27 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1879
Page
1
A Western inventor creates the audiphone a rubber sheet device set in a handle that conducts speech through teeth vibrations bypassing the outer ear. Users bend the sheet slightly to fit their bite and press it against upper teeth to hear voice echoes.
A comic tale unfolds at Chicklethorpe Manor where a mysterious new hat bearing a note provokes panic and a romantic reunion. Matilda Rosa admits love for Theodore Spooner the barrister as the hat plot resolves into a playful mystery and a reconciliation with the clock striking five.
The column blends essays on rude interruptions in conversation with gentle meditations on pain as a warning from nature. It also covers lightning rod basics, a hawk tale with a weasel twist, practical home hints, and household cleanliness tips in brisk, period newspaper style.
The London Truth recalls two historic hailstorms. The 1810 event featured bluish hailstones possibly weighing up to 100 pounds and a sulfurous vapor, with birds and beasts dying and crops ruined. The 1697 storm began with thunder, produced hail as large as green balls, destroying plantations, trees, crops, tiles, and windows within a mile.
Charley Cochrane, longtime groom for Goldsmith Maid, visits Fashion Stud Farm. The mare, famed for guarding her colt, recognizes him by voice after two years, then eagerly greets him and the colt. She rubs against him, shows joy, and follows him to the gate whinnying.
A traditional cure is described as taking the root of the aching tooth and placing it in the palm of the hand as a sure remedy for toothache. The note presents this folk medical practice as a known remedy.
A remark notes that a man often divides his name in the middle to sound better on a card, suggesting that even the name Jacob benefits from the flourish when presented as J. Cobb Smith.
A December voyage in the Soonderbuns features a native boat cabin where a traveler awakes to find his blanket and bed sheet stolen through a two foot square hole in the matting. The account, attributed to India Times, explains a nocturnal theft method using a feather to tickle the ear and release the sheet in stages.
The Washington Star describes the presidential greeting ritual illustrating varied approaches to shaking the President's hand. Citizens display different manners from grasping firmly to mere fingertip touches. Mrs Hayes presence attracts inquiries as ladies pass, while men offer political advice and youths pose as daily introducers to presidents.
The notice outlines advertising rates for transient and yearly ads, with one inch for one dollar and twenty-five cents for twelve lines, plus special rates before marriages and deaths. Transient ads must be prepaid, yearly contracts on reasonable terms, and advertisers limited to their own business. submissions due by Thursday noon.
A party of over two hundred Icelanders arrived by ship and train in Chicago area, planning to settle on the Winona and St Peter Railway line in Minnesota. They spoke no English, carried heavy baggage and cash around four thousand dollars per family, and were aided by interpreters. Their appearance, attire, and travel details resemble a tourist group more than typical immigrants.
Beautifiers. Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with all the cosmetics of France, or beautifiers of the world, while in poor health, and nothing will give you such good health, sane, buoyant spirits and beauty as Hop Bitters. A trial is certain proof. See another column.
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