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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1848
Page
1
Ad rates listed for single copies four cents, yearly advances, and advertising squares. Rates include yearly advertisers ten dollars per year and limits on lines per week. Notices mention continued insertions and business terminology for Brinton area.
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr Warren's Sansaranttca Cordial as a universal remedy for vomiting diarrhea cholera infantum sea sickness and dysentery. It claims rapid recovery in ten to twelve hours in severe cases and promotes the cordial for teething children and general debility with cautions against imitations and fake labels. It also markets related bitters as blood purifiers and stomach tonics with wide ranging cures and a Boston address for Mrs K Kidder the inventor.
A Washington letter describes how Calhoun, Webster, Cass, Benton, Mangum and others struggle for a word or phrase in formal speech. Calhoun shows a throat-like delay, Webster scratches and adjusts, Cass edges toward vest and Benton's voice drops. Johnson Crittenden and Hannegan are noted for fluent, direct lines to the President.
The text extols moral character as the greatest wealth and power a man can possess. It argues character dignifies every station, frees the individual, and shields against servility and false honor. It urges young men to value truth and righteousness to improve prospects in the city.
The passage reflects on life’s crises as turning points that define destiny. It suggests small moments—days or weeks—can alter the future, while fate and chance are human explanations, the humble seek a higher meaning for events that surpass worldly wisdom.
A collage on inner character stresses how public gaze differs from private virtue, urging purity before God and conscience. The piece contrasts vanity with kindness at home and notes the weight of moral life in daily acts, ending with a note on Dixon H. Lewis’s body weight and coffin.
A collection of etiolated witticisms and moral maxims on avoiding delay, industry, and vice. The snippets joke about procrastination and work, then drift into rural anecdotes and humorous dialogues from a bygone era, mixing folk humor with taxonomies of idleness.
Twelve years later Ned Norris returns to Mrs Rhoda Banks's house to find her living on and the scene revived in memory. The narrative follows Ned's flight from hardship to the sea, his escape with the captain's crew, and a reunion with Mrs Banks and old neighbors, ending with Ned's reappearance at Rhoda's door as a grown youth.
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