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11 Oct 1862
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Bristol Phenix in Bristol, Rhode Island
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1862
Page
1
Nightingale Nursing Advice and Agricultural Oddities
A collection of quotations on patient care from Florence Nightingale stressing sleep, ventilation, and quiet in patient rooms. Includes anecdotes on swine feeding with ashes, quince desserts, world population trivia, tongue-in-cheek proverbs, and reflections on honesty and promises.
Drayton Family Parlor Pride Ends in Ruin
A narrative depicts Mr. and Mrs. Drayton and their daughters in a spree of costly home improvements. Expenditure on carpet curtains and furniture, spurred by social pressure, drains the merchant’s finances. After succumbing to wifely vanity, he declares ruin and dies. the widow and children face poverty, illustrating the proverb willful waste makes woeful want.
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Jane
Harry
Mrs. Drayton
Mr. Drayton
Brussels
Drayton
Langdon
Effie
Orne
Darryl
Effio
White
Fife
Henry
Juno
Stigand
Ellen
Mia
Bee-Driven Sermon Ends With Bumble Bee Sting In Church
In Mississippi a backwoods preacher known as Uncle Bub delivered a rambunctious service at a secluded church named Coon Tail. Bees nesting beneath the pulpit disrupted his cadence as a sting to the nose sparked laughter from the congregation. He vowed to stay until no bees remained, dismissing the crowd with a dramatic coat-off pledge.
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Uncle Bub
Uncle Bob
House of God
Uncle Bud
Mastin
War news quips and fence comment from Mrs Partington
Mrs Partington interrupts Ike as he reads war news about pickets. She quips that driving them in deep will make a strong fence and jokes about session adapters trying to digs under them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Partington
Ike
Gone to the War from the North to the Civil War
A fragment from the Christian Register reflects on a child’s golden curl clipped before he went to war. The piece recalls families parted by the conflict, the moral cost, and the hope that liberty and national honor will be secured through their sacrifices. It honors soldiers and prays for divine shield in battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumter
Christian Register
A Yankee and His Chickens
A humorous tale follows a frugal Yankee who borrows a hen and two dozen eggs to hatch a brood. After keeping the hen until she laid a fresh batch, he returns both and proudly claims a dozen chickens cost him nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Kearney’s men badge on caps shows unit pride
A Washington correspondent notes the red flannel badge worn by officers of Kearney’s division during peninsula battles. Field officers wore it atop their caps while line officers wore it in front. Enlisted men now wear it on the right side, proudly signaling they are Kearney’s men.
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Kearney
Wash
Corres
Boston Journal
Open dealings preserve friendship say Brownson on slavery
The text urges openness to preserve friendship and warns jealousy from concealment. It advises avowing conduct and motives when choosing a different path, and cites Orestes A. Brownson noting most oppose slavery yet many oppose negroes on the race issue.
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