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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1851
Page
1
Bristol Prenen weekly issue lists subscription rates for home and distant subscribers in advance. It notes single copies at four cents and ads charged one dollar per square for three weeks, with twenty cents for each additional insertion.
Poem reflecting on the beloved sound of an old church bell awakening memories of family friends and lost loves. The speaker contrasts Bell’s chime with time, hoping the bell’s ring preserves memories and comforts the heart against change.
A critical essay on fashion obsession, imitation, and social harm. It condemns tight lacing and showy dress as health destroying, wrecking home life, family peace, and moral restraint. It argues fashion’s lure corrupts virtue, happiness, and reverence for family.
A Virginia tale recounts a boy about eight to ten pushing his younger brother, four, into a fathomless sinkhole near a field. After delay and threats, the elder boy confessed the incident and rescuers gathered ropes to reach the child and provide aid if alive.
In a dramatic rescue a brother of the trapped boy descended about fifty feet and then found the child at forty feet deeper, clinging to him. They drew up together amid cheering spectators. the boy was unhurt except for a scalp bruise and hunger after twenty seven hours underground.
Colonel Danforth, a Revolutionary War hero, leads a frontier expedition to rescue his wife Lucy and daughter from Indian danger. Edward Allen, a young aide, earns a commission and vows loyalty as the party probes toward Piqua while scouts plan a risky covert approach to locate the prisoners.
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