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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1858
Page
1
A memorial poem laments recent youth deaths in the village. It speaks of death as an angel, describes a funeral procession and grieving parents, and portrays the deceased in a religious afterlife where pain ends. The speaker hopes the departed rest in God’s realm beyond sorrow and mortality.
A fragmented list shows multiple Providence businesses with addresses on Westminster Street Exchange Street Hope Street Main Street and Thames Bradford streets. Entries include embroiders hosieres groceries furniture carpets clothing and optical jewelers with scattered errors and illegible segments.
A speaker asks for one wish a weary life cannot grant finding a guiding angel to lift the spirit after death. They seek a peaceful home and lasting song to honor a beloved, hoping life and love endure beyond the grave despite death dissolving human bonds. Feanx.
From New Haven on the eighteenth, Grant Tuortorn writes of aging with humor and faith while recalling Revolutionary figures and presidents. The text also cites fruit preservation notes on plums and nuts, dietary tips, and a moral plea to settle debts promptly, ending with a quip about a hat and a wife.
The Rhode Island General Assembly passes acts amending chapter 74, title XIV, to curb decayed and unwholesome foods in Providence. It authorizes seizure, penalties up to twenty dollars, and mandatory cleansing by health officials. Additional sections empower health orders, vessel removals, and cost recovery by the city along with officer service provisions.
The piece condemns fault finding and urges charity, noting critics distort reality and harm. It contrasts malicious fault finders with benevolent speakers who honor others, citing Christlike humility and the ideal of human brotherhood as guiding principles.
A collection of brief legal notices and observations. It covers that a friend’s debt is not guaranteed without written promise, unconditional legal tender is required, drunken signing can bind, and tenants must leave plants to landlords or risk action. Also advises against removing neighborly flowers or box-holders.
The piece urges reflective Bible study over rapid reading, arguing true understanding comes from pausing to consider authorship audience and purpose. It cites examples of rapid readers and quotes David to stress careful, parallel-text study to gain lasting ideas.
A Southern editor derides non paying subscribers with a pointed metaphor about wagons, boats, dogs, and money, asserting most think all have paid while a few withhold. The passage stresses that generosity serves little if payment is not made and hints at overlooked delinquents.
The Buffalo Advertiser claims a secret method used by horse tamer Mr Rurey in Ing land involves gentleness, special stimuli, and in some cases a technical restraining technique to subdue unruly horses. The item cites the New York Journal of Commerce as its authority and notes Western New York breeders employ similar practices.
A proud lazy youth visits an elderly broom seller in Buxton and asks for a credit broom. The seller replies by advising him to borrow from his back and belly so he will never be asked again, and promises daily dunning if he fails to pay.
A learned man notes the difficulty of saying I was mistaken. Frederick the Great reportedly confessed fault in a Senate letter about a battle. Galdamith praises such confessions as greater than victories. A drunken Dutchman named Cain misstates a fratricide, claiming the killer was the other man.
A jurist recounts a case where Mr Jones sues over a horse’s value after death allegedly from Mr Smith. Witness Brown dodges questions on how Smith rode, saying he never rode alone and implies others ride ahead. The lawyer ends frustrated, calling Brown the greatest scoundrel alive.
A scene at a railroad station features a well dressed man confronted by a rough Irish immigrant. The exchange centers on the surname O N ay le and whether the man is truly named O N ay le or Neil, with insults and regional accents shaping the confrontation. The irate speaker accuses the other of abandoning origins and wealth, while the accused denies an O in his name. The man departs in indignation.
A stealthy Jew near Silma Arkan Ses keeps a Judean mint shekel dated about 1750 years ago. It measures roughly half-dollar size and bears impure silver with an intrinsic value near fifteen cents. The owner values it far above ninety hundred dollars and says it has been in his family for six hundred years.
An unnamed Todinn en route in Northern Iowa seeks whiskey to aid a young warrior bitten by a rattlesnake. The agent doubts the tale but trades for the liquor, while the fragment mentions various unrelated remarks and local color from the era.
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