28 Aug 1852
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1852
Page
1
Classified note from a Bristol newspaper listing subscription rates and ad pricing. It notes Saturday morning publication, address, and terms for subscribers and advertisers with pricing for annual and advance payments.
A funeral tribute to a beloved pastor, mourning voices rise from homes and churches. The poem recalls his faithful labors, heavenly reward, and hopes of reunion with the flock in a future home beyond.
Reading an antiquarian epitaph set, the piece claims the body rests in dust yet the work endures in a new edition by the Advisor. It blends aphorisms on happiness courage health and cleanliness with quirky wordplay and garbled fragments from various voices.
A te tempers debate shifts when an elderly man recalls a former protégé who pledged sobriety but relapsed after wine was served at a social event. The relapse ended in delirium tremens and the elderly speaker reveals the young man was his son and the speaker a reverend who spoke earlier.
A reflective meditation on how a child's clear eyes mirror undefiled thought and respond to prayer, grief, and love. The writer notes a child does not judge the depth of one’s belief but intertwines its soul with the adult’s feeling in the hour.
An essay extols true piety and cheerful old age through anecdotes of aged contentment and Bible solace. It contrasts such simplicity with Dickens’s Mr Heavynose a lavish figure at fashionable venues, a satire on artificial gentility and depersonalized display.
The piece argues that sisters and brothers share a stronger, freer attachment than between siblings of other pairs. It claims parental biases favor daughters and sons, yet sibling ties are marked by mutual pride and lack of vanity, fostering a constant affectionate bond.
A reflective note on how a cheerful temper joined with innocence enhances beauty, knowledge, and wit. It claims such temper lightens illness and poverty, converts ignorance to amiable simplicity, and makes deformity agreeable, urging Hearst to follow the sun and receive blessing through steady mercy.
Victor Stevens and Peter Close, both sons of farmers, choose to leave school at quarter’s end to train as printers in Boston. Their families face growing mortgage pressure after stock losses, prompting Victor to offer self support and help his parents as he earns a trade with the goal of eventual family relief.
The piece contrasts the Close family, marked by harsh discipline and discord, with the Stevens family where parental love and cooperative siblings foster harmony. Victor Stevens plans to help his brothers while Peter Close longs for city apprenticeship and freedom, highlighting moral lessons on unity versus selfishness.
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