10 Oct 1846
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1846
Page
1
Bradford paper details subscription rates advertising terms and pricing. It lists annual two dollar town subscriptions payable half year in advance and distant subscribers one dollar per week for single notices. It notes square inches and continued publication with annual charges and limits on advertiser volumes.
A narrated account from 1830s on the steamboat Mediterranean describes gamblers plucking five thousand dollars from a youth, a desperate search by his father, and a later encounter with a Tennessee mother who reveals a family tragedy from gambling. The tale spans Memphis to New Orleans, haunting a gambler’s conscience and a stern warning about vice aboard river steamers.
A mother recounts the ruin of her son by gamblers on a voyage to Helena and New Orleans. She describes his fall into poverty, his father’s illness, the sister driven to madness, and years of heartache as gambling wrecks a family. The piece ends urging readers to avoid gambling and protect children.
In a fashionable Parisian area a cannon sits loaded and aimed to fire at 13 o'clock daily, signaling noon. A crowd gathers to observe the flash as the sun’s blaze and moving earth are linked to the firing, while discussions favor retirement over public life and its glare.
selections from the writings of John Foster published with his biography wonder at adversity and virtue. reflections critique on time, mind observation, reading, and the role of society in reform. contains remarks on charity and the duty to improve minds and institutions.
An elderly Medfield Mass resident tests kindness during Indian raids by offering cider from a mug to attackers at her door. The scene ends with the red men sparing her house and leaving the town grateful for the moral lesson on kindness.
A pensive reflection on tests and resilience, noting even the strongest minds face demanding judgments beyond what companions or spouses can supply. The piece suggests endurance and self-reliance in the face of trials.
A old practice holds that barrels used for packing Walt products deter insects in fruit or grain, making salt barrels valuable. It notes a rich New York man, sought by Daguerreans for a likeness, who refused to leave his shadow.
The tale recounts Alexander Hamilton amused by a Hadewa river village jugglers display. The performer handed him a silver dollar to guard, distracting him with tricks while the money vanished from his grasp. Hamilton praised the trick as the best of the evening.
An exchange paper recounts a prank where a man reading a private manuscript loses his letters to a reader, branding the incident as private manuscripts read in return. A camp tale from Rio Grande describes a Dutch sentry misreading time and the legend of a Crusader king receiving a charger for walking.
A narrator and friends joke about wives learned or avoided household chores. The men complain their spouses, mothers, and “wife-in-law” insist on different duties, with satire on domestic labor, vanity and independence, touching on guidance from mothers and social expectations.
An old man about sixty died after a remarkable report that three months earlier his right leg detached at the knee while he lay in bed without any pain. The text also taunts a young lady whose mind is never stone cold as a potential wife candidate.
The Wheeling Times reports a Monroe county Ohio man walked onto a theater stage during a showing of Perfection and presented a marriage license to the stage couple from Indianapolis who joked about marrying the first suitable suitor.
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