The Bristol Pheri Advertising Rates and Notices
The Bristol Pheri announces weekly publication at 7 Bradford Street Bristol under W U Bayley. Yearly subscriptions in advance, single copies four cents, ads one dollar per square three weeks, twenty cents per further insertion. Continuous ads and religious obituary notices priced in advance.
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Bristol Pheri
Bradford Street
Bristol
R. Ie
W. U
Bayley
Aubsdellers
Sweet Village Home
A lyrical snippet celebrates a beloved village home with nature and peace as the speaker contemplates leaving for distant places. The poem references woods, flowers, brooklets, and green fields, contrasting village contentment with life elsewhere and the pull to return.
Unnamed Post Office Drill Uncovers Mail Tampering Mole
The article explains a new detection method for moles in mail handling. It describes post office agents targeting contraband knowledge dealers who damage reputations. A letter can be opened read resealed and evidence used to convict the culprit with penalties including a $500 fine and a year in prison.
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Paul Prys
Privacy Abuse in Postal Spoils a Century Ago
In tales from ten years among the mail bags, post office life reveals dangers to private letters. Officials fear unauthorized readers and reveal a case where a farmer’s daughter secretly exchanged letters with a neighbor, prompting pursuit and renewed scrutiny of seals and messengers.
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Post Office
Paul Paul
Perseverance Turns Newsboy Into Self Made Machinist
A fourteen year old newsboy who sold papers near the Tribune corner leaves that life after declaring illiteracy, apprenticing as a machinist, and rising to own a sawnmill business. He now reads and writes, supports a wife and two children, and plans further success, embodying perseverance as a path to wealth and education.
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Paxseverancer
Tribune
Thiaboy
Fraly
Longleland
Sun and Herald
George Borrow
A World of Virtues for Every Relation
The quote offers guidance on how to treat different people with forgiveness tolerance love and respect. It encourages enemies to forgive opponents to be tolerant toward rivals friends children fathers mothers and oneself, outlining a path of moral conduct.
A Fast Horse and a Fatal Richmond Street Crash
A friend recounts a tale tied to the Richmond street disaster, claiming an oscillating mischance involved a school mistress and a pupil. The pupil says the fallen horse belonged to a sibling and was the fleetest horse in Boston bound for a funeral, creating a strange and somber postscript.
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Richmond Street
Boston
Pest
The Mother’s Funeral and a Call Against Ingratitude
A man asks to lay his mother to rest beside a father in the town, lamenting that she has “outlived her usefulness.” The community gathers to honor the aging woman, then a minister condemns harsh words about elderly mothers and urges gratitude, care, and faith as the rite closes.
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God
Jesus
General Washington at hotel prompts Irish servant remark
An Irish waiter named Pat praised General Washington and his officers. He said he could not judge their stars in the presence of the sun, highlighting the servant’s witty compliment as the party left.
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Washington
Pat
Dennis McCann Confesses Pig Theft to Irish Priest
An Irish tale recounts Dennis McCann admitting he stole Widow Johnson's pig. The priest pressures restitution while Dennis pleads ignorance and faces judgment. In a comic twist he proposes returning the pig, then changes course claiming satisfaction for the widow.
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Dennis McCann
Johnson
Emerald Isle
Riest
Dennis
Satiely
Widdow Johnson
Murther
Boston
Odd Chinese booksellers weigh volumes for sale
The Chinese book sellers sell volumes by weight rather than fixed prices. If a book is found too light, the seller tears out leaves from another book and adds them to the scale to reach a fair weight.
Widower Jests On Weight After Wife's Death in Quip
A widower, briefly noted for his luck in life, is teased by a friend in the street about losing weight. He replies in a Falstaffian tone that his wife weighed a hundred, a humorous take on his loss and his manner.
Abyssinia crowns Kasa Emperor Theodore I in succession
The text reports Abyssinia elevating Kasa, an elder officer and king’s brother in law, to emperor status as Theodore I after a prolonged struggle. It notes that Souloque the First is no longer the sole black monarch and mentions Hayti in context.
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Souloque
Abyssinia
Hayti
Kasa
Theodore 1
Two American Creole Girls Tie Dynasties Across Seas
The Pittsburgh Post recounts the lives of Josephine de Tascher and a Marie S from Martinique who, via misfortune and capture by corsairs, rose to prominence in Napoleon's circle and the Ottoman court. Their descendants include Mahmoud II and Abdul Medjid, linking two modern rulers to American Creole roots.
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Pittaburg Post
Josephine de Tascher
Josephine
France
M. de Beauharnain
Eugenes
Hortense
Beauharnais
Napoleon Bonaparte
Mise
Constantinople
Furance
Seraglio
Turkey
Mahmoud II
Sultan
Abdul Medjid
Mahmoud
Sovervigna
Anecdote of Gen H and the mackerel at a Washington boarding house
A humorous tale recalls an Ohio congressman known for kindness who bid farewell to a widow and her daughters in Washington. He saluted the breakfast table, saluted the silver coinage for street vendors, and finally parted from the mackerel he and the cook knew so well, then hurried away on a stage to Ohio. Separately Rhode Island laws are cited on counterfeiting and bank plate disposal.
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Gen. H
Congress
Ohio
Ventriloquist and Bacon Cask Prank On Southern Wharf
A crowd at a southern steamboat wharf gathered as workmen rolling a cask heard a voice begging to be let out. The cask was pried open and revealed to be filled with bacon, prompting astonished laughter from onlookers and the ventriloquist, nicknamed the Fas kir of Ava, to stroll away.
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Anid
Cooper
Ava
Married women may devise lands by will under amended act
An 1849 enactment allows married women over twenty one years of age with sound mind to devise real and personal property by will in the same form required for other wills. The measure preserves the rights of widows during tenancy by the curtesy and repeals inconsistent provisions as noted in the act copy attested by John R. Bartlett Secretary.
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Rhode
General Assembly
Snes
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
John R. Bartlett
John KR. Bartlett
Courts of Common Pleas
Bristol
Court of Common
Anid Bristol
Bartlett
Mistrustful Customer Seeks Medical Opinion in Odd Exchange
A hard-looking customer presses a physician with a perplexing complaint about chest oppression and uneasiness. The doctor dismisses it as water on the chest and spars with the patient over a humorous misunderstanding from fifteen years ago.
Ambiguous OCR Summary of Legislative Act
Fragmentary OCR text references an act and commission sections. No clear names dates places or outcomes are readable. The piece suggests a legislative amendment but lacks verifiable specifics for a proper headline or summary.
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Sweet Village Home
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Haycroft
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