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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1896
Page
4
A Detroit Free Press verse-era quotation extols tact as a force that wins by lying honestly. It praises the charm that calms the wild, the yes that tunes speech, and the ability to compress meaning into restraint. It notes tact saves appearances and can win without obvious force, while often deceiving both others and itself.
A young lieutenant, once snubbed for his peasant origins, wins the colonel’s daughter after war service and promotions transform both their lives. Years later, the two reunite and marry as the widow resolves to accept true merit over social status.
Stephen Fiske portrays Charles Dickens through visits at Gadshill and Fechter's chalet. Dickens worked in a disciplined routine between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., writing when in mood or answering letters. He planned stories by naming a hero and posing questions about wealth guardians defrauded property and fate.
The piece contrasts receiving knowledge passively with earning it through thought and study, urging parents to foster curiosity as children grow. It notes the danger doctors and nurses face in hospitals, citing a nurse with an infected finger and Miss Sawbones whose arm is inflamed, yet both recover.
After seizing the Moluccas from Portugal the Dutch banned clove cultivation. They felled all clove trees and executed any who planted or traded cloves. Regular expeditions from eastern colonies destroyed any regrowth, turning the islands into a desert as soil eroded and people starved or were deported.
In 1708 a New View of London recalls Jone James Fair a barber at a house near the Inner Temple gate now Rainbow presented in 1657 by St Dunstan inquest for making and selling coffee a nuisance to the neighborhood. It notes London would grow to 8000 nuisances and coffee would be widely drunk by the first quality and physicians.
The text notes that from the mid sixteenth century to 1834 the Dutch burned portions of the clove crop annually to raise prices, with the final burning in 1824. It then oddly references Alfonso V as barenantnen for wartime executions and ends with Agriculture estimates that sowing an acre of wheat cost 90 cents in Alabama, tapering to 24 cents in Iowa.
A poor man from Boston attends a Newburyport church service and falls into a fit during a powerful sermon. Deacons cool him with water as he writhes, then discovers the preacher was not Whitfield but a substitute. He storms at the revelation, lamenting the wasted journey and clothing.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt describes a man listed as entertainer on a firm's payroll. He flourishes in hotel life and high social circles, guiding prospective clients through dinners, club visits, theater, and wine suppers. His charm aids securing large orders while masking his official role and ties to the firm.
In a Century excerpt from Life of Napoleon by W M Sloane, Talleyrand appears torn between violent designs against Napoleon and political scheming. He opposed the empress and king of Rome leaving Paris while secretly using covert channels, pamphlets, smuggling, and coded messages to influence events.
The Punjab post office expands beyond letters and parcels to teach boys in elementary schools how to write letters and address covers. It remains a bank for the public, sells quinine and salt, pays military pensions, and collects government revenue from land and other sources, as described by a London Answers view of an old department officer’s innovation.
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