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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1856
Page
1
The Bristol Phenix lists weekly newspaper pricing including four cents per line for each ad and advance payment requirements. Notices such as obituaries and political items are charged per insertion with a leader per week and general advertising rules noted, along with square measurement for type and spacing details.
The fragment recalls Emma May Grant as a beloved child remembered in sorrowful verse. The lines mourn a loss, calling her a beautious flower in heaven and wishing her rest with angels. The text includes scattered names and dates suggesting a family memorial note from Bristol, R. I.
In the New York Legislature Mr Luganne announced a bill to establish a Naval Industrial School. It would use subscriptions from merchants to fund hulks and small yards where male orphans and city children receive rudimentary education and naval training to improve mercantile readiness and provide a livelihood in shipbuilding and related trades.
A severe cold spell hits Texas with ice four inches thick at Austin as Galveston notes continued freezing conditions through the fifteenth instant. The weather pattern lasts across the state with unusually low temperatures and hard ice.
It notes how people hesitate to subscribe, saying a neighbor already takes the paper, and praises the value of the paper as a royal source. It urges readers to subscribe themselves to avoid benefiting others’ pockets and to support the newspaper.
The article notes an unprecedented cold spell causing starvation and death among game birds. Call goes out from many exchanges for farmers to spare certain birds for the poor, warning that wholesale destruction now could impact future seasons.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a husband upset by misconstrued letters and a printer bill for nine years of subscriptions. The piece blends comic misreadings, a mention of a song title and a reference to a theater programme, with scattered notes on performers and events.
The Southern Times argues men should invest in a home early to save money and stabilize family life. It extols home as more than property, linking happiness and moral improvement to ownership, and urges modest beautification through sun, flowers, and nature rather than costly enhancements. It celebrates innate artistic sense in all people and nature as a teacher of beauty.
Dr Gall and Dr Elliotson recount numerous cases of habitual stealing driven by an uncontrollable impulse rather than crime. They cite prisoners, nobles, physicians, and a king who took trifles, asserting theft sprang from an insane compulsion that resists restraint in prison, army, or monastery.
A female writer in a New York journal reports five well to do women she knows habitually use laudanum. The habit is described as harming both mental and physical powers and is stated as widespread among the city’s affluent women.
A reflective fragment laments the triviality of life and urges using full strength to pursue promised tasks, describing the speaker as serious and earnest about fulfilling a prior commitment.
A narrator endures the three sisters Nimrod, Ernestine and Emily Oken in Wiesenthal, contending with a venomous pet and comic misadventures. After duels and threats, he discovers the trio’s engagement schemes and agrees to help unite them with their chosen partners leading to multiple marriages and a peaceful future.
A reflection on how suspicion of others moral faults stems from personal fears and desires. The author argues prudery harms minds by inviting nasty ideas and urges humanity to withhold harsh blame. Charity and religion demand assuming best motives to foster humane judgment and self restraint.
An odd fragment describes women offering strong tea to guests before men arrive. It critiques female tempering of strong drinks and hints at colonial or frontier behavior. The text references indies and housekeepers serving tea to prepared diners. The piece conveys social norms with a humorous, rustic tone.
The readable text describes handling charcoal with steps to prevent coal from fizzling and forming a cade. It mentions throwing large pieces first to shape a foam and assessing the heat by shaking down a key word. The passage is garbled but suggests a cooking or fire management process.
A convoluted note urges delaying the reedat until power is secured, warning that proceeding with wit alone would cost more than it yields and could mislead men about the outcome. It emphasizes prudence over haste.
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