28 Nov 1885
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1885
Page
1
WakPen's WEEKLY promotes two illustrated serials by THOS HARDY and WALTER BESANT supported by graphic illustrations and short stories. It touts trustworthy political and family content free from objectionable features and invites subscriptions.
Harper's Weekly and Harper's Magazine list subscription rates and a special offer for bound volumes. They market cloth bindings and cases, with pricing and payment details, and note orders should be sent to Harper & Brothers in New York.
An old medical advertisement promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a grand regulator for the liver and bilious symptoms. It claims the remedy improves stomach and bowels, produces healthy bile and pure blood, opens culverts for disease onset, and guarantees a cure with broad sale.
Advertises $2.90 for an expanded Universal History Index and Cy Clopedia by George P. Putnam and others. Describes large quarto format, WWW pages, chart, and steel portrait. Orders via mail or express to G P Putnam's Sons, New York, with prospectus and specimen pages on request.
In a sunlit street a poor Irish boy befriends a crippled rich child Adolphe Van Wyke. Mike carries him home to tea and plays with him, bringing instant joy to the boy and his mother. The act of generosity inspires a Thanksgiving-inspired scene with neighborhood kids, a homemade ship of kindness, and a lasting bond between two families.
A veteran horseman warns buyers to trust their eyes over words. Inspect the horse at rest and in motion, noting stance, limbs, eyes, and breathing. Watch for weak backs, moon blindness, bad temper, and irregular respiration, and listen for heart sounds to detect trouble.
Dr Edward P Ingersoll remarks that uneasiness or discouragement do not always signal wickedness. He notes wickedness tends to sleep conscience while righteousness remains awake and trembles like a calm hero at the start of battle.
Mr T W Atkins of Girard Kansas reports strong satisfaction with Electric Bitters praising quick sales and full efficacy. The advertisement claims the tonic purifies blood relieves kidney and liver complaints and saves medical costs, priced at 50 cents a bottle by J H Young & Sons.
A fragment notes the Yonkers Gazette describing an inebriate with a circular phrase. The text is fragmentary and provides limited context on the subject or setting.
In New England testimonials praise Ely's Cream Balm as the best relief for catarrh. Springfield druggists like C. P. Alden Geo A Hill and W. P. Draper report satisfactory results. Miss Mattie Aaker notes its usefulness after a year of use in East Templeton Massachusetts.
The Whitehall Times comments on the crowded path to wealth as men grow resentful and angry, reflecting social tensions and economic frustrations in a concise opinion tone.
A compact 19th century moral collection contrasts poverty with happiness, urging kindness over wealth. It cites Matthew Henry on holiness, warns prodigality robs heirs while miserliness harms the self, and extols gratitude for daily mercies amid hardship.
A Mary F. Aldrich appeal questions citizens to fund gas and electric light for the city. She asks which child can be spared to help light and pave streets, arguing sidewalks were built by sacrifices of others.
A Sunday school boy visiting the countryside leaves a summer harvest trip after hearing a swearer vow to quit if the boy stays. The boy departs to uphold his stand for righteousness, and the man resolves to abandon swearing. The piece urges boys to take a bold stand for the right and influence others toward Christ.
The article argues that permanent mind states arise from habit, shaped by parenting and teaching. Encouraging action, self control, truthfulness, and honesty fosters lasting thought and feeling patterns. Happiness is a practiced inward possession and duty, not mere outward good.
Charles Cuthbert Hall argues prayer is a spiritual tonic that strengthens in the long run. He says ongoing communion with God renews energy, steadies the will, and turns struggle into noble conquest through divine presence.
A Rochester barber recalls Miss Cleveland, the President's sister, popularizing very short hair for women. Clients arrive with photos and companions, seeking backshort cuts and bangs while lamenting long hair's upkeep and the ease of maintaining a clean scalp.
An excerpt from an old Ann Franklin printed Acts and Laws collection lists measures from 1744 and earlier. Provisions include proxy voting by freemen, bans on appeals from justices, minister marriages for Presbyterians and Baptists, a twenty shilling bounty on bears and wildcats, and a stocks cage in each town for offenders. It notes harsh rules on whipping unruly children, scouting conscience objectors, forfeitures for short cordwood, deodands for deadly animals or carts, slave transport limits, hog controls, debtor exemptions for Indians, juror bribery penalties, clandestine marriages, harsh punishments for murder and treason, nocturnal restrictions on enslaved people, peddler limits, privateer bonds, speed limits for rides in Providence and Newport, guards against strong drink, servants curfews, informing on arrivals, and swearing penalties.
A Corvin Michigan report describes Geo Watts near an empty whiskey barrel at Nead's saloon lighting a match. The barrel exploded with a loud blast injuring Watts and blowing two men from the doorway. The blast sent flaming fragments through the saloon, prompting a brief business shutdown before firefighters contained the fire.
A vintage advertisement exalts Salvation Oil as a preventive remedy for rheumatism once trivial symptoms appear. The copy claims Dr Ball's Cough Syrup is superior, and urges prompt use of Salvation Oil at 25 cents.
The tale follows Clarence Jones who seeks to marry Lulu De Smith and joins a fake "broad gauge" church run through a Harlem drug store. Deacon Snooks imprisons him in earth baths after a dollar sign in a ledger, teaching the line about going Snooks together, per the New York Mail.
A newly married woman writes to a friend describing happiness with her husband after seven weeks of marriage. She praises his kindness and fidelity, notes an elderly aunt in the household, and contrasts her old lover with the present husband. The letter expresses profound contentment.
Good Cheer describes two types of vivacious girls the first with loud slangy manners and a punning habit while the genuinely vivacious girl remains sweet and restful. The piece notes trends may favor the lively type again and urges a hopeful view of fashion.
A small quantity of steel worth fifty cents is transformed into 100000 precise screws by American watchmaking machinery. Microscopic inspection reveals perfect screws, each threaded and slotted and ready for use with miniature tools. The scrap value becomes extraordinary as the screws gain value.
A dialogue unfolds about diluting milk with water. The milkman rebukes Johnny for adding water, explaining a method to pour water first and then milk, implying deception and financial risk.
Dr Gilbert Clare testifies Hunt's Remedy as excellent and standard for dropsy and kidney disease, praising its effects on backache pale skin and frail condition. The physician attests to the remedy's efficacy.
The notice outlines rates for one inch per week and twenty five cents for each additional week, with twelve lines nonpariol type making one inch. Special notices before marriages and deaths double the rates. Prepayment required for transient ads and yearly contracts apply to immediate business. Ads due by Thursday noon to appear in the next issue.
A New York Evening Post account describes Whittier’s Amesbury home half a mile from town. The aged poet, living in a two story white house, greets visitors with geniality, keeps busy with correspondence, and occasionally writes for the Atlantic.
Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil promoted as a remedy for toothache sore throat swollen neck and inflammatory symptoms, advertised as a great jam destroyer amidst general medicated claims and household use guidance.
A feminine philosopher describes a sharp lesson for an ill tempered man by watching him harness his horse. She explains that steady observation makes him feel watched, see disapproval, and gain time to reflect, preventing a bad action. She warns against parley which could provoke further anger.
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