Bristol newspaper notice billing and rates
Publication details for Brestor Peenex issued Saturdays from 7 Bradford Street Bristol edited by Bayly. Rates include advance yearly subscription and annual paper price, with advertisements priced per square for three weeks and continued insertion charged. obituaries religious notices and political notices also billed.
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Brestor Peenex
Bradford Street
Bristol
Bayly
Towa
Na Ailverticementa
Rhode Island Amends Warwick Town Clerk Review
The General Assembly enacts to amend an 1854 Warwick tax registry process. Samuel W. Clarke must deliver a certified copy listing names registered by December 31, 1853 with the assessed property tax amount for the prior year, by January 25, 1854, and the town collector will assess a one dollar registry tax against each name.
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Rhode Island
Providence Plantations
Warwick
Samuel W. Clarke
Pi Town
General Assembly
A. Potter
Secry
Man Wears Out Four Pairs of Boots in Two Months
A New Orleans paper reports a man who has worn out four pair of boots in two months while serving, noting the expense and the effort to earn money to pay for them. The piece mentions bold actions and a hinge of moral courage in a local context.
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New Orleans
Bible as History Source Creates World in Seven Days
The article argues the Bible should be read as a factual historical record of creation. It describes God’s acts across six days, from light to life, and the formation of woman, emphasizing divine omnipotence and the orderly development of nature, with imagery of light, waters, and living creatures.
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Chas
Earth
Aslam
Oliv
Reading of Moral Freedom in Genesis and Bible History
The text argues that humans are placed in Eden as test subjects of free will and moral choice. It asserts the Bible documents these historic facts and claims the Bible provides indispensable records for scholarly attention.
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Eden
Homo
Stop My Paper Disorder Reflects on Editors and Readers
A humorous colonial-voice tirade mocks readers who cancel papers over slights and editors who play along. The piece observes regulators of the world feeling indispensable, then fading when asked to yield their copy. It likens editorial balance to a cat on a bottle-littered wall.
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Rasan
Heaven
Protests Over Handbill Provoking Breach of Peace
In Ireland a Romish school teacher accused William Swith of breach of peace for handing him a handbill advertising a Protestant sermon. The magistrate ruled a paper likely to anger or disturb feelings can provoke a breach of peace.
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Romish
Ireland
William Swith
In the Wrong Paw Irish Catholics Disrupt Protestant Service
A Sunday incident in a Protestant church saw Irish Catholics enter during a hymn pray kneel during the service and then silently depart after the error was noticed. The clergyman continued with his method as the congregation showed anger by slamming doors.
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Lowell Herald
Melting sermon moves country church crowd
A country church sermon moves the congregation to tears as the preacher pleads for compassion while all but one worshiper weep. The lone man seeks an excuse and departs for another church, shaping a quiet moral moment.
Farmer learns meaning of ditto in old ledger tale
An old farmer visits a country store to settle accounts and misreads ditto as repeated charges. He returns home exasperated at pounds of dirt noted as ditto. His wife refutes any such item, until the merchant explains ditto means repetition. The farmer realizes the word applies to him and calls himself a ditto.
Buffalo robe tragedy over tips at hotel
A traveller found a buffalo robe owned by a hotel keeper who, after reclaiming it, attacked the finder saying a simple "Thank you" was worth twenty five cents and "Thank you kindly" thirty seven and a half. Later the traveller asked for the dinner bill and the keeper demanded twenty five cents for thanks then tossed a ninepence claiming the dinner cost five cents.
Mr. Francis Fairhold Visits the Golden Lion Inn
A century ago London linen-draper Francis Fairhold, prudent and devout, travels with a large sum in a back-saddle strong box. He finds the Golden Lion in Surrey neglected by changes, to be greeted by a transformed host, new staff, and a feeling that time has altered his once-familiar refuge.
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Fairhold
Francis Fairhold
Golden Lion
Stending
Farnham
Guilford
Surrey
Sussex
Hall Inn
Ostler
Ned Hobbes
Marabal
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A“ A. Potter
Shell
London
Acre
Land Kaimes
the National Magazine
the Mouse and Merchant
Mechanician
Cheapside
Fairholds
Cheapside Lever
Westcheap
St. Paul's
George
England
Johnson
Burke
Goldsmith
Company of Linen-Drapers
South Sea
Marylebone
Thomas
Red Lion Square
Warerton
Fairhbld
William
Mr. Fairhold
Mars Red
William Waterton
Francis Fairbold
Mien
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