18 Dec 1847
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1847
Page
1
The Bristol Phoenix announces weekly publication terms in town ads. Rates include two dollars per year in advance for subscribers and display ads priced by column inch with twenty cents per line for running matter.
A narrative about a housewife overwhelmed by domestic troubles who meets a worn washerwoman named Mrs Partridge. The encounter opens her eyes to poverty and perseverance, revealing a parallel with the narrator's own life and ending in a rekindled sense of gratitude and resolve.
The narrator reflects on Mrs Partridge who helps clothe children, sharing that simple acts of kindness ripple daily life. In a mirrored meditation on propagation of thought, the text argues moral influence outlives the individual, with a Hartford Courant correspondent noting a long lived family of nine in Enfield and nearby towns.
A compact, period tone meditation equates energy with motive power in humans. It likens a great man to a mighty machine, capable of driving vast plans, yet stresses that only inner will and noble effort elevate one beyond ordinary limits.
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