Bristol PreNex Saturday Morning Advertisement Rates
Bristol notice printed Saturday morning at Wradyo Street by H.J. Bayley. Rates listed: Two dollars per annum for advance or one dollar per square for three weeks. Two dollars per insertion for distant ads, twelve lines equal four squares. Advertisements continue until forbidden, with yearly rates shown. The privilege is limited to 18 lines per week and to their haniness.
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Bristol Prenex
Bristol
H.J
Ww. Ns. Bayley
Autem
Eiapheter AG
Not the Folding of the Hand in Sleep Burleigh Poem
A Burleigh poem urges inward peace through obedience to a saviour, contrasting restless worldly thoughts with inner rest. It rejects idle luxury and worldly fame, praising quiet devotion, steadfast purpose, and divine alignment as true serenity. The piece frames heaven as inner harmony rather than external calm.
Rhode Island General Assembly Acts and Resolutions 1852
The 1852 May Session passes an act amending the Providence and Bristol Railroad charter extending stock subscription and location deadlines to July 15 1853 with effectual terms. Also an act establishes a Bristol Court of Justices permitting Town Council appointees as Justices of the Peace until the next annual town election. A resolution appoints an Auditing Committee headed by Gideon Bradford and Henry Y Cranston with Thomas R Hunter to audit the General Treasurer's accounts.
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Rhode Island
Providence Plantations
Tn General Assembly
Providence
Bristol
General Assembly
A. Pouter
Gideon Bradford
Senate
Henry Y. Cranston
Thomas R. Hunter
House of Representatives
Sailor Jumps Overboard From Bark What Cheer
George F. Osmar, steward aboard the bark What Cheer, left T wharf bound for Malta, then threw himself into the sea off the Glades and drowned. His wife and three children in France survive. He reportedly spoke to Leofard minutes earlier, believed in jest.
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Darownine
George F. Osmar
What Cheer
T. Wharf
Malta
Glades
France
Leofard
Boston Transcript
Timberland Burns Reported in New Hampshire Areas
Three or four acres of pine timber belonging to A Greenleaf at Sagamore Creek Portmouth New Hampshire burned over last week. About 150 acres of woodland three miles east of Fair Haven village burned over last week.
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A. Greenleaf
Sagamore Creek
Portermouth
N. H
Fairhaven Village
Fire destroys restreet Theatre with extensive loss
Turataz Buant Burrago May 11 The restreet Theatre and its contents were consumed by fire early today leaving only walls. Loss estimated at $20,000 including building and stock. Reports say Montes performed last night to a crowded house but declined a second engagement today.
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Turataz Buant
Burrago
Restreet
Best
Mesers
Carr & Warren
Lala “Montes
Ement
Psig
Tragic Shooting Kills Man Found Near Law Residence
A man identified as the son of John H. Richardson of Law was shot and killed instantly. The report notes unclear circumstances and mentions a possible confrontation or ambush near the residence. Investigators are reviewing the inconsistent statements and searching for the shooter.
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Male
John H. Richardson
Law
Ely
Attack at Roger's Ford Mill Sparks Fear in Chester County
A German worker at Roger's Ford paper mill in Chester County Pa was pushed toward the mill knives by an unseen assailant on the night of the 27th. He cried for help but the attacker remained unknown as he narrowly escaped a fatal injury beside the revolving blades.
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Roger's Ford
Chester County
Ancient Assyria unveiled by Rawlinson claim at Nineveh
Report notes Colonel Rawlinson opens the entire site of Nineveh to reveal kings and queens of Assyria in stone ruins, while Tremont House plans an extensive remodeling to expand, add a story, and raise heights to rival premier houses.
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Nusevix
Nineveh
Rawlinson
Assyria
Tremont House
Tremont Place
Boston Post
Sale of Louis library curates Teheehonese volumes
At the sale a six volume romance of chivalry titled Teheehonese in vellum bound sold for $2210 to a bidder named d''Au. A rival buyer from the eae Morea and a second copy of Tepepbe marked by ae also changed hands with the Duke purchasing.
