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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1903
Page
4
The Assessors of Taxes announce a Poll Tax of $100 for 1908. The tax period runs September 1 to October 1 with daily collection except Sundays and holidays. GEO H PECK, Bristol, appoints the Lawn Clerk to receive and issue receipts.
A listing covers furniture, dwellings, business houses, property, and farm buildings including barns and contents. It notes stores within structures and mentions churches, sheds, and farm facilities in a broad property inventory.
A former theater manager claims Edwin Booth earned 50 percent of gross receipts under Brooks and Dixon, and later 85 percent with Henry E Abbey. He says Booth drew steady profits, with Abbey and partners sharing large margins while covering rents, salaries, travel, and ads, except for a Philadelphia loss of 4000 dollars after Booth’s wife died.
In a New England farming district youths held monthy dances ending the season with engagements. Ben Hawkins known as Paganini with his Stradivarius led the country dance as Mrs Hawkins died that afternoon. Hawkins promised to play anyway noting Maria was not a blood relative.
The article recalls poet Barry Cornwall Bryan Waller Procter famed for the sea song I'm on the sea. He grew seasick aboard a channel boat despite his affection for the ocean. His wife hummed his sea anthem from the deck as he lay covered in shawls and tarpaulin. He pleaded not to echo the refrain, yet the sea remained in his heart.
A young man who had courted a Minneapolis girl for three years received a letter and a baby picture revealing she had married two years earlier. She wrote their letters were enjoyed but he should stop writing as she must care for the baby. The paper notes the young man’s reaction would shock a field of outsiders.
A Boston Globe quotation argues hard work keeps people feeling and appearing younger while laziness dulls vitality. It claims Americans are the hardest workers yet look young thanks to liberty, contrasting European caste limits with brisk activity and robust older workers.
The article recounts the Horeb rock known as the Rock of Maseah and the Stone of the Miraculous Fountain. It cites Shaw's Travels and other scholars asserting the rock is a six yard square granite block in Rephidim, with water carved channels in Exodus chapter seventeen. Beaumgarton, a German nobleman from 1507, also supports the Moses fountain story.
The London Standard notes that moated houses once common across castles now mostly dry. Highlights include Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, home of Lord Tollemache, with a drawbridge raised nightly for 300 years. Leeds Castle near Maidstone sits within a moat as wide as a lake, while Wells Episcopal palace is ringed by walls and a seven acre moat fed by St Andrew's well.
A German biologist reports that various tissues remain active after death, notably in lower animals. Brain cells from a frog stayed alive over a week in certain solutions and a frog heart beat after removal from the body. Turtle and snake hearts can beat for days or a week postmortem.
A dramatic exchange centers on a daughter's suitor and the elder man. The suitor declares unwavering love and a willingness to die for her, while the old man admits to being somewhat of a liar and asserts that one such love is enough for his family.
A neighbor jokes about a monument to a late husband, but the widow reveals no memory of him having one. She explains she found pockets full of letters she had given him to mail, implying the letters never left.
A Boston Transcript note describes Mrs. Sutton's heated reaction when lifting a photograph from her husband’s desk. The remark hints at an old flame of his, suggesting a charged personal history behind the moment.
St Louis Lumberman quotes a town crack who argues betting is wrong if it cannot be reformed to love, but merely silly if reform is possible. The remark frames betting ethics around personal possibility of improvement rather than blanket judgment.
A New York Tribune account recalls midshipman Hynson’s 1846 Vera Cruz heroism. He captured a Spanish merchant vessel by night attack, then set it afire, burning his arms in the process. During a squall his ship capsized and he sacrificed himself, keeping a fellow officer afloat before sinking to his death.
The weight of a growing child is the main health index. At five years, a child should weigh about as many pounds as inches high, typically around forty pounds, with two pounds gained per inch of growth. Heavier children reflect good health, while slow or interrupted weight gain signals concern and may require rest and monitoring.
An American traveler in England visits a country house and hears a tale from a woman about a boarder who greedily eats egg yolks, rejects the whites, and justifies it by saying the yolk is the bird and the white the feathers, avoiding a bolster of himself.
A traveler describes a belt near latitudes 4 to 9 degrees where rain supposedly falls almost continuously. Islands south of New Zealand named the Sisters and Tierra del Fuego are cited as examples, with sleet and snow common on the mainland. Some zones within this belt reportedly receive little rainfall despite surrounding patterns.
A Quebec resident describes a dramatic display of atmospheric electricity over the Beauport flats. Two electrically laden clouds formed tree like shapes with interwoven branches, flashing horizontally for over ten minutes without striking the earth, with occasional upward bolts toward a distant cloud. The vivid spectacle, termed the most beautiful display of lightning witnessed, captivated witnesses.
Delia argues with Mrs Uppmann about entertaining a policeman in the kitchen last night. Delia says she invited him to the parlor but he would not go. The exchange reflects domestic tension and social constraints in Philadelphia society.
A brief exchange features Mrs. Grumpy refusing to lend a washtub as a humorous caption from the Glasgow Times. The child pleads, the mother asks, and the reply notes the tub leaking with water filling the bottom. The strip relies on a simple domestic gag.
Quote note reads When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by. Rent receipts are offered for sale at the Phoenix office, per the brief item.
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