Bristol Phenix Ad Rates and Publication Details
The Bristol Phenix publishes Saturdays at No. 7 Bradford Street Bristol R L by W I Bayley. Subscriptions two dollars in advance for non residents two dollars per year for town residents two dollars per year payable in advance. Single copies four cents. Ads one dollar per square for three weeks twenty cents for each additional insertion. Twelve lines minion type to a square. Ads continued until forbidden and charged accordingly. Yearly advertising twenty lines per week ten dollars include paper. Religious obituary and political notices charged as advertisements.
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Moana
Senate
Eaid Company
Dandy with Bowie Knife Challenged by Woodsman on Mississippi Bank
About thirteen years ago in Hannibal the river town, a tall woodsman by the river watched a steamboat approach while a boastful dandy aboard prepared to threaten him with a bowie knife and two pistols. The woodsman struck the intruder, who toppled into the Mississippi as passengers watched in shock. The bully retreated, promising not to drill keyholes again to the woodsman.
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Hannibal
Mississippi
Doc
Havel
Local Schoolboard Anecdote From Neighboring State
A Burlington Sentinel writer recalls a district school teacher who boarded round in a small town. An allotment for a schoolmistress fell two days short and the tale recounts the householder offering a half dinner with a quip about not being mean, implying the usual boarding time.
Notorious Conneciqents Bullying Case in Kentucky Court
In the Nicholas Circuit Court of Kentucky, Garrett Davis mocked witness Hoberts and threatened to hang him if he became President. The exchange reveals tensions over authority and power, with a judgeably tense atmosphere and sharp taunts contrasting with the witness’s calm reply.
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Nicholas Circuit Court
Garrett Davis
Hoberts
Mr. Davis
Davis
Militia Regulation Act of Rhode Island 1858 Enacted
The Rhode Island General Assembly enacts a comprehensive militia law for 1858. It details tax assessor duties to compile enrollment rolls, exemptions for federal officers, clergy, and Quakers, and rules for chartered militia companies, elections, and command structure. It creates divisions, staff bureaus, and procedures for commissions, discharges, and brigades.
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LAWS
Rhode Island
Providence Plantations
General Assembly
United States
Congress
Custom House
Post Office
Supreme Court
Courts of Common Pleas
Brown University
Society of Friends
New Shoreham
Jamestown
Island of
Prudence
Patience
Hog Island
Providence
Ring
Newport
Washington
Kent
Bristol
Adjutant
Staff Department
Commissariat
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Judge Advocate General
Bureau of
Military Law
Therigade
Euch
Beloning
Staff
Grand Committee
Staff Départment
Secretary of State
Shuia
Sion
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Bristol Phenix
Bradford Street
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Bayley
Lin
Secretary of
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