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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1894
Page
4
Subscription Rates and Postage Overview
Rates are listed for one year paid in advance and six months with separate prices in dollars and cents. A three month option exists, along with a single copy price of five cents. The notice notes Bristol post office entry as second class matter.
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Bristol Post Office
Builder Yarrow Endows Hospital with 120000
The passage notes Mr. Yarrow, builder of torpedo boats, endowed a hospital for $120,000. It contrasts distant snowbound Montana with feverish conditions in Kentucky, highlighting broad national differences.
Remark on Pugilists as Cowards
The piece mocks leading boxers as cowards, noting that even Jackson and Corbett go their separate ways in life and fighting styles.
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Jackson
Corbett
Secretary Carlisle Guides Revenue Officers on Tariff Law
Secretary Carlisle is directing revenue officers to interpret the new tariff law, with decisions increasing and often conflicting. If this pace continues the document may become unrecognizable to its drafters.
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Carlisle
Australian reef yields world’s largest gold nugget found
An 1800 ounce gold nugget was unearthed on an Australian reef valued at over 31000 dollars. The find surpasses the Londonderry nugget and has stirred mining circles with rapid land price jumps nearby, more than five hundred percent.
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Australia
Londonderry
Rhode Island Warns on State Fair Overload
The state fair is praised as a lively carnival with exciting displays yet warns that forty days would be a terrible overload for Rhode Island residents.
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Rhode Island
Governor Greenhalge at the N E Fair Quotes on Rural Progress
The old country town divide fades as Governor Greenhalge praises modern farming and rural life from the State House Boston to Col Winslow’s Leicester home. He argues improved farm life will attract youths to farming as a proud ancestral vocation.
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State House
Boston
Winslow
Leicester
Revival schemes for the Panama canal debated
Several schemes are on foot to revive the Panama canal as millions have already been squandered in the effort. A company is being organized with a capital of 813000000 to prosecute the work, though some say it will only clear debris and restore the former condition. What then is the fate of the venture.
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Panama Canal
Western cattle herders slaughter 5000 to 7000 sheep
A report condemns cattle herders for slaughtering and abandoning 5000 to 7000 sheep on western lands last Friday. The piece argues such predation wastes wool and meat, calls it western lawlessness, and urges the government to grant free grazing land or levy penalties to stop land-stealing profits.
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Colorado
United States
Boundary survey completes between United States and Mexico
After two and a half years the American commission finishes a 700 mile re survey of the boundary. Fifty eight monuments were rebuilt and 200 new ones erected totaling 258. Some inaccuracies noted but not enough to alter monuments. Some residents found living in the other country due to tax status.
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Mexico
United States
Farmer and factory bond stressed at New England Fair
Governor Brown told the audience at the New England Fair that farming and manufacturing share interests. He argued agriculture becomes a business tied to industry and that farm prosperity depends on factory success, noting farmers felt the same economic pressures as capitalists and workers.
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Governor Brown
N. E. Fair
Pittsburg Honors Grand Army With Colorful National Encampment
Pittsburg lit with red white and blue to honor the twenty eighth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Veterans, frail with age, endured a long city march that has been a hallmark of encampments. The grand review began in Washington after the Civil War and will now be a final memory. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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Pittsburg
Grand Army of the Republic
Ohio
Washington
Appomattox
Grant
Sherman
Pennsylvania Avenue
Lincoln
Grand Army
Phonographic Otitis Warns Doctors on Ear Tubes Risks
The Medical Press notes several cases of catarrh and external ear suppuration after using public phonograph ear tubes. It cautions that fissures or excoriations can allow pyogenic bacteria to cause infection and urges periodic sterilization of telephone receivers.
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New York City
Biggs
Who Owns the Engagement Ring After a Breakup
A Brooklyn case centers on a ring bought on installments. The man, fiancée to the woman who wore it, sold the ring after their split. Now four parties the seller the man the former fiancée and the final buyer claim ownership in a dispute reflecting the ring as a symbol of affection and finance.
