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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1851
Page
1
Published every Saturday at 6. Bradford Street Bestol BK offers rates for local and distant advertisements. Pricing includes yearly advance options, single square and extra charges for longer insertions, with a policy that yearly advertisers are limited to 18 lines per week and restricted to their own business.
Whittier evokes spring to harvest splendor praising the farmer and earth. The lyric imagines April showers May sun June growth and July harvests, urging gratitude to nature and God for grain and sustenance amid hardship.
The passage offers whimsical maxims linking household signals to a farmer’s future. It suggests that burning lights, enduring prosperity, thrifty use of fuel, and stable governance of property indicate a disciplined, improving life. It implies acts like timely newspaper subscriptions reflect engagement in agriculture and community.
Fragmentary notes urge action now while day remains and work proceeds. The text contemplates fading time and life’s fragile cord, urging earnest labor today before night advances.
A Baltimore merchant purchases a enslaved foreman Moses and his wife and three children after Moses reveals his religious fervor to disobey orders. The owner allows free prayer and weekly church attendance, provoking moral conflict, while Moses gains freedom and a new life, aided by his gratitude and faith.
The narrative of Captain Sturt recounts a perilous trek where his party faced death from thirst. Traveller the horse dies, and water runs dry until a lone pigeon alights near a sand-hill. Sturt marks the spot and finds water, saving the group from a fatal fate. The tale appears in The Dovecut and the Aviery.
Readable portions discuss high language in education and Professor Ferguson’s take on reduction of stars and hypotheticals. Other notes mention analytic methods linking oscillation, polarization, and dynamic calculus, and a curious tale of a man reportedly buried twice.
A fraught encounter at a merchant’s counting house features a little Frenchman who borrows five thousand dollars in good times and returns with anxiety when confidence falters. The debtor seeks assurance of safekeeping while the merchant offers a year long hold on the funds to restore trust.
The excerpt argues that magical talent does not exist and that individuals shape their fortune through self education and disciplined action. It cites Daniel Webster on how true power comes from training and mental vigor rather than inherited gifts or passive study.
A reflective passage on how memory and tender feelings awaken stirring links to the departed. It speaks of tranquil happiness, better thoughts, and a mysterious intercourse with spirits of loved ones, noting how patient angels hover and wait for a spell seldom spoken.
Mrs. Bogg notes the Legislature has placed her weak neighbor Mr. Brown on a standing committee, a move she calls a dreadful trial given his frailty and inability to stand firm for long in debates.
In a parish school examination a reverend teacher asked a class to define words. The pupils performed well and one youngster, asked for a word, replied with a shy guess saying it might be a “floa” a humorously mispronounced answer that amused the room.
A brief note defines the variance between pinch and ponch as the simple arithmetic of subtracting x from 4. The distinction rests on how the two terms are used in practice and the resulting value remains a function of this single difference.
A preacher famed for biting emphasis in hymn readings rendered a couplet with dears as a noun rather than a verb. The line reads he takes young children in his arma and to his bosum ears, reflecting a historic linguistic shift in diction and pronunciation.
In a garbled exchange a man mocks a piano with legal imagery while others joke about sheriffs, water, and missions. A sister nets a water favor, while John Adams protests church rivalries and hints at giving more than any minister to civilize clergy. The piece surveys social satire, religious talk, and moral quips in a fractured scene.
A satirical critique of urban youth likened to a city boy man, detailing flirtations with excess, tobacco, alcohol, and bravado. The piece mocks ambitions of precocious maturity while condemning vanity, fashionable dress, and public bravado. It notes misperceived superiority over elders and the relentless pursuit of novelty.
Fragmentary archaic prose argues wealth and status, urging humility and aid for the lowly. It mentions receivers, pride, and folly, with jagged phrases and incongruent terms. The text reads as a damaged meditation on wealth, social duties, and neglect.
Capt Patterson reports a field method alternating rows of corn and potatoes across an acre on the East side farm. The corn produced well and the potatoes, long reddish and early white varieties, yielded about sixteen hills per bushel with minimal rot. A few tubers were eaten by cows in spring.
The Portland mayor addresses residents on the new Maine liquor law after three months of operation. He finds the law successful, predicting it will nearly end the sale of spirituous liquors except for medicinal use. He notes reduced rowdiness and lower crime and pauperism in the city.
Jatt Peter Cook, living near the Taunton line, noted for unlicensed liquor selling and prior fines, decided the cost of paying numerous complaints was too heavy and went to jail. He intends to stay until released or until he gives up selling liquor.
The Reverend Ayers a Methodist clergyman from Mepmouth was accosted by two robbers while riding through a wooded area. He claimed he had no money, the assailants demanded payment, fled when a wagon appeared, leaving local authorities to assess the incident.
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