13 Oct 1896
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1896
Page
1
The Boston Store announces fresh daily arrivals after store front changes. It touts large purchases from manufacturers to cut jobber profits, offering dress goods, winter underwear, hosiery, blankets, shirts, ties, and stamped goods for crafts at unusually low prices and highlighting a large stock of cloaks capes and children's outerwear with substantial savings versus city prices.
General Orders No 4 details Bristol Phoenix regiment officers assigned as inspecting officers for the year Major Frank M Lally Co D Woon SOCKET Captain Adjutant Frank Canning Co A Olneyville Lt Philip Brady Co C Bristol and Co B Newport Lt Thomas Brady Cos F H Providence Lt Wm J Doyle Co G Pawtucket. They will inspect armories twice monthly and report on state property condition shortages cleanliness and serviceability to regimental HQ. Commanding officers urged to aid inspectors and ensure proper care and preservation.
Chicago Record explains a lumbering method where old hulks anchored near Lake St Clair Channel are used as sand suckers. Pumps draw sand and water aboard, removing sand from the bottom, yielding clear sand sold for building. Two men operate the modern sand sucker, greatly outpacing earlier French hauling methods.
A woman's reminiscence from the New York Times about childhood fashion, recalling striped red and white stockings and how color schemes among young girls influenced happiness and self perception before black stockings became common.
The passage notes Philippe I of France received a romantic label due to court intrigues. It mentions the first hand crafted gold pens in 1840 in New York City, and a Chicago couple’s wedding reception where a wife jokes with her husband about his order among spouses.
The Rev Dr Wise argues Jehovah is not spoken by Jews and Adonai is used instead in Hebrew texts. The piece notes the Pharisees used Shemo and that Adonai predates them, with occurrences in Psalms and Exodus. A New York Sun report adds Thomas Smith Jr. owns a 1770 Boston Gazette issue, the first printed cuts, now in a frame at 220 Center Street, valued but not sold.
A guide explains removing ink with oxalic acid diluted in water applied by camel hair pencil, followed by blotting paper. Grease spots are treated with powered pipe clay on both sides and hot pressing, or by placing blotting paper and pressing with a hot iron to melt and absorb the grease. Writer.
The eggs are linked by a sticky secretion forming a raft that resists overturning and cannot be sunk by wind or water. 250 to 800 eggs are laid at a time and hatch from heat or air. Cold below freezing does not destroy their vitality. In 1841 Smyrna suffered a major fire destroying 12,000 houses, with wooden frame structures burning rapidly.
The article notes the whale’s mouth is the largest of its kind and can hold over two hogsheads of water. It explains the tiny throat prevents large prey, so the whale consumes minute sea creatures, drawing in water and filtering it through baleen to soak up prey while expelling water through head holes. Whalers call feeding with this action spouting.
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