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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1857
Page
1
A poetic obituary fragment mourns a father and a baby girl. It recalls grief and prayers, asking Heavenly Comforter for solace. Names appear in distorted form, with references to kin and a communal sense of mourning. The tone echoes a religious bedside reminiscence.
In the Ohio frontier, the Springfield settlement mourns Mrs. Gardner slain by an Indian. Louise Gardner grieves as hunter John Whites plots to avenge her mother. A scouting party led by Whison camps near the Black Forest with rumors of danger looming as John White appears.
Hunters in a frontier camp welcome John White amid tensions. White shoots at a target in the woods and a bear or wild cat is heard. Captain Clarence Wilson is found wounded and later disappears, leaving Louise Gardner desolate as the group returns home to report the mystery.
The party begins a dawn search for the missing captain after White reports a restless night. Long Din suspects danger from an Indian scout and pledges a two hour return to report. The group agrees to split up and fire a rifle signal if the captain is found or encountered.
The passage urges treating girls with indifference to curb timidity and affectation. It argues for concise speech, orderly narration, and calm conduct, warning that secrecy and dissembling erode trust. It advocates encouraging disposal of false shame and teaching honesty, prudence, and self control.
The N Y Sun laments rising imports and debt noting from January through the date imports reached 175 million dollars, exports about 50 million, with debt nearing 125 million and forecasted higher foreign debt by year end. A comic exchange offers quips on broken hearts and Adam leaving Eden with a wheelbarrow.
A fragmentary excerpt recounts Cuvier dismissing a hellish encounter as a mere prank and notes a Detroit youth’s moral heart and a grocer’s joke about submarine cable strength. A Provoxine Boy tale rounds out the column with a boy’s query about a horse sale and a hopeful grifter.
An antiquated wry sketch recounts a foolish mayor who mistook initials for his nishals and inked a masterful blunder. It rides alongside a garbled digest of failures, bank jitters, and odd anecdotes from Hartford to Philadelphia.
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