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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1856
Page
1
The notice outlines Bristol business rates and publication terms. Subscriptions cost two dollars yearly payable in advance with non residents excluded. Single copies four cents. Advertisements charged one dollar per square for three weeks with twenty cents for each additional insertion. Yearly ads twenty lines per week ten dollars with paper included. Religious obituary and political notices treated as advertisements. All ads prepaid.
A poetic fragment describes a crystal fountain amid a meadow, lilies, and willows. It celebrates pure waters, peaceful rest, and a journey toward a distant ocean and heaven with vivid natural imagery and lyrical cadence. The piece references a Josy mountain and a hopeful pilgrim’s path.
A poem in dialect by an older woman declaring she will remain single. She cites men’s faults and nagging wives as reasons to avoid marriage, praising a peaceful life without husbands, children, or domestic chaos. The speaker resolves to live a single life and die a maid.
In a Boston True Flag tale a penniless man pleads for legal aid after a bar room altercation. He confesses to crime, details Skinner’s arson scheme at a burned shop, and Blinker’s insurance ties. The plan exposes fraud, leading to Skinner’s conviction and a new secretary job for Cottle, with Blinker mending ties with Fred.
A dated essay contrasts lunacy rates in Britain and Massachusetts, arguing wealth and excess fuel vice and crime. It cites temperance as key to physical and mental vigor, praises domestic happiness, and laments brutal justice, all within a moralizing health journal voice.
A group of signatories from Europe and the United States urge the U S government to buy Cuba from Spain at any price not exceeding a set amount. They argue Cuba is vital to U S security and trade, and that a formal open sale would benefit both nations while warning against foreign interference.
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