16 Oct 1886
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1886
Page
1
A six story garret dweller endures nightly piccolo music from a charming yet unnamed neighbor. After mingling with a janitress and a landlady’s daughter, the narrator schemes to win affection, helps speed a marriage, and ends up with a rueful laugh at her own misreadings.
A miscellany column reflects on acts of kindness and usefulness, noting how individuals project their inner sunshine or shadow. It contrasts wise and foolish desires, suggesting true wisdom seeks what is potentially attainable while fools crave the impossible.
A Romaine quotation asserts that God does not overburden believers with troubles beyond what faith can bear. It emphasizes divine love guiding hardship toward reliance on him.
A moral exhortation argues that every young man should act according to duty rather than personal likes or dislikes. It stresses that the principle of gelf-denial is crucial and must be reinforced repeatedly for lasting impact.
The passage argues that happiness in a home stems from tone and temper rather than wealth, learning, clothing, servants, toil, or status. It asserts good sense and God’s grace create a life resembling an everlasting psalm and a sturdy vestibule to a temple of God that endures.
A Europe tale tells of a man in a dungeon who, limited to a daily sun beam, carves a Christ on the wall. The parable urges readers to seek light within confines, making living love the likeness of sacrifice and find a tiny sunlit sphere to serve the Master.
The passage urges a life guided by divine Providence. It emphasizes walking with God, avoiding worldly ties, maintaining heavenly conversation, and relying on Scripture and Christ’s grace to near eternal union, promising God’s companionship through life and death like Enoch.
A Virginia House of Burgesses scene recalls George Washington returning from Fort Duquesne to receive a vote of thanks. Speaker Robinson lauds his military service while Washington blushes and hesitates to reply, prompting the Speaker to quip that modesty equals valor.
A freight brakeman recalls winter hazards from icy trains and high speeds, detailing jumps from moving cars and the risks of snow and sleet. The New Haven and New York Times sections describe milk vending in city streets and the rise of milk as a tonic, plus moth prevention methods for homes and carpets.
A reflective critique of sensational crime reporting arguing news should inform on science art music society and progress rather than dwell on morbid lurid crime. It asserts readers seek wholesome knowledge and warns against degrading journalism that panders to prurience.
At a Los Angeles Grand Army gathering thousands of veterans honored John Brown’s descendants. Jason and Owen Brown with their sister and brother by marriage Thompson were living near Pasadena. The children were hauled in a carriage by a long rope pulled through the streets as the band played John Brown’s Body and the crowd sang. Owen Brown then spoke briefly at the depot.
The article notes rheumatism pains grow with season changes and urges readers to try Hood's Sarsaparilla before the first sharp twinge, while acknowledging it is not a proven specific. It cites many beneficiaries to support its recommendation.
The Sunken Valley Daily Record will not publish as editor E J L Coker is dead after Col Ralph Mac Gee burst in and shot him. Mac Gee claimed insult over a Dublin importation reference and offered to shoot staff. the owner plans a new editor and warns of firm action. Births marriages and shooting party notices will be charged as before.
Horace Greeley, while traveling with Spencer Farrington Thomas through Brownsville to Memphis around 1870, remarked that he possessed only thirteen teeth, a count he said had never been surpassed by nature.
An observer claims 1886 is a thoroughly Fridayish year. It starts and ends on Friday, contains five months with five Fridays, and totals fifty three Fridays. The moon changes five times on Fridays, and both the longest and shortest days occur on Friday.
A quotation probes whether a face reveals the mind and whether minds can be painted or powered, reflecting on the link between outward appearance and inner thought. The speaker questions common assumptions about mind reading through facial cues and external control.
California shifts toward large scale raisin exports, boosting shipments and market reach. The move reflects growing agricultural output and demand abroad, with industry groups citing new processing capacity and improved logistics.
In the Chicago Inter-Ocean retells how Band-box Johnnie, once mocked for his flashy dress and adjutant role, rode into the Cedars battle on horseback with a sword and revolver. His bold leadership steadied a wavering Union line and yielded a captured Confederate flag, changing his regiment’s view of him and proving style can accompany duty.
The firm states it carries the purest best goods and backs its recommendations with a positive guarantee. It advertises Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption colds and coughs and offers a trial bottle free to prove the claim of curing throat lungs or chest ailments.
A reflection notes that initial fault lies with one, but prolonged strife often corrupts both sides, turning dispute into shared guilt. The aphorism cautions against prolonged quarrels and the spread of blame.
Warned in time. Kidney diseases may be prevented by purifying renewing and invigorating the blood with Ayer s Sursaparilla. When debility disturbs kidney action these organs rob the blood of albumen and let waste pass in urine. Ayer s Sarsaparilla restores kidney action and prevents albuminuria.
Mrs Jas W Weld of Forest Ills Jamaica Plain Mass reports kidney ailments improved by four bottles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. W M McDonald of Boston after years of kidney trouble says he regained health and strength following use of the remedy.
John McLellan of Lowell Massachusetts reports years of dyspepsia and kidney complaint with poor appetite and emaciation. After using a treatment he was prevented from a fatal form and restored to perfect health.
The article traces dog diversity to wild ancestors, noting a terrier’s small size and exact measurements, and maps a lineage from wild dog to Danish dog hounds pointers terriers pugs spaniels and pets. It emphasizes domestication altering temperament and behavior and cites wolves’ closeness and crossbreeding evidence.
The latest authority on sleep Dr Malins recommends eight hours for a man. City life may support this, while proverbs adjusted for country life vary. Intellectual work often needs seven to nine hours of rest, with Kant at seven and Goethe at nine. Soldiers and laborers require less sleep.
A plea asks the Mayor to include in his next message that many prominent citizens have been cured of rheumatism neuralgia and related complaints by Salvation Oil and to recommend the medicine Dr Bull's Cough Syrup priced at 25 cents is described as good and widely commended.
A reader testifies in Editor Weekly News that after six years of boils every spring, Sulphur Bitters has prevented further outbreaks. The note emphasizes reliability and time-tested use for the remedy.
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