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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1865
Page
1
The notice asks for humane pest control methods against rats and birds, praising effective helpers while urging readers to share experience. It mentions using traps and cats as solutions and notes the ad is from an American paper with lingering phrasing and spelling quirks.
A fragment promotes a deadly rat poison with sweeping claims that any rat ingesting it will die, urging distant use from the medicine source and citing a mirrored advertisement in the paper. It mentions Lake Shore and Amica as references and includes a puzzling “Coprana” note.
A Wisconsin Herald ad notes Cosran's exterminator services and reports vermin destroying more grain and provisions annually in Grant County than the cost of tons of protection would cover. The ad promotes Cosran's offerings and appears amid local notices.
A fragmentary 18th century notice warns farmers and horsekeepers that grain provisions and other goods are ruined by rats and insects, through a dubious pest control advert by Micé and others in Bristol. The text references extermination efforts and financial loss, with unclear dates and names.
The voice of wailing fills our land as sorrow fills the nation. Brave Lincoln, loved by the people, has fallen to a traitorous foe. Our chieftain's noble task is done, his bright career is o er, and immortality awaits his memory and sacrifice.
Poem reflecting on soldiers returning home from war with hopeful dawns and joyous reunions. It honors those who survive and mourns those who fell, awaiting a future of peace as mothers sisters and lovers yearn for homecomings. The piece closes with a hopeful wartime sentiment.
Fragmentary text blends lyric imagery of spring and nature with stark line about punishing a hungry man. Poem-like lines mention blossoms, sun, birds, and a hopeful speaker, then abruptly shift to a grim note on punishment of suicides and undertakers. The fragment mixes benign pastoral tones with violent social references.
In a French village a wealthy farmer is found murdered near his hotel. A young man Laroche is accused and escapes death through a miraculous rescue by Father Allard who helps him survive a river fall. Landry confesses. Laroche later becomes forester and village guardian, famed for angel wings motif.
A miscellaneous piece recounts ancient feats with figures about Nineveh, Babylon, Ephesus, the pyramids, the labyrinth, Thebes, Athens, Delphos, Nero and Rome. It notes wall lengths, heights, gates, temple sizes, labor forces, and plunder values, illustrating grand ancient constructions and wealth.
The piece urges youths to begin early home study of proper speech and writing and avoid slang. It argues language improves with age and neglect leads to lifelong slang, noting education costs nothing and can come from reading the best writers and national periodicals, forming taste and memory of choice phrases.
The excerpt argues labor should be regulated by intellect with both thinkers and workers acting as gentlemen. It condemns envy and contempt between classes and asserts labor refines thought and thought fuels labor, urging liberal professions and less pride in specific jobs.
The article surveys ancient and historic oil seeps and uses, noting Babylonian petroleum in building patchwork, Egyptian applications, a Libyan spring described by Herodotus, Trinidad basins of asphalt with vast crude pools, Rangoon drainage, Genoa street lighting, and early American rock oil by the Seneca Indians used medicinally.
Sixty three barrels of Maine tar were sold in Portland at prices from 370 to 7 dollars per barrel. The tar is made from stump pitch in Oxford, burned in kilns, and collected as tar. Current production runs five to seven barrels daily and will rise as facilities expand. The Maine tar compares favorably to the North Carolina product and appeals to manufacturers.
A letter recalls a village Iowa doctor visiting a patient Joan with a nervous disorder and joking about an affected facial nerve. The note then wanders to clairvoyance at a ME Church sermon, mentioning a young man and a line about a general debility attributed to a neighbor.
A New York pie factory employs four buildings and ten wagons to deliver up to 40 thousand pies weekly. Workers prepare crusts and fillings, bake, and box pies of fourteen varieties, with seasonal demand shaping flavors. Daily output runs high with large quantities of flour, fruit, beef, lard, sugar, and milk ferried through the facility.
A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent reports a white man aged 30 to 40 claiming to be a slave and asking to accompany Sherman’s South Carolina campaign. He cites a mixed ancestry with white and Indian lineage and says he was taxed as a slave, but the story is disputed by locals and Black workers on the plantation. The man is said to have been made a free man.
A Washington friend recounts a historical anecdote about the Pocotaligo river’s name. Early surveyors allegedly amused themselves by provoking a turtle, prompting a servant’s exclamation that led to the river’s name, later corrupted to Poco tahgo. The piece blends folklore with remarks on wit and social change.
The passage covers acts amending Newport city governance with annual elections for City Clerk and Probate Clerk, plus a probate judge role. It also authorizes regulation of omnibuses and vehicles in Newport and Providence, with license fees and penalties. Other sections reference libel actions, deaf and dumb asylum funding, and rail road crossing adjustments by municipal authorities.
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