01 Jan 1859
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1859
Page
1
Poem contrasts skater’s graceful glide with a stiff corpse beneath the ice, chilling the scene as laughter echoes above. The reflection on life’s peril and the ice’s cold grip foreshadows doom for the fearless skaters amid hidden dangers. A news note follows on the Mall Party massacre in New Mexico and related anti slavery debates in the South.
A very tall man strolls through Boston as an elderly admirer asks if he was large as a child. The joke turns on memories of size, while a west interior town stage cue and a comic greenhorn on a cans-bottomed chair add lighthearted confusion through dated quips.
An exhortation urges readers to perform grand life acts today. It emphasizes noble thinking and exemplary behavior as guiding principles for personal improvement and communal harmony.
A young English girl arrives in America in poverty seeks work, endures hunger and peril in a tenement attic, and resists a wealthy suitor’s offer to escape via immoral means. She finally learns of a charitable society and finds help, choosing dignity over exploitation.
A damaged text fragment discusses temptations and virtue in New York life. It contrasts harsh judgments of women with stories of a lonely child choosing hardship over loss, highlighting social pressures and moral rhetoric of the period.
The text argues that real success lies in pure and exalted character, not wealth alone. Wealth may be success, but true life's aim is a higher form of success. Those who gain riches by neglecting mind heart and soul sacrifice the greater good for the lesser.
A moral lecture urges young men to earn what they spend and avoid debt to protect self respect and independence. It argues courage in self denial, the danger of debt, and the value of Sabbath rest as a social equalizer and source of peace. The piece extols Sunday as a liberating daily rest for workers and a shield against exploitation.
An aged, poor woman asks alms at Fourth and Chestnut when a sailor, seeing her, gives her gold and silver. He discovers she is his mother after recalling a drowned brother named George White. The reunion ends with tears as they depart in a carriage amid onlookers.
A brief urging to adopt the beat language in everyday speech. The piece suggests consistent use at home to foster a natural habit that carries into all occasions. It emphasizes repetition and practicality, presenting beat language as a simple, repeatable routine.
A aphoristic line reflects on life’s continuity as the loom’s pattern, started before a blackout, continues to unfold once power returns. The statement emphasizes resilience and ongoing cycles beyond interruption.
The author urges that a young woman's tender and respectful behavior toward her parents reflects core character. He argues that a wife known for attention and sweetness to her parents will become a mild and obliging partner, virtues transferable to marriage.
To Cunz Curatans. Make us kettle folk of strong brine, when hot. pour part into a foot bath and reserve some to add as it cools. Keep feet in fifteen minutes. Two or three applications will cure them, sometimes one suffices. Best tired when going to bed.
Barry Conwall recalls a one sided game of Philopena where finding and sharing an almond with a lady leads to a forfeit. He notes how suitors sometimes pay in kind with a kiss, a dance, or an annual promise, while a few pay reluctantly.
A Boston traveler notes a lively encounter on a steamboat as Yankee and dandy clash over a threatened cabin expulsion. The Yankee recounts an old prank involving Bradley the hypocrite and his mare Kate. The tale ends with the dandy toppled by a burst of yardage, and the Yankee walking ashore victorious as Hitchcock closes his tale.
The colored students refused admission to Berkshire Medical College were received at Yale College a few months ago and are now pursuing their studies there.
Fragmentary OCR cites a biblical line about harmony between the wolf and the lamb and a child leading the way. The readable portion juxtaposes quoted scripture with scattered punctuation and incomplete phrases. No additional context or attribution is clear from the fragment.
A damaged OCR excerpt shows a prisoner at the bar speaking with garbled phrases about science letters and phrases like teeth in cow. The readable text is too fragmentary to determine person, place, or event.
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