Bristol Prentex Advertising Rates and Notices
Brestol Prenex published every Saturday morning at Room 7 Bradford at Rest Bristol KR. Ad rates shown: one square one dollar per week for three weeks, twenty cents for each additional insertion. Twelve lines of minion type make a square. Yearly advertisers pay ten dollars per year, limited to eighteen lines per week and for their own immediate business.
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Brestol Prenex
Bradford
Bristol
W. A
Bayley
Brother's Keeper Prayer and Mercy Lyrics
Poem urging Christian duty to share others' pain and work deeds of mercy. It asks for the reader to imitate Jesus by feeding the hungry clothing the naked and aiding the needy, ending with a plea to become like Christ in spirit and action.
Long-Delayed Murder in Kentucky Over Forgery Feud
In Barren County Kentucky John Watson killed James W Mungian in his bed after decades apart Mrs M left to prepare a bed for Watson The motive traced to forty years earlier when Mungian helped send Watson to the penitentiary for forgery in Virginia The two had not met in the intervening years
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Barren County
Kentucky
John Watson
James W. Mungian
Mre. M
Watson
Mungian
Virginia
Pay Ethics and Volunteer Service Debate
A letter argues against unpaid labor by corporative bodies and volunteers. It cites a Ruston editor's bundle case, noting weekly shillings exchanged as repayment, and warns that public spirit without pay invites nepotism and poor outcomes in volunteer fire departments. Pay is presented as a stabilizing, conservative principle.
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Neven
Peorne
Eaa
Ruston
Sudden death from joy in Philadelphia
A German emigrant died unexpectedly in Philadelphia after seeing a well beloved brother. His convulsed frame caused by overwhelming joy led to his death, a wrenching tale reported by a New York Jeter in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Dvine
New York
Philadelphia Inquirer
Riotine Rampage Injures Several on Kensington Streets
Reported Saturday night rioting along Frankford Road and Second Street in the northern Kensington area left several houses attacked and residents beaten. Two or three people were stabbed, one in the hand, and a man named Storegeon was said to be seriously wounded. A separate note says Spaulding & Rodger's Circus ticket box was robbed of 700 dollars at New Bedford. In Baltimore, the captain and mate of a vessel were sentenced to three quarters imprisonment and a thousand dollar fine each for murdering their colored cook.
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Frankford Road
Second Street
Theorthern
Kensington
Heart Lane
Philad. Ledger
Spaulding & Rodger's Circus
New Bedford
Baltimore
Haveeen
Vito
Shehan
Comet Seen By Ordinary Glass Now Visible Naked Eye Soon
A Georgetown Advocate writer notes the comet is visible with a spy glass and will be visible to the naked eye in a few days, remaining observable at least until the middle of July.
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Georgetown
Saye
Observatoriew
Sloop Falcon of Brooklyn Upset in New York Match
The sloop Falcon of Brooklyn was upset in New York by Py equals the other day, with six persons involved in the event.
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Sloop Falcon
Brooklyn
New York
Six
Slaves Convicted in Sunflower County Murder Case
Seven enslaved individuals in Sunflower County Mississippi were found guilty and sentenced to hang for the murder of their master.
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Sunflower County
Mise
Ling houses count in modern Sodam exceeds six thousand
Recent statistics show that there are about 6,000 ling houses in the modern Sodam area. The figures reflect housing density and urban development trends amid rapid population growth.
Dress Theft Delays Wedding Plans in Trenton
A bridal dress was stolen from a young German girl in Trenton a few days ago, forcing a postponement of the wedding. Police are investigating the theft, urging anyone with information to come forward.
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Trenton
The Downfall of Bohemia and Moral Talk on Wealth
A discourse connects wealth and fear of poverty to religious faith and moral conduct. It argues riches tempt pride and atheism, urging benevolent use of wealth. The piece then details Bohemia's 1617 to 1627 collapse after Matthias and Ferdinand II, the 30 years war, mass deportations, and population decline.
Dead Cat Crow Deterrent Reported By Cultivator Readers
A Boston Cultivator correspondent recounts on-farm scare tactics to deter crows from wheat fields. One farmer placed a dead cat in a bush to mimic a springing predator, triggering alarm calls and rapid crow escape, with birds leaving the area. Another reader suggests hanging crow carcasses in distant cornfields to frighten remaining birds into leaving.
