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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1857
Page
1
An old classifieds ad lists groceries flour corn meal coal and related items offered wholesale with reductions. It mentions instruction to see lines and terms reflecting a retail sale format typical of a historical newspaper page.
Three friends fabricate a cousin inheritance to mock a poor man. Illusion grows into real money as Paris bankers offer large profits from Spanish and German securities. The hoax collapses but the narrator realizes unexpected fortune arrived from public belief.
A Paris lecture by Mugendie is quoted in the June American Medical Gazette as declaring medicine a humbug and a developing science only through time. The speaker argues doctors are mostly empirics, recounting his own experiments with bread pills and colored water and noting a rise in mortality among the drugged. He contrasts active intervention with nature’s aid, then reflects on childhood and youth as stages of happiness and longing.
The text recounts Washington's private restraint when seen in public as well as early fatting experiments in France on ducks and pigs. It notes how a reverent presence dampened merriment and describes how fattening arises when fatty matter is added to food, detailing chemical ideas and practical debts.
A meditation on the power of thoughts words and deeds. It asserts that every thought word and action is witnessed by God and that careful formation of character affects others beyond this life like circles in water. It urges constant reflection to ensure good influence.
Mrs. Butler of Seekonk suffered extensive burns when a lamp fluid can exploded after she tried to refill a lamp at night. Her husband Jason Butler rushed to help, tearing off fire-damaged clothes but his own hand was blistered. Doctor Collins attended, but recovery was deemed unlikely.
In Stafford Connecticut a fiancé barred from visiting his betrothed was aided by a warrant against the girl's father for detaining her. Bank officials refused to surrender funds without the owner's order, but the law later secured the young woman's return to her lover.
A confusing quotation likens life to various paired images and questions who understands its true nature. The text blends poetic conceit with obscured wording, leaving the author and precise meaning unclear.
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