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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1910
Page
4
Outside a Charing Cross Road bookseller a well dressed man challenged the Balzac edition priced at twenty five shillings. After a brief negotiation he offered seven shillings and obtained another copy, prompting the assistant to seek police action.
A New York traveler recalls staying in a hotel in Venezuela where a young man in the same family carried leprosy. During dinner the man suddenly stabbed his hand with a knife, then fled to the hotel courtyard and shot himself, ending his life to escape the curse. The tale notes numbness as a sign of leprosy.
An old Maine shipyard tale tells of a carpenter who, drunk, proves his prowess by chewing a wooden bolt with only a stone as a block. He splits the bolt but shatters the broadax on the stone, quipping he can cut, yet cannot make the ax stick. The foreman promptly hires him.
The wig, worn by English barristers to project a stern judicial air, originated when a French judge, who once wore a marquis wig, found it gave him a dignified presence in court. He adopted the practice, and it spread to judges and barristers across Europe.
A young woman protests indignation as a man admits kissing her and calls himself impulsively insane. He concedes the act, sparking a wry exchange about discretion. With no jury involved the affair concludes on a light, verbal verdict of acquittal.
A witty, old fashioned quip contrasts a disciplined work ethic with modern laziness. The speaker recalls strict daily toil from dawn to night as a parable, while a loafer questions where such time served occurred, in a snippet attributed to the San Francisco Star.
A playful dialogue quoted from the Louisville Courier Journal where a duke and miss discuss time and a landlord’s fixed terms in a breezy frayed exchange reflecting social manners of the era.
A brief London Tit-Bits gag shows a writer offering a joke to the editor with comic distrust, editor swallows the claim and affirms belief, capturing light theater of newspaper desk banter.
Fragmentary transcription mentions physiology teachers and a bridge club. Clar ence-Pa is cited guiding secrecy while a figure described as ma passes along information at a bridge gathering. Cleveland Lender appears in quotation, hinting at urban social chatter.
A six year old named Edgar recently started school and asked his father a philosophical question about origins asking who taught Adam the alphabet. The moment reflects a child's curiosity about language beginnings and education.
The Paris ham fair on Boulevard Richard Le Noir draws shoppers not for hams but for brass, copper curios, lace, books, and rare china. Vendors sell ramshackle lumber and small furniture, with many items priced at five francs, a bargain that has grown rarer as Parisian living costs rise.
A northwest city tea shop customer passed a counterfeit half dollar after buying a pound of coffee. The man confessed and seemed offended, noting the shop had opened only the night before. The shopkeeper smiled at the ruse and kept the counterfeit as the man departed with a real coin.
A facetious sketch of Lancashire life with a colliery worker searching for a lost dog and a club committee debating audited accounts. Jokes play on local speech and turns of phrase about candles prices war and the misrendered phrases of an orator. The piece lampoons rural wit and Lancashire humor through anecdotes and coined expressions in period voice.
Japanese wrestlers stand out as giants in stature and strength though average height falls below European norms. Leading fighters in Tokyo Osaka and Hiogo reach six feet or more and about 800 pounds total. Wrestling is a hereditary occupation passed down through generations and the diet, heavy on meat, is cited as a key factor behind their prowess compared with a largely vegetarian broader population.
An agent wooed a powerful Sudanese warrior for an exhibition by offering any price. The warrior finally agreed after negotiating for his wife’s and mother’s expenses and support for his children, then named a sum near $15 in local money. The agent confirmed payment and the deal was sealed.
The text lists the sultan as sultan and kha khan and asserts sovereignty over most districts towns cities and states in the orient with formal phrases about forts citadels purlieus and neighborhoods. It adds the designation Sovereign also of diverse nations states peoples and races and notes his role as head of the faithful and supreme lord and sole lieutenant on earth of Mohammed.
Probate court in Bristol on October 17 1910 considered a written request by By lv and Rego Mello daughters of Joseph Rego Mello deceased intestate for Frank H Hammill of Bristol or suitable person to be appointed administrator of the estate. The matter was referred to November 7 1910 at 10 30 oclock A M in the Obates Court Room for consideration with notice ordered to be published four consecutive days once a week in the Bristol Phoenix.
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