Bristol Prenex Advertising Rates and Terms
Publication details show Bristol Prenex weekly in Bristol at 40 Bradford Street. Rates list two dollars per annum prepaid for distant subscribers, four cents for single copies, one dollar per insertion for three weeks, and twenty cents for each subsequent insertion. Yearly rates and line limits apply, with advertisements continued until forbidden.
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Bristol Prenex
Bradford Street
Bristol
W. H. & Bayley
The Ruby Wine and the Dreaming Evening
By Miss Mary L Lawson. The poem lavishly extols ruby wine as a lure that awakens memory and joy, yet the speaker urges a purer nectar of light and recollection. Images of guests, old friends, and vanished faces rise as time slips by in a quiet, reflective mood. The verse ends with visions of life passing in moonlit, dreamlike splendor.
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Mary L. Lawson
Phillis
Dinah
Hope
Dream Vision Warns Rum Seller to Quit
A lurid dream sequence haunts a rum seller as he endures a hellish journey. Devils, serpents, and ghouls urge him to drink and finally condemn him for his trade. The frightful vision ends with a vow to never sell another drop.
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Sam
Tom Wilson
Joe
Ips
Mother's Prayer Powers a Sailor Homeward
A weather battered sailor near Cape Wardward returns home after a deadly storm tests faith. His mother prays earnestly as the vessel is lost then found safe in a harbor. The son credits his mother's prayers with his rescue and vows to live as a Christian.
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Cape
Temperance Tavern Drama In The West
A temperance tavern hosts a rowdy election party that tries to destroy the sign but is moved by a sister’s piano and song. The travelers, unsettled by the daughter’s grace, depart humbly after a dramatic tour through music and charity.
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South Carolina
Lin Tahunat
Colonel Po
Pirates Routed by Merchant Brig in Caribbean Alarm
A Philadelphia brig with twenty three carpenters and nine women braced for a Caribbean salute but met a pirate flotilla off Cape Tiburon. Under Robert Merwin and Bill Winslow, the crew used two bell-muzzled cannons loaded with rifled projectiles and carried out a swift, deadly defense, sinking one boat and scattering the other. A Haitian warship later offered a reward, but the crew chose glory over prize money.
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Carthagena
New Grenada
United States
Philadelphia
Trinidad
Cuba
New York
Garthagena
Ferdinand
Isabel
Armgon
Castile
Sam
Ats
Castile and
Arragon
Navy Yard
Caribbean Sea
Cape ‘Tiburon
St Domingo
Robert Merwin
Davis
Merwin
St. Ingo
Jamaica
Bill Winslow
New Bedford
Jerwin
Winslow
Somerset
Hddrancoise le Noir
le Noir
Auguste Laverrier
St. Domigo
Sand
Prince
Fearless courage praised by survivor in haunting plea
A brief quoted line recalls fearless youth and unprotected bravery. The speaker pleads for forgiveness, confessing an inability to forgive themselves for a remembered danger. The fragment hints at a personal trauma and survivor guilt.
Old Chairs and a Neighbor's Kindness
A short tale recalls young marriage hardship and a rich neighbor Mrs. M supplying chairs. The aged couple learns that a simple, friendly act, not wealth, binds hearts and blesses life. The story celebrates neighborly mercy and the moral law of love.
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Mary
Mrs. M
Hamilton’s six rules for a happy home
Six requisites to a happy home are outlined by Hamilton with integrity as architect and tidiness as upholsterer. Affection provides warmth, industry renews the atmosphere, and daily salubrity flows under a canopy of God’s blessing as the ultimate sustaining factor.
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Hamilton
Lirs and its elusive nature in poetry and prose
A contemplative note on Lirs described as a bubble shadow and dream that scholars call frail and ephemeral. It suggests life as a brief April day with sun and rain before night falls, leaving existence to fade away as a contemplation of impermanence.
Lime Water for Hens Accidental Discovery Reported
A farmer, Mr Joseph Wilcox of this town, found lime water fed to hens increased egg production nearly fourfold. He kept hens supplied with lime water this season and offers to share the method publicly. The note appears in Wayne Sentinel in a report mixing with temperance society quips.
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Joseph Wilcox
Wayne Sentinel
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