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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1855
Page
3
Officers noticed two youths acting suspiciously and informed Deputy Chief Ham. They were arrested after a counting office robbery yielded over $900 missing and most of the money was recovered during search before examination.
A crowded spectacle witnessed the launch of a ship at twelve twenty by Mr Hart and crews. Despite a damaged slip exposing ribs and planks, the launch was praised as beautiful and exciting. The vessel will be shored for repairs as leaders praise local industry and charity funds rise in Portsmouth with 17000 dollars raised for an orphan asylum.
Reports detail a prevalent horse sickness in the area baffling veterinarians and affecting city stables with several deaths and losses. Separate items note a Providence house fire destroying hay and two horses, and Kansas defense fundraising pledges of up to five thousand dollars to arm settlers against Missouri incursions. Wreck details describe the Crescent City wreck off Mattevala reef and rescues at Nassau.
Dispatches from Mexico through New Orleans papers dated the eighth describe a worsened condition with factions disorders and a dissolved ministry. Reported departures include a Lowell colony of fifty families seeking a Minnesota township settlement.
Reported death of William Gibbons a Harvard Sophomore, son of a New York widow and grandson of Isaac T Hooper. He entered Cambridge Law School, then moved to college, achieving high marks and praise from faculty. Four classmates accompanied his body back to New York for funeral rites. Boston Daily Advertiser, 19th. Dyer’s Healing Embrocation advertised.
An 19th century advertisement for A. B. Heath’s history and cure collection on chronic diseases of the respiratory and other systems with engravings. It promotes consultation by mail and notes endorsements of Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry with a testimonial from Kinderhook Sentinel about a consumption cure and lists Bristol agents and physicians who distribute the remedy.
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