16 Oct 1880
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1880
Page
1
A lyrical scene of harvest time with farmers, fields, and grain. The speaker evokes sunlit heat, scythe swings, rising granaries, and the endurance of toil through generations and seasons. Strong imagery centers on harvest, crops, and rural life.
In a hot city garret a weary woman recalls her youth at Deepdene with longing for the Blessing farm and a lost chance at fame. She travels to the old home, reunites with Maurice Blessing who reveals he kept the farm and offers a life together there, ending her pursuit of money and embracing a renewed happiness on the farm.
Rates for advertising are listed per month and per week with an initial dollar rate and a weekly increase. Special notices for marriages and deaths double the base rates. Yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms, limited to immediate business. Ads must be submitted by Thursday to ensure insertion.
An advertisement extols Malt Bitters as truthfully nutritious and wholesome with stimulating effects and no intoxicating properties. It presents the product as pure and beneficial for general health.
A cluttered antique column touts Dr Dull’s Cough Syrup as a cure and warns against throat and lung ailments. It notes a judge pressing a plaintiff in an assault case about a startling fist, then laments pride by birth and extols Dr Pierce’s Compound Extract of Smart-Weed for diarrhea colic and fevers. Fifty cents.
An inventor recalls a private two mile telephone link where one friend heard piano music at night not from his own house. Searches found nothing, music source remains a mystery, with a list of songs published to locate the performer. The aurora borealis is said to disturb the wire during displays.
Hawkeye Humorist recalls crossing the Platte and witnessing vast numbers of wild geese along the riverbanks and islands. He jokes about Nebraska homesteaders, farming time, and his son possibly running the farm while he pursues Platte quicksands. The piece blends humor with vivid regional imagery.
A tale links coffee to a pious Mussulman who slept through prayers until Mohammed advised a goat herd. Coffee sold in Cairo streets by the late 1500s became forbidden, with a 1538 raid sending customers to prison and receiving seventeen strokes. Within two decades Cairo boasted over 2,000 coffee shops.
The garment defines the figure by a rope or belt at the waist with a deep skirt and under-skirt, wash-woman style revers, wide deep sleeves, and a neck finished by a cardinal cape a cowl and narrow upright collar.
This ad urges men to care for depressed women not blame them. It claims women suffer illness and low spirits, not moral failings, and promotes Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy as a cure. It instructs readers to buy locally or mail one dollar to Rondout, New York.
An excerpt argues that all in business must advertise using newspapers as the best general medium. It outlines that advertising should be intelligible and targeted, persuade buyers it benefits them, and serve mutual interests of sellers buyers and media. It claims successful businessmen are liberal newspaper advertisers.
The Bosphorus spans about seventeen miles with a narrowest width near six hundred yards and broadest near one thousand six hundred forty six yards. It is divided into seven reaches with currents shifting in each. both shores host forts and batteries, notably Fort Kavaks where the passage is narrowly defended by one hundred seven guns on the Asiatic side and sixty one on the European side.
A gentleman questions a ragged urchin as a dense smoke plume pours from a warehouse window. The boy replies that it is only smoke, sparking a brief exchange that captures streetwise candor amid a flare of danger.
An old gentleman asks the country editor to insert an obituary notice for the deceased who had many local friends. He emphasizes the community would be glad to hear of his death and seeks publication.
An Englishman in a Rome church sits through a service with his hat beside him. When he tries to leave the unseen arm stops him until a voice reveals the true hat belongs to another stranger, causing the misidentification to be resolved.
In Sydney a prisoner was acquitted after two witnesses testified he stayed in a hut listening to the Old English Baron for two and a half hours. Lane, the novelist, corroborated the tale, and the attorney general finally had the witness recite the last page to prove the duration.
Mrs Sarah Richmond of Bristol testifies to the remedy Topical Reparation as superior to all others for rheumatism neuralgia nerve disorders and inflammation. The alkali absorbent is priced at 50 cents and widely advertised in the column.
In a London diary excerpt the mother of the diarist attends a royal presentation to King George VII. Powdered hair leads to a comical moment when the king’s nose is dusted with powder, causing laughter and a blush of embarrassment across the court. The episode ends with the king recovering his dignity and the mother resuming her place in the procession.
The Washville American recalls Perrington making a firm decision after a stove fire incident at Bridget's, with a dramatic outburst about danger and a barkeeper’s shout amid the commotion. The fragment hints at a deadly kerosene blaze and a tense household moment.
A reflective view from Daybreak observes scenes of calm and danger across life. The speaker contrasts a peaceful flock with hidden wolves, a laboring peasant, a murderer trembling, a grieving boy, a sleeping maiden, a miser, a bridegroom, an infant, and an aging man, all shaped by time's alternating smiles and tears.
A reflective meditation on the soul likened to a tuned instrument. It speaks of music under destiny’s strains, combining strength and sweetness in tones that endure sorrow and adversity with grace. The piece emphasizes a God strengthened spirit yielding to hardship yet remaining, in its core, hopeful and vibrant.
Joan Marsh of Baltimore took an ounce of laudanum to end his marital woes. He was revived by his wife, then jailed as a common drunkard. The case reflects a chaotic scene as Marsh’s actions lead to trouble and mockery.
A Curacao resident swears he saw a red and black snake forty feet long and as big as a whisky barrel. The tale is framed by the narrator noting he first glimpsed a whisky barrel before noticing the snake, casting doubt on the creature’s true dimensions.
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