Blestol Prexiex Bristol Rhode Island Weekly Advert
Publication details for Blestol Prexiex a weekly newspaper printed every Saturday at 7 Bradford Street Bristol Rhode Island by W A Bayley subscription rates for residents and nonresidents including advance payment and ad rates for notices obituaries religious and political items with column measurements and pricing per square inch and per insertion
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Blestol Prexiex
Bradford Street
Bristol
R.I
W. A
Bayley
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Jing
Poem Tribute to Pastor Bristed for Post Office Ladies’ Pair
A devotional verse honors Rev John Bristed praising his guidance a pastor who led living streams and green pastures. The poem pledges divine blessing and comfort at his passing and speaks of his steadfast faith and readiness to meet the Savior.
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John
Women in Indiana Seize Liquor Dealers in Violent Action
The Indianapolis Journal reports four towns where women protest liquor traffic by force. In Centreville, women hired a wagon, compelled a dealer to load liquor, and dumped the barrels into the gutter at the Court House square, a striking act amid broader petitions and protests.
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Indiana
Indianapolis Journal
Centreville
Court House
Remarkable Rescue On Rainham River Ice
A Taunton Gazette account recalls a Raynham girl, age about fourteen, who lost her veil on Robinson's bridge. She plunged into eight to ten foot river, surfaced aided by ice, drifted to the bridge, then saved herself without aid and reached the highway on one of the coldest winter days.
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Raynham
Eliakim Leonard
Robinson's Bridge
Taunton Gazette
Plain attire reveals a woman's worth and character
A historical editor extols modest dress over ornaments, praising inner qualities. It argues that attention to mind and temper, meekness, mercy, and virtue makes a woman attractive, while excess dress only masks true character.
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Apvics
Princetons President Samuel Davies In England Visit
During Davies tenure as Princeton College president he toured England to solicit donations for the institution. A vibrant sermon drew sharp praise from the king who later rebuked Davies saying when the beast trembles and the Lord speaks, kings should listen. Davies then reportedly received fifty guineas from the royal court.
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A. Bowy
Samuel Davies
Princeton College
England
America
Davies
Temptation, Temperance, and a Learned Doctor’s Change
A temperance anecdote tells of a renowned physician who hides a liquor habit to appease family and peers. After a comical, eye opening encounter with a friend, he abandons the pledge, then reforms, regaining practice and esteem by choosing sobriety. The tale contrasts appearance with true reform.
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Example
Deceptive Half Dollar Contest in a Shop
A shopkeeper refuses a bad fifty cent piece as lead silvered over while a customer praises the clever deception. The exchange pivots to a lofty defense of Liberty and a cheeky justification of silvering the coin to enhance its value.
A Goon Retartes in Senate Banter Over Slavery Joke
A brief Washington anecdote from the Senate Chamber recounts Senator Gillette and Toombs sharing a risqué exchange. Toombs teases Gillette about abolitionists and blackness, Gillette retorts that slaveholders are angered by making enslaved people white, provoking laughter among members.
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Washington
Senate
Gillette
Toombs
Georgia
Lame Mrs Partington laments illness in comic quip
Mrs Partington quips about her health woes in a humorous mock medical lament. She jokes of a bleeding phrenology in the brain and a failing heart and chest, ending with praise for health as a blessing.
Rhode Island January Session Acts on Pardoning Power
The General Assembly passes acts transferring pardon authority to the Governor with Senate advice, sets petition rules, and imposes terms. funds for insane paupers to Butler Hospital are approved. measures regulate custody of the indigent insane and appoint Tiverton constables. fixes weights and dog penalties. and schedules Supreme Court adjournment to February 1856.
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General Assembly
A. D
Grand Committee
Senate
Wal R. Watson
Butler Hospital
Butler
William R. Watson
Tiverton
William R, Watson
WM. R. Watson
Supreme Court
W ‘Ton
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