28 Feb 1846
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1846
Page
1
Courtly advertisement notice from Bradford street periodical describing subscription rates two dollars yearly and terms for single and subsequent insertions. It lists ad rates per square and penalties for late payments and advertiser responsibilities.
A narrator recalls a walk through a village where a two story frame house is being built by a formerly indebted drinker who now prospers after abstaining. The piece reflects on temperance, social ascent, and open windows in private houses, with anecdotes on Belgian customs and a frog fishery unusual to travelers.
A rustic miscellany blends moral quips about marriage and character with reflections on music’s healing power. Vignettes touch on old tunes like Home and Auld Lang Syne, and a cheeky exchange with Charles Wesley reveals social judgments and pious wit.
An old issue describes water expanding when frozen within a crack in a three to four ton iron anvil at an Ohio foundry. The freezing water split the massive mass in two, throwing a log from the top of the anvil several feet away, illustrating water’s extraordinary expansion.
A collection of brief curiosities and reflections including a London Lancet anecdote about a man who believes he is dead and eats when attendants in white shrouds dine. observations on intolerance, road prayers in Japan, biblical question puzzles, and musings on virtue, child morality, and quiet wisdom.
Albert Fitzgerald, worn traveler, seeks shelter in a remote forest home. He meets General Charlton and his granddaughter Isidore, learns of wartime gratitude and unreturned loyalty, and contemplates love, duty, and abandonment. The tale follows trauma of veteran life, rural hospitality, and a forged bond across generations.
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