29 Sep 1849
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1849
Page
1
A Saturday issue of Breston Prenex lists subscription rates and advertising charges for the Bristol publication, and includes miscellaneous prose and personal notices. It notes the paper’s address at Bradford Street, Bristol, with pricing in dollars and cents for subscriptions and ads. The page also contains short poems, moral reflections, and a statistical anecdote about large families in the county, attributed to the Patriot Newsrooms.
A Mrs finds her husband’s letter misread as scandalous while a printer’s bill uncovers a nine year subscription. Also included are merry morals on marriage and a ram misreading a deacon’s wig leading to a comic churchyard misadventure.
A tense room erupts as a woman laments widespread calamities blamed on the telegraph, citing famines and riots from New Orleans to Boston. Uncle Dick is astonished, while an Irishman jokes about boots and St. Patrick, framing a chaotic, stormy debate.
A manuscript by Thomas O. Larkin outlines California’s growing population, economy, and climate on the eve of statehood. He discusses emigrant numbers, native relations, mining yields, coastal towns from Monterey to San Francisco, and the need for laws, schools, and governance as California braces for massive influxes.
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