21 May 1853
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1853
Page
1
An 19th century ad fragment promotes a cure for coughs colds influenza bronchitis spitting blood asthma and other lung complaints. The text hints at medical claims and a named product or treatment tied to a specific advertiser.
In Mobile the court heard Daniel Chase accuse himself of drinking leading to murder. He claimed innocence, said he remembered nothing after the night of the crime, and asked for mercy as the judge sentenced him to life confinement in Wetumpka penitentiary.
Miller admitted forging checks in Cincinnati last winter and was committed in default bail of 110000. The Martha Washington conspiracy trial opened before Judge N. All prisoners appeared except Nicholson. The District Attorney’s office was burgled last night in Columbus and prosecuting papers stolen. Burton’s room was ransacked. An immense number of witnesses are expected. Kirkland and Joe Parker were in Pittsburgh yesterday. Irish women spoke freely in the Market Place with no disturbance.
Dr D esus plans to take a party of fort laws-men and women to the World’s Pair in New York. They will travel soon in pure Indian costume and perform national pastimes and dances along the way. The piece notes the value of discernment between knowledge and show.
The Olive Branch reporting for Fenace Trre-Setters notes female compositors work from nine to thirty in the morning, earning six to eight dollars weekly. One of three clerks is a woman and a female editor assists at nine hundred dollars, spending seven hours daily in the office. An organ and piano provide music during meals as the ladies work.
A Victorian tone urges right minded youths to value integrity courage perseverance as moral capital. It claims moral capital builds trust, attracts friends and business, and can outpace riches, placing the diligent youth ahead of wealthier peers.
A humorous sketch shows five suitors for a rich, noble, or fashionable woman. The honest bidder who pays a printer earns her hand, while others boast wealth or status. The tale ends with the plain worker winning affection and fortune through integrity, prompting the question if honesty secures happiness.
A stone for the National Washington Monument is being prepared in an elegant style by Turkish authorities. At Constantinople the project gains support from U S Charge Mr John P Brown. Also notes ship Comet arrives New York from San Francisco in 83 days 18 hours and Flying Dutchman in 85 days.
The remark contrasts acts of charity with the admonition that righteous giving should be discreet. It notes that some people reveal neither deeds nor intent, aligning with a broader scriptural ethic.
An Ohio family named Beaver faces a penitent flash of fate as a minister prays for divine rattlesnake bites to prompt repentance. The old man and his three sons, labeled pets by locals, are caught in a darkly humorous sermon that ends with a plea for a final bite to the patriarch.
The piece reprints a mystic Rochester sect bulletin with surreal praise and disjointed imagery. It then cites a Cayuga Chief mockery about disclosive procedure and artifacts, followed by international object counts to Crystal Palace and a note on the origin of the phrase putting your foot in it.
The item records a local farmer R J My Butker in Middletown who, in one week, reports gains inside his household and on his farm including a wife giving birth to two children a cow producing two calves and a sheep yielding three lambs.
A jar of mixed oddities includes horse radish in milk to stay sweet, egg yolk added during churning, and turnip flavors negated by hot water. An anonymous note questions a man’s memory while Ben Bolt answers inquiries. An Eastern ad touts cheap shoes as unlikely to last long and a metaphor describes the heart’s electric telegraph between two souls.
A collection of humorous snippets on editors debating manners of ladies and husbands, poetic versus prose forms, and light anecdotal sketches. It includes playful exchanges about introductions, a street incident, a child’s riddle about the sea, and dialect humor about dieting versus dying.
A colonial delegation dined with Philadelphia officials when a young Indian chief tasted a mustard spoon and cried from the peppery bite. The contrast prompted a grim joke about his father, and a second chief met the same fate, replying that his foe had not been killed. A Missouri church facade inscription misquoted scripture, saying the house would be a den of thieves.
The General Assembly calls a statewide vote on June twenty eighth to decide on a constitutional convention. Delegates from towns and wards, including Providence, will be elected to meet August ninth at the State House to draft government rules and a new constitution for Rhode Island.
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