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The Bristol Briar is published every Saturday morning by C A Greene OMco Phanliz Building Hope Street. Subscription rates include postage: one year two dollars, six months one dollar, three months fifty cents if paid in advance two dollars and twenty five cents. Single copy five cents. No paper discontinued until arrears are paid, except at the option of the publisher.
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Phanliz
Hope Street
The Chinese Bapper Tabooed in Civilized Lands
A Victorian-era descriptive sketch notes the Chinese barber’s skilled craft and portable tools carried on a bamboo pole. Despite utility and universal skill, he is deemed inferior and excluded from public employment, with discrimination extending to his children for generations.
Gardener Henderson Claims Spring Seed Need Pressure
Peter Henderson, veteran gardener, told nurserymen and florists that pressing garden seed firmly with the foot while planting ensures they will grow reliably and mature better even with no breath. He extends the rule to transplanting trees and shrubs, noting decades of gardening without this discovery before recently proving it. Cleveland Herald.
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Peter Henderson
Henderson
Cleveland Herald
Clergyman Helps Drunk Barber After Fireworks Night
An ordained churchman in ArkE You Drunk, TOOP helps a drunken barber found drifting by the roadside after a South cylaum fireworks display. The barber, half conscious, misidentifies the clergyman in a hiccuping joke before the reverend hauls him home and keeps him out of the station house.
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Toop
Cylaum
Deacon Phenix and Olive Wayne in a quiet romance
In a tale set at a Civil War era conference, Deacon Phenix courts Olive Wayne while hiding plans to court another woman. Olive resists, revealing a fiancé, and Phenix faces a moral test as events unfold during a sequence of meetings, flirtations, and delayed confessions.
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Deacon Phenix
Mr. Vance
Charles
Providence
Deacon Phoenix
Confessional note on Christianity and the cross
A fragment expresses strong distrust of modern Christianity, claiming it diverges from the cross and mirrors Peter’s denial when he said he knew not the man. The tone is provocative and critical of doctrinal fidelity.
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Peter
Infidel mocks clergy over Sunday accounts
An infidel taunts a clergyman by saying he spends Sunday settling accounts. The reverend responds that he will probably spend judgment day in the same manner. The exchange preserves the local paper tone and moral quip.
Do Not Get Into Anybody's Way
The author warns that Paul urged Thessalonians to pray for deliverance from unreasonable men and notes that such "absurd" individuals hinder ministers. He explains wreck word meaning out of face and stresses that those out of their place disrupt others, urging readers to stay in proper roles.
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Paul
Thessalonians
Webster in the Senate as Lee Saw Him
General Robert E. Lee praised Daniel Webster after the war noting his striking presence in the Senate. He compared Webster to music’s Pagannini and said reporters caricatured his eloquence, yet Webster’s speeches showed great power and dignity even if not impassioned.
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Daniel Webrbster
Robert E. Lee
Webster
Senate
Paganini
Europe
The Handshake Gauge of Character Across Society
A reflective piece argues that handshake manner reveals character, contrasting limp moist grips with firm warm ones. It cites Uriah Heep as a caution against deceitful touch and suggests a firm grasp signals trust, warmth, and potential friendship while a cold nervous grip predicts trouble. The essay then muses that hands cradle life’s creations from books to music, architecture, science, and governance.
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Enti
The Theory of Advertising in Modern Argos
Advertisers should view ad outlays as a yearly cost like painting a building. A single day’s ad will not yield immediate sales. consistent advertising builds steady patronage. Even loyal customers may drift to competitors if rivals persistently promote advantages.
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Didymus
Hornet Builds Mud Nest Inside Home in Lawrence
A black hornet observed in a Lawrence sitting room deposited mud on a wire to form a one inch long cell with a cylindrical cavity. The hornet laid eggs and completed six cells, later the nest contained larvae at various stages, some with remains of several spiders. Spiders were found in multiple cells, suggesting hornets may prey on them.
Fitznoodle in America and the British sporting edge
A satirical note from Puck derides American athletes attempting to compete with the English. It argues Americans are inherently outmatched in sports unless extraordinary luck or a breakdown of English prowess occurs, reflecting a British view of sporting superiority.
