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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1848
Page
1
The fragment shows an address at 7 Bradford Street Bristol Pheniyx PA and mentions Saturday morning notices. It references advertising rates of one dollar per square and twenty words per line, with annual rates and payment terms. The text is fragmented and inconsistent.
Fragmented verse depicts vast nature scenes with music in the ocean mountains rivers forests and storms. It evokes eternal melody in deep seas and high hills and mentions wind thunder and stirring trees in a lyrical landscape.
A moral treatise warns that an immoderate desire for riches corrupts virtue and natural affection. Covetousness is a poison that consumes happiness, makes the soul poor, and turns wealth into a torment rather than a boon, with gold ruling the heart and virtue withering.
Excerpted reflections contrast wealth with virtue, warning against covetousness while extolling generosity. It recalls Bulstrode Whitelocke’s 1653 voyage and explores man’s destiny, intellect, and restraint, urging prudent living over extravagant display.
A young Chenango County attorney made his city debut in the Court of Common Pleas wearing a new overcoat. After presenting his case for his client, he discovered the coat missing and addressed Judge Ingraham, admitting his inexperience and the sting of being mansuited in his first appearance.
A green traveler enters a Nashua care bound for Lowell to the delight of Boston onlookers. As jokes fly a man quips about a goat and a boy born to twins, provoking Mrs Partington who asserts belief in ghosts and future fulminary yeast moments amid family apprehensions.
A fragment recalls a night visit in which three candles and a plot of spirits were stolen during an embarkation plan. The speaker speaks of desolation, ghosts, and a dreadful suspicion tied to a biblical witch narrative.
A farmer Ashburn adopts retrenchment halting newspaper subscriptions to save costs. He then engages in a rash Wheat speculating scheme with a stranger, selling a thousand bushels at ninety cents while market prices later soar to a dollar and more, triggering moral and financial loss and a sharp lesson about frugality and market speculation.
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