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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1849
Page
1
Bradford Street notice lists a weekly paper with rates. Subscriptions and advertising terms show two dollars advance rates and quoted prices per square inch for insertions. Yearly advertisers restricted to 13 lines per week, with private business limits.
A fragmented verse from Montgomery contemplates Time as life’s warp and mortality. An aged speaker questions sages and spirits, seeking meaning as the present moment is urged to live fully while time’s march remains relentless.
A prose excerpt argues that scripture expands beauty, grace, and sublimity beyond human limits. It claims biblical language reflects every aspect of existence from desert beasts to harvests, mountains to seas, life’s labor to sacred triumphs, uniting all human conditions under divine understanding.
The text discusses owners who pass their business to sons to retire comfortably yet struggle with idle life and loss of purpose. It notes the tension between leaving work and maintaining activity, with many facing repeated attempts to regain structure and purpose after retirement.
A vivid scene unfolds in a dilapidated room where a drunkard and his daughter Nell confront a dying wife. The narrative shifts to memory and a reflection on vows kept or broken, tracing the ruin from past loves to present misery amid the Hudson shore and a vagrant search for Nell’s future.
A mix of 17th century lore and witty chat appears, noting a 1601 Parliament bill against coarers and a Cambridge clergyman sermon misread by auditors. The dialogue shows rustic humor about a sack and a retort about retracting words, ending with a poor poet eyeing a growing scandal.
A collection of light quips and anecdotes including a wit’s take on the passage about cursing, an Irish recruit’s uncertain height being measured as five or ten, a New York would be wife ad drawing eighteen men, Doctor Johnson on belief, a dancer accidentally catching fire, and a youth explaining a nightcap flare sparked by a candle.
The fragment asks why James KK Polk is like Horace Greely and notes a four year term. It then jokes that a crockery store is the largest in the world because it holds China.
The act amends taxation rules for nonresidents with property in Rhode Island towns including merchandise, stock in trade, lumber, coal and factory assets. It allows towns to levy penalties for late payment and to publish or post notices, while detailing procedures for personal and real property taxes and executor or guardian holdings.
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