Bleary Notice of Bristol Newspaper Prices and Terms
Earliest page shows subscription rates for Bradford Street Bristol edition dated Saturday morning. Two dollars yearly in town, advance payment, distant subscribers one dollar per month or ten dollars yearly. single copies ten cents. Advertisements priced at one dollar per square for three weeks, seventy cents each additional insertion. twelve lines Minion equals one square. Yearly advertisers limited to eighteen lines weekly and their own business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradford Street
Bristol
B. Ig
W. Hs, Bayley
Ode for the Fourth of July by Rev Samuel Galan
A commemorative ode by Rev. Samuel Galan of Charleston DC praising national unity and freedom. The piece laments division, extols the flag, nation and regions from New England to the South, and pledges to defend liberty and union under law.
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Samuel Galan
D. D
Paetor
Unitarian Church
Charleston
D. C
South
Fair Land
Central Mountain Band
New England
Night Air and Plague Myths Linked to Cholera Fears
The article notes 1665 London's plague fatalities and a narrative of nocturnal cholera outbreaks. It discusses theories on night air as a carrier of deadly gases and the role of unventilated rooms, sewers, and carbonic acid in causing fevers. It mentions fire as a supposed ward against spirits and disease, and contrasts local beliefs with European adoption of the practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eripemire
London
Sconucherih
England
Hamburg
Pious Man Rebukes Freethinker Over Sacred Name
An elderly man recalls a time in company where a man often used words like devil and deuce and finally spoke God’s name in vain. He warns that true freedom comes from honoring his master’s name and refuses any irreverent rhetoric in his presence.
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Swahaino
God
Sten
Wewhart
George Washington Name Repeats Across Fifty Years
Teia estimates more than thirty thousand children named George Washington have been christened in the past fifty years. The figure reflects a long standing naming trend traced through parish records and local registries.
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Teia
George Wishington
Propriety and Love Discussed in Aqueous Reflections
The passage muses that love grows while prudence recedes and delicacy in affection mirrors grace in beauty. It cautions that no wise person desires to be younger, suggesting restraint as love deepens with time.
Popular Education West Class Seeks Female Teachers
The Board of National Popular Education expands to the West with a Hartford program training 175 female teachers since 1847. Teachers are sent across multiple states including Ohio Michigan Iowa Illinois and Texas to educate thousands of children and serve Sabbath schools, with a rotation to new postings and a two year commitment.
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Sihallt
Society For the Promotion of Education In
The
West
New York Observer
Board of National Popular Education
Hartford
Conn
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Texas
Nancy Swift
Northampton
Mass
Geome
Oregon
Swift
Evener
Martford
Friends of Education Appeal for Oregon Mission Funds
The liberality of the friends of Christian education sustains the effort to prepare and send them abroad, including the extraordinary cost of sending to Oregon. Benefactors are urged to contribute by mail to Thomas W. Olean Esq Albany N Y or to the undersigned in Middlebury Vermont June 15 1840.
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Friends of Chrisian
Oregon
Friends of Or Cause
Thomas W. Olean
Albany
Rnders
Middlebury
Stave Cor
Board of
N. 1
Middlebury, Vt
Admonitory Sketch Teaches Gentle Parenting
A stern father punishes a frightened son after a harsh rebuke. The boy dies from fever a night later, and the father learns the cost of unkind discipline when the dying child’s brave act saves a friend. A mother’s forgiveness and a family’s sorrow follow.
Importance of resisting ridicule in shaping character
Sidney Smith urges young people to defend personal principles against ridicule. He says give up trifling concerns to fear, and stand firm for moral, sincere conduct even if ancient or pedantic. Do not conform to fashion but act with courage and a soul independent of popular opinion.
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Sidney Snuth
Turkish manners and kindness in a respectful view
The piece discusses Turkish people as courteous and dignified, contrasting their gravity and rich robes with harsher home styles. It notes social etiquette, hospitality, cleanliness as a religious duty, rare quarrelling, and benevolence rooted in Muslim practice.
Minocunous Bint Report on Church Beautification Bill
The journal claims a bill of work on the Lutheran Church in Hamburg includes mending the ten commandments adding a nose and three fingers to a robber on the Cross scouring Pontius Pilate gilding the wine of the angel Gabriel and other varied embellishments. It lists items such as Mary Magdalene a High Priest’s maid and St Pater with colored features and tails for devils along with furniture for elders and apostles.
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Hamburg
Pontius Pilate
Angel Gabriel
Mary Magdalene
St. Pater
Judge Peters Recites Authority as Member Falls in Assembly
In a Pennsylvania assembly scene Judge Peters, presiding as Speaker, calls for order as a member trips over the carpet and falls. The room erupts in laughter while the judge maintains gravity, declaring Order, order, gentlemen.
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Peters
Pennsylvania
House of Assembly
Impolite Quips Stir London Dinner and Meeting
A nobleman at a London dining table argues about turtle soup with an alderman who jokes he eats his soup with a spoon. A political meeting yields an orator declaring if he were a Siamese twin he would cut his brother off, provoking overwhelming applause.
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London
Ancient ruins near San Diego reveal Valley of Mystery findings
Antiquarians report vast ancient ruins near San Diego within a day’s march of the Pacific Ocean. Temples, dwellings, pyramids and stone walls surround venerable trees and hieroglyphic blocks, suggesting an antediluvian culture unknown to modern families, termed the Valley of Mystery by locals.
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San Diego
Pacific Ocean
Gulf of California
Palsenque, &c
Atlantic
Mexican Gulf Coast
Egypt
Phaneia
Majesty of duty and virtue shines on a ragged woman
A narrator sees a ragged woman transformed by kindness and duty. The moment reveals beauty in virtue as a reflection of God, changing perception from coarse worth to spiritual worth. The scene emphasizes inner majesty over outer adornment and ends with the moral awakening.
Hoosier in Boston Skirts Cigar Ban Anecdote
A Cin cinnatti Inquirer editor in Boston recounts a Hoosier visiting the city who lights a cigar and is fined two dollars. He pays with a five and gets three back, then gives a gingerbread portion to a beggar girl and is fined again for giving away city property. He pockets the change and jokes he will whistle soon.
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Jim
Hoosierland
Agaimet
Boston
American in England Describes Domestic Duelling Spotlight
An American observer notes the prevalence of dueling at home in England. He recalls a scene where people even fight with daggers in a dark room, prompting astonished reactions from the locals.
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England
Fragmentary report on land washout halted by a critic
A newspaper fragment notes a large tract of land washed away by an intimidation but not confirmed. A gentleman interrupts and dismisses the report saying there is no ground for it. The passage also mentions Rousseau on writing love letters beginning without meaning and ending without knowing.
Whoresome Superstitions from a Punchy Fragment
A fragmentary satire listing superstitions and beliefs about misfortune and luck. It mocks ideas like bad luck from moving premises, ruined estates, fake tonics, dangerous guns, and gamblers’ fates, with scattered lines referencing printers and romance.
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Tucua
Anne
Sydney Smuth
Henry
Jane
Mercy
Bunyan
Ile
Long Wharf
Charles Mumford
Charles
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Meury
Lavowixe
Archin
Bin
Rosseau
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