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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1850
Page
1
A quotation highlights honesty and temperance as core guides. It notes Father Matton has administered the Temperance Pledge to five million eight hundred thousand persons.
The excerpt analyzes James Russell Lowell's tender lines “to a bereaved parent” and includes verses from the June Knickerbocker. It reflects on grief, memory, and consolation through pastoral imagery of shepherds guiding lambs to safer pastures, comparing divine care to healing relief for sorrowing families.
The author reflects on portraits of beloved women and the influence of a mother or wife’s image in the room where one rests. Citing Haslitt and Cowper, the piece argues such pictures exert a strong, living presence that stirs deepest feelings and thoughts.
The seamen brought to Norfolk aboard the U S ship St Ma ya including Christopher Sanderson Owen Cunningham Thomas McClusky Charles Brown and John ap Brunt were examined on a charge of burning the ship Massachusetts of New Bedford at Marian Island Gwen Lupningham was discharged others remanded for further examination on Tuesday next
A scene shows Maxine Avneg Hoves with a gimlet while a boy mocks making auger holes. A young man enjoys pretentious talk of banking profits, and a girl named Miew is portrayed as a pretty but idle figure dreaming of a belle life. The piece critiques vanity and misguided ambitions through comic dialogue.
The report records that during the past year about 540 young ladies fainted at various events. Over 200 collapsed into the arms of young men, 40 were caught by aunts and grandmothers, and only one managed to fall to the floor where a woman provided relief.
The text argues patience with horses and explains humane, nonviolent remedies for bad habits. It describes methods such as exerting a horse’s speed to tire it, tying a bridled horse to a stake near water, and using noncooperative animals like rams and sheep-killing dogs to deter unwanted behavior. It cites reason as superior to brute force.
A meditation on beauty as a motive for vice and virtue. Wealth spent on artful living elevates the soul, inspires noble aims, and drives the refinement of justice and liberty as moral laws take root in society.
A crowded boat carrying six adults and three children capsized in the harbor. A large woman about 240 pounds caused the vessel to sink during a return attempt, leaving all others rescued unharmed after a perilous tug of war and successful retrieval by bystanders.
A moose trapped in a brewery vat appeals to a cat for help, who fears being eaten afterward. The mouse argues drowning is worse, the cat saves him, but beer fumes cause the cat to release him. The tale warns vice leads to ruin and inevitable doom under divine law.
Anson Summerton, son of a wealthy New York merchant, hides his identity as a drayman to prove wealth does not determine character. He befriends laborers, earns trust, and wins Helen Bouting, daughter of the rich merchant, while guiding others toward honesty and merit over social rank. The tale follows his reveal, reforms, and eventual rise in the legal profession.
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