13 Apr 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1872
Page
1
A reflective verse speaks of the dead returning above a bed and the ache of absence as time passes. The speaker muses on recognizing dreams as truth and wonders what worlds might open beyond living shapes long mourned.
A cheerful reading of the home life theme fills the room as voices sing about love at home. The chorus celebrates harmony, peace, and joy with references to heaven's smiles and the beauty of nature.
A farmer’s boy toils in a corn field on a sultry day waiting for dinner. At last the welcome horn sounds and he drops his hoe and rushes to the house while the farmer calls to straighten the row.
Matthew Clarendon dies leaving most wealth to Lettie Ashby with conditions that she may not meet Robert Dudley Clarendon. Robert angers, repents, and with Uncle Anthony’s steadfast mercy seeks a safer life. Lettie renounces the fortune, Robert reforms, and they wed after years of suffering and forgiveness.
In an amber sunlit chamber young Robert Clarendon lies recovering as a gentle nurse Mollie tends him. He questions his surroundings and senses a heavenly calm, while the nurse smiles with a bright, forgiving warmth and reassures him with tender care.
Sir John Herschel asserts that changes in the earths crust driven by subterranean forces and earthquakes help shape coastlines and would expose the land to ocean cover through sea action and rain. He implies earthquakes are blessings in disguise and worthy of gratitude.
Ladies with a taste for tea parties are reminded that the word tattle begins with the letter T. The playful note links social gatherings to manners and language in a light, community square item.
A miscellany note recalls Diogenes advising revenge through virtue. It cites four health rules as great temperance open air easy labor and little care. The passage comments that a person’s small footprint cannot save them from being forgotten after death.
A critique defining a true gentleman as one who avoids incivility, seeks to make others happy, and neveroffends. It extols humble, kindness driven men whose welfare for mankind guides every breath, regardless of dress or education.
The piece argues that young people learn manners best by habit rather than formal teaching. It urges consistent civility at home to become second nature in public, warning that roughness at home breeds reluctance in social settings. Home life is portrayed as the primary school for good conduct.
A devotional passage extols Christianity as fearless and innocent, unbinding princes and sinners alike. It claims liberty to the captive, forgiveness to the sinner, and blessing to the poor, elevating rulers and poets through its influence. It likens Christianity to a childhood companion and a noble ennobler across ages.
A Beecher essay praises frugality as self discipline and moral benefit while warning against excessive miserliness. It describes internal battles to deny eye ear tongue and skin indulgences and to uphold a fixed plan to save and govern desires.
A Beecher quote extols good-nature as the widest benevolence that shines on all without discrimination. It contrasts sporadic niceness with a true luminous heart, noting real givers brighten lives like summer. Truly virtuous souls deserve crowns, earned by grateful love and joy.
A periodical exhortation argues riches come from self discipline and steady work. It praises self made men who rise from journeymen by thrift and perseverance, warning against improvidence and frivolous spending while urging duty and self denial as the path to fortune. Farmer Greeley is cited on ploughing deep to overcome obstacles.
The Journal of the Telegraph notes that light exposure increases skin sensitivity, especially in small pox cases. Dr. Webber observed heightened skin reaction in sunlit areas. Dr. Waters reports darkened rooms arrest vesicular stage and reduce pain itching odor and inflammation.
A noted writer explains that sun actinic rays trigger seed germination and plant growth. Light inhibits vitality in seeds unless heat and moisture are present. seeds buried too deep or sown on the surface fail to germinate. Proper depth is crucial for crop success.
An eyewitness recalls a race on the Panama Railroad where an alligator, accidentally on the track, outpaced the train. The creature reportedly turned and winked at the engineer before diving into the swamp beside the line.
Henrey Warp Bruncrer quotes that an impudent clerk can do nearly as much damage to a shop as the owner’s failure to advertise. The remark stresses how staff behavior and promotion affect a merchant’s success.
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