17 Jan 1863
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1863
Page
1
The Bristol Phenix monthly and annual subscription details for town and non residents. Rates include two dollars per year payable in advance for residents and non residents, with single copies four cents. Advertisements priced per square and transient notices charged as ads. Religious obituary and political notices treated as advertisements.
A 1863 poem calls for volunteers from young men and women to join a Sunday School Army. It frames the effort as a righteous wartime mission for virtue, peace, and God, led by a chivalrous leader, with chaplain and officers, urging enrollment through faith and duty. It invites parents and older youths to enlist as well and promises spiritual rewards and heavenly pension.
A broad reflection extols the value of newspapers as a universal educator and social force. It contrasts readership with domestic life, noting how print informs war, peace, commerce, and culture, and inspires progress, family learning, and personal virtue. It includes snippets of proverb, Providence, and Irish humor.
A fragmentary reminiscence from Meister Karl's Sketch Book contrasts dark personal trials with faith in virtue and immortality. It then prescribes a woman's mission to make home happy and a man's role to provide, using aphorisms on perseverance and touch.
Aunt Faith recounts Edith Gray a quiet steadfast woman who refuses marriage to a favored suitor after her father’s financial ruin. The tale tracks Edith’s endurance as her home is sold and a rival marries in her place, while Edith quietly pursues good works and independence despite social pressure.
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