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Bristol Phenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Jul 08, 1848

Page

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Bristol Phenix Notice Fragment

Fragment from a Bristol Phenix publisher notice. Includes subscription rates and terms for advertisements, with garbled text and remnants of payment rules and discounts.

The Young Man's Course in a Social Scene

A youth drinks once at a party to appease a request from a young woman. He then attends nocturnal gatherings with peers, steps toward excess, and becomes pale and ill. He dies in sorrowful circumstances as family mourns, narrator recalls scripture warning that drunks shall not inherit Heaven.

Derugkards Kingdom of Heaven

Laborious preacher Jen Parry dies at Chester age seventy

The Rev. Jen Parry of Welch Calv inistic Methodist chapel Chester has died aged seventy. For 32 years he edited a Welsh periodical and his Mothers Gift sold over 100000 copies in twenty two editions. He preached extensively and remained healthy despite heavy schedules. Contemporaries praised his ministry and temperance addresses urging ministers to fulfill duty.

Jen Parry Chester England Suyenty-ane Welch Tabernacle New York Tyng

Rum as a Tyrant of the Soul and Reading Classes

An aged man asks What is Rum and dies after calling it the curse of earth. A dying drunkard and a weeping wife condemn earthly bliss. Coleridge lectures split readers into four classes by how they read. A knight protests but concedes a crumbling wit bleaches into truth.

Rom Earth

Robbery at Hathorne Street Home in the Night

The Boswell residence in Hathorne street was entered through a cellar window last night. A thief lit a lamp, searched a coat, then took a wallet with about eighty dollars and fled after Mr Boswell woke. A second item reports Jonathan Bennett found dead in Tiverton woods, presumed suicide, with a rope around his neck.

Suictmr Jonathan Bennett Tiverton Fall River Monitor

Antony and Cleopatra fish tale and other riotous anecdotes

A fragmented column recounts a mischievous tale of Mark Antony and Cleopatra angling with live and dried fish, a wry Irish court quip about challenging juries, clerical cautions on patent medicines, shopfront divides in London, a coffin-adorned lodging sign, a Dublin obituary note, and a Maine judge’s sleepy courtroom scene, all in a lighthearted period voice.

The Fashionable Rum Shop on the Road to Ruin

Edward Wilson is lured from Bucks County by city temptations in Philadelphia. A cousin Thomas Martin follows as Edward recounts a reckless life in salons, taverns, and a reforming scheme. They visit a fashionable rum shop and a gambling room, where Edward’s resolve weakens under peer pressure and liquors.

Ned Thomas Mertin Edward Wilson Bucks County Edward Thomas Wilson Philadelphia Young Market St Bia Ramseller James Thompson

Edward Wilson and the lure of the rum shop tragedy

Edward Wilson, a fashionable drunkard and gambler, succumbs to rum and gambling after visiting a city rum shop. His increasing vice strains family finances and risks his cousin Thomas, prompting plans to move to a mercantile life under stern parental guidance.

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