25 Aug 1866
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1866
Page
1
A historic industrial town hymn extols workers as heroes who raise nations' wealth. The piece lauds the toil of masons and factory hands, praising labor as a prophetic voice that steadies hearts and cheers the loom and forge. It frames labor as the backbone of progress and national glory.
Public notice from the First Collection District of Rhode Island stating annual taxes for 1868 on yachts carriages billiard tables pianos licenses and incomes payable September 1866 and September 1896 in Warren and Bristol with penalties for unpaid taxes under the 1847 law.
Peter Krauss the Bonn tailor, curious and meddlesome, overhears a demonic bargain and learns a deadly word that can kill. As deaths mount and his wife dies, Krauss grapples with guilt, fears exposure, and seeks refuge in confession while the city reels from sudden calamities.
A trembling Peter Krauss confronts a shocked priest as sacred walls fracture revealing strange lights. The phrase Potzlausend shocks him, suggesting a nightmare or supernatural event within the church. He questions whether he was dreaming beyond the town gate.
The Atlantic telegraph will transform commerce by stabilizing New York to interior trade and reducing speculative moves between New York and Liverpool. It will standardize exports and imports, shift orders to telegraph routing, and lessen risk for cotton, breadstuffs, and dry goods markets, with profits becoming steadier.
The passage argues that lips reveal humor or grudge over time, with humor softening tips and peevishness tightening them. It notes the mouth reflects broad expressions while the eyes drive subtle cues, claiming inner, deep seated causes govern facial signals.
A dated guide offers quirky phrases to shape a lady’s mouth for different looks during photographs. It suggests uttering words like besom for blandness brush for noble bearing flip to look small cabbage to enlarge and kerchunk for mourning, plus s cat for resigned.
A Paris Strasburg note describes crowds at noon in a cathedral watching a mechanical tableau with an hourglass angel and apostles. A Sunnr Rerort recalls Rev Isaac Allen’s Harvard incident and a proverb quip. A Local Joxe and a Sheridan rebuke quote show courtroom wit. A Western editor ridicules Arterius Ward spelling.
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