Bristol Phenix Ad Rates and Publication Details
Bristol Phenix weekly published Saturdays at 40 Bradford Street Bristol A L by W H Bayley. Subscriptions 1 year in town 1 50 half year 75 cents, distant 2.00 yearly in advance. Single copies 4 cents. Ads 1 dollar per square for three weeks then 20 cents each insertion. Twelve lines in minion make a square. Ads continued until forbidden. Yearly advertisers limited to 18 lines per week to own immediate business.
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Theo Dallara
Paper Inc
Iin
The Still Small Voice by George W. Lik
A poetic meditation on nature and spirit, as the Still Small Voice appears at dawn and dusk. The poem frames sunrise, daylight, sunset, and night as quiet prayers of the world with vivid landscapes and celestial imagery.
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George W. LI
Paradise
Rhode Island Domestic Industry Fair Plans Raised
The Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry and the Rhode Island Horticultural Society announce a large scale fair. They urge residents to submit specimens of manufactures and agriculture and note many steam engines will be on display. Henry Howann, Secretary, handles exhibitor inquiries for a creditable exhibit.
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Rhode Island Society For the
Providence Journal
Rhode Island Society For
Rhode Island Society For the Encouragement
Rhode Island Horticultural Society
Hennry Howann
Rhode Island Exhibitions Aimed At City Show
The Rhode Island Society for Domestic Industry and the Rhode Island Horticultural Society plan a joint exhibition of manufactures agriculture and horticulture with a cattle show and ploughing match in the city. Premiums totaling over eighteen hundred dollars are offered. The event opens at noon on September 10 at the railroad station halls and runs through the following Friday. The cattle show will be held Tuesday the 11th.
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Weppespay
State Industrial Exhibition Calls for Wide Acknowledged Entries
The Board of Managers issue a call for displays across farming, dairy, stock, poultry, gardening, mechanical arts, jewelry, wood metal and stone crafts, printing, paintings and fine arts. Citizens from other states may compete. Entries due September 8 with open shows and motive power arrangements on request.
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Holden
Howard Hall
Board of Managers
Board of
Managéia
Henry Howard
Req
Providence
Jusiay Cuarin
Evisua Otney
J. B. M. Forres
Josipn Canpenten
Joseph I. Giamone
Oneolan Brown
Wiliam Gopparo
Henry Howann
Ellisua Dryer, Jr
Haney W. Lotnapp
Willliam S. Patten
Srupuen H. Samira
Joan J. Stimson
Cyrus B. Manchesten
Willliam M. Snow
Burglary in Cranston Strikes R F Dyer and Partners
In July 1851 Providence reports break ins at the home of R F Dyer and at Mesars C and D P Dyer in Cranston. Pockets were rifled of about fifteen dollars in silver and a five dollar counterfeit City Bank bill. The same night rooms of C and D P Dyer were entered with similar thefts totaling around $160.
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Cranston
R. F. Dyer
Benjamin Green
City Bank
Providence
House of Mesars
Whortleberries seller bears child on road in rain
A market woman from Smith field delivering whortleberries arrived in labor on her return to the village. Rain fell heavily as the newborn entered the world beside the road. Nearby residents lent a blanket and carried the jukee home. The event is playfully predicted to yield a hydropathian.
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Ratna Sinoutan
Smithfield
Dame Nature
Carrien
Woonsocket
Vermonter Invents Steam Brick Making Machine
The Bangor Whig reports a Vermonter has devised a steam powered machine to shave dry pulverized clay and press it into moulds at fifty thousand bricks daily with ten hours drying after molding, bricks coming out in a handsome solid shape.
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Buick Maxina
Bangor Whig
Vermonter
Printer's Hand Travel Revealed in Daily Letter Output
The text notes a printer setting around 8000 characters daily, about 24,000 letters. It calculates hand movement, traveling roughly one foot per letter to and from cases, totaling 48 000 feet per day and about three thousand miles yearly excluding Sundays.
