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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1893
Page
1
Carrie E Stockwell of Chesterfield recounts severe chest pain and prolonged attacks, describing relief after her mother gave Ayer’s Pills during bilious typhoid fever. She claims nearly thirty years with only one attack, easily treated by the same remedy.
Baron de Hirsch de Gercuth, famed for immense philanthropy, travels to the United States to view his colonies and assess the condition of his people here. Born 1833, he rose from Bavarian wealth to a European banking prominance and married into an influential lineage.
A poet describes a field of daisies and golden flowers by a river as a symbol of love for a snow white maiden with a heart of gold. The scene blends nature with devotion, ending with a personal dedication to Alice Blackwell in the New Orleans Times Democrat.
Mollie Henderson sits on a wall as Sergeant Major Boyne trains with a broadsword in a frostbound yard. A ball at the NCOs' mess stirs feelings while Travers courts Mollie and a hospital fever shadows the town. In the end Mollie and Jack unite by the wall as the new year begins.
At the Chicago labor congress Miss Jane Addams of Hull House read on sewing and domestic service. She warned the modern home isolates workers, urging cooperation to improve conditions and noting the house servant may fade like the family blacksmith.
Miss Gert rude Sickler of Wilton New Jersey writes that Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured her severe menstrual pains and morphine dependence, stopping fits and prostration. She says she never suffers now and urges others to try the medicine. Drugstores sell Lydia E Pinkham’s Liver Pills for 25 cents.
Kadour ben Cherifa, Algerian sergeant major, survives a perilous injury in a mill. In recovery he burns for Katel the French maiden, courts and wins a match with Yamina, but a sense of longing for Katel lingers as a wave of French life and Moorish festivity pull him between two worlds. Now, immigrants arriving from France crowd the Arabian bazaar as Kadour contemplates his future amid separation and exile.
Kadour sees Ketel in exile with her family at the Kuid house as night falls. He dreams of elopement and a future with Ketel but is shocked to learn she is already married to another man. The scene ends with Kadour’s disappointment as the train departs.
A young man seeks a loan of ten thousand dollars from a Boston merchant, naming his father’s trust. The merchant tests him with questions about drinking, smoking, gambling, and Sunday school service, recalling how the father once lent five thousand under the same conditions. The man refuses the loan after hearing the offer. Presbyterian
The ad claims prevention beats cure for rheumatism by keeping blood pure. Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as a remedy for rheumatism catarrh scrofula salt rheum boils and other diseases caused by impure blood. It tones and vitalizes the whole system.
A rural Scots boy observes a passing train and exclaims in wonder. The clipping includes a testimonial for Ely's Dream Balm by Oscar Ostrum of Chicago and various quips from a minister photographer and poets, ending with a series of adages.
A former New York man recalls three lives shaped by desperation and pride. A Texas venture failed, leaving a college graduate wandering from Arkansas to Cincinnati and then New York while starving, begging, and stealing rides. A professional man starved to support his kin, and a divorced janus toiling to repay debts after his wife’s death. Each tale underscores unseen burdens behind charity and ragged lives.
John McCarthy bootmaker and home rule lecturer told police court in London that a heated political crowd caused him to drink water to moisten his lips while his opponents argued. He pleaded not drunk and blamed a police officer for stopping him on Edgware Road.
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