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Louis Library
Mrs Virginia Carey Dead in Alexandria VA
Mrs Virginia Carey widow of Wilson Jefferson Carey of Virginia died in Alexandria on the 2d of this month. She was once an inmate in the family of Thomas Jefferson, to whom her husband was a nephew. Mrs Carey was widely known in literary circles.
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Virginia Carey
Alexandria
Distressing Casualty at Petersham Ends Young Elliot Edson
Barre Patriot reports the death of Elliot Edson after a horse dragging incident near Petersham. He tied a halter to his waist, the horse pulled loose, and he was trampled and fatally bruised within minutes. 30,000 bales of cotton were shipped from New Orleans on the 30th, a daily record. Death of organ blower John H. Randall at Rey church aged gentleman, unwed, died suddenly after entering the organ loft. believed to be a death by fit.
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Barre
Elliot Edson
Petersham
New Orleans
Crurca
Rey
An Equivocan Compliment to The Germans
The celebrated traveller Gerstmeker reports widespread German discord and disagreement. He notes only in Tahiti did he find any unity among Germans, and that even there more than one would be unwelcome. The Germans believe life is too prosy to live without quarrelling.
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Gerstmeker
Tahiti
Boston Transcript
A Larne Gow Story From San Francisco
A Newport News correspondent describes two common looking travelers, a man and wife from the mines, arriving at a hotel. The man, a laborer type, and the wife in coarse dress bore a gold watch worth about two hundred dollars. He returned with a receipt for 115000 dollars, the dust value shipped to New York, earned by digging while she washed with help from their ten year old son.
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Larne Gow
Newport News
San Francisco
New York
Wealth and virtue temptations amid life’s varied paths
The passage contrasts how prosperity and happiness affect three men differently. One seeks contentment and gratitude, another succumbs to sensual pleasures harming health and mind, a third yields to pride and intoxication, illustrating that social station alone cannot guarantee happiness.
Dishonor in Using Talent to Please Vice
A reflection condemns using cleverness and humor to entertain and encourage immoral behavior, asserting it damages moral integrity and public trust. The author argues virtue requires restraint and responsibility in wit and talent.
Wise Tongue and Careful Speech Advised
In this admonition the speaker urges careful speech adapting to listener and time. It contrasts a fool’s rash words with a wise person’s measured language, emphasizing restraint, truth, and prudence in communication.
Charity as Christian Foundation in Shared Joy
A sermon-like reflection argues that charity is the core of Christian humanity and that true happiness comes from seeing loved ones help others. It extols a mind guided by charity and aligned with providence and truth as a heavenly state on earth.
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Earth
Milk cart overturns on Groton street after frightened horse
A quiet horse attached to a milk cart on Groton street ran away causing the cart to overturn. About three dozen milk cans spilled their contents across the street, flooding a vacant editor’s lot and leaving the scene messier than a breakfast table with brick leaves, notes the Boston Transcript.
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Groton Street
Wilk
Boston Transcript
Tragic Bridgeport Accident Kills Drea Child
In Bridgeport Connecticut a runaway horse frightened by a locomotive whistle killed two year old daughter of Abel Drea. The incident occurred Monday evening shocking the local community.
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Fata
Abel Drea
Bridgeport
Singular Incident at the Mint Affects Female Workers
A pleasing incident at the Mint involved several young women, one deaf and dumb for ten years after scarlet fever. While at work, they heard her attempt speech exclaiming I believe I can speak. The scene caused swooning and strong emotion among the workers, but the afflicted woman has since recovered her speech.
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Lean Apeak
Philadelphia National Argus
Two Wives in Four Days Divorced in Local Case
Nahum Thomas was yesterday divorced from his wife by the Supreme Judicial Court in this town. He owed Mrs. Abby Kempton a sum noted in the record.
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Nahum Thomas
Supreme Judicial Court
Abby Kempton
Destructive Fire Hits Swift Sugar Refinery
A blaze destroyed Swift's large Sugar Refinery in New York on May 17 causing losses estimated between 50,000 and 150,000 dollars. The plant was insured for 250,000 dollars.
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New York
Swift
Proper Ace To Manny
Dr James Johnson argues on health economy that marriage should be delayed until ages twenty one for women and twenty eight for men with a seven year age gap. He claims moral and practical grounds for the rule and cites differences in stamina and appearance as reasons for postponement.
