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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1864
Page
1
A prisoner of war mourns a beloved Indy-love while recalling battle scenes at Sulferino. The verse frames courage and devotion as the soldier promises to guard his country’s shrine even as he faces death. He envisions a future reunion and asks for a single tear at his grave site.
The Star Weekly of America 1864 1865 highlights Tuz New York Mercury as a premier literary weekly. It promises European genius and Braddon translations, with extensive fiction, poetry, humor and editorials while defending constitutional liberty amid Civil War era pressures.
A poet questions a famous writer about his love for a simple girl. She wonders how his affection persists despite her ordinary beauty and wonders what makes their bond feel heavenly. The dialogue hints at desire, class, and idealized romance amid doubt.
Stores advertise an extensive selection of cooking stoves and ranges including Medal 3 Hole Ranges Victor Gas Burners Pearl Gug Burners Diamond Parlor Jewel stoves and Anford’s Mammoth Heaters at 47 Bradford Street New patterns and repairs offered. Also listed are Globe Heaters Cosmopolite Gas Burners air tight radiators and a large assortment of tin ware and sheet zinc with various coatings and liners.
PuE subscriber invites customers in need of good stoves, ranges, or tin and wooden ware to No 133 Thames Street for low market prices. The offer lists pumps, semi pipes, iron sinks, French roll pans, warmers, grates and linings, chamber pails, watering pots and other items with neat job work and repairs available.
For sale by GEO TILLEY No 17 Bradford Street. Highly recommended by users in this and other towns last season. Easily attached to any common stove or heater.
A Virginia college professor, long single due to math obsessions, plans a grand commencement dinner and invites a New York cook he met years earlier. He travels to New York to arrange employment for Miss Adeline, a skilled, gracious cook, hoping she will be his wife and dinner companion. The plan faces society gossip and the judge of Virginia society as the wedding unfolds.
A garbled passage contrasts a New York cook with fried chicken and ash cokes. It humorously notes that not all men are pictures like the Governor and imagines a professor seeking a wife in New York. The speaker mocks social choices and domestic dining.
A dense archival essay argues that sun energy drives every mechanical action on Earth from growth to industry. It links thunder lightning, burning fires, and weaponry to solar force, claiming the sun animates nature and human toil. The piece highlights cosmic unity of power and the sun as sole source of energy for life and civilization.
In a touching account a Christian woman faces imminent death with serene faith. She affirms readiness to die as her husband asks if she is prepared, answering that only God knows. The scene emphasizes trust, peace, and the belief that God will not forsake believers in death.
A fragmented moral card urges kindness and selflessness. It warns against selfishness and urges light, cheerful conduct, light-heartedness, and duty to others as guiding principles. The note emphasizes Sabbath, Christian virtue, and judgment in a cautionary tone.
The text contrasts Old and New Testament notions of blessing and suffering. It suggests deeper truths lie in enduring affliction, noting David’s harp and Solomon’s felicities as contrasts. It uses archaic phrasing to imply eternal truths hidden within human hardship and divine favor.
A reflective piece on choosing simple clear words over ornate phrasing. It warns against slang and pompous speech and advocates honesty, directness, and accuracy in everyday expression. The passage emphasizes modest language, measured tone, and the value of conveying truth over flamboyant diction.
The death of Mise Catharin Smeliir prompts readers to recall a village project in her memory. A column details how the locals erected a market pump monument in her honor after she cared for relatives and funded its construction. The piece laments limited women’s education and urges opening minds to women’s lives and sacrifices.
A quoted passage argues that a firm religious belief bestows life with goodness hope and heavenly joy while contrasting it with secular decay and despair. A separate note claims women could save $1 000 000 by removing the extra twelve inch tail piece from dresses.
A historical calculation imagines one cent at six percent from Christina era to now. It contrasts simple accumulation worth 1100.17 with a fantastical compound total of 84 810 000 000 000 globes of gold, enough to span the earth in a dramatic, astronomical scale.
Emery is described as a hard gray to brown mineral found in shapeless masses at the base of the Ming island group with main supplies from Naxos Kinort and Suyrna. It is crushed ground and processed with water to separate fine particles used for grinding and polishing stone metal and instruments. The material is burned or heated to alter color and is employed in emery paper and cloth and in polishing wheels via a rubber and vulcanized mix.
The account recalls Scott of Tilden, an ancestor of Walter Scott, famed as a border thief who raided English lands. After a series of vendettas he tortured a countryman Murray of Eibaok, leading to a dramatic capture at Ehband Castle. Murray’s wife devises a grim revenge plan involving marriage to his captor’s daughter, ending in a forced, reluctant marriage.
The piece analyzes Union general Sherman pursuing Hood as Hood tries to concentrate scattered forces. Sherman presses forward and is portrayed as mastering the field while Hood dodges contact. The author dismisses fears of Sherman being lured into a trap and questions Hood’s dwindling numbers as his army deserts.
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