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Newspaper

Bristol Phoenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Oct 11, 1884

Page

4

The Stamp Window Morning Waiters and a Twelve Cent Box

A Detroit Free Press item recounts a morning rush at a post office stamp window. A woman with a blue match-box delays thirteen men by arguing postage and weighing, then pays twelve cents and seals her box after a long ritual. The anecdote ends with the crowd dispersing as she leaves.

Cleveland Detroit Free Press

Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup and Hair Remedies Ad Tonic

A miscellany of old advertisements tout Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup for cures and reliefs for colds, Parker’s Hair Balsam for restoring color, Washed-out complexions, burdock blood bitters for dyspepsia, and Thomas’ Eclectric Oil praised by users. Also promotes Rick & Co’s Ec-LEec-Trc PIL and Sulphur Bitters with testimonials and local pharmacy details.

Parker Rick & Co Joseph N. Morris Hope St Bristol

Old village church wedding on a craggy hill

The ceremony at a gray stone church features a lengthy rite with a mid day wedding. Dainty flower girls, a nun like decorum, and a pastor in a high pulpit preside. Rosemary sprig a lemon and silk handkerchief mark gifts for the minister and organist.

Luther Melancthon

Marriage Advice for Women from The Rural New Yorker

A lengthy editorial urges women to seek marriage as a path to development and duty. It argues happiness depends on mutual respect and faith, warns that trouble will come, and counsels wives to support husbands, make concessions, avoid public fault finding, and understand their duties as wives and partners.

New Yorker Garden of Eden Miss Braddon Tennyson

Electric Light in Warfare and Battlefield Illumination

The piece notes electric light will play a major role in future warfare including camps and naval battles. Movable electric-light wagons tested at Aldershot would illuminate battlefields at night to reveal wounded for search and ambulance teams. Experiments were successful and encouraged further testing.

Aldershot James’ Gazette

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