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Brooklyn
Love
City Folks Debate Bears and Town Ways
A city young man and a gentle farmer trade remarks about rural and urban life. The man notes city errors when visiting the countryside while the farmer points to how much argument it takes to convince city folk that bears exist in the region.
Little Folks Champion Walter Hogg Shines At Charity Event
A 15 year old Walter Hogg, son of druggist Albert Hogg, dazzled at a San Francisco charity circus. The Olympic club juvenile athlete, undefeated in his class, has earned medals and letters from multiple societies and regularly assists a range of charities without pay. He is praised for discipline, modesty, and leadership as a standout all around juvenile athlete.
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San Francisco
Society Circus
Walter Hogg
Albert Hogg
Leavenworth Street
Olympic Club
Walter
Master Hogg
Hogg
Polyclinic
King’s Daughters
Oakland
Alameda
Berkeley
San Mateo
San Francisco Chronicle
Little German Lassies Attend Kinderfest In Leaf Gowns
In Wood Ridge, nine year old Alice Imbert and six year old Josie Klees dress as German kinderfest mascots. Their gowns are made of leaves and flowers with leaf halos, while their playful pose evokes fairies in a New York World caption.
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Alice Imbert
Josie Klees
Wood Ridge
Alice
Josie
New York World
Parted hair craze and its aging effect on faces
A fashion piece notes the recent craze for hair parted in the middle or straight, often exposing harsh facial lines. It discusses how fringe softens features, the difficulty of achieving the part, and how the style ages wearers, with bold claims about Sweet 16 versus older ages.
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Vogne
French Widows and Women in French Business Votes
The piece compares French and English widows, noting French women head families but lack electoral rights for judges of industry due to Napoleonic code. It cites Max O Reilly and Mrs Fenwick Miller on French business women seeking votes for arbitrators, while not being elected themselves.
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SS Widdows
Pruicnwether
Max O’rell
Senate
Fenwick Miller
London Illustrated News
Celia Thaxter’s Isles of Shoals Garden described
A visitor recalls Celia Thaxter’s island garden at the Isles of Shoals. She tends the beds at dawn with larkspurs day lilies poppies and fragrant blooms. Water lilies Cape Cod lily Egyptian lotus and parrot's feather flourish in tubs planters and a wooden pail.
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Celia Thaxter
Isles of Shoals
Verse on gender roles in government from Dunkirk sermon
In Dunkirk New York Rev E P Adams compares bow and string to two blades of a pair of shears and argues women must be included as a cooperative factor in government. He warns that excluding women undermines unity and progress, urging rivets of partnership.
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E. P. Adams
Dunkirk
N. Y
Woman Drives Nails. Builds House While Husband Sits
A farmer's wife three miles west of town shingled an entire side of her house while her husband was in town seeking a carpenter. The old joke about a woman driving nails has faded into silent dust.
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Oklahoma Tribune
Simple experiment explains disease spread and cure claim
Dr Koch demonstrates with two rabbits one in a damp dark cellar dies soon while the other freed to sun and air remains healthy. A Jersey Bulletin quote notes inevitability of germs and white blood cells in defense. Eugene Oregon resident reports Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy curing chronic diarrhea in his wife with 25 and 50 cent bottles advertised everywhere.
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Koch
Sparta
J. W. Shuster
Jersey Bulletin
A. M. Bailey
Eugene
Oregon
Chamberlain
Port Huron Man Recalls Wild Hailstone Tale and School Ad
A Port Huron man tells a reporter of a storm with hailstones “bigger than an egg” and jokes about “kish eggs” as the exchange ends with a plug for the English and Classical School. The school touts thirty years of practical boy training for health and future success.
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Port Huron
Hailstone
The Poor Bird Irish Tale
An Irishman hunts and shoots at a redbird then discovers a frog beneath the tree. He quips that the bird was pretty until he shot all the feathers off it, delivering a rustic, humorous twist.
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