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Lha
Women Seen to Need Marriage More Than Men
Fragmentary remarks state women over thirty require husbands while bachelors are described as rosy. The text contains garbled phrases and unclear context, limiting concrete facts or names.
Catholic Funeral Ban Extends to Non Catholics in Williamsburgh
The Courier des Etats Unis reports Archbishop Hughes forbids subordinate clergy from officiating at funerals for those not to be buried in the Williamsburgh Roman Catholic Cemetery. Deaths among Masons and Old Fellows are also refused Roman burial rites.
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Courier Des Estate Unis
Hughes
Williamsburgh
Jenny Lind to Perform in the coming winter
The Tribune reports Jenny Lind likely to give several concerts in the coming winter with Mr Bushnell in charge of business arrangements. Also noted are Cincinnati’s influx of gold dollars and the Brooklyn Eagle tallying fifty nine Camphene lamp accidents causing fires and injuries in New York and Brooklyn over the past year.
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New York
the Tribune
Jenny Lind
Bushnell
Brooklyn Eagle
Tragic Isles Sailboat Disaster Claims Green Family
The Newark Daily Adv reports Mrs Green and four of her children drowned Thursday afternoon near Statec Island when a sailboat capsized. The sole surviving son, 16, a city resident and widower’s child, grew ill soon after the tragedy, with no prior signs of illness. Sympathy rises for the bereaved family.
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Tota Bergavenent
Newark Daily Adv
Regular search for liquor ends in seizure and destruction
Police continue their liquor search and condemn and destroy kegs jugs and barrels found hidden in ash-holes ovens and shavings. The report laments the depraved appetite of drinkers as liquor is removed. Bangor Courier notes the ongoing enforcement actions.
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Bangor Cuurur
White whortleberries found on Gardner farm in North Kingston
This morning Mr. Edmund Sheffield gathered white whortleberries on Jeremiah Gardner’s farm in North Kingston R4. The berries, about the size of black whortleberries but sweeter and white, grow on a twenty foot plot with white berry bushes while black berries thrive nearby. No other white berries have been found in the area.
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Edmund Sheffield
Jeremiah Gardner
North
Kingston
M. Sheffield
Gardner
Buston Journal
Revolving sails hailed as ship propulsion revolution by Mr. Watson
The Liverpool papers report inventor Mr. F. Watson of Manchester Ming land has devised revolving sixteen sails on a wheel attached to a portal spindle to drive paddles. The system promises speed gains and sailing against head winds, with a model 23 feet long built to test capabilities. Watson holds a patent and expects a sweeping change in vessel propulsion.
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Liverpool
F. Watson
Manchester
Mingland
Ile
Negro murderer burned after crimes near Wilkerson County
A enslaved man belonging to Mr. Hardy Kiel abducted and assaulted his mistress and her sister Miss Mason while they washed at a spring near the Kiel residence. He killed them, stole a horse, and fled into a river swamp before neighbors captured him and burned him at a stake that same night. Savannah Georgian reported the event on August 4.
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Honatece Currace
Murceray
Burneo
Hardy Kiel
Wilkersonounty
Savannah
Tales From New Hampshire Long Tail Prices
A lady notes prices for horses with long tails at three shillings sixpence and short tails at two shillings. The landowner explains long tails sweep away fires while short tails are tormented by them and struggle to eat.
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New Hampshire
Ile
Tasine it Easy George Hodge and the two lambs tale
Old father Hodge jokes about a misread clue on his farm. Ben reports two lambs and a dead one, while the father jokes the dead sheep will be good for meat in the fall. The dialogue ends with the quip that the old sheep was always an ugly old scamp.
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Hodge
Ben
Pather
Votler
Alwas
Maine temperance success calls for nationwide reform
Neal Dow, writing from Portland, expresses optimism about Maine's pew temperance law. He claims the state shows that a society can exist without grog shops as readily as without a king or a bishop, reporting groggeries closed and liquor seized as proof of the new epoch in temperance.
