Bristol Phenix: Saturday Publication and Rates
Che Bristol Phenix weekly issue at 7 Bradford Street Bristol describes subscription rates town residents two dollars annual advance half yearly due in advance non residents two dollars yearly in advance note single copies four cents annual advertising ten dollars for twenty lines per week including the paper transient ads one dollar per square twelve lines minion type constitutes a square all religious obituary and political notices charged as advertisements
The Child's Way to Heaven and the Scott Family Portrait
Fragmented essay style text discussing a child with a box and a gate to Leaven, then a meditation on truth in the home, family trust, and the virtues of Sir Walter Scott. It cites J. G. Lockhart and presents praise of Scott as a model of fortitude, kindness, and family leadership.
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Walter Scott
Scott
J. G. Lockhart
Mixed Religious Notes Mirror Duty and Celibacy Theory
Miscellany recalls conversion as lifelong battle for good over wrong and cites Swedenborgian views that heaven requires married pairs and angels are two becoming one. A quirky anecdote about a dog listening to music ends with a temperance joke.
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W. B. Hayden
New Jerusalem
Sand Mone
Hegre
Heaven
Old Maide
Bible Advocated in Government Schools by Sajiana Rejyana
A Bengal native paper Sajiana Rejyana lauds Bible inclusion in government schools calling it the best English book and praising its moral and instructional power. It likens the Bible to a sweet sugar cane and urges study of English through the text as a source of wisdom.
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Bengal
Too Smart and the Poultry Dealer Tale
A Western city tale follows a man fond of duck egg counts, who visits a poultry dealer claiming to be an afflicted boarding-house keeper with ravenous boarders. He asks for all the old tough ducks, and the dealer produces many. The man then asks to take the rest of the tough lot, completing his wry bargain.
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Ducke
New Health Restoration Method Promises Cure
A wealthy man estranged by lung disease and drunkenness follows Dr Saxx ward s odd cure to steal a horse to be arrested and reformed The tale contrasts a positively bad woman spoiling negatively bad ones and notes the crow as a brave bird that never shows the white feather
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Saxx-who-ward
Woman of Lowell Servant Turned Mistress and Matron
A long tale traces Frances Dupue from Lowell factory hand to servant in Mrs Smith’s house, then to wife of a merchant in St Louis and a widow who returns to California. The piece links class, loyalty, and family tragedy through Frances’s reveal of her connection to Mrs Smith and her sister Elizabeth.
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Bridget
Kate
Mr Smith
Mrs. Smith
Mr. Smith
TNS
Mra. Smith
Smith
Intelligence Office
Frances Dupue
Robert Capuo
Salf
Mrs Smith
California
Frances
Lowell
Elizabeth
Housa Na
Shea
Ella Frances
Mra Smith
Jesson
San Francisco
War and Romance near Yazoo during the Vicksburg movement
Rebels fire on national transports at Skipwith Landing near the Yazoo mouth. An Admiral led an expedition to destroy the battery and nearby homes. Mrs. Larris, a widow, fled with her enslaved people as Union forces burned structures, while she denounced Northern policy and supported Southern rights. The emancipation decree freed her enslaved workers.
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Vicksburg
Skipwith Landing
Yazoo
Yazoo River
Uarria
Exciting Sea Tale From A Whaling Voyage
Captain Bissum returns to New London with a wild shipboard tale of fever on a whaling voyage. A carpenter dies and a grindstone is sunk with his body. His young son perished after leaping overboard. A shark is hooked and hauled aboard, then swallowed the carpenter and grindstone as the boy works to bore his way free. A separate note recounts a young woman engaged to a 36 year old man and pondering marriage at sixty.
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Abe
Happy Land
Canaan
Washington
Leard
Vastornminvy
Cairo
Vicksburg
Sullivan
Tyler
Mre Harris
Skipwith
Army
Navy
Porter
Old Abe
Captain Stanton
Chicago Post
Bissum
New London
An Irishman’s Demand Letter Plan
An Irishman leaves a collection demand with a lawyer and guides the tone of a forthcoming letter. Pat instructs that the letter should begin moderate and then grow sharper. The exchange highlights a comically escalating method of addressing the debtor as a “divil of a spalpoon” and a “nighlight puppy” before unveiling the core issue.
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Pat
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