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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1884
Page
2
The piece argues that the election will not cure the economic stagnation. It notes widespread overproduction and cheap crops, a saturated export market, and farmers with little cash flow. Both parties should unite to protect manufacturing and commerce, not inflame partisan tensions, to restore prosperity.
The New Orleans exposition opens in December with the main building completed. In the machinery department sixty six boilers are in position and a water works system supplies three million gallons daily.
George Kent aged 88 died in New Bedford Massachusetts on Saturday. He was born in Concord New Hampshire and served as editor of the New Hampshire Statesman and Boston Sun, and as United States consul at Valencia Spain from 1861 to 1865. He later worked in the United States Treasury Department in Washington until a year ago.
The late John W. Garrett of Baltimore left 25 000 annually for the city's poor and 50 000 annually to benevolent and educational causes plus public utility works to promote happiness and progress of society.
Fifty years after being taken from his home in Africa and sold into slavery the boy rises to become Bishop Crother, England's black bishop of Africa. A British cruiser captured the slaver, marking a dramatic reversal of the boy’s fate.
The New York Sun reports Patrick Mulvey, 13, of Locust Summit, Pa, suffered a broken nose from a baseball bat, shot himself in the foot with a gun, nearly choked on teeth from his mother’s mouthguard, severed his thumb with a razor, and scalded his legs after spilling boiling water. The final incident remains unreported.
A promotion for a women’s journal in Nunda New York invites ladies to mail ten married women names, their address, and 12 two-cent stamps to receive a free issue. The paid next number costs one dollar and features fashions decorating cooking and household topics.
The article surveys famous parks in major cities from Bois de Boulogne in Paris to Central Park New York and Hyde Park London. It details park features from racecourses and picnic grounds to Bagatelle, Cascade restaurant, and riverside views, while noting the Seine and surrounding towns. It concludes with a digression on city gates duties and a promise to continue in a future column.
The page records a church sermon at St Michael's, a water works ad note, frost damage to shade trees, a school committee meeting with bills around 400 dollars, and a lengthy Supreme Court docket with multiple cases from November including divorce petitions and wills. It also includes a tribute to Henry W. Diman, noting his consular service in Oporto and Lisbon and memories from Brown University associates.
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