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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1882
Page
1
A minister recalls a parishioner tale about a severe boil on a six year old boy. The child’s mother jokes that the boil could be on his arm, prompting the boy to wish it instead were on another boy’s arm. The anecdote underscores a light moral about appreciating blessings.
In a country parlor Maggie and Kate discuss a quarrel over letters that could ruin Maggie’s marriage to Sir John. Kate steals the letters from Archie Fleming’s Indian cabinet to spare Maggie, but Archie intuits the theft. Kate confesses, apologizes, and Archie burns the letters. Kate later meets Mr. Harry Crowther, a fellow suitor, and learns love without secrecy leads to happiness.
An advertisement touts Caticura and Caticura Soap as external cures for terrible itching, ulcers, and scrofulous swellings with Caticura Resolvent as an internal blood purifier. It also promotes Parker's Hair Balsam to prevent premature grayness, praised for cleanliness and perfume.
A collection of maxims on conscience, learning, forgiveness, and life. It contrasts virtue and vice, wealth and poverty, and the immortality of the soul with observations on deeds, happiness, and human conduct. Anecdotes touch Jamaica and moral questions from faith.
The passage from Sunday School Times speaks of Faith boarding the gospel ship seeking a city with foundation whose builder is God. It contrasts skepticism, which will not trust, with faith, noting that doubt remains lifeless if it cannot touch bottom.
The passage reflects on divine patterns where clouds and gloom yield to light. It speaks of God bending the arch of light from dark skies and providing peace and gladness born from tribulation. The message emphasizes spiritual resilience, hope, and revelation through suffering.
A boy offers berries to a woman at her door and stays outside whistling at canaries. He warns she will get the worst of it if she cheats him, then explains that theft makes the thief bear a worse sin than the gain. The tale ends with the moral that wrongdoers always suffer the worst for their actions.
A speaker recalls a lady in England who told a tale of a butterfly fluttering inside a window pane while a sparrow pecked outside. The story illustrates how Christians, with Christ between them and danger, are protected though unseen. Satan cannot touch the soul that has the Lord Jesus Christ between.
Albany's James Ferguson describes a life spent clinging to tall church spires across Scotland and New York. He recalls climbing 800 foot steeples in half an hour, inspecting bells and weather vanes, and facing peril from icy surfaces and swaying structures while earning seven to ten dollars a day. A second feature covers a powder mill, detailing charcoal, saltpeter, sulfur mixing, wet grinding to prevent explosion, and safety rules for workers wearing peg shoes and copper hammers, with a fatal accident cited.
A Boston lawyer helps a boy buy waste paper with a fifteen pence note he writes. The boy signs, then pays the note the same day, earning praise for honor. An old tale contrasts schooling and wit, ending with a holiday reminder about Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup as a gift.
A quirk of coconut milk arises from the claim that there are no pumps where the cocoa grows, suggesting a link between cultivation and the milk content. This observation notes a curious agricultural detail without asserting broader facts.
A war correspondent recalls moonlit treks across a field of frozen dead after a brutal day of battle. He details the ghastly scene of carcases stiffened in strange poses, the mix of French and German bodies, and his lonely, strenuous duties to write and post letters amid hardship. Carter's Liver Bitters is briefly advertised at the end.
A four year old boy rides a hobby horse with a comrade. He sits awkwardly on the horse's neck and, after a reflective pause, jokes that if one of them gets off he would ride better.
A appeal invites readers to mail two three cent stamps to A P Ordway and Co Boston Mass to obtain a copy of a medical work by Dr Kaufmann. The 100 page volume includes elegant colored plates and is presented as a life saving money saving opportunity.
A fragment notes famous ambidextrous figures led by Ben Lusby the lightning ticket seller and George Tiffany who imitate his feats. It cites other dual-handed workers in St Louis offices and a Mr E C Lackland treasurer known for writing with both hands. The piece links dual faculties to mental strain and defies expected limits.
The Austrian empress, on a country outing, damaged her bonnet and wore no head covering thereafter. Observed by fashion-followers, hatless style spread through promenades and churches until officials explained the incident. Milliners rejoiced as the trend ended and fashion returned to normal.
Advertisement notes liver derangement causing constipation and skin issues like pimples and sallow complexion. It urges removing the cause with Carter's Little Liver Pills, one dose sold by J. H. Young & Co.
A father rebukes his son for youthful mistakes. The son retorts that the father once frolicked, but the father sighs that youth lacked money and wealth came too late to enjoy it.
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