Weekend Edition Subscriptions and Ad Rates Listed
The notice lists subscription terms for town and distant readers with two dollars in town and five dollars in advance for distant subscribers, plus single copies six cents. It details advertising rates at one dollar per square for three weeks with twenty cents for each extra insertion, and rules on type size, yearly advertiser privileges, and discontinuation policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.S. Bayley
Bredford Street
Hope
State Streets
Bingle
Rhode Island Act Raises Clerks Fees Share
In the June 1814 Rhode Island General Assembly session an act amends a prior law to require every Clerk of the Supreme Court and each Clerk of any Court of common pleas to pay forty percent to the state on all fees received over four hundred dollars, replacing the former twenty percent. Henry Bowen serves as Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
Providence Plantations
General Assembly
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
Witnces
Henry Bowen
Sec'’ry
Caudle’s Curtain Lectures Turn to Domestic Spat
A comic vignette shows Mrs Caudle berating Mr Caudle for bringing guests home late and wasting supper, accusing him of neglect and cold behavior. The scene shifts to a Western editor’s patriotism and a note on opium farming profits, with scattered reflections on mind and virtue.
Frederick and Sophia’s Coal Conspiracy Ends in Elopement
A turbulent tale follows Frederick the coal man as he clashes with Sophia Albury and her cousin Stevens over wages and romance. Frederick foils Stevens by tossing him into a pond, wins Sophia’s affection, and marries Lucretia with Mr. Perkins approving, while Sophia’s scheming reputation fades as Frederick secures a peaceful future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Brute
Frederck
Albury
Mr. Albury
Young Stevens
Stevens
Sophia
Ile
Trederick
Angel
John
Stevena
Mr.Albury
Albary
Hota
Miss Albury
Connecticut
Ani
Buriot
Mr. Perkins
Lucretia
Mr. Duory
Ming
Bristol Town Records Chronicle 1716 to 1723
Annals of Bristol recount town officials from 1716 to 1723 with changes in representation and meetings. Capt. Samuel Gallop repeatedly serves as representative and dies during adjournment. May 1717 and May 1719 show repeat elections and bylaw actions. Authorities impose fees for innholders and retailers to fund schooling, regulate street gallops, and enforce chimney fires. 1721 marks a shift to an Episcopal church founding and a rector’s appointment. 1722 grants Nathaniel Bosworth beach frontage for a wharf known as Bordens Wharf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Howland
Samuel Gallop
Sd Selectmen
Sam J. Gallop
Siaday
Hope Street
William Throop
Wm. Throop
Walker's Bridge
Bosworth’s Bridge
Narnantet Cortes
Cotton
Navwaxien Corrox
Burnat Saxowien
Rottaxn Rouges
Euiz
Saronstant, Esq
Haverhill
Wm. Sanford
Newport
Jolly Usien
Church of England
Bristol
James McSranay
Church of
England
Samuel Luthe Wan Hoven
Jane
Nathaniel Bosworth
Cooper
Jones Street
Thames Street
London
Borden's Wharf
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Laws OF
Mr. Caudle
Mr. Candle
Caudle
Thave
Dhamjong
New York
Perry Secoie
India
China
Hon. East India Ompany
William Comstock
Mateuetion
Lachange
Cincinnati
U.S
New England
Troy
Wateia
Gga
Presiesan of Health
Suma Darix
Luxoxine
Papa
Tommy
Ambre Jones
Tie Degean
Washingtonian Temperance Society
Brothers of Man
Annals OF Bristol
Phenix
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