24 Jun 1854
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1854
Page
1
Publication details for a Bristol weekly issue list advertising terms. It notes subscription pricing in town two dollars yearly paid in advance and single insertion rates. The page contains fragmented typography and garbled lines about advertisement counts and format.
Fragmentary verse laments a mother’s death with night vigil and fading breath. The speaker recalls shedding half their powers to ease her passing and notes her quiet eye lids closing as dawn reveals a new sorrowful morning.
In La Crosse Michigan a living willow dock is described as built from bundles of willows twelve feet long and one foot thick, each bundle containing about one hundred trees. Fifty thousand bundles are needed to complete the dock, said to root and form a living superstructure that will resist decay for ages. Similar willow docks are noted on the Rhine in Germany.
The Palladium records another complete cure of erysipelas by raw cranberries pounded fine applied as a poultice. A young lady with a swollen inflamed cheek and closed eye improved after several changes, with pain and inflammation subsiding in days and full recovery claimed.
A vessel of lighted charcoal with juniper berries in a closed room is recommended to destroy paint smells. Two or three shallow bowls of cold water will greatly assist the operation.
A buggy ride yields a traveling German parish member from Luther church describing Arkansas as a sickly land after heavy calomel and quinine. The speaker muses on spiritualizing problems, the man finally quips that the land where locals never say I am sick must be Wishconsin.
A nine year old pupil at a boarding school writes a playful letter to her dean about her new baby brother. She voices strong dislike for boys, prefers a girl, and suggests the name Marie or Peter as options. She apologizes for long handwriting and explains boys’ noise.
Fragmentary text shows broken phrases and names with no clear event or outcome. The readable bits mention a traveler and a discussion about money and travel. No coherent report or date is present to form a complete news item.
In a Portland Eclectic serial, Henry and the Scout plot to rescue Ellen from Native camp captors. Fire set to encampment pulls pursuit away as Brave the dog helps defend and guide them through a perilous escape toward safety.
A Western editor appeals to late-paying readers suggesting they fear his better half would scrape the flour barrel. He laments the extra trouble of publishing while imagining telegraph wires and dramatic consequences in thorn bushes.
A tenant confronted a landlord over back rent last Monday, asserting her honesty as a married mother of seven. She grabbed the landlord by the coat and tossed him into the street, prompting the owner to hire an agent for future rent collection.
An elderly man recalling marriage fortunes says his wife, earning five cents more, kept giving him the surplus after they wed. The quip highlights the social humor around disparities of fortune and domestic finance.
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