11 May 1844
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1844
Page
1
A garbledOCR page bundles ads and articles on pricing for subscriptions, legal notices, religious sermons, political polemics, and literary excerpts. It mentions fishing rights under the 1818 convention, temperance rhetoric, and social commentary, with long quoted speeches and anecdotes about leaders, soldiers, and public figures.
A sequence of archaic sounding lines extols warm family bonds and the renewal of spring. The text reads like a poetic meditation on affection, harmony, and natural cycles within a cherished circle.
The passage recounts a chaotic bank run at Elmwood in Hiram Ontario linked to speculation around notes and bank paper. It details the collapse of trust, the refusal of deposits, a public meeting, trustee control, and a dramatic downfall of Hiram Elmwood’s financial affairs and family scandal.
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