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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1893
Page
2
A Bristol publisher prints Barstow PAeNIX as second class mail with postage paid. News items note Hon Daniel T. Pike of Augusta Maine and incidents across mills in New England. Tragic shootings in Meriden Connecticut leave a wife wounded but living while the husband dies.
A reflective piece traces bohemian life in Paris from the Latin Quarter to the Revolution of 1830. It praises the creativity of artists and statesmen who passed through bohemian circles, notes initiation rites in studios, and recalls anecdotes from Murger and Hugo while balancing praise with warnings about vice and hardship.
The Niagara Falls Power company reportedly has a contract to supply electricity for Rochester and may extend to all New York. The piece argues future power may move from steam to electricity, reducing animal labor and increasing daily comfort, possibly leading to sacrificing the falls for efficient energy.
Woman from Syracuse New York writes in May 1892 that after suffering from womb prolapse and leucorrhea she found relief using two bottles of the Compound and one Sanative Wash. She says she is now well and urges other women to try the products.
On Labor Day afternoon a cricket match on the Common saw Fall Rivers defeat Bristols 61 to 30. The same corps of teachers returns as public schools begin the fall term with a large attendance.
The State Street Methodist Episcopal Church will host a Sunday afternoon sermon themed hard times silver and stringency plenty and poverty. Mr and Mrs James M Grifford celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary September 4 with many friends calling to congratulate them. Dr S P Burdict of Philadelphia has invented a pneumatic non blotting fountain pen. Albert E Sparks Co local agents for Rhode Island.
Mrs. Kate Tryon of Cambridge will speak on birds at the G. A. R. Hall next Thursday evening the 14th for the benefit of the Old Ladies Home. Tickets cost 35 cents and are available at Geo W Easterbrook's store the Woman's Exchange and at the door.
In August the town recorded thirteen deaths: twelve males and one female. Ages ranged from 1 month 6 days to 80 years 7 months 8 days, with eight adults over 50 and five children. Causes included apoplexy one, cholera infantum three, cancer one, liver congestion two, indigestion one, old age two, rheumatism one, brain softening one, and typhoid fever one. Interments: North Cemetery eight, St Marys Bristol Neck three, St Marys Warren one, Brooklyn New York one.
The regular town meeting notes August 1893 police activity with 121 arrests and offenses including drunkenness and vagrancy. It records license payments, highway and road work bills, church tree removal, and various town expenditures and appropriations.
The Count of Prone held its regular monthly meeting in the Council Chamber before Probate Judge William H. Spooner. William O. Manchester was appointed administrator of Frances J. Manchester's estate with bond set at 14 000 and sureties Charles H. Manchester and Sarah B. Manchester. Inventory on Browning G. Tew’s estate received and allowed. Executors of Huldah B. Bowen petition for sale of real estate. continued. Guardian E. D. Poole petitions to transfer property for Mary A. William G. and Thomas Manley. continued. Rhode Island State Fair Domestic Science Department promotes aluminum cooking utensils as modern, safe, and light, with demonstrations by experts from Lehigh University and local cooking schools.
A regional advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as strengthening children’s health and bodies, claiming cures for scrofula salt rheum and blood diseases, and suggests the medicine builds resistance to deafness. The tone links school welfare to future leaders and public health.
The article reports President Cleveland returning to Washington in fine spirits and excellent health, showing no signs of the recent operation. He appears vigorous, with a lively color, bright eyes, and quick, elastic steps, contradicting alarming health rumors.
In St Pauls Church Blackstone John Connery Jr and Elizabeth G Riley united by Rev Fr Power. Eliza Cushman aged 45 during this town. Mabel PF Simons infant daughter of Allert G and Mary E Simones aged 4 months. Elizabeth Gardner Coggeshall daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Coggeshall aged 9 months 9 days. Liscomb of Chichester NH obituary for William Shields Liscomb formerly of here and recently of Tokio Japan.
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