23 Sep 1865
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1865
Page
1
An 1846 Boston and New York ad promotes a machine built on entirely new principles of mechanism. It claims expert examination and rare improvements, with poetry praising progress and striving toward higher aims. The note lists salesrooms at 501 Broadway New York and 350 Washington Street Boston.
Sally contemplates two roads from her home as a soldier and an officer appear in her thoughts. Her father pushes marriage to Major Brewer while Sally prefers another, and John Cutter hides his suit while Mrs Snow seeks control over Sally’s future.
Sally, mother led, chooses Major Brewer over John Cutter, who loses an arm in battle. Brewer dies. John returns wounded and finds Sally widowed to him. Sally and John reunite at church and marry as war ends, with John farming under Snow guidance.
The writer notes China lacks new ale production and dental practitioners, praises European dentistry, and recalls a Chinese craftsman making artificial noses. Observations cover Chinese industry, ships, coinage, looms, dyes, printing, navigation, and language, with reflections on Western civilization and Asia.
The band of desperadoes known as Thiefs Pica has been captured after defiling Paris police. In interrogation of their leader Thilbert the dialogue reveals a life of crime, with his father and mother both thieves and deaths in prison and on the scaffold. He explains no trade offered to those who sin.
A critique of authors and printers highlighting how illegible handwriting and lack of punctuation burden compositors. The piece laments lazy or ignorant writers who neglect finishing their work, arguing many faults stem from authors rather than printers.
Stephen plays a prank at a social gathering by pairing two stammerers who do not know each other. He introduces them to a blind date style setup, prompting awkward chatter and a tense exchange. The ruse ends with a harsh retort about mockery, leaving Stephen amused yet chastened.
A wife of an Irish schoolmaster praised her husband for teaching and aiding poor scholars without pay when he had little, while she noted how the presence of poor children brought fresh air to their home. She recalled how the children’s bare feet on the floor and the open door gave a warm, homely feeling.
A man prowled St Paul streets to pry two eagle statues for sale. The rest of the passage derides loyalty to the Confederacy and hints at unrest in South Carolina, while noting a woman once riding high now unable to.
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