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Fitznoodle
America
Puck
How to Get Sick and How to Get Well
A snappy column note urges excess and neglect of health as the path to sickness, then promises the cure in three words by recommending Hop Bitters. The brief also hints at a companion column with further details.
Raising pond lilies as easily as corn or potatoes
A reader explains how pond lilies can be grown with simple rooting in a garden pond. The author notes the plants thrive with little pest pressure beyond mischievous children and encourages others to plant a root to enjoy beautiful fragrance and foliage.
Seeing Motuer a Tender Gift to a Barefoot Stranger
A rider meets an old barefoot woman with a gentle face and staff on a mountain road. The lady offers money to buy shoes, the woman accepts with simple gratitude. The rider feels her own mother in the stranger and reflects that recognizing kin in the poor could transform the world.
Unconscious Sarcas
A Rockland Courier reader recalls a street fight in front of a store in the north end, noting a man grabbing a cart stake and swinging as others intervene. The family listener, then the young heir, jokes about brains, while the father scans the youth for humor as supper continues.
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Sarcas
North End
Rockland Courier
Taxes on Nature and the Free American Citizen
A Boston Times excerpt ridicules tolls charged for visiting natural wonders. It lists Niagara Falls and other sites in New York and New Hampshire with admission fees, arguing Americans would pay to view scenery and lamenting the idea of walls along the seacoast to charge for seeing the ocean.
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Niagara Falls
United States
Watkins Glen
New York
Mount Washington
Au Sable
Franconia Notch
Niagara
Montmorency
Boston Times
Moving life-like photo from phonograph and Kinesigraph plan
A Nature correspondent describes a plan to make life size moving photographs by taking rapid sequences of instantaneous images every quarter to half second. Prints are joined on a ribbon so the sequence passes before the eye with electric sparks lighting each picture, creating the illusion of motion.
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Nature
Remarkable mother helped Crossley rise in spinning world
The late John Crossley recalled by guests at Manor Heath that his mother was a farm servant who earned £6 a year, milked cows, churned butter, and saved a sum. She spent leisure spinning wool with a fourth of profits to herself. Crossley credited his success to God’s blessing from his mother.
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Tuhe
John Crossley
Prince of Wales
Manor Heath
Crossly
Poisoning Case Involving Mother-in-Law At Scottsville
A Scottsville Virginia man was poisoned by his wife’s mother who urged the daughter to lace his coffee. The husband noticed the drink tasted off and emptied it into a pot, then the mother drank coffee from the same pot and fell ill and died. A warrant is out for the wife.
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Asa Phoenix
Lucinda
Olive
Reuben
Ile
Deacon Phenix
Chester
Wayne Homestead
Miss Olive
Mr. Phenix
Mr. Phoenix
Mr. Phanix
Mr. Torrey
Vance
Sister Torrey
Churchville
Zenas Torrey
Sle
Vance Dome
Olive Wayne
Nancy
Bijah
Egin
White House
Second Street
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Scottsville
Ife
Horatio Seymour's Witty Retort at Public Dinner
A dinner exchange with Lord Houghton reveals a sly Horatio Seymour joke about the United States thriving without Britain. Seymour hints the young republic could govern with 50 million allies and suggests England joining as a family of states with extra Congressmen and a Senator or two.
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Horatio Seymour
Lord Houghton
England
Gov. Seymour
Proper garter use to reduce leg harm explained
The text explains how garters should be applied to avoid blocking leg venous return. It notes the superficial veins join near the knee and curve under the thigh, so below knee ligatures obstruct veins while above the knee the hamstring tendons relieve pressure. It warns many apply garters incorrectly below the knee.
A Hint to Workingmen on Cheap Medicines
The piece argues that working men face high costs despite lower wages and seeks cheaper medicine. It promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets as affordable remedies touted to have helped people previously paying high fees to physicians. The ad emphasizes wholesale pricing and relief for those taxed by medical costs.
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Pierce
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