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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1864
Page
1
The paper promotes Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines at discounted terms to entice subscriptions. Offers include 20 copies one year plus machine for 70, 30 copies for 65, or 40 copies for 60, with price incentives tied to subscriber totals and payments. Machines are No 49 model, shipped boxed from New York, freight on the buyer.
Deacon and Peterson announce a paper club offering THE POST and LADY'S FRIEND with options for single or multiple copies, annual rates and premiums. Subscriptions in Britain and North America require remittance in U S notes or drafts, with prepaid postage for overseas readers. Address: No 319 Walnut Street Philadelphia.
Advertises a new skirt from Bardwell & Co with the WEW patent hoop fastener. Claims exclusive control and retailer pricing, touts side fastening hidden by webbing, reinforced tapes, glued clasps, and a durable finish. Describes latest styles and urges customers to inspect before buying.
Fragmented verse proclaims victory and praise for the nation and its leader. It references God and the President, with calls for unity, liberty, and orderly governance as the country heals from war.
Treasury announces subscriptions for U S 730 Loan notes at seven and three quarters percent interest with optional conversion into 6 percent bonds. Denominations include 50 multiples up to 5000, terms from three to twenty years, deposits from fifty dollars, commissions apply only to large deposits, interest accrues from August 15, notes transferable and transmitted free of charge.
Ir yan National Savisas Bang offers a higher interest rate than any other and best security. It pays depositors in U S Notes, with assets in government securities or notes payable in government paper. The notes are easily sold for near face value plus accrued interest. The current liberal three year notes plus conversion privilege yields about three percent per annum. U S stocks had premium of over twenty percent before the war. The actual profit at current market rate is not less than ten percent per year.
Exemption from local taxes on bonds and Treasury notes is described as about two percent per year, with government securities offering strong inducements to lenders. Endorsements, deposit procedures, and redemption notes are outlined, with banks and Treasury offices listed as inland points for transcriptions and subscriptions.
An old handcart carrier named Pup Ainsley narrates a past of hardship and crime, linking a Syracuse elopement, a drunken father, a derailed fortune, and a California journey. The speaker recalls Ainsley’s rise, decline, and a final decayed chapter as he tells of a beguiling life shaped by liquor and loss.
An old man seeks change for a twenty dollar piece and encounters a family whose kindness leads to a dramatic confession. He recalls a daughter named Maria and a drunken father. the mother forgives and urges restraint as the truth unfolds, ending with a hopeful, reconciled household.
Charion Dickens recalls Doughes Jerrold’s generous gesture after estrangement over months. At a club dinner Jerrold reached out and urged reconciliation saying let us be friends again. He argues for forgiveness before the sun goes down and urges written or spoken contact to heal the rift.
The saying notes that the tine of Pinridx, the Iliwera beauty, emits no fragrance while the bird of paradise offers no song, the cypress yields no fruit, and dandies and ballroom belles lack distinct sense, with the remark counting them as ditto-only beyond sixty.
A prose sonnet echoes a devout view of adversity shaping virtue. The speaker asserts that trials reveal sweetness, strength, and grace as believers endure persecution and refining fire, finding triumph in temptation and growth through fiery discipline.
Commentary on the conflict between faith and intellect in modern thought. It argues old forms fail and only trust in one’s highest impulse can restore harmony, citing Browning and spiritual trust as resolution.
A sermon urges Christians Christiana and Christiana Jong Cheietians to praise each other and live by Christian charity. It argues unity and visible virtue would prove religion to the world, prompting the world to see followers of Christ as one and to seek Christlike traits in each other.
A poor visitor, mourning a ruined nun, receives a compassionate gesture from a gentleman who offers to pray for her. He speaks kindly and asks God to help, not offering food or shelter, and his simple word heals the woman’s wounded heart as she prays.
An introspective musing contrasts sunshine and sorrow in human life. The speaker recalls bright days amid storms, describing fragile hope and inner coldness, noting how hearts hide hidden sorrows and misread warmth as coldness. The voice hints at yearning and confusion.
The passage argues that during perilous wars the law of self defense overrides constitutional codes and civility's rules. It recalls a Roman maxim and a dialogue where a patriotic general rejects strict adherence to laws when the republic’s safety is at stake, asserting the nation’s life transcends its constitution.
Franch chamtats pursue diamond synthesis from carbon and copper heated in a porcelain tube. Experiments yield carbon forms but fail to crystallize diamond. writers hope future trials will bring near success and wider access to diamonds, praising science as civilization.
Tally Jocevan and Veatra anenks formed a New York firm bound by seven strict business rules. They vow to pay as they go, avoid credit, never misrepresent goods, reject inferior items, and discipline staff for any disrespect or delay. The pledge aims to mold honest entrepreneurs and ward off bankruptcy temptations.
A damaged passage discusses how darkness, sun exposure, and environmental factors shape human health and appearance. It argues that inhabitants in shady streets suffer ailments while those in sunlit areas fare better, noting epidemics’ uneven impact on populations and housing health.
A Frankfurt lock smith devises a strong box without a keyhole that even the owner cannot open. Inside, clockwork triggers access when the owner sets hour and minute hands. the mechanism unlocks only at the indicated moment, making the owner the sole key and preventing theft or imitation.
A Russian land owner authorized by St Petersburg to recover a debt of 32250 rubles faced a night time ambush by four men. He killed two of the assailants, who were identified as the town police chief and his secretary.
The line notes that men who live for themselves must have a well timbered bottom, for if their selfish bark proves leaky they will find few to stop the breaches.
Fragmented text describes a reclusive figure speaking softly as a clock chimes. A narrator, observing from a hedge, slips a coat button with a penknife and departs while the subject remains entranced, later seen in the garden with buttons missing and a silent gesture.
An old judge offers blunt counsel to a novice lawyer. He urges avoiding harm, guarding conscience, and prioritizing honest earnings. The tongue in cheek remarks advise politeness with judges, persuasive though dubious jurors, and a worldly approach to practice.
A fragmentary scene shows the Muarchioness of Cuslin demanding to audit her sister Madame D P Avaray and accusing her of treason. Punche resists exile while Fouche and Fuache officials clash over authority and punishment.
Instructions from a correspondent with forty years of experience describe salting pork for storage. The method covers gutting, boning, cutting into pieces, packing in brine and salt, layering in a cask, and covering with salt and water, with occasional use of saltpeter. Hams and shoulders are prepared separately.
In Vicksburg Mississippi Harvey Jankins shows loyalty when asked to prove belief. During a sermon the minister asks who would stand against Satan and his kingdom. Harvey rises and says he would not abandon a friend in adversity despite difficulty.
The Bathurst Sun reports a home remedy claimed to treat lockjaw by inserting a sharp object into a wound and blowing tobacco smoke from a lit pipe into the wound. The method, said to give immediate relief, is advised for any recent wound and repeated on the author and others.
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