Bristol Phenix Weekly Price and publication notice
Bristol Phenix announces weekly Saturday issue published by W H S Bayley Besprong Street between Hore and Taawes. Rates: two dollars per year in advance. single copies five cents. Advertisements: one dollar per line for three weeks. twenty cents for each subsequent insertion. Repeats and penalties described. no discontinuances without publisher action.
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Bristol Phenix
W. H
Bayley
Besprong St
Serween
Taawes
Patie
Death and Co Great New Year Ad in 1847
A sensational 1847 New Year advertisement for Death and Co promotes wholesale and retail spirits. It boasts the business as a path to “drunkards” and ruin, urges support from tipplers, and mocks temperance advocates while detailing agents and locations along streets and roads.
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Death & CO
I &Co
Mann
Coughing Advice, A British Minister Anecdote, and Lost Purse Tale
A column offers coughing guidance noting posture to ease irritation and improve lung expansion. It recounts a British minister’s joke at a Christian Alliance dinner about being a pray drinking set, then a Edinburgh merchant's humorous purse tale where alms pleas fail until the purse is recovered, ending with a "Learned Blacksmith" musing on the world.
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Christian Alliance
England
Edinburgh
Tesha
A Smile and Sermon in a Scotch Parson’s Jest
A reminiscence styled moral vignette cites a daily act of kindness as happiness. It recounts humorous anecdotes about a Scottish clergyman named Sy Morrison who used wit to defend sacred rites, turn laughter against scoffers, and gently guide fortune toward charity.
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Wirry Pansey
Sy Morrison
Morrison
Death by Intemperance Warns of Moral Decay
A Washingtonian exhortation condemns alcohol abuse describing the drinker as spiritually dead and morally decayed. It contrasts the vitality of healthful living with the emptiness of the bottle, urging readers to plead for the afflicted to return to life and temperance.
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Jim
Washingtonian
Impatient Youth and Illusions of Quick Fortune
A Saturday Courier reflection on youth’s impatience and the lure of rapid wealth. The piece warns that eager minds chase easy paths, misread ventures, and end up behind those who work steadily, noting how visionary promises mislead many into imprudent trades.
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Saturday Courier
Napoleon's Mother and Early Lessons in Fortitude
The narrative recalls Napoleon Bonaparte's mother amid hardship and family devotion. It notes her role nurturing him through trial, with claims that a mother's influence shaped his future, and mentions her thirteen children and the fates of some siblings. The piece reflects on humility and duty as guiding virtues.
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Tue Mothen
Naroneoy
Napoleon
Allison
Charlemagne
Charles V
Romance in a Northern Parliament Dream Scene
In Neal's Saturday Gazette a vivid Victorian moment unfolds at a riverside estate. Ernest Malcolm, rising Tory figure, parts from his devoted wife Agatha amid political dreams and private guilt. She clings to fidelity while pondering secrets behind his haste to the House, as their fragile happiness strains under public duty.
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Bannockburn
Floddenfield
Pordh
Ernest
Agatha
Keane
Hei
St. Stephen's
Grange
Marquis of
Hartley
Fia Marquis
Clinga
Mattrew
Ernest Malcolm
Scotland
Lane
London
Mary Grenville
Trom
Moatensy
Rhode Island Prison Labor and Salaries Act of 1847
The 1847 act fixes salaries for State Prison and Providence County Jail staff, assigns duties for the warden and deputies, and authorizes new stone cutting and shoemaking work. It authorizes building a stone cutting shed, expands prisoner labor, and adjusts bonds and payroll practices.
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Rhode Island
Providence Plantations
General Assembly
Providence County
Providence
General Treasury
Henry Bowen
Leary
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Scientific American
Neal
Saturday Gazette
Ma Wires
Harry Bertrand
Laws OF
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Senate
Trac “Shen Bown, Bodty
Jenn Pes
Smithfield
Jay
Pati
Smithfeld
Supreme Court
Court of Common Plane
Toe Srey
Beerion
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