Bristol Phenix Ready for Saturday Readers in Bristol Rhode Island
The Bristol Phenix announces weekly publication at 7 Bradford Street Bristol Rhode Island with editor proprietor C A Greene. Subscription rates are two dollars fifty cents yearly or one dollar twenty five cents for six months paid in advance three dollars if paid at year end single copies five cents. Postage in Bristol County is 20 cents per year.
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Bristol Phenix
Bradford Street
Bristol
R.I. C. A. Greene
United States
Treasury
Bubler
Spanish Manifesto Flight Bills and Health Passports Notice
The subscriber is authorized to furnish Spanish Manifesto Bills of Health Passports during the absence from town of C. J. Fales Spanish Consular Agent Office 7 Bradford Street January 14 tf C A Greene.
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C. J. Fales
Bradford Street
A Greene
First National Bank of Warren Authorized To Begin Banking
The First National Bank of Warren Rhode Island is certified by Comptroller Hugh McCulloch to commence banking under the national currency act of 1864. The bank’s early directors included Geo Feet Gonke John O Waterman Thomas G Turner Nathaniel Crown William J Turner Stillman Welch and William B Lawton with Lewis Cooke elected president. The document records its initial organization and official approval dated December 30 1864.
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Congress
Suwamsetan
Geo Feet
Lewis Cooke
W.P. Freeborn
Treasuny
Tvent
Office of Comptroller of the Currency
Washington
Thhereas
Warren
Bristol
Rhodeslant
United States
Hugh McCulloch
First National Bank of
Rhode
Stockholders elect directors for new year at Warren Bank
At the annual stockholders meeting on January 2, 1885, Warren Bank re elected Geo Lewis, John Waterman, Thomas Turner, Nathan Deowa, W Turner, Stillman Welch and W B Lawton as directors for the year. A subsequent board meeting re elected Geo P. Cucke as president and W D Oth as cashier. The January 7 meeting again confirmed Shubel Chartes and others as directors with Shuler Fay as president and Henry Wealy as cashier for the year ahead.
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Flebridee
Wheaten
Ou Bullock
Samuel 2
Driseel
Samuel Cole
Guy VO Fessenden
Aimnuel Veneatno
Gorge WO Carr
Nyaul
Shuler
Fay
Samuel Whemen
Henry
Olydy
Warren
Dan
Stackhollers
Samuel W. Church
Henry Wardwell
William Peckham
John Nerma
William Dearse
Samuel Syrurka
James Lawless
Williawn HH. West
Chirlea Falea
Shrectors
Malin Blnnlues
Neltien
Whittier Praised in Seventy Years Verses
A poem by Jonn G Whittier honors John Greenleaf Whittier praising his life over art in a reflective tribute. The piece laments aging and calls for national preservation over fame, noting Peace and Freedom as guiding themes.
Longing for the Spirit of a Beloved
A rustic lyric recalls a girl with gold hair under a beechen tree. The voice that sang to a baby sleeps no more on earth, yet in the spirit world she remains the dearest figure waiting for a lover. The poem blends memory with spiritual longing.
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Wang
Avery
Sarvante
Tarraivante
Cory
Fairies of the Rye Field Teach Labor and Joy
A mother urges Franz to work in the garden while his sister Emma dreams of a fairy life. A tiny red-dressed fairy queen and her kin work the rye field, toy with beetle-drawn wagons, and share a meal in an acorn shell. Franz, eager to rest, falls ill after a rainstorm and discovers labor brings happiness, while Emma and the mother learn the value of toil and industry.
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Eister Furma
Emma
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Serra
Ranma
Emmna
Lely
Hide
Esek
Harges
Bradse
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Lise
Imes
Phevall
Bat
Rye Field
Binton
Kmina
Remarkable siblings Artemus Wallard's kin and fairies tale
The text recalls a discontented family of children once idle with Emma becoming an author and Franz an honored senator. It mentions Mormons and a charming scene of children at work recalling a fairy song sung after dinner.
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Artemus Wallard
Emma
Franz
Merit and Reputation in Historical Perspective
A discussion contrasts character and reputation, noting they are not the same and that world judgment often confounds the two. It argues individuals should examine motives before accepting public verdicts and highlights how popular opinion can misjudge or reward based on appearances and bias. The text also shares a curious anecdote about Pompeian dishes and ancient households, illustrating human curiosity about past lives.
Notable Man's Quiet Dignity Beyond Heroic Glories
A tribute praises a man for simple virtues over bold conquests. It highlights his honesty brown eyes refined mouth and gentle nature. The piece lauds kindness pity modesty and brotherhood with humble men as the true measure of character.
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Hun
Pater
Untold Salty Tales From Brigham Young’s Household
A fragmentary reminiscence from Artemus Ward recounts a chaotic Salt Lake City visit with Brigham Young. The account alleges vast numbers of wives, costly households, and violent episodes, including fights, confinement, and sensational crowd reactions during a public show.
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Artemus Ward
Salt Lake City
Brigham Young Ie
Brigham
Cingle
Revelashun
Pinioned Piilion Meal and Snow Mixture Misread Text
A garbled passage discusses mixing snow with meal to form a thick batter pan frying for twenty minutes to half an hour in an oven. It then shifts to linguistic notes about Eve as a primeval name and a Buxtorf Hebrew Lexicon reference. The fragment blends culinary steps with speculative etymology and biblical motifs.
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Pitina
Acre
Buxtorf
USA
Eve
Adamo
Adam
Remarkable petrifaction found in Baltimore mine trunk
A petrified tree trunk was discovered by miners in the Baltimore mine on the Monongahela river while blasting. The extracted section weighed about four thousand pounds, with the root still embedded. Fossils named include pecificis and other tropical plants.
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Baltimore
Monongahela
New Paper Material from Waste Fibers Promises Cost Savings
In Cincinnati a Mr Sellers of Hardin County TI shows a method to make printing paper from common fibre across the lower Mississippi valley. He claims the material, a wrapping paper grade, outperforms existing products and can be produced at lower cost than rag-based paper.
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F. H. Richmond
Exchange Place
Srean
Cytunper
Rome
Betsey
Promised Land
Soddine
Germarzer
Cincinnati Tires
Sellers
Hardin County
Mississippi
Time to Pay Debts and Restore Prairie Prosperity
A 19th century op-ed argues low prices for farm products hurt debt repayment but promises better days ahead as incomes rise and debt pressures ease. It urges prudent farming and investment to reach a future when holdings are free of mortgage and merchants’ claims.
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West
Tiwa
Marin
Tiaman
Who Should Not Be a Wife
A fragmented guide questions acceptable traits of a wife noting silk over child, cash demands, literary preoccupations, and meals. It ponders fidelity, domestic duties, and social expectations for a wife in a moralizing voice with curious anecdotes.
Too Smart w Boy The Muddy Dress Question
A boy asks his father how he can be mudded if he is dust. In a mechanic shop a mud stained youngster defends himself by quoting the Bible and pondering his composition while his father responds with a task to fetch wood.
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Mechanic
Willam
Pother
Heny
William
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