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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1848
Page
1
Local colonial style newspaper notice outlines subscription rates two dollars per year with annual and weekly options. It lists pricing for classified ads, display ad rates, publication frequency each Saturday morning, and general publisher terms.
Proceedings include authorizing Providence Aldermen to lay out and alter a highway segment on High Street with deeds of conveyance, plus various acts on estate distributions appeals, ferry operations in Providence Harbor, state treasury claims procedure repeal, and Providence town division defining the North Providence border line with detailed surveying bearings.
The document traces a property's boundary along roads and creeks, naming turnpikes and lanes, with a note that dwelling residents belong to the nearest town and a caveat about voter rights. It closes with moral meditations and short essays on repentance, duty, and benevolence, including a Deaf and Dumb boy’s visit home.
A short reflective verse urges kindness as a remedy for sorrow. Small words and acts of mercy can brighten moods, ease suffering, and restore courage. A single compassionate gesture may comfort the distressed and mend a broken heart.
Extract from Heber's Parish Sermons urges readers to seek God's daily bread and mercy amid droughts storms and pestilence. It contrasts worldly warlike industry with prayer and contemplation and recalls a sailor's short prayer about equitably distributing danger. It calls for steadfast endurance and seeking remedy over lamentation.
A Connecticut farmer and a curious twelve year old turn a small potato into a life lesson about thrift and patience. The tale recounts how one potato planted piece by piece over four years yielded four hundred bushels, illustrating that small quantities can grow into large rewards when nurtured with time and effort.
A poor Irish apprentice James Wallace, mocked for ignorance, pursues learning after borrowing books, earning pay by painting, and studying by midnight. He masters geometry astronomy and history, earning a tradesman’s mastery by age twenty one, while his benefactor guides him toward law or medicine.
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