15 Sep 1860
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1860
Page
1
A long extract offers moral guidance for parenting and self-improvement. It lists twelve child discipline rules emphasizing obedience, gentleness, consistent promises, patient correction, and truthfulness, followed by exhortations to begin reform today and pursue practical self improvement with deliberate daily effort. It includes anecdotes on temperance, public virtue, and modest speech.
MartinLockwood returns humbled after a life of vice and poverty seeking forgiveness from his stern father MrLockwood and loving mother MrsLockwood. The narrator urges compassion, recounting the prodigal parable and ending with a family walk home united and hopeful for redemption.
A fragmented OCR piece presents a series of old maxims on life and behavior. It features lines about wine and death, contentment, pride and poverty, work and idleness, borrowing, advice, photographs, wisdom, and friendship. The tone resembles a collection of pithy proverbs with garbled spellings.
A Journal of Health excerpt warns that breathing the same air in a shared bed can dilute oxygen and spread illness. It notes canary deaths from poor air, overlaid infants, and typhoid risks in crowded rooms, urging separate sleeping arrangements or age-homogeneous households for health.
The piece laments sickness and craving for stimulants and love as cures, contrasting worldly intoxication with genuine joy. It cites liquor as a poor relief, then extols love and sky as true fuels for the heart, while offering a cocktail recipe and a quip about insights from a scholar.
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