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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1851
Page
1
Beaten ENEX states publication is weekly on Saturday mornings with a Bristol address. Advertising terms show 90.4 agagroee, advance payment, Office charges per insertion, yearly rate $10 per year with 18 lines per week limit for advertisers.
In a Florence studio a young artist breaks into tears as he sketches a beloved face. He writes a laments to the unseen muse, imagining her eyes and touch, then learns that the loved one has died, and his soul senses her spirit crossing to him.
The text presents aged anecdotes on hospitality and blasphemy, citing Abraham and an unnamed old man, then shifts to religious musings on immortality, parting, and memory. It weaves quotations from Bishop Taylor and Rev. Judd with reflections on death, consolation, and the continual presence of loved ones in memory.
A 1851 Rhode Island Assembly record details measures to place insane persons in Butler Hospital by guardians or authorities, with a court commission process to determine confinement and discharge. It covers guardianship certificates, judge ordered commissions, rights of the confined, and safeguards against habeas corpus rights.
A physician recalls a ten year mendicant visitor in Soho who returns to plead for life. In a miserly collapse the old man clings to wealth and fear of death, spurring a final, sorrowful scene as kin are sought and a hidden stash is revealed.
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