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Boston
Gas from Paine’s discovery proved hydrogen but unfit for illumination
A Worcester meeting on June 25 with Dr. John Tor te y and other chemists examined Ma Paine’s gas apparatus in Paine’s absence. The panel reported the flame after passing through turpentine proved hydrogen only and not carburretted hydrogen, and found it totally unfit for illumination.
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Ma. Paine
John Tor‘tey
College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York
James R. Chilton
Charles Roome
George Carracott
Boston
J. H Blair
Worcester
Home Vault Hygiene and Floor Treatments for Odor Control
As vegetables are removed, whitewash walls and ceilings, and sprinkle caustic lime on the floor to absorb mephitic vapors from decay. Odors pervade the house and rise with warmer springs, potentially causing disease. Remove refuse to yards or compost and maintain thorough cleanliness throughout.
Vandal Throws Waste Mixture at Alderman Mellroy Home
A Saturday night incident in Fitzwater Street above Broad smeared the front of Alderman Mellroy’s residence with a mixture of limpblack and oil reaching to second story windows. No injuries reported and police investigating.
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Mellroy
Fitz‘water Street
Philad, Ledger
Violence Aims at Robbery of Capt Gray at Rathbone
On Tuesday evening Captain Gray, sailing from Rathbone and Gardinar's, refused a drink when accosted by a man. The assailant struck him twice and fled, clearly intending to rob him as he lay unable to defend himself.
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Gray
Rathbone
Gardinar
Properties of Atoms and the Dust That Shapes Life
The text contemplates atoms as the fundamental building blocks of all visible things from dust to living beings. It notes how heat light electricity and chemical forces influence matter and that yet much remains unknown about the grain of dust. It describes how particles aggregate into crystals and diverse forms including flowers fruits and living bodies, all governed by external forces and internal vitality.
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Mysteriouy
Rum and Water Mix Up Shocks Town Clerk
A woman asks for West India rum for a bath and a clerk reveals a barrel used for plants was misused as rum. The counter tale exposes a weeks long mix up, with the clerk finally laughing at the mistaken container and the ruse being kept secret.
Murder convict Hanged as Warning and Kentucky Elopement
An Irish judge sentenced a murderer with a grim warning and a Kentucky tale recounts a young woman choosing between two lovers by marrying one and eloping with the other. The incident illustrates the line she did not love wisely but two well and ends with a romantic irony.
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Arisoner
Frankfort
Kentucky
The Emperor's Present and Hortense's Necklace Debt
In June 1806 Napoleon commissions a premier necklace for Hortense, praising its value at eight hundred thousand francs while noting scarce stones. Later Hortense becomes Queen of Holland, crowned with the same emerald necklace as Napoleon warns her not to eclipsed by wealth, and she later returns it during Napoleon's fall.
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Empress Josephine
Tuileries
Napoleon
Iwaro
Lapida
Germany
Prussia
Russia
Capts
Aleriol
August
Foncier
Rhine
Louis Bonaparte
Holland
St. Cloud
Louis
Hortense
St. Lou
Salle du Tronc
Batavian Republic
Queen of
Hortence
House of Orange
the Hague
Maison de Bois
Waterloo
Elysees
Malmaison
Josephine
General Montholon
France
Montholon
Napolean
Neas
Adomarohi
Allie
Europe
Montholog
Necklace of Hortense Key to Napoleon Treasure Secreted on Bellerophon
Napoleon hid a silken ceinture containing a necklace worth eight hundred thousand francs on the Bellerophon. Las Cases later secured the jewel for delivery to Napoleon at St Helena, then kept it hidden until a loyal officer finally slipped it into Napoleon's hat for safekeeping.
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Napoleon
Lafitte
Paris
M. Las Cases
Las Cases
Goed
Las Cabes
St. Helena
M. de Las Cases
Longwood
Plantation House
Cape of Good Love
Young Las Cases
Hortense
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Rev
de. Raffles
Emile
Jesus
Mercy
Bohemia
Matthias
Ferdinand I
Frederick V
Kite Mountain
Prague
Themelves
Ferdinand II
Howe
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