26 Aug 1865
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1865
Page
1
Poem celebrates a starry flower as the emblem of liberty. It links the banner to the tree and lions of northern and southern valor, depicting the flag as a unifying symbol spreading over towers domes and distant shores with a hopeful vision of an empire on the sea.
A lyrical verse laments a flowering vine as seasons turn from spring to autumn. It personifies longing and beauty restrained beneath dew and light, with lovers and time shaping sorrowful grace through April to autumn.
Geo W Fraprie at 37 North Main Street Fall River Massachusetts offers paper boxes of all descriptions for manufacturers. Custom orders in any quantities are solicited.
A creditor harps on repayment while a debtor Wilkins endures loss yet stays honest. After a child’s plea to forgive a debt prompts a change, Green sobers, draws a full receipt, and the pair reconcile, illustrating mercy over strict ledger.
A soldier in Nashville carries an envelope to send a note from a wounded comrade. The letter, found with a torn diary scrap, describes brutal injuries on Kenesaw Mountain and ends with a desperate plea for a family reunion in heaven. The fragment warns against desecrating papers or the name of God.
The passage recounts how life has improved since his early years. He notes shifts from watchmen and oil lamps to railroads and rapid travel, from bare umbrellas to waterproof hats, and from poor coffee houses to banks for savings. He reflects on the quiet resilience despite prior deprivations and praises modern conveniences.
A Glasgow Herald correspondent recalls a strange scene of bees carrying a dead body to a grave and placing stones, followed by oblique anecdotes of two wealthy and poor Frenchmen in a hotel hotel room pistol scene and a comical Arkansas sailor tale ending with Lucy and Miss Lacy and a pie plate incident.
A reader claims a simple home remedy using camphor to drive away mosquitoes. A third of an egg sized piece is evaporated in a tin over a lamp to fill the room with fumes, which allegedly eliminates mosquitoes overnight with the window left open.
In a Paris court a famed French actress Angelique Touy assures the president she is an artiste dramatique and refuses to disclose her age. The judge notes the oath, then she whispers the secret to him, ending the public spectacle with discreet dignity.
The text outlines burning wood to ash, purifying ash into potash, converting potash to pearl ash, and using pearlash to absorb carbonic acid gas from fermentation in a distillery wash-tub. It notes the product becomes heavier and drier than the original, and questions the stomach tolerance of saleratus.
A quip recalls Talleyrand who, famed for polite refusals, gives a rival English nobleman a dinner invitation after declining an autograph. The anecdote contrasts a doctor’s harsh view of a lawyer living by plunder with the lawyer’s rebuttal.
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