26 Sep 1846
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1846
Page
1
Public advertisement details for classified notices with pricing per square and dates. It notes advance payment, weekly and yearly rates, and late insertion charges, along with policies on burgeoise type and square counting.
A prose meditation set in a graveyard where a speaker recalls a dear friend. A guiding child proclaims There are no graves there inspiring renewed faith and consolation about the afterlife and divine promises. The piece closes with a commentary on Douglass Jerrold and the press as a force for truth and reform.
A reflective meditation on eternity, mortality, and the soul’s fate after death. The author ponders life’s brevity, divine judgment, and the lasting mark of character before passing into the unknown beyond.
A lyrical meditation questions dreams that break and joys that fade with seasons. It muses on memory's harsh clarity and the double sting of sorrow, contrasting imagination with lived passion and the consuming glare of personal experience.
A narrator observes the Sabbath’s quiet, then the church bell calls a family to worship. The father leads his child to pray, and the scene urges readers to feel conscience awakening and reflective influence from holy hours.
A fragmentary poem discussion contrasts the sailor’s lack of a fixed home with the idea that a home lies in family origins and natural wanderings. It reflects on the sailor as a universal traveler tied to oceans and oceans and distant lands.
A long reflective piece contrasts marriage with celibacy, arguing marriage improves virtue, social order, and communal life while single life invites private desires and danger. It extols marriage as the world’s nurturing center and cites social duties, family, friendship, and public order as benefits, then digresses into witty, uncertain anecdotes and scientific curiosities.
The passage extols toil as essential to all good outcomes and urges steady labor. It urges reading multiple newspapers for knowledge and stresses timely payment of newspaper bills as part of civic duty.
The Boston Transcript editor urges planting trees widely from city streets to country fields, citing a farmer who enriched his family via locust wood from a fourteen acre field. The piece also cautions that suspicion and unfounded rumors poison friendships and social harmony, urging careful judgment before forming alliances.
A tale of jealousy and deception unfolds as Aurora denounces the narrator after a cruel plot to ruin her. He faces ruin, seeks pardon, and plans escape to Lyons with ten thousand crowns while Aurora seeks justice in exile and vows to appeal to courts.
A narrative recounts the trial over a marriage to Aurora, a convent resident of noble birth. The engraver defends the union, the court rules it valid, and Aurora gains freedom to stay in the convent while her child bears the husband’s name. The bellows-mender travels to Paris, rises in fortune, and seeks reunion with Aurora as he supports her and her family.
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