11 Dec 1852
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1852
Page
1
Local weekly publication details subscription costs for town and distant readers. Advertisements priced at one dollar per square for three insertions, with twenty cents per additional insertion. Yearly rates limit to 18 lines per advertiser and track their own business.
The passage paints bleak scenes of storm and snow with bare trees and a town blanketed in white. It urges gratitude for home and family while contrasting the suffering of the homeless with the reader's blessings and protections.
A teachable winter period review urges farmers to devote leisure to reading and reflection, to study causes of seasonal weather and animal care, and to plan shelter and efficient feeding. It stresses contentment, prudent use of hay and fodder, and practical tips like carrot feeding for horses. A separate note recounts a touching aid on a Fall River to New York voyage where a blind pianist receives public charity and moral support from fellow passengers.
The article advises mixing grain with hay to winter cattle, steaming hay and grain to save hay, cooking all store pig feed, and giving young animals extra attention. It also covers keeping poultry warm and fed with corn, barley, wheat and animal byproducts, plus tips for storing winter apples in a moist cellar above freezing.
The memoir recounts a humorous wedding scene from Rev H B Soule former Universalist pastor in Hartford. A shy suitor seeks Soule at his study and asks him to marry someone that night seven miles away as a cold northeaster rages outside.
A narrator recounts a humorous rushed marriage at a log house. An awkward ceremony unfolds as the groom and bride casually agree to wed, each answering in quirkily defiant ways. The host settles accounts with sixpence extra, a bit of rural whimsy.
A reflective critique of sarcasm arguing true wit avoids abuse and that sarcastic people are often conceited or foolish. The piece compares sarcasm to noise without substance and warns that truly witty individuals ignore it, noting many mature voices abandon such behavior.
A boy tells a milk vender to sit and notes his mother dislikes buying milk since she says the cows are fed with watery tatnips. The exchange highlights concern over milk quality and farm practices.
A mother asks her young daughter what she would do without her mother and the girl replies she would wear a dress she desires every day, a simple moment captured in dialogue.
A witty remark notes that an orchestra includes at least two mustached players in spectacles, three bald musicians, and a modest man in a white cravat who, by circumstance, plays a brass instrument.
An arch deacon rebuked a rector who sowed turnips on an unused burial ground. The rector claimed the superior misunderstood, replying that next year would feature barley instead, showing his casual attitude toward the rebuke and farm rotation.
A reflective piece argues life is full of change and adversity makes character. It cites a fifty year old observer noting how fortunes shift, friendships waver, and public opinion shifts, urging hope energy and steady faith to rebuild.
A fragment urges venture and enterprise through persistent effort. It stresses integrity and energy as keys to success, noting that many opportunities exist if one stays alert, prepared, and ready to act despite setbacks.
A rediscovered sermon likely delivered on the eve of the Brandywine fight. Rev Duab Proute addresses Major John Schhaef Meyer’s papers, before Gen Washington and Gen Wayne, urging fortitude amid marching hardships and warning of divine vengeance against Britain. The oration blends religious fervor with calls to combat and reflections on war’s toll.
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