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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1858
Page
1
The New York agency Pettengill & Co is highlighted for its prompt, energetic service and broad U S and Canadian reach. Contracts in New York alone reportedly total about two hundred thousand dollars in the past year, indicating strong confidence in the firm.
A London Quar. Review summary notes the heavy reliance on extreme unction in Ireland where priests are scarce. It describes patients ferried by boat to receive last rites and the terror of withholding the sacrament. The rite is depicted as easing guilt and compelling obedience, with deathbed fear shaping peasant life.
A friend recommends a preventive method using scraps of leather burned under a plum tree in bloom to stop the Gureulo pest that destroys fruit. The rite claims the pest will be driven away by this burning.
Eleanor Herbert learns her uncle left her Woodbourne cottage and income for life with Blue Wolf as housekeeper. Frederic Hollis Stafford reveals he is her late uncle's adopted son, claiming the estate through a will and plans to marry Eleanor, who agrees to wait a year before marriage.
The General Assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations passes an 1858 appropriations act for the fiscal year ending April 30 1859. It itemizes salaries for officials and justices, education funding including public schools and Normal School, care for the insane and deaf blind, jail and reform school costs, militia pay, printing, court houses and jails, railroad commissioners, governor's drafts, and miscellaneous expenses with specified totals and payment timing.
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