Bristol Prmenex Subsiqued Every Saturday Morning
Local notice from Bristol, R L Bayley offers subscription rates for town and distant residents. Annual advance prices: three dollars inland, two dollars distant. Office copy for coats. Advertisements cost one dollar per square for three weeks with twenty cents per extra insertion. Yearly ads fourteen lines weekly at ten dollars. Religious Obituary and Political notices priced as ads.
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Brestol Prmenex
Nea
Bradford Street
Bristol
R. L
W. I
Bayley
Bagly Rising and Prayer by Vaughan
A devotional poem urging daily devotion to God from dawn to day. It emphasizes waking early for prayer, keeping the heart pure, avoiding worldly distractions, and seeking heavenly alignment before attending to daily duties. The speaker urges humility and trust in God throughout the day.
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Vaughan
Schooner Robert Willis Vanishes. Rumor of Mormon Involvement
Rumor claims the schooner Robert Willis vanished on the lake last fall after being captured near Beaver Island by Mormons. The captain and crew were allegedly murdered, the cargo unloaded, and the vessel scuttled while en route from Chicago, last seen near Sheboygan. An escaped Mormon reportedly testified, prompting U S steamer Michigan to investigate.
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Rowcrep Munvern
Robert Willis
Beaver Island
Chicago
Sheboygan
U. S
Michigan
Miwaukee News
Washington Hotel liquor law dispute stirs aldermen
Washington hotel keepers protest the forthcoming liquor law set to take effect November first. The intelligencer notes their ground remains unclear but compares selling liquor without authority to a mill without water, implying operations would stall.
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ComMorion Anone
Washington Hotel
Kerrsrs
Washington
Board of Aldermen
Intelligencer
Anacanonisms in Religious Imagery
A discussion notes modern stylistic distortions in religious art. It cites St Peter with a keys motif, a Holland harbor scene in a religious magazine with a steamboat, and a showman illustrating Daniel in the lion’s den with a blue cotton umbrella for contrast.
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St. Peter
Holland
Daniel
Early Morning sighting of Mr. Bisbee on frozen ground
The Boston Post reports a neighbor saw Mr. Bisbee crawling on his hands and knees across the frosty ground at dawn. He feared breaking through the ice as he moved slowly toward a destination.
Irish Morning Dialect Sketch and Urban Folklore
A fragmentary text blends Irish dialect banter with street scene reminiscences. It references a Morning greeting exchange between Mistres Murphy and John, a flask offered for a half pint, and jumbled chatter about a washer woman and a laborer, then shifts to a stray note on a single Seanle house fly and a brief economic remark about orange tree weight.
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Murphy
John
England
Scandal Mongers in a New Neighborhood Tale
A narrator recounts moving to a new town and social circle where casual gossip and sly remarks about neighbors corrupt trust. Friendly observations devolve into sharp character judgments, revealing how rumor poisons relationships and distorts view of others.
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Frazer
Norton
Neice
Lizzie
Grace
Lisle
Agnes
No Sabbath In a Prize Essay on the Sabbath
A Scottish writer warns that removing the Sabbath would enslave workers in endless labor. He paints a grim panorama of toil and exhausted resources, from factory floors to fields and ships, showing a world robbed of merriment, strength, and hope without Sabbath rest.
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Yieng
Scotland
A Jest On Generations By A Red Haired Young Man
A group of twenty men by a stove in a country store discuss wisdom across generations. One remark sparks laughter as a red haired youth retorts that his father knew more than his grandfather and that he knows more than his father. The exchange ends with a jab implying the elder generation may be foolish.
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Mrs. Grey
Miss Park
Mrs. Frazer
Grace
Gertrude
Julia
Iselfi
Alice Hartland
Gracy
Alice
Dr. Loyd
Agnes
Doctor Loyd
Hartlands
Lizzie
Mrs. Gray
Sthove
Ticher
Hsthe
Rewad
Sally
Grand Richmond district proposes African slave trade removal
The Richland district South Carolina presents a plan to remove restrictions on the African slave trade claiming it advantageous and humane. The document argues necessity for the South and supports a federal application to lift bans, consistent with its stance and public debate.
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Lof Richland
Gavalionte
Happiness as a butterfly pursued yet elusive
A reflective piece contrasts pursuing happiness with waiting calmly, suggesting it may arrive little by little as life unfolds. The text shifts to a metaphor about whims and a chaotic image of a woman’s luggage, ending with a peculiar designation Sifters.
Incoherent lines about a man and arrest in a gutter
Fragmentary text describes a person moving from the gutter to a watchhouse. The voice mentions a policeman and a brave young man amid a scene of harvest and mild oats, but details are unclear and many phrases are garbled.
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Gorioner
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