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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1904
Page
4
A colonial advertisement touts 18 Chamberlain's Pain Balm as a fast acting liniment for cuts, bruises, and burns. It claims antiseptic properties prevent blood poisoning and aid quick recovery if applied promptly, recommending W. H. Buffington as the seller.
Hotel Belvedere offers a lacarte meals service on the piazza from 7 to 11 each evening with broiled live as a specialty. A table d'hote menu is available from 6 to 8 p m priced at 1 00.
Albany Georgia resident W S Philpot endorses DeWitts Little Early Risers for bilious attacks noting swift relief with pleasant effects. The Pills are sold by W H Buffington.
Keiths presents a strong vaudeville week led by Carter De Haven Sextette in musical comedy novelty. Frederic Bond returns in Lend Me Five Shillings, Nat Haines and Will Vidosy headline, Herbert’s dogs perform Loop the Loop, Charles Hera debuts as Europe's top juggler, Sandor Trio shows power acts, plus Stageland Satire by Finlay and Burke and other acts. Biograph features Manchuria film.
An advertisement advises trying Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets for constipation. They are easy to take and cause no griping or unpleasant effects. Sold by W. H. Buttington.
The Newport and Providence Railway announces weekday and Sunday schedules with departures from Newport to Providence at 6 45 to 9 46 am and pm, and Bristol to Newport at 7 00 to 10 15 pm. Arrivals at Newport range from 8 25 am to 11 30 pm. Boats connect with all cars, waiting ten minutes if late.
Regular service runs Providence to Bristol with weekday and Sunday times. Weekdays begin at City Hall 5:45 am every 30 minutes to 7:16 pm then hourly to 11:15 pm. Bristol terminus starts 5:15 am with varied 80 minute, hourly, and late trains to Riverside car house. Sunday service starts 7:45 am with 30 minute and hourly blocks to 10:15 pm. Bristol terminus 6:45 am with 30 minute and hourly runs to 9:45 pm and late trains to Riverside. Cars leave Franklin Street six minutes after Bristol.
The schedule lists Northbound and Southbound electric train times between Bristol Constitution Street and Providence Fox Point effective May 29 1904. Weekday and Sunday service hours run in detail from 5 45 am to 11 30 pm for northbound trains and 6 00 am to 11 30 pm for southbound trains. Arrival times at Bristol and Providence stations are given with multiple express and regular options.
In early Comstock days the tough figure known as Red Mike worked as a bricklayer on a jail now forgotten. He laid bricks dry and removed ones he had set, then escaped by making a hole in the wall and leading the other prisoners out, a bold act before trial.
A narrator recalls the deadly significance of the evil eye to Italians and describes an incident with a beggar who reacts with fury when a nonbeliever girl mimics the corna gesture. The tale notes how social excommunication follows suspicion, reflecting Century magazine perspective.
Mortimer Menpes quotes Whistler recalling visits to dealers who owed him money. He insists on a proper ceremony to receive payments, insisting on a rich old English salver and a kingly manner. A dealer once borrowed an embossed salver to present a check with a ceremonious speech, which pleased the master.
An 1833 incident in Chemube county N Y describes Henry Astell’s farmhouse struck by lightning three times in a single day. The first bolt split the chimney and damaged stove and floor. An hour later another strike broke a milk bench and cans of milk. In the evening a third bolt tore legs from a bedstead.
A collection of old time remedies and superstitions outlines cures for epilepsy toothache warts and felon. It lists methods such as coffin rings seven drops of cat tail blood and potato rites along with unconventional actions like handling a finger near a cat ear for a felon. The piece preserves quirky traditional beliefs without endorsing them.
A night school instructor asks how far from Liverpool to New York. A shaggy haired pupil insists four thousand miles, arguing the book lists 3,000 miles in a straight line but his count includes ups and downs from experience aboard. The exchange appears in the Chicago Tribune.
The piece traces the saying borrowed days from March into April and its Scottish origins. It cites Sir Thomas Browne and the 1548 Complaint of Scotland noting three borrowed days linked to March, plus a remark on late March wintry relapse and Highland belief.
The piece recounts Clarence King the ethnologist meeting John Ruskin in a picture shop and Ruskin inviting him to Coniston to see Turner watercolors. King recalls purchasing both Turners, his remark that one good Turner deserves another. It also notes a San Francisco letter to John Hay praising Horace F Cutter and joking about his alias, calling him Socrates and Don Quixote.
A Collier's Weekly excerpt recounts Sir Edwin Arnold praising Japanese gardeners as highly esteemed artists. He recalls riding with a Kioto gardener who humorously suggests letting cows roam to test a road up a steep hillside. The anecdote highlights craftsmanship and wit in Japanese landscape work.
The London Globe explains Chatham Island off New Zealand lies on a date line where Sunday becomes Monday at noon. The day shifts as it passes from eastern to western areas, causing Sunday noon dinner to end under Monday. This odd regulation makes time and weekdays hinge on location near the devarcation line.
In a large school a boy commits a grave disciplinary offense. The teacher threatens to thrash the entire class unless the culprit speaks. After a silent ordeal he begins punishing each pupil until the last one confesses. The final boy says he did it to save the others.
A reflective aphorism by Hayfield Mower contrasts money’s changing worth across days. It laments that wealth fades with time while a person of true substance endures beyond monetary measure.
An ancient Turkish riddle ponders happiness in a beggar who dreamed himself a pasha and a pasha who dreamed he was a beggar. The paradox asks which figure was truly happier, inviting reflection on desire and contentment across centuries.
A tramp tells a kind lady at the door he works in precious metals and stones, but says the police and jewelers are all onto him, making it hard to find work.
Short told me he preferred blond girls. Isabel said he proposed to me last week and I am brunette. Phyllis noted she has a fair income, and the debate continued in light conversation.
Tommy visits a neighbor and jokes through dinner after the hostess apologizes for a soiled table linen. He coolly replies that their own linen at home is worse, delivering a light local humor moment from Brooklyn Life.
A young woman comments on dress goods while a salesman retorts that she will like the dress once it is made up. The exchange highlights shop talk and hopes of selling a garment through fitting and presentation.
Yonkers Statesman notes a playful exchange about fashion vanity. A woman questions why she feels compelled to wear a smaller shoe than fit, while a man suggests he wears a larger hat than his head needs, highlighting humorous gendered vanity.
A line from a scene about a man with scarlet fever telling his wife that he can finally give creditors something, reflecting a grim mix of illness and humor in a distressed time. The exchange highlights hardship, social pressure, and a final gesture toward debt in a period piece.
A reflection on kindness describing that every kind word or deed eventually returns to bless the giver, attributed to Lord Shaftesbury in a life of moral caution and generous sentiment.
Advertises Seven Barks as a German stomach and liver regulator available at 297 Hope St Bristol, with a 50 cent deposit and money-back guarantee if it fails to deliver promised results. Claims 85 years on the market and wide family use, urging readers to call for a bottle.
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