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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1907
Page
4
The article notes a slow adoption of gunpowder by nobles while commoners used it earlier for game. Maximilian bragged crossbow accuracy beating early firearms, recalling a chamois slain at distance. In earlier times poacher laws were strict and princes clung to crossbows and spears until late 1500s when firearms overtook some hunts like deer battles.
The Black Sea sinks beneath 1,200 feet into waters laden with sulphuric gas, killing most life due to outflow of fresh water from the Bosporus and a deeper Mediterranean saltwater current. Surface currents fail to mix, preserving a bottom layer devoid of oxygen and organic life beyond that depth.
A Century magazine quote by Jesse Lynch Williams paints station waiting rooms as warm refuges for derelicts and dreamers. It recalls women adrift and wrecks clinging to hope while skeptical detectives and weary travelers share quiet space among abandoned bags and pawnshop memories.
In a London News item a quaint verger named Sagar, gray haired and robed, explains he allowed a marriage between an eighty four year old man and an eighty six year old woman, judging the match would not last long. He admits he did not forbid the banns, seeing their ages, and remarked the law would not matter.
A neighbor praises Mr Dapper for meticulous appearance while Mrs Dapper notes behind the scenes there is chaos. The exchange ends with a wry remark about the bandbox, illustrating the contrast between outward neatness and inner disorder.
Dr Robert Bell argues in Health Record that a plain nutritious diet suits the man who eats to live. without pampering appetite, he stays healthy, enjoys food, and remains fully alive to life’s pleasures and duties.
A fragmentary notice describes Sydney Smith and a visitor inquiring about the night’s experiences as a personal anecdote is sketched in terse, period-voice prose.
A fragment recalls a surreal nightmare in which the speaker is chained to a rock and overwhelmed by conversation with Harriet Martineau and Thomas Babington Macaulay. The quotation captures a sardonic fear of persuasive rhetoric from the two prominent figures.
A senior thanks a professor for all he has learned, the professor downplays the debt and asks not to mention the trifle, capturing a brief campus wit from the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
A reflective sentiment honors compassion and shared burden, stressing that words and acts of love should comfort fellow strugglers and lighten their load in daily life. The message emphasizes universal kindness and moral duty.
A compact account describes elephants’ surprising fear of mice. It notes stampeding herds when a mouse hides in hay and claims chacanas in native lands feed on a sour berry and prey on elephant trunks, causing injury and death. In captivity elephants fear mice as well.
Henry Beach Needham notes in Success Magazine that baseball began with amateur roots and early player organizations. The National Association formed in 1857 for amateurs. by 1871 it shifted toward professionalism under the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. Players dominated until 1876 when they were expelled from governance amid gambling abuses.
In midsummer light Clara sings a plaintive tune to Cyril, recalling they became engaged the night of the old garden wall song. The soprano’s voice is high and cracked, and Cyril teases that it’s an old favorite as their quiet moment evokes their memories.
A Chicago News report notes a couple on a parlor sofa with a man declaring that women are not good listeners. The dear girl remains silent while her mother, eavesdropping at the keyhole, cannot contradict him.
A New York policeman jokes about preventing lynchings by arriving before crimes. He notes many patrolmen per block and the time to fetch a hardware store in a rape case, saying the perpetrator loses interest when confronted with cash on delivery after spotting a clothesline.
Dialogue hints Styles and his wife appear unhappy. She seems uncomfortable around him and is said to be affected by her boots, suggesting tension in their relationship rather than a fault of his own.
A brief joke exchanges a doctor, husband, and wife with a punchline about a milliner. The line suggests a humorous misdirection, portraying the wife’s head trouble as a fashion accessory issue rather than medical.
A judge defines patriot as a fellow who tries to make something out of his country, offering a concise reflection on national service and civic effort through a quoted exchange.
The Jamesport Gazette quotes a succinct aphorism about equality, suggesting that fairness is presumed until individuals are exposed or judged. The line reflects a concise editorial voice typical of the era.
The Chicago News reports on rare unexported Chinese teas kept within China for rare comparisons. Tea specialists in Europe and America obtain samples through Chinese centers, but these teas are not for sale. Prices for public tasting range from 1 to 1.50 per cup, yielding about 200 cups per pound. Auctions in London have reached 225 to 275 dollars per pound.
A quiet man in a swallowtail coat defends waiters against sneers from young clerks. He claims waiters travel globally, learn languages, and earn from $25 to $50 a week, sometimes $2,000 yearly, detailing summers in Paris and winters in Egypt while enjoying worldly friends and full pockets. He urges others to learn the trade.
The article recalls Napoleon III Duke d Aumale and Lord Beaconsfield among many suitors for Miss Burdett Coutts who later became baroness. In 1847 she sued lawyer Richard Dunn for eight years of unwanted matchmaking efforts. Dunn received eighteen months in prison. he was sane in other matters but obsessed with her fortune.
