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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1851
Page
1
Publication notice for Bristol Prенex prints every Saturday from 7 Bradford Street Bristol. Advertising rates listed with single copies four cents and four line space blocks. Details on frequency and continued ads until changed. annual rates and space rules mention twelve lines equal one square.
Wen Fisher finishes a day of work at his cottage and sits with his wife Kate as moonlight fills the room. They recall happier times, praise their humble, healthy family life, and contrast it with wealth and envy, until Ben is moved to tenderness in a quiet moment.
The Philadelphia City Council discusses resolutions to erect monuments honoring the states and the men of the Declaration of National Independence. It asks the thirteen original states to appoint two delegates each to a convention and pledges to guard Independence Hall grounds as a sacred national site if the plan succeeds.
A tract near St Lovis in Stoddard Addition sold at auction with total day sales reaching 251000 dollars though only a third of the land was quit. The sale continued next day as the city emerges from village status amid economic activity.
Telemachus questions winning affection from ungrateful people. Mentor urges doing good for love of God, not for gain. They argue virtuous acts endure, shaping manners and justice, while ingratitude cannot extinguish true virtue’s impact.
A reflective piece extols beauty and kindness while warning against intemperance and war. It emphasizes happiness through mutual aid, gratitude for a blessed home, and the idea that goodness endures beyond harsh news. It cites Frederika Bremer on public judgment versus private virtue.
A satirical scene portrays a doctor scolding Jones and using a boot jack as a remedy for imagined ichneumons while Jones endures bizarre medical theatrics. The tale shifts to a voyage onboard the Connecticut with a noisy washroom farce and ends with a comic theft ploy involving molasses in Paris.
A humorous medical tale contrasts regular and irregular practice among physicians. An army naturalist brought an ichneumon fly to the St Charles Hotel, terrifying a man named Jones who imagined hordes of insects attacking him. A famed physician proposes phlebotomy as a cure for his nervous delirium.
The Undersigned citizens seek a new law modeled on Maine to curb alcohol sale. It appoints town or city agents to sell intoxicating liquors only for medicinal purposes, with bonds, licenses, and penalties for violations. Violations incur escalating fines and possible imprisonment. enforcement rests with local authorities and municipal courts.
The text outlines penalties for unauthorized sale of spiritous liquors, including fines up to two hundred dollars, imprisonment durations, and courts’ remedies. It covers indictment processes, jury disqualification for those engaged in unlawful traffic, warrants for search, seizure, and destruction of seized liquors, and conditions for forfeiture and appeals. It also details restitution, acknowledgments, and procedures for involvement of city or town authorities.
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