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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1849
Page
1
The notice outlines weekly Saturday publication from 50 7 Smadford Street, Drietol BL by W. H. S. Bayley. It lists advance subscription pricing, display ad charges per square, and yearly advertiser limits, emphasizing penalties for undisclosed promotional content and spacing constraints.
An advertisement promotes Mrs EB Kidder’s Cholera Morbus Dysentery and Diarrhoea Cordial as an immediate cure for cholera morbus dysentery summer complaints and infant illness. It claims rapid relief within hours, emphasizes safety, warns against imitations, and lists sale locations and sellers including Bristol and Court Street.
A didactic piece urges debt payment to preserve reputation and avoid disgrace. It lists reasons to settle accounts, promotes prudent living, range of social duties, and warns against fraud, delaying payments, and risky financial ventures.
A former journal editor recalls a definition of education as more than rote schooling. True education develops all faculties and powers, aligning mind body and will with a benevolent author, shaping taste, character, and religious sensibilities.
A fragment from Flying Leaves contemplates life’s transience and the moral call to steadfast character. It warns that worldly pleasures fade like vapor and that only integrity endures amid shifting desires and trials. The piece critiques excessive comfort and urges attention to enduring virtue.
A colonial Gazette recounts oddities on bathing customs among industrial townsfolk, a hiccup remedy tale from a train ride, and a morbid faux coffin prank turned mishap. It includes remarks on Mohawk hydropathies and a sensational misadventure involving a drunken wife and a coffin box prank.
In Gratiain s Magazine July 1843 an American narrator recalls hospitality on the Detroit frontier. He mingles with Rabibans, encounters Betelle Beaubien and Estelle, and watches Victor Druissel pursue love amid dances, rivalries, and a late influenza illness. The tale blends social mirth with frontier danger on ice and river travel.
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