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The Bristol Phenix published Saturdays at No 7 Bradford Street Bristol offers subscription rates: town residents two dollars per year payable in advance, non residents two dollars per year payable in advance. Single copies four cents. Advertisements charged one dollar per square for three weeks then twenty cents for each subsequent insertion. Twelve lines equal a square. Ads continued until forbidden and charged. yearly ads twenty lines or under per week ten dollars with paper. Religious obituary and political notices charged per advertisement.
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Advange
Richmond's Song for the Times in Rhode Island Rally
The poem urges Rhode Island to unite with Massachusetts and New England in defense of liberty. It invokes historic battles, calls for shoulder to shoulder action, and denounces slave power while rallying citizens to confront a perceived common foe.
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New England
Green Mountain
Maines
Quakers Statistics and Fires and Losses Reported
Official Quaker statistics show 715 meeting houses and 233 023 members in the United States with regional breakdowns including Maryland District of Columbia Virginia and Pennsylvania. A colored porter Lewis Striker in New York confessed to stealing about 30000 worth of silks and has partially restored the goods. Subscriptions rise in Chicago to aid the Rosene emigrants with hundreds volunteering. A storehouse fire destroyed Ira Richards Co books in North Attleborough and a rope walk fire at Pruyn & Sick Albany injures Mr Pruyn. The sloop Maria Jane capsized in Boston Harbor with seven men, four drowned and three rescued.
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Friends Or Quakers
United States
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginian
Pennsylvania
Lewis Striker
Liberty Street
New York
Ira Richards Co., Jewellers
North Attleborough
Boston Harbor
John Forbes
John Good
Thomas Moona
Tragic German Family Murders Prompt Court Term
Chicago Press reports a German family of seven murdered near Joseph Missouri two weeks ago. Five men named Patterson Lincoln Hoops Davis and Myers are jailed and confessed implicating others. A special court term will hear their trial.
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Murpexeus Annestoo
Joseph
John Patterson
Geo. W. Lincoln
Warner Hoops
Davis
Myers
Patterson
Chicago Press
Deadly Assault In Mobile House By Portuguese Attack
A man named Jack Taylor was assaulted by eight Portuguese at the Mobile House on the 19th after a dispute with a woman. Taylor was clubbed and suffered a fractured skull, trepanation performed by Drs. Bartlett Mackie and Mayhew, and the assailants eluded capture. The Connecticut House of Representatives appropriated $15,000 for a school.
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Jack Taylor
Taylor
Drs. Bartlett
J. H. Mackie
Mayhew
Runaway Match Ends In Happy Union For Minnie Danforth
In a tale from rural New England, Minnie Danforth, daughter of wealthy farmer Danforth, secretly weds Joe Walker, a trusted farmhand. Danforth schemes to push the marriage, aiding the elopement, and the couple return with a marriage certificate. The old man relents, and Minnie and Joe live prosperously as husband and wife.
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New England
Market Town
Minnie
Danforth
Danferth
Walker
Joe
Joe Walker
Old Danforth
Minnie Danforth
Ibis
Phen
Dinforth
House
Verdant honeymoon guests disrupt Boston hotel
A fashionable Boston hotel hosts Jonathan and his partner Patience on a honeymoon. Jonathan derides hot coffee and codfish doughnuts mistaken as a sea of surprises, while a landlord reveals a wash basin on display. A Baltimore boy falls from Federal Hill unharmed. A slave schooner C F A Cole is condemned in Baltimore after run ashore and vandalism.
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Jonathan
Us Brive
Boston
Jonathan Diad
Patience
New England
Potomac
Semaiban
N. Y
C.F. A. Cole
Baltimore
Always be sure of your evidence in a legal cautionary tale
A lengthy anecdote recounts Luther Martin and a young lawyer on a Maryland stage ride to Annapolis. The tale centers on a bargaining lesson about evidence and professional ethics, concluding with a clash over paying a hotel bill and a cautionary moral about evidence in legal practice. Also noted are a Syracuse Standard item about five hundred seventy six embryo snakes and a Me area fatal brakeman accident at Yarmouth depot.
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Franklin
Luther Martin
Maryland
Aaron Burr
Senate
United States
J. Martin
Annapolis
Supreme Court of the State
Martin
Mr. Martin
Iearly
Syracuse
First Wheat of the Season Sold at St Louis
The first new wheat of the season and a fine sample sold in St. Louis on the 20th for 125 dollars per bushel. J J Brown of Boston was stabbed at Madison Wisconsin by N W Roth of Utica a few days ago but not fatally after an altercation over an insult to Roths wife.
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St. Louis
J. J. Brown
Boston
Madison
Wisconsin
N. W. Roth
Utica
Brown
Roth
Croghan defense and a brave pledge at siege
A veteran officer recalls Croghan's defense of a fort during Revolution era hostilities. Ensign Shipp volunteers to meet a British envoy under a flag of truce with a pledge to keep a six pounder aimed at him, ensuring the truce honors the law of war. The British and Indians withdraw, while Croghan’s men suffer only one casualty a coward who dies.
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Croghan
On Shevsaran
Shipp
Paragrah
Judinus
Croghig
Irish boy drowned in Providence on Sunday
An Irishman named John Roxbury aged between 11 and 16 was drowned in Providence on Sunday. The report notes James J. Strong a Mormon leader was shot at Beaver Island on the 16th by two former followers, receiving a head blow and three gunshot wounds, alive at last accounts. the assailants had been arrested.
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John Roxbury
Providence
James J. Strong
Beaver Island
Wealth and manners shape character in social advice
A dated reflection advises not to show poverty to wealthy relatives. It argues that firmness without mildness is harsh, mildness without firmness is weak, and combining both yields a respectable amiable character.
Marriage Nonsense and Frugal Wedding Customs
An anecdote from a clergyman details a groom asking for payment after a marriage. The clergyman says he leaves it to the bridegroom, ranging from a penny to several dollars, with one bride insisting on fair play. Later, domestic advice suggests patience and kindness to avoid quarrels and to improve the relationship.
The Internal Satire of Virtue by Thackery Grays
A fragmentary meditation on motive and vanity where internal monitors declare the true cause of virtue as laziness or cowardice. The narrator admits misreading his acts and faces a satirical rebuke from Prudence and self-doubt personified.
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Diddler
Thacks
A Stormy Night Visitor and a Quaint Grocery Sign
A tale recalls a gentleman hosting a guest during a fierce storm the guest hides away then returns soaked claiming he rushed home to tell his wife he would not return. A rural grocery sign lists odd spellings for hot coffee tea and more with a humorous misspellings note about pure milk and no ardent licker.
Suits and the Wall Note Prompt Courtroom Laughs
A young bar member contemplated a personal motto and posted a bold wall inscription translating to Let us have his own. The country paper notes a visitor quips Sue em quick, provoking a humorous exchange cited by the Barton Chronicle.
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An. Aeraopmiate Morro
Aimatto
Saad
Barton Chronicle
Homely actor scene in park sparks tense reaction
A garbled report notes an actor in a park scene reacting to a call from a passerby. The fragment mentions a character named Mathridates and a phrase about changing an exclamation, with a bystander urging mercy.
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