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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1855
Page
1
Local advertisement rates set at two dollars per year in advance with yearly renewals. Space charges eight dollars per square for the first insertion and ten dollars per square for subsequent insertions. Religious notices obituaries and political notices are mentioned with special conditions.
A borrower seeking $500 is lured by a well dressed man who displays counterfeit currency from a stocking. The lender then offers another loan but reveals ragged children at the door, who had just retrieved food from the larder for boarders, exposing the ruse and misdeal.
A traveling clergyman answers a passenger about heathens and heaven by saying he cannot judge the world and that heaven will reveal the truth. The Duke of Wellington tells a young cleric to preach to every creature. A Brooklyn drowning case reports a mother fishing for lost items with a rope, the child drowning. she is acquitted of murder intent.
The York Mirror argues that a reader who sees an advertisement daily for a month cannot deny ordering it. It also notes that a party paying for mis delivered papers should settle the bill. If a paper is left at the wrong door, the honest recipient should notify the office to stop service or pay the carrier.
The fragmentary text notes varied topics from life and ambition to desertion of debts. It includes a tale of a mummy’s root blooming into a dahlia, reflections on Barnum and Franklin, and a Herald appeal urging prompt payment of debts by year end to avoid harming newspapers and printers who rely on timely settlements.
In a Hartford home, Ella Milner and her mother perform a simple duet, arousing disapproval from Ella's father, Philip Milner, who favors only first rate art. Uncle Mr Wellworth intervenes, antiques and portraits spark a lively discussion with artist Mr Lewis, Dupont, and Harry Linton remembered, ending in renewed music nights and restored artistic appetite.
A Philadelphia youth, age sixteen, was arrested Sunday for drunkenness and sent to the life of Refuge. On Monday a fifteen year old girl claimed him as her husband at the magistrate's office, saying they married eight months ago. The alderman referred the matter to the managers of the Refuge.
The article advocates weak doses of wash-board for women with dyspepsia and notes young men treated in the same year by a strong preparation. It describes anger at a moonlit scene and mentions a man who hoards only to find it like carrying gold.
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