05 Aug 1871
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1871
Page
1
A boy drinks from a pump and learns to praise the spring rain dew sun and ocean for the water he enjoys. He concludes with thanks to God as the true giver of good.
A parent teaches patience to a boy who asks many questions about life and taxes. the child echoes the line wait and see. The lesson becomes a comforting refrain heard in the home as the world seems dark and a storm rages. The boy uses the phrase to reassure his baby brother, imparting a timeless wisdom.
Mrs Chrissy Ashton and Rev Clement Ashton, a devoted parish couple, navigate domestic tension over a single missing button and household order. Chrissy confronts his fault of fretfulness, they reconcile after confession, and deepen mutual respect through shared duties and easing sorrow.
A quotation extols love as a golden everlasting chain linking heaven and earth and embracing the entire moral world, arguing it is not a fable but a true binding force.
The essay urges mothers to cultivate a low sweet voice to shape children’s behavior. It contrasts kind firm tones with constant anger in some homes, noting anger harms