Bristol Pre n e x Published Saturday Morning Ad Rates
Bristol Prentex weekly notice from W H Bayley at 4 Bradford Street Bristol details subscription prices two dollars per year in town payable in advance distant subscribers five dollars per year in advance. Single copies four cents at office. Advertisements ten dollars per square for three weeks twenty cents per additional insertion. Twelve lines in small type make a square. Yearly advertisers ten dollars per year paper included limited to 18 lines per week for their own business.
The Dead All Around Us Poem Fragment
Poem fragment notes the dead are everywhere from mountain and plain to city streets and luxury homes. It contrasts living cities built by past generations with their graves and says the dead belong to all, while sorrowing veiled women weep at graves. The tone is elegiac and universal about death.
Prophesies in a Republican editor’s distant forecast
The Litchfield Republican editor, in a progressive mood, predicts in a reflection that in seventy five years the United States will encompass western continent territory from pole to isthmus, halt interstate interference, enable air travel, link New York to London by telegraph, Europe under republican rule, shorten transatlantic travel to three days, and settle disputes by arbitration rather than arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States of America
Wester Continent
North Pole
Darien
New York
London
Sth
Europe
Liverpool
Remarkable ages among Taunton settlers on Bos ton road
The Taunton Democrat reports a table showing 22 nearby heads of families averaging over 84 years. It cites the Dean family with eleven children whose combined ages at death totaled 1000 years and notes Ebenezer Staples at 94 still active on his farm in Taunton.
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Remankaste Lonxeevity
Hair Fashion Leads to Serious Head Surgery
A Cincinnati physician was asked to treat a young lady on John Street after she tied her hair so tightly that the scalp separated from the skull. The doctor opened the wound to remove accumulated matter beneath the scalp.
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Cincinnati
John Street
The New Anny Uniform Changes Reported
A Washington letter to the Baltimore Clipper notes that new army regulations will alter uniforms. Blue frock coats will replace the old pattern for officers and privates, with finer textures and enhanced fittings. The shako cap is replaced by the Hungarian cap, bird feathers are removed, and whisker styles are to be finalized later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Baltimore Clipper
Army
Bristol Court of Justices Established in 1851 Act
The Rhode Island General Assembly enacts a Bristol Town Court of Justices with 3 to 5 members to be elected annually. It outlines jurisdiction equal to justices of the peace, writs and processes, quorum rules, meeting times, clerk duties, and designation of eligible Bristol Justices by the town council. A true copy signed by the secretary accompanies the act.
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Bristol
General Assembly
Justices of the Peace
Law of Justice and the Peace
Asa Potter
Resolution on Senate Finance Committee and Treasury Expenditures
The General Assembly resolves that the Senate Finance Committee report next session a detailed statement of state expenditures since October 1, 1841, distinguishing ordinary and extraordinary items, identifying authorities, and detailing receipts and surpluses. It authorizes recess sittings and clerical help and calls for related treasury inquiries. It also legalizes school committee elections previously held at town meetings.
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Senate
General Assembly
Treasury
Sofa that converts into twenty five positions described in Cincinnati paper
A Cincinnati publication notes a versatile sofa that folds into twenty five configurations including an arm chair with stools and a writing desk, claimed to suit bachelors or invalids. The piece uses reflective musings on wealth, poverty, education, and moral responsibility, ending with a quip about a drunkard and a servant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Notice of Resignation from Episcopal Ministry
A letter from Bishop Meluvaine, signed B. P. Avvenotrt, announces his decision to stop exercising ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He cites personal heaviness and fundamental disagreement, asks for family and world to forbid further support, and expresses sincerity toward those he leaves.
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B. P. Ayoenorr
D. D
Cincinoatti
Protestant Episcopal Church
Melbaine
B. P. Avvenotrt
The Use of Thinking and Education’s Value
Galileo, under twenty, observed a pendulum in Pisa and developed time measurement method. An educated man learns to do anything, not just menial tasks, gaining expertness of mind through proper schooling. A Sener man may struggle with learning, even simple farming, lacking essential knowledge of his work. The Lynn News notes a kindly reader’s mince pie request amid a busy press.
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Church of England
Rome
Falta
Evangelical Religion
Episcopal Church
Oxford
Episcopal Recorder
Our Church
Cardid
Protestant Episcopal Church
Christ
Galileo
Pisa
Ie Souon
Lynn News
Opposition fuels genius and honors discovery
The text asserts that opposition sharpens genius and raises successful explorers to immortality by naming a long-lost shore. It compares beauty and truth to dew in crystal, remaining clear in the heart even as the external world grows rigid and decayed.
Bargains and Advertising Wisdom in Commerce
The piece urges buyers to trust advertisers for better bargains and notes that steady advertising increases customer flow, allowing lower profits. It compares consistent ads to those who rely on occasional customers and counsels self-improvement in fault curing.
A Trip Through Futurity on the Air Line Railroad
The narrator describes a futuristic ride aboard an air line railroad from New York to Boston in 1850. He views marble halls, Corinthian columns, a stained glass dome, and a procession of gleaming temples as a distant conductor guides him through rapid, magical interiors. The journey leaps centuries ahead, reveals a century of inventions, and ends with the claim that the year is 1950 and the world of labor saving machines is everywhere.
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Mount Olympus
Hartford
Springfield
New York
Boston
Times
Worcester
New Haven
Air Line
New England
Leviathan of the rails and the flying omnibus ride
A narrator and a Yankee guide tour a speculative 19th century vision of rapid transit and innovative tech. They ride an elevated electric omnibus to the Ocean Hotel in Boston, glimpse steamless locomotion, magnetic patents, and alloyed metals, while discussing presidents, telegraph, lunar travel, and future cities in a brisk, satirical travelogue.
Preserving the Onion a Comical Exchange
A humorous dialogue shows Scraggs reading The Onion aloud to his mother and mispronouncing it while the old woman jokes about not having enough vinegar for the bull. A man asks what to do as a sheriff approaches with writs and they chase a remedy in humorous slang.
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Scraggs
John
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Poezel
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Ocean Hotel
Solomon's Temple
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Taylor
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Earth
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Maine
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