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Manny
James Johnson
Spring’s Primal Spirit Brightens Life’s Season
quote explores the rejuvenating power of spring, urging renewal of youth and vitality through annual seasons. It reflects on vitality, aging, and Hawthorne as the voice urging renewal, imagining mossy mansions and a pastor rekindling youth in spring’s return.
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Hawthorne
Wealth and education in pursuit of truth and virtue
An old text fragment contemplates wealth, honors, and favors as not guaranteed without effort. It argues education should actively inspire truth rather than passively present dates and facts, urging labor toward knowledge and virtue.
Parting at the Falls An Affected Scene of Love and Loss
A dramatic boat farewell in Delaware County features a bride leaving home with her family and fiancé. The scene unfolds with tearful embraces and hopeful vows, while the gallant soldierly man stands accused of betrayal. A separate vignette recalls a boastful justice of the peace matching a stranger in ugliness, only to threaten violence over a boastful oath.
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Cinsinnisville
Incinnati
Far West
The Thinking Man Hath Wings Quote Analysis
The line contrasts intellect and action by claiming thinking grants wings while action relies on feet and hands. It suggests philosophical themes about mind versus body and the limits of thought without deed. The remark may reflect a literary or rhetorical device emphasizing practicality alongside ambition.
A Simple Home and Silent Hope by the Fire
A reflective meditation on contentment in a modest home with a beloved partner or child, where warmth and quiet evenings by the fire create light and comfort. The piece contrasts humble surroundings with a hopeful, intimate atmosphere as bells and memories echo softly.
Human nature and theatrical reception through a fireside tale
The passage reflects on universal human traits and reader admiration, citing Moliere. Boileau notes Moliere tested new pieces by reading them to an old housekeeper by the fireplace, who could predict a play’s success from the fireside reception as audiences followed the old man to laugh in the same place.
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Narvaz
Moliere
Monseir Boileau
Quinker’s Whimsical Tale of Titles and Humble Status
The speaker recounts a humorous incident about resisting titles for men. He notes an encounter with a high ranking figure described as ignorant and brutish, measuring about four feet eight inches, illustrating the satire of rank and pretension within their sect.
The Dandy and the Fashioned Self in Propriety Critique
A satirical critique quotes Rev. Beecher on the dandy, defining him as a creature of tailor-made attire. It argues the dandy seeks value in clothes, toys, and grooming, treating dress as destiny while neglecting virtue. The piece ends with a morbid epitaph about old clothes and vanity.
Consvad Arrection at Apothecary Shop
A woman entered a shop with two prescriptions one for her husband and one for her cow. The apothecary quoted high prices for the man and for the woman, and when short of funds offered the cow’s prescription as a fallback saying she could send for her husband’s tomorrow.
Boots Stolen After Brutal Blow In Boston Scene
Reports from Boston describe a man who was speared and knocked unconscious during an incident, with his boots subsequently stolen while he lay insensible. The event highlights a violent street confrontation and subsequent property loss.
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Boston
Pencil in Pocket Says Lord Bacon on Passing Thoughts
A quote attributed to Lord Bacon urges keeping a pencil in the pocket to capture passing thoughts. It argues that thoughts that arrive unsought are often the most valuable and should be secured, as they rarely return.
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Lord Bacon
Dignity of Labor Versus Artificial Pursuits Debated
A reflection on choosing honest, independent work over clerkly or professional paths. It lauds the plow boy’s rugged freedom and stamina, arguing clerical or merchant life degrades true labor and trades, urging young men to value honest toil and practical skill.
Unreadable OCR Snippet From Local Page
Fragmentary text describes a crowded coach and a person’s groans and objections to rings on his toes, with unclear context and many OCR errors.
Fragmentary reminiscence on boots and boots wearing Moses
A garbled reminiscence recalls a boy who wore boots and a talk about Moses, boots and a family Bible. The text is fragmentary with unclear quotes and missing context.
Unclear citation prompts ambiguity in courtroom remark
The fragment shows a judge or attorney quoting a defendant as a “way demon” and asks about a man who pays his bill the first time, as if presented. The readable text lacks context, names, or a clear event, making precise reporting difficult.
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Mr. Jones
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