21 Jan 1843
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1843
Page
1
OCR text lists varied items including art descriptions from Pompeii frescoes and a February Auburn and Rochester Railroad verdict for fire damage. It also mentions a steamboat incident on the Mississippi and Turkish affairs reports, plus stray notes on winter schooling and a curious monster skeleton prospectus.
The article argues that hogs during fattening should receive salt as often as weekly, comparing its advantages to those for oxen cows and sheep. It notes salt aids in disease prevention due to confinement and hearty feeding and that some hogs will willingly take salt once or twice weekly with apparent good effects.
A satirical critique condemns dandies for pride and affectation. The speaker mocks flippant fashion, empty talk, and pretentious self image, likening these traits to hollow, seed-filled pride wrapped in broadcloth and vanity.
A long, chaotic extract from a Bridgewater Massachusetts lecture and anecdotal pieces recounting a hired domestic worker, wedding, and moralizing notes. It includes a tale of a clever girl who marries and quits, reflections on wage fairness, and a Paris fashion theft anecdote ending with a stolen infant being cared for by a nurse.
A fragmentary reflection on tears and virtue contrasts a woman's weeping with male desire and societal greed. It suggests that sorrow exposes beauty and virtue, while avarice and selfishness dry moral sentiment and complicate romantic affections.
A long mixed text presents Debby Wilder a young woman amid family tensions over suitors Joseph Nelson and Henry Miller. Wilder's father fears losing Debby to Miller while coveting a prosperous match. The scene shifts to supper, gossip, and local reflections on marriage, with digressions on a farmer and a Paris anecdote about a cat.
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