14 Jan 1854
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1854
Page
1
Bristol paper notes subscription costs of two dollars per year in advance with half yearly terms and advertising charges of one dollar per square for three weeks, plus twenty cents for each subsequent insertion. It includes medical commentary on winter diseases and claims changes in temperature and indoor heating affect rheumatic conditions, citing the Boston Medical Journal.
Marie Lamb was arrested in Boston and charged with stealing from Dr. F. Willard’s family. The amount involved totaled $321 across several incidents, with $110 recovered in her possession. A portion of the funds was sent to Ireland to bring relatives to the United States.
Mary Ellen Thom as, convicted of murdering a three month old child, is sentenced by Judge Perry to be hanged at a time fixed by the Governor of Maryland.
A woman in Rome New York while intoxicated laid her infant on a hearth before a blazing fire seeking a cradle and the child was roasted to death. A remark notes virtue vs vice and a Russia dentist who makes patients pronounce his name to quickly pull teeth. A paper claims a rooster was put in a fire safe and died as a result.
An illustrated snapshot shows a printing office foreground with a foreman and crew trading lines about composing many bookish items. The mix includes references to a house on fire a horrible murder a panic in the money market and municipal candidates.
A moral admonition urges parents to teach obedience as a first lesson for children, implying all further lessons and freedoms depend on this foundation. The timeless guidance reflects a 19th century parental virtue emphasis.
Harriet Martineau illustrates a household where temper fuels mistrust and a servant nearly causes a mishap. Lavater's irritation sparks a sequence ending in repentance and a wife's gentle correction. The piece extols truthful conduct as a public and private blessing.
A London era paragraph contrasts a group of fifteen young men in New York boarding house. Six attend worship and prosper. nine skip church, some turn vicious, others die tragic deaths. The piece ends with a note on artist Horace Vernet and a painting technique using olive oil and fuller's earth.
Visitors at the Falls remember a west side staircase named the Bid dle Staircase. When asked why it bore that name a friend replied that it wound up the bank, a local bit of humor captured in the moment.
In a tense New Year scene Archibald Lane recounts a year of rising profits but mounting unpaid bills from dry goods a baker bread baker groceries and furniture. His wife Anna reveals large household purchases and he confronts a debt burden that wipes out much of the year’s gains.
A shopkeeper Mr Lane endures a flood of small debts from bootmaker, milliner, glazier, and others. After a humiliating confrontation with a bootblack, he vows to pay cash for all future purchases and avoid January bills. He reflects on moral cautions from Proverbs and Paul about sowing and reaping.
A Chicago paper recounts a humorous street mishap as a man carrying a pitcher trips, spills milk, and flees the scene with a surprised crowd watching the comic stumble in the block. A bystander notes the episode as a good one from the day.
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