15 Jan 1848
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1848
Page
1
The Bristol Phenix lists subscription prices two lars in town and two dollars abroad, with single copies sold at the office. Advertisements cost one dollar per square for first insertion and six cents for each additional line, with yearly ads $10 and arrears policy outlined.
The piece discusses widespread dissatisfaction across social ranks from laborers to professionals, each lamenting their lot and yearning for a different life. It argues that true reform rests on early education and moral training, not governments or public opinion, to root out evil before it grows.
The piece argues reform must begin in nurseries and schools as mothers and teachers shape most of the world’s good and evil. It praises nurseries, schools, and parental duty while noting the challenges of training a child and the limits of other reform efforts.
A didactic vignette contrasts a boy who offers his seat to an elder with four boys who refuse to yield to ladies, provoking public shame. It then recounts a ceremonial etiquette scene with a bishop and a grand staircase bowing sequence, and a historical note on medieval marriage vows and the origin of the wedding ring worn on the left hand.
A humorous 19th century tale from New England depicts Green Un outsmarting the Great Western in a horse trade. The Green Un pretends to offer a rough, shore-town horse while the rival boasts of a fine animal. The ruse ends with the Great Western overpaying by thirty dollars for a horse that proves unsound as the Green Un rides free.
The excerpt fuses political rhetoric on American liberty with sketches of urban life and moralizing anecdotes. It contrasts revolutionary ideals with social folly, recounts a Moorgate street encounter with a chalk writer and a reading illiteracy tale, and notes Eastern writing customs and the fate of fishermen under bounty payments.
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