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A reflective verse fragment contemplates a brief life and memories of heaven lingering in the soul after a fleeting moment.
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1866
Page
1
The Wreck on Baythorpe Shore in a Wild Storm
A stormy night at Baythorpe shore follows a three mast vessel going ashore off Bank Sands. Locals, led by an aging seaman, witness repeated gun reports and daunting surf as rescuers consider life boats amid peril at sea.
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Anismarfan
Bank Sands
Damland
Baythorpe Shore
The Storm Ship Rescue at Sea
In a raging gale a lifeboat is wheeled to the surf and launched by the crowd led by old Marks. The perilous rescue strains nerves as the crew braves breakers and saves fifteen survivors while a second run is prepared amid cheers and shuddering waves.
Courage on the Shore Fire and Rescue at Sea
A wrecked vessel washes ashore after a night battle with fog and flames. Fifteen sailors are saved as old Marks, gravely injured, reflects on duty and the hope of many more lives saved, while the coast watches through the calm after the storm.
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Old Marks
The Old Seafarer Bids Farewell Amid The Storm
A narrator recalls an old sailor's final moments aboard a doomed vessel. The seaman speaks of breakers ahead and going ashore to a land of rest, belief in a brave dash for life, and a last farewell as life ebbs away.
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Messmate
Sparrows in the cold upper chamber teach faith
A pious Beachifvr woman finds two half naked children in a third story room on a bitter winter day. They share simple prayers and trust in God as their caregiver. A later reflection recalls a child’s calm crossing to heaven, described as crossing a river to the celestial shore.
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Beachifvr
Tommy
Granny
God
Heaven
Celestial City
Earth
The Ring That Reproved A Humble Hope
In early life Rev. Toaddeus Mason Harris. junior year at Cambridge. disappointment over unpaid writing. a rusty metal touch on a cane end yielded a bright ring found after a ferry crossing. a six dollar payment from a goldsmith provided means to live and inspired gratitude. the ring bore the motto God speed thee friend.
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Tne Rixsa
Toaddeus Mason Harris
Sillman and
Thatcher
Boston
Cambridge
Charlestown
Hope as an Everlasting Drive in Youth
A fragmented reflection extols hope as the source of effort and resilience in youth. It contrasts hopeful resolve with a person who gives up on themselves, noting that abandonment by self leads to neglect from friends and fortune.
Pruning Fruit Trees and Odd Local Tales
The excerpt discusses pruning fruit trees with advice from J T Elliot of Grand Rapids advocating earlier season trimming, low branching and crook-free crotches to aid healing and wind resistance. It also covers a grave description of Lincoln and a peculiar dog story from Campton plus a medical salve recipe from early practitioner lore.
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Jve
J. T Elliot
Grand Rapids
Mich
New England
Elliott
Crermantown
Post Office Visit Sparks Barroom Exchange in Vermont Note
A Vermont resident recalls village life where the post office was in a tavern barroom. A Methodist preacher enters, is challenged by a coarse patron, and a blunt exchange ensues. The scene closes with a joke about a London phrenologist.
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Goop
Vermont
Swipes
Walt
A pastor’s salary and service days settle the matter
The Richmond Religious Herald recounts a Baptist church where leaders balked at setting a fixed salary and service days. The new pastor proposed letting both be undecided to avoid commitments. By later conversation, a salary was fixed while the pastor’s service days were likewise left unbound.
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Richmond Religious Herald
Old Baptist Association
Asthe Tor
A Dutchman's Abstinence Tale Provokes Lively Laughs
An honest German speaker at a temperance meeting recounts a humorous misadventure. He touches his head and body for pain, finds nothing in his pocket but twenty dollars, and declares he will remain abstinent. The tale is offered as a moral parable for total abstinence.
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Dutcasan
Timrerpanor
Friends of Total
Crixa: A Satirical Portrait of a Fractured Land
The passage portrays Crixa as a surreal country lacking fragrance and honor where roses, women, labor, roads, ships, and hats defy expectation. It sketches a world with inverted customs and absurdities, a literature without an alphabet and a language without grammar.
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Crixa
An Act Amending Nuisance and Salaries Provisions
The 1866 May Session enacted amendments to Chapter 72 of Title XIV on nuisances authorizing designated premises for bone processing and related health rules with fines. authorized town councils to regulate privies and manure removal. provided a $20 daily fine for violations. amended Chapter 639 on salaries to set Chief Justice’s annual pay at $3500. and changed deputy sheriff and staff pay to two dollars per day.
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General Assembly
Coun
Supreme Court
Joan BR. Barrett
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