26 Oct 1861
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1861
Page
1
A reflective verse depicts aimlessness and despair as the speaker longs for purpose and rest. The poem contrasts striving for lofty peaks with a wish for simple, ordinary sustenance and peace, admitting moments of darkness and doubt. The narrator questions whether existence itself can be meaningful when light fades from the soul.
A Connecticut owner near Falls Church visits his tenants amid picket skirmishes and gunfire. The family remains inside a contested residence between lines, a Federal soldier shot at the well, the body remaining nearby, and the house bullet-riddled yet the family unharmed. Also notes on Howe Courtssits, family care, grape jelly cordial for hospitals, penny wages lore, and reflections on perseverance amid war.
A parable of John Stetson who saves by small daily expenditures under a wife’s plan, leading to a one hundred twenty nine dollar fund that buys a half acre lot for one hundred dollars. The tale contrasts penny pinching, a carbon of vice and virtue, and ends with a tour of Howe's Cave near Schoharie and reflections on Albany landscapes.
A fragmentary meditation on digestion eye fluids and dust, detailing how gastric juice dissolves hard foods while sparing living tissues. It marvels at dust in air, the eye’s cleansing tears, eyelid oils, the rebreathing of expired air, and how breath becomes pure and musical in transfer to human speech and emotion.
Text from a historical issue discusses weighing during sleep to show weight loss and proposes lungs and skin exhale matter. It warns about carbonic acid, animal matter, and smoke in poorly ventilated rooms, urging thorough airing and bedding hygiene. It also includes a tale of Gerrixa a Weppino Coat and a home remedy for bleeding.
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