22 Dec 1855
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1855
Page
1
Publication lists weekly advertisements at Bradford Street Bristol by W. Bayley. Rates shown include two dollars per year for subscribers and advance rates for notices, obituaries and political notices. The notice also details insertions and charges per square space, with earnestly stated terms.
A farmer recounts moving stables from under trees to higher ground with a spring and windbreak. After rebuilding on dry, sheltered, well-drained ground, horses and cows prosper, milk quality improves, and calf losses stop. Water source changes reduce disease and misery among livestock.
Fragmentary verse urges taking life step by step. It speaks on duties, moments, grief, and hopeful guidance, noting that joys and hardships arrive one by one and should be met with care and perseverance as life’s path unfolds.
A Philadelphia woman recalls a life spanning New Jersey Michigan and Detroit where a mislaid Michigan deed reveals her old homestead and family graves. A later English case notes a cock crowing 150 times in 25 minutes leads to damages.
A savage recounts to Com Wilkes how the wrecked hull Westel ashore led to the crew being killed and eaten. He claims only one man was spared and thought to be eaten later, warning of cannibal practice in remote island groups.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports a surge in local commerce as merchants advertise in print, drawing customers from rival shops. Signor and Signorina Caroni then perform a 175 foot tightrope walk from the International Hotel to a fourth story window, drawing crowds of up to twelve thousand spectators and showcasing Italian performers married with nine children.
In Rev Sidney Smith memoirs a group gathers to view a turtle sent to a friend. A child strokes its shell and is asked why. The child answers to please the turtle, prompting a quip that stroking St Pauls dome would please the ministers.
An itinerant phrenologist stops at a rustic farm house. The farmer, mid thresh, jokes that only the old woman combs the children weekly, implying no need for examination.
A country teacher faces two late pupils one favored and one strict. The favorite claims dreaming of California and mishearing the bell as a steamboat bell. The other pupil offers a brief true alibi about waiting to see Tom off.
In hard times Peter Stanwood loses his job as a bookbinder and faces starvation with his wife Maria and three children. After refusing social stigma and trying any honest work, Maria finds a washing job for food and Peter becomes a butcher’s boy delivering provisions. A lucky turn comes when Mr Snow hires Peter for basket work, leading to steady pay and a renewed sense of dignity for the family. Peter learns no honest labor lowers a man, and planning for the future remains essential.
A Lagrange Whig correspondent relates a farmer’s plan to buy a year’s paper with a single hen’s eggs. The farmer’s scheme pays off as the hen’s yield is exchanged for the subscription, inspiring readers with how the paper broadens knowledge and conversation in the home and community. The anecdote ends with a humorous scene as a wagon arrives and the editor receives and weighs the hen against the yearly cost.
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