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Neal Dow
Portland
New York Independent
Maing
Boston
Maine
Boys Out After Nightfall Says Reader Plea for Youth
A reader laments boys in streets after nightfall and urges strict parental control. The piece argues night out fosters immorality, vulgarity, and crime, urging home-centered pleasures, reading, and quiet activities to protect youth and Sabbath norms.
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Luys
The Family Room as a Hearth of Faith and Bond
A preacher argues that every home should center a daily family room where all gather for prayer, praise, labor, and shared time. He contrasts crowded modern mansions with modest cabins, urging Christian households to maintain a common living space as a divine blessing and community hub.
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Christ
Nebuchaeneanh
Charlemagne
Broadway
Chesnut Street
Myeters
Little Kingdom
Home Fronts and Fishers Temptations in Search of Better
A reflective essay urges readers to value their own homes and duties rather than chasing distant prospects. It compares fishing neighbors scouting upstream for luck, warning that envy and restlessness waste time, money, and influence. The piece channels advice from the N. Y. Sun with a cordial, moral tone.
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N. Y. Sun
You Cant Think of Deaths and Marriages in Papers
A lady writer and editor extols the appeal of deaths and marriages in newspapers. She says elopements and murders are striking but ordinary deaths and marriages are most satisfying, noting how the married stories are packed tight in the pages as if to reflect collective happiness.
Fretters blamed for crimes as temperance talk dominates
An editorial contrasts fretting as a moral failing with practical harms, arguing fretters harm only themselves while a temperance speech by Honorable William D. Kelly cites a court session showing crime rooted in intemperance. Taxpayers are urged to heed the temperance stance.
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William D. Kelly
Philadelphia
Manatee Life Advice on Marriage and Fidelity
A Victorian moral exhortation emphasizes honesty and mutual respect in marriage. It warns against laziness and infidelity, urges couples to please each other, and highlights the wife’s role in safeguarding the home and heart.
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Fmilies
TATTLER Attacked for Destructive Gossip and Villainous Motives
The piece denounces the Tattler as degraded and contemptible, accusing it of vicious principles and servile meanness. It warns that exposing secrets makes enemies, spreading falsehoods damages character, and slander marks the speaker as guileful and vindictive.
Omnibus Ride Ends In Chaos As Passenger Counts Cleared
A traveler recalls boarding an omnibus with about half a dozen strangers, none known to him. Soon after turning a corner the vehicle toppled, leaving him and others scattered as bystanders helped recover.
Young America Converses on Growth and Courage
A fragmentary exchange depicts a boy addressing his father figure with bold claims about future strength. The elder replies that status is not by birth, prompting the youth to declare his plan to be able to "lick two" like the man when grown, reflecting a playful challenge about maturity and power.
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America
Witty courtroom exchange on pulpit and light
In a rambling courtroom moment the exchange centers on whether Mr. Smith officiated in a pulpit or preached. The judge presses for seriousness and calls the next witness as the scene ends with a quip about throwing a little light on the matter.
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Mr. Smith
Dinner Guests and Strawberries Shortage Tale
Mrs Smith hosts a dinner and tries to please Mr Smith with strawberries but he declines. He smiles and declines the dessert saying strawberries do not agree with him. The scene hints at domestic humor with a slipper nudge under the table.
Margery and Misa Bake with Tallow Boots Incident
In a rustic exchange, Margery questions Margery about the tallow used for boots while Misa explains she baked griddle cakes with it. The dialogue hints at kitchen improvisation and resourceful domestic humor.
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Margery
A Tavern Isolvent
A fragment from a 19th century piece shows a slave dialogue about breakfast being ready and the master’s irritation at being awakened to start the day. The exchange highlights daily life and racial dynamics in a tavern setting.
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Breskast
Wealth and fear shaping futures in harsh inequality
A fragmentary reflection argues that the poor fear while the wealthy fear more. It claims poverty confines outlook, while wealth inflates risk, suggesting money alters perception and stability, turning future prospects into fragile, buoyant hopes compared with destitution.
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