28 Jan 1865
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1865
Page
1
Advertises recruitment of four male and female agents to travel widely and sell an article. Earn from 12 to 24 dollars weekly. Requires sending address by mail with a 3 cent stamp. Note references to patent medicines and a business name S N Shannon & C Manchester.
Poem written on the deaths of two Sabbath School scholars read at a church festival. It recalls the withered grass and fading flowers as metaphors for worldly sorrow, affirms eternal life through Christ, and urges cheerful mourning while trusting in salvation and heaven.
The sun seals its night cap while stars peek from behind curtains and the moon watches over them. The stars tease then vanish as the moon nods and fades. Dawn follows as the sun rises in glory waking the world from the playful celestial scene.
Poem describing religion as a heavenly guide that dispels ambition and pain. It portrays the guardian night, the moon, and the divine as agents leading the humbled heart to a temple of the living God. The stanza ends with a prayer for glory and eternal reign with God. A humorous aside about a street anecdote follows.
A narrator recalls a decade longing for a blind friendship formed with the Munters at Happybeach and Suffolk canal. He learns of their bond through a tale of a crippled beauty and a stitched boot revealing a secret romance between George Munter and a rich admirer.
On the road toward Huntaville we find track torn and burned rails as guerrilla activity shelled lines. A regiment of Indiana cavalry pursues mounted guerrillas, later revealed as fellow soldiers enforcing orders with lethal force. A hospital correspondent recalls nurse-like care and soldiers’ quiet bravery, including dying soldiers speaking of loved ones and faith.
An elderly gentleman offered a seat to a woman who refused. A male passenger used a umbrella and crinoline to confine her, provoking laughter. A larger man later joined to confront the situation, ending with the woman enduring the rest of the journey as the crowd learned a lesson in manners.
A Paria Jetter reports secretly meeting General Tom Thumb Mrs Thumb and the baby Miss Minnie in a private interview at Hotel du Louvre Paris. The infant Miss Minnie Stratton appears healthy and unusually small, with cautious notes on potential growth and lineage.
Dr Vanderburg argues that only humans and horses possess a double privilege of refrigeration. He cites comparative anatomy showing most animals rely on respiration for cooling, with pachyderms and many others sweating through the skin.
Mrs. Sarah Hutchings of Baltimore acknowledges the wrongfulness of her actions as an agent aiding rebels, confirms the justice of her sentence, and states her determination to conduct herself properly henceforth after being pardoned by the President for her wartime involvement at Fitchburg.
A satirical sketch of Velvet Toes, a frail beggar in Wall Street lore, who drains charity with a blend of pious display and worldly vanity. It critiques wealth, debt, and social hypocrisy through vivid, archaic diction and a chorus of moral lament. The piece closes with a note from the Usitep Seates Matt about treasury notes and their redemption.
Richmond journals warn England against neutrality yielding to Yankee pressure. They claim subjugation of the South could threaten Britain’s slips and colonies, risking loss of supremacy at home and abroad. A Bridgeport stone carriage tour with city officials described rail speed and low daily cost.
The account asserts Admiral Semmes boasted of wiping American commerce from the seas and blocking Yankee signals in foreign waters. It notes his avoidance tactics during conflicts and his view that those who strike back must endure retaliation.
A condemned criminal was subjected to a doctor’s experiment to test imagination over physiology. Bound, pricked, and misled by pious fountains, he deteriorated as observers noted blood unseen, dying without losing a drop. The tale underscores imagination as a potent adjuvant or cause of disease.
A Lapland custom allows suitors to win consent through a race where a maid runs with a head start and may stop voluntarily to avoid forced marriage. The victor gains marriage rights only if the maid agrees, otherwise no pledge is made and families avoid coercion. The practice is said to yield happier, contented marriages than lands with arranged matches.
The excerpt argues that debt destroys personal liberty and dignity, urging readers to reject debt and master money. It warns debt leads to bondage, ruin, and moral decline, contrasting freedom with the temptations of borrowing as a warning to pursue prudent financial behavior.
The text discusses causes of toothache including cold and decay and notes pain persistence. It mentions cleansing with magnesia as prevention, suggests relief with cologne drops, and describes a home remedy using brown paper soaked in rum with grated ginger applied to the cheek for temporary redness and relief.
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