In McIntosh County Georgia a cow death lawsuit stretched through repeated appeals and remands ending with an indefinite postponement declared by the squire. The case, a jury action, exhausted the county jury venue before the litigants finally compromised as a generation awaited jury duty.
A few days before Gerard de Nerval's death in a Paris street, he was seen walking in the Palais Royal dragging a live lobster with a blue ribbon. He told a friend that lobsters are no more ridiculous than cats or dogs and that he enjoys their company as they are quiet and know the secrets of the sea.
A mother and child discuss the morning and a forecast of rain, noting how even prophets can be uncertain. The scene, from Woman's Home Companion, captures domestic dialogue about weather and daily life.
Exchange quip notes a mischievous student who concentrates intently while a teacher tests the seat before sitting. The joke hints at suspicion and discipline in class.
A publisher notes that popular success often comes by accident as with J H Shorthouse and his novel John Inglesant. The chemist turned author printed 100 copies at his own expense after publishers rejected the work. A photographer used Gladstone in a pose with the book, boosting sales. Within a year 300000 copies sold, making Shorthouse a literary success.
An exchange quotes a nature fakir asserting big predators will self cannibalize when starved. He claims experiments with an eagle starving three days led to self maiming and theft of thigh meat, and a hyena eating its own hind leg, noting the animal drank about three pounds. He cites Pinny’s natural history and photographs for his book.
An elderly woman with a sharp tongue visits a country grocer and questions a treacle charge. She insists the jug she bought needed two gallons and a half to fill, though it holds only two. She muses that the jug was strained by overfilling, not the treacle amount.
The text explains plane sailing as the precursor to Mercator charts. It notes that before Mercator, sea charts used a plane projection with voyage navigation treated as a right triangle. It highlights large errors and that many historic voyages relied on plane charts.
A Wide World Magazine piece extols the versatile value of Dutch klompen or wooden shoes. It notes they aid in bailing boats, mending chil dren, scooping water, holding worms, serving as missiles, digging, and measuring, with a pair costing about fifteen pence. It adds that Dutch feet are not Cinderella like.
A boy named Wilfred visits a lake fully frozen for the first time and asks his mother who put the lid on the lake, a brief, whimsical moment captured in Circle.
A witty exchange unfolds as a wife dressed in widow's weeds tells her husband she mourns her late spouse, prompting his surprised question about the cause of mourning and her tearful reply.
A Canadian Courier anecdote tells of a young newspaper carrier carrying many papers. When a kindly elderly man asks if the amount tires him, the boy replies that he does not read them, implying a pragmatic job mindset and a humorous take on daily news delivery.
A concise reflection notes that aspiration often emphasizes one perspective while neglecting others, suggesting a bias toward optimism and personal drive over balanced consideration. The remark implies skepticism about unilateral views in decision making and reasoning.
A survey of dangerous smells notes that highly concentrated plusic acid can kill instantly. Hydrogen selenide and tellurium cause loss of smell and social withdrawal, with selenium odor likened to putrid horseradish. The text links sewer and bone factory odors to hydrogen sulfide and recounts anecdotes of sensory paralysis from elemental vapors.
Tin foil is produced by coating a lead core with tin on both sides. A tin pipe matches the diameter, is filled with molten lead, and rolled to extreme thinness. The tin coating spreads with the lead core, keeping a uniform tin layer even when the sheet is thinner than 0.001 inches.
In this humorous item from the Buffalo Commercial a three year old girl Marjorie plays doctor with her sister who pretends to be ill. After a mock exam the doctor asks if the patient wants to know the diagnosis and replies that she has dirty hands as Marjorie discards the wrist she has been feeling.
A Boston father rebukes his swearing son. The boy, spotting sparrows, quips that a bird tattled, then corrects him with a humorous malapropism naming sparrotos as the source.
A humorous exchange from the Chicago News features Hilton noting his wife is a fact-minded speaker who speaks her mind, while Chilton adds his wife is equally outspoken but changes her mind so often it keeps her hulking, humorously underscoring domestic wit.
The wealthy groom wonders why he married an ordinary man as the bride admits she does not know. Mamma managed the whole affair, a quiet behind the scenes influence shaping the union.
The article notes Amsterdam as the closest European capital to London with a distance of 199 miles separating the two capitals. This concise fact emphasizes geographic proximity within Europe and marks Amsterdam as the nearest capital to London.
A memory item notes Bees Laxative Cough Syrup acts on the bowels to drive out the cold and clear the head. The ad claims it is pleasant to take, works for croup and whooping cough, suitable for all ages, and refundable if not satisfactory. Sold by O. W. Sparks.
Electric car service of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad in effect June 2 1907 on weekdays with specified morning and afternoon runs.
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