12 May 1855
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1855
Page
1
Fragments show a weekly and annual rate structure for notices and advertisements. Mentions Bayley and Bradford Street Bristol with pricing terms and advance payment. Also references obituary listings and political advertising. Aged formats suggest a shipper or compositor note with rate details and address.
A Boston era tale follows Mrs. Ives widow of General Ives and Mark Coleman who visits, buys her cottage, and funds a hopeful recovery for Alice. The narrative contrasts hardship, generosity, and moral investment, showing Coleman’s quiet benevolence transforming their lives and temperaments.
A visitor comments on North Wales social norms noting long walks by women and girls on market days and after business. He admires their endurance and links walking to health and beauty, comparing American and Welsh practices and noting that such walking is common across classes.
A garbled memoir fragment from Havena Cuba discusses Rome and espionage. It reflects on Catholic practices, absolution, confession, and Sabbath tension, with disjointed phrases about high. opera balls and moral duties in a confusing early 20th century voice.
Fragmentary notes describe turning ashes into salts through purification with potash, producing pearly, dry salts brighter than prior salt. A buyer asks how much salts of leg and stomach can bear, while a young man questions a saleratus venture and sandwich making in a market.
A 19th century correspondent offers banking guidance for customers. Emphasizes building deposits to gain discounts and avoid urgent borrowing, urging prompt discounting of valid papers, circulating bank bills, avoiding bad notes, and honest financial disclosures. Warns banks have funds limits despite goodwill, and notes dentists often live hand to mouth.
The piece presents maxims on forgiveness tolerance and virtue, urging forgiveness for enemies and a good example for children. It emphasizes respect to oneself and obedience to God, alongside charity to all and deference to parents.
A school scene features a child naming three wheel types Cart wheels Carriage wheels wear cut lets The teacher then asks the class to settle after school how black birch and long division connect and uncover the linking idea
An advertisement seeking a young man to travel and play the banjo drew four hundred replies, while a separate ad for a gentleman to work in a store attracted eighteen applicants. The item hints at many supposed gentlemen who can play the banjo.
The text muses on time as a man-made measure, contrasting twenty four centuries with brief moments. It reflects on periods within existence when space and thoughts shape our sense of duration, suggesting life can seem compressed into days or moments depending on perception.
A fragment from a Perthshire page notes Rev Ke pal Baird marrying a daughter of Provost Dr James Gregory. The wall inscription mentions Thomas Elder younger of Forneth and Mrs Margaret Husband, linking to the Provost. The piece comments on public demand for education and cautious support for honest efforts amid progress.
A reflective fragment considers how the world acts on individuals from birth to death and the limits of claiming ownership. It questions originality and what it owes to great predecessors and contemporaries, pondering the meaning of originality.
A St Johnsbury reader reports a Kirby neighbor with six ewes producing fifteen lambs this year. Only two lambs died, leaving thirteen surviving. The note humorously wonders if mankind can beat such prolific sheep.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a morning call by a man to a residence where a girl and family are present. A horseman asks who has died and why no doctor was summoned before the family replies they died without assistance. The text is unclear and partial.
Sparse OCR reads like a debate on professions and courtiers. Lord Norbory and others discuss popularity and mercenary motives, with vague reference to opinions ending abruptly.
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