. It emphasizes that energy and concentration are the essential ingredients for personal achievement.
A Philadelphia Press remark notes Dudley’s surprising improvement in stuttering. The dialogue suggests Dudley now handles speech adeptly, turning a past difficulty into a skilled trait.
A brief exchange contrasts poverty seen in Europe with fears of going broke at home. The Cleveland Press quote underscores wartime or postwar hardship and personal financial pressure reflected in travel and observation.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a dry cough leading to speculation about its source. The quoted line suggests the cough does not originate from the throat, hinting at broader health context without further details.
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