20 Mar 1841
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1841
Page
1
The page is an 19th century miscellany with local ads and short items. It includes publishing terms, a political Washington letter excerpt, a Portland death report, a Kingston accident, a New Orleans duel, British warship notes, a Erie table gift to General Harrison, and horticultural tips for fruit trees and garden work.
A tall old man named William Conyers faced a magistrate for being destitute with no home and a hungry grandchild. He describes surviving on neighbors' scraps after his daughter and son died, while a crowd offers pity. they are later housed and fed. In a separate item, long electrical theories on comets, tides, and the sun are debated, arguing solar electricity drives celestial motions. The New England Farmer piece extols common schools as engines of liberty and progress, urging support and attendance for all children. A Vermonter tale follows where a storekeeper uses humor to expose a petty thief, pouring hot butter over him as prank justice.
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