11 Aug 1855
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1855
Page
1
Published every Saturday at No 7 Bradford Street Bristol subscription rates listed. Rates 2 dollars in advance for town deliveries two dollars per year for non residents. Notices styled for religious obituary and political content advertised at specified square rates with continued insertions.
A devotional verse extols praising the Lord for sepia light and wondrous works. It envisions worship from dome to valley and sea to sea, summoning all creation to praise and trust in divine attentiveness and protection.
A Boston Cultivator note offers homemade summer drinks. It describes seidlitz powders with Rochelle salts and baking soda, mixed with tartaric acid for effervescence. It then details a medicated lemonade and two beers, white spruce beer and imperial ginger beer, with ratios and ingredients for each, plus tips on tasting and preparation.
A reflective piece warns suspicion as a dangerous infant lion that may devour. It urges speaking well of discoveries in others and not spreading suspicion unless justified. The text compares harmful gossip to venom and calls for restraint to prevent harm to reputation and truth.
Fragmentary reflection discusses virtues learned from close friends and faults revealed by enemies. It compares perception to a mirror where breath clouds clarity, prompting introspection about true aims and character.
Time cuts down all and rents rise, a persistent urban trend affecting households and businesses as costs climb despite economic fluctuations. Officials monitor housing supply and policy responses while residents seek relief amid rising prices.
The excerpt urges self reliance, warning against borrowing to cover debts. It advises selling possessions if needed to regain liberty, preferring gradual self help over external aid, and stresses the value of immediate sacrifice to avoid future ruin. It cautions that borrowing delays cures and leads to greater loss.
A critical portrait of the suspicious person who distrusts neighbors, reads motives into ordinary actions, and spreads harm through unfounded rumors. The piece warns that such individuals ruin families, depress homes, and destroy trust, fueled by deceitful premises and relentless curiosity.
A satirical list classifies types from Fine Fellows to Humble Persons and Mean People with examples. It mocks manners such as money lending, courting, ironing by mothers, and walking with a father, exposing social stereotypes and rigid hierarchies. The piece ends with a remark on social liberty and natural placement.
A mother asks if Mary is in love and the response hints at romantic feelings. Mary answers yes but cannot quantify emotions, joking about a feeling that makes her feel five feet tall.
A housemaid boasted of rising at four to light a fire, boil tea, prepare breakfast, and make all beds before anyone woke. She argues that memory cannot forget though accidents may veil consciousness, yet the inscription remains forever.
The 1855 Rhode Island act creates a Court of Magistrates for Woonsocket within Cumberland with two Justices of the Peace as Chief Justice and Clerk. It gains civil and criminal jurisdiction in Cumberland, sets duties for the Clerk, bonding, seals, records, costs, and appeals, and outlines vacancies, sessions, and salaries.
The passage offers household guidance on ironing salt cleaning griddles nut meats soaking and drying seeds keeping items separate and moth prevention with cedar and charcoal. It also urges parental example and warns eight slaves fled to Lyme on the 30th and proceeded toward Canada.
Fragmentary chatter recalls shipments from Norfolk to New York of baskets and barrels of apples and bones. A dialect quip contrasts dieting and dying as a mock race, noting the grim outcome of death regardless of diet or medicine.
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