Bristol Prenex Advertising Rates And Publication Details
Published every Saturday morning at 40 7 Bradford Street Bristol with rates for subscribers in town two dollars per annum or in advance distant summers one year in advance. Copy four cents per line. one dollar per square for three insertions. twenty cents for each subsequent insertion. Yearly advertisers receive space budget. ads may be limited to 18 times per week and to print by party.
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Brestol Prenex
Bradford Streert
Bristol
W. H
Bayley
Prin Abyarty Verti Ouetheda
Why Is It So
Fragmentary verse notes lament human ingratitude and seek reflections on gratitude to the Creator. The text alludes to light and gospel imagery, contrasting divine gifts with human returns, questioning why gratitude and acknowledgment remain limited.
Thunderbolt damages Winchester home and farm during storm
A heavy thunder shower struck Winchester and nearby towns yesterday at about 11 o clock. A bolt hit widow Freeman s house causing a hole in plaster and ceiling damage. A second bolt shattered a chimney top, tore through the roof into the attic, scorched a keg of gunpowder, and caused extensive inside damage before exiting through a window sash. The family narrowly escaped injury as the lightning traced across rooms. The house lacked lightning conductors.
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Stavek
Winchester
Woburn
Freeman
Wim Branch
Friends Yearly Meeting Draws Immense Newport Crowd
The Newport Advertiser reports an immense crowd at the Friends Yearly Meeting in this place, with excellent preaching all day from several eminent ministers of the denomination.
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Friends Yearly Meeting
Newport Advertiser
Successful Voyage of the Favorite from Bairhaven
The bark Favorite, under agent F. Whitwell, arrived Sunday and completed a three year voyage. It carried 380 barrels sperm oil 4300 barrels whale oil and 72000 pounds whalebone. The voyage value is about 108000 dollars.
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Bairhaven
F. &. Whitwell, Esq
V. Bedford Standard
The Samas of Conscience and the Knox Murder Confession
A Calcutta correspondent reports Dwyer died aboard a Boer ship. A dying confession by a Boer implicates Dwyer in the murder of American Knox. An American boy named Very was hanged, an accomplice called Liger Ned transported. Very had confessed before execution, but Dwyer claimed the fatal blow was his. The Knox wounds were said to be from multiple assailants.
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Calcutta
Newburyport Herald
Dwyer
Knox
Very
Tim
Man Falls From Upper Seat at Hippodrome Dies
Mr Josiah Taber of Pair heaven fell from an upper seat during Tuesday afternoon performances at the Hippodrome. He sustained a serious neck wound and died early evening. He was taken to the House of Correction, where keeper Mr Porter and officers attended to him. The deceased was about 40 years old.
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Josiah Taber
Pair Heaven
Spitil
House of Correction
Porter
Lost child case prompts school inquiry in South Boston
In South Boston a long search for a missing child ends with a school official seeking information from a teacher. The woman recalls she had confined the boy to a closet as punishment and questions whether such punishment should be forbidden, arguing responsibility lies with parents.
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South Boston
Centenarian Irish immigrant noted in Mercury report
The Mercury notes a man recently arrived in the city who is one hundred and four years old. He remains in fair health and walks the streets with vigor. His children who can support him sent for the ancient Hibernian.
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Venexastx
V.B. Mercury
Man Drowner in Taunton River Near Steep Brook
Coroner's inquest finds Gilson Phillips drowned while sleepwalking on the Taunton River near Steep Brook while aboard the sloop Supply of Harwich. Jury returns verdict of accidental drowning in a case noting he was known as a sleepwalker. about forty, survived by a wife and an adopted daughter.
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Gilson Phillips
Taunton River
Bteep Brook
Supply
Harwich
Darling
Pall River News
Navy War for the Coroners
The coroner in New York reported at least 35 deaths yesterday from sun stroke and various other causes. Coroners could attend to only about half of the cases.
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N. Y. Journal of Commerce
Take Your County Paper Pay in Advance
A plea urging readers to support local county papers by paying in advance before subscribing to wider city papers. It argues that dependable funding helps printers and communities, citing charity and prudence, and recalling a motherly moral about sharing with the poor after feasts.
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American Union
Importance of Parental Duties in Shaping Virtue and Disability
A sermon urges parents to commit to raising virtuous, useful children. It warns neglect yields wayward offspring and social harm, stressing early childhood as seed time for character. It cites experiences like Washington to illustrate anticipated behavior when guided well by mothers and fathers.
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Washington
George
Education Elevates Mind and Character Beyond Knowledge
The piece argues education lifts the mind and moral character more than mere facts. It contrasts educated people with the utterly ignorant who view life as only practical or brute, urging true charity as nourishment for the starving mind through nature, reflection, and God.
Love as motive shaping virtue and virtue’s rewards
In reflective prose the text extols love as the guiding principle behind toil sacrifice and selflessness. It argues love dignifies wealth and luxury when used for others, fosters patience devotion and heroism, and elevates character through principles and sincere actions.
Half Married Yankee and the Gutter Fall in Royal Street
An New Orleans Crescent story describes a tall Yankee helping a fashionable young woman who tripped in the street. After a muddy fall on Royal Street, he ferries her home and pursues a later visit, learning her name is Maria and noting her late father was reputed worth seventy thousand dollars. The piece portrays romance and social intrigue surrounding a wealthy family.
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Royal Street
New Orleans Crescent
Custom-house
Rampart Street
Maria
Camp Street
Mise Maria
Adamen
Eyper
Miss Maria
Bragg
California
Christendom
P. S
Yankee marriage scheme ends in comical mother in law reveal
A humorous tale unfolds as a Yankee proposes to Maria with haste and seeks quick marriage but Maria's mother appears, mistaken as a fierce, giant figure. The scene devolves into laughter and a moral about true lasting devotion and restraint in marriage. Judge Chariton reflects on love, duty, and the sanctity of the marriage altar.
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Chariton
Young Men's Library Association
Augusta
Rhode Island Acts On Currency Districts And Courts
Historic Rhode Island laws enacted by the General Assembly divide Cranston for voting, set district boundaries west and east of the Stonington Railroad, designate town officers and meetings, and amend a Court of Magistrates in Providence with procedures for recognizance and civil actions.
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Rhode
Rhode Island
Cranston
Ito
Young
General Assembly
Congress
United States
Breror
Generaveral
Testogle
Stonington
Dug’ Cies
Vention
A. Potter
Joii
Idence
Gmediake
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Pleasive
Nonny Emile
Oura
True One
Seary
Newport
Delege
Beertyes
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