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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
4
Freely enlarged from Victor Hugo, a father's verse sketches a child’s gleeful domination in the home. Her laughing face, prattling tones, and imperious ways transform his room, making him a sworn servant to her charm. The brief glow of warmth lingers, guiding his words afterward.
A narrator haunted by a past foe recalls a seaside encounter at Eastsea in September. He mistakes Flo Beresford for another, but she greets him as George, sharing a playful back and forth about a love letter and a late answer. The scene unfolds with flirtation, mistaken identity, and looming danger.
A narrator recalls a flirtation on a seaside evening with Lucy, sharing plans to meet her mother and reveal a word. After a staged confession and a near embrace, he leaves to avoid a dishonorable fate, only to vanish the next morning when a double appears and he flees to Scotland.
In Wilkes Barre Patrick Healey recently became deaf and dumb while conversing with friends. He wrote not to worry, the condition would pass in three days, saying he had experienced it before. He had an Irish horse accident twenty years earlier causing a brief similar episode. now every four years a three day attack recurs.
A collage of snippets from old papers recalls a child’s drum mystery, a musician’s line about work and play, salary humor, and a 19th century Constantinople fire. It notes 2,600 buildings burned valued at 15 million dollars and mentions the first New York public library in 1700.
In a Chicago Record item a doctor identifies the husband’s nervous ailment as a disease he drolly terms catching trains, reflecting a sly take on urban stress and modern life. The quip frames the condition as a contagious urban habit rather than a medical diagnosis.
A party of state officials including Secretary of State Charles P Bennett and others visited Bristol for a brief afternoon in which they toured the Soldiers' Home and met residents. They arrived from Newport after attending Auditor Landers’ daughter’s wedding and left on the 3:60 train after a day of informal calls and greetings. Also noted is a town council special meeting on Thames Street improvements and a report on trees and a wagon repair claim, with final action pending.
Wm B O Wolf sold seven acres on Mount Hope Bay shore in Bristol to Dr F A Gardner of Washington DC. Gardner plans a summer residence near Hopeworth Sanitarium on the north, signaling Bristol's rising appeal as a resort town. The Darlington Wis Journal extols Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
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