Brestol Phen en Saturday Advertisements
Brestol Phen en, published every Saturday morning, by W. H. & Bayley at Haistol, BR. Terms: subscribers in town pay half yearly in advance. Distant subscribers pay one year in advance. Single copies four cents. Advertising rates: one square one dollar for three weeks. twelve lines constitute a column. Yearly advertisers ten dollars with limited lines and exclusive business.
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Bradlond
Haistol
W. H. & Bayley
Dollera
Altice
Keep it before the people in labor’s plight
Poem-like verse urging to keep labor and freedom before the public eye. It emphasizes that Earth and gifts are for all, not the few, and denounces luxury while praising the laborer’s right to share in the fruits of toil. It frames humanity as the image of God, demanding equality and liberty.
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God
Halle
The Husband’s Dominion Over Wife in 18th Century View
The text argues husbands should guide domestic order without demanding blind obedience. It condemns tyrannical control and praises wives as natural advisors whose counsel should be heeded if reasonable. It satirizes men who seek dominion and praises reasonable partnership amid social critique.
Foote’s Narrow Escape and Rural Faith Sermonized
A vivid Foote anecdote recounts a near robbery on an Oxford street where he outwits a pistol bearer with humor. An eighty year old farmer proclaims lifelong devotion, preferring his farm, Sunday worship, and steady faith over wealth, while critiquing narrow minded thinkers confined to small worlds.
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Herpy
Aya Visitahins
Laws on school certification and town governance in 1849 Rhode Island
The document summarizes acts from the 1849 Rhode Island General Assembly. It covers qualification certificates for schoolmasters for Narragansetts, annual financial returns by savings institutions, amendments to bills of exchange, highway layout appeals, Cumberland Bridewell policing, and amendments to laws on clandestine marriages. It preserves official copies and witnesses Henry Bowen.
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General Assembly
Lidiana
Charleston
Henry Bowen
Seetiin L. Maoh Incorporated
Aight
Supreme Court
Courts of Common Pleas
Comann Pleas
May Seasion
Cumberland and
Bridewell
Cumberland
Soul Town
Tomy
Uridewell
Woonbockel
Woonsiket
Sec'ry
Entertaining Oddities and Weather Snippets
A fragmenting mix of curiosities and comic lines. A street carnival of jokes about a great geological and circus show arriving today with a boy constructor and an African lion, half price for children under ten, plus a weather quip about a Mediterranean voyage and a duchess who refuses lancing. The text also jokes about a drunken toper and a sky above.
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Avery and Circust
Asia
The Quickest Passage Out and Other Oddities
A fragmentary humor column recalls the North of Ireland sailor patter, Dr Channing versus his brother the preacher, a bread swallowing gag, fortunes and diggers in California, a pickpocket’s boast, an intelligent cat, a quip about hats, and a printer’s devil remark, all in a sketchy Victorian-tinged tone.
The Weir of Linn Ballad turns to a mendicant heir
The Heir of Linn, son of a prodigal laird in Linn near Galway, squanders wealth through riotous living assisted by John of the Scales. After ruin, he finds a hidden chamber with a cursed ledger but learns his father’s wisdom. A key act of restitution restores lands and wealth, aided by Richard Lankland’s loyalty.
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Linn
Galway
Scotland
Lina
Heir of
Kippletringar
Hesuo
Juhn
Lind
John
Scales
Ian
Linn Wan
Jobes
Jobo
Bebald
Linust
Tumok
John of the Scales
Heir of Linn
Anuthour
Richard Lankland
Geo- Neman
Lian
John of the
Neal
John of
The
Paper Ag
Theo
Heiri Ling
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Brestol Phenen
Poptere
Duganne
Foote
Oxford
Shaggy Dellue
Tyburn
Laws OF
Rhode Island
State OF
Providence Plantations
Leary
Seary
Louke
Hlosan Naton
Old
Dominon
Mediterranean
Eayliah
Toper
Erin
Pat
Ireland
Dr. Channing
William J. Snelling
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