21 Jul 1855
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1855
Page
1
Brestol Prenex is published every Saturday by W. U. Bayley. Subscription rates are ten dollars per year for town residents and two dollars for non residents, both payable in advance. Single copies cost four cents. Advertisements are one dollar per square for three lines, with twenty lines per week at ten dollars per year. Religious obituaries and political notices are treated as advertisements.
A brief verse vignette recalls Jesus asking Peter if he loves him on the shore after the Resurrection. Peter responds thrice with confession of love, reflecting contrition for his denials and loyalty to the Lord amid memory of sin and pride.
An 1855 Rhode Island General Assembly act authorizes Providence to issue bonds up to 600000 dollars at 6 percent, with proceeds paying city debt and a sinking fund. A board of three city trustees will manage the fund, invest renewals, and sue as needed to protect the trust.
A Louisville bread dealer hoards corn and aims to corner the market by holding 36000 bushels from Indiana. Millions of bushels of grain are locked up, inviting speculators to profit from delays. In Saurarienp a drill hole accident wounds Cyrus Williams of Smithfield, blinding him and causing other injuries.
Captain Nelson of the clipper Harvey Birch reports a tanker burst left the crew without water about 1000 miles from the Gallipagos Islands. He rigged a still and distilled twenty eight and a half gallons daily for seventeen days until rain provided relief.
The Life Illustrated piece urges eating ripe fruits and berries daily in summer for health, warns against unripe or spoiled fruit, and notes costs and moderation. It says fruits prevent cholera and dysentery better than meat-heavy diets, and advises adjusting intake with season and waste.
A travel note describes a citizen wife obsessed with order as her home remains eerily silent and spotless for ten years. All doors blinds and floors are kept to rigid standards with no visitors or children allowed, creating a tomb like, painfully neat parlor. The author laments excessive neatness and yearns for signs of life beyond rigid order.
The sign reads Freeman and Huggs school teachers Freeman teaches the boys and Huggs the girls. The note documents a historical classroom arrangement observed on the academy sign in the Western state context.
In a Maine river town, the covetous Tatnall profits by delaying sale of a mill privilege amid a vision of wealth. Young investors Farnsworth and Ridgley press for eighteen hundred but he inflates to twenty two hundred, confident he can overreach them and extract maximum gain. He blocks sale while plotting to leverage the land for future mills.
Cragshat Cortan reports that ancient Roman women supposedly decorated themselves by tying live snakes around their necks. The reptile served as the lady's living stock in that fashion.
Two elderly partners walk hand in hand through life with enduring love and harmony. Their union is described as a spiritual and timeless bond, unmatched by time or death, a lasting commitment that remains golden and unsevered.
A white wife named Elizabeth Haines, residing at 99 Bedford Street, accuses her husband James Haines, a dark man, of assault and battery and cruel treatment. He is jailed in default of $500 bail to answer at court after a thirteen year marriage with nine children born, only two living. She later asks the magistrate to release him to avoid public testimony.
A reflective ode condemns stingy aid and social snobbery. It argues that helping a desperate neighbor fairly matters more than wealthy condescension, urging humane, dignified support over exploitation or patronizing charity.
A Western District Tennessee circuit judge, indifferent to dress, dressed in his wife Betty's clothing items causing amusement. A roommate reports the sight of the judge with only head, arms, and feet visible and the judge muttering about Betty cutting off his shirt sleeves. The bar withheld comment to avoid embarrassment.
A collage of humor and dialogue features a girl rebuking a leering Mr. Smith, a mother advising restraint, and jokey exchanges about trades and travel. The snippets highlight social manners, misheard phrases, and light wordplay in a quaint street scene.
A fragmentary exchange features a speaker calling another a pale man and claiming fierce death on pale brandy, while the responder denies knowledge of the reference. The text reads as a rough pair of lines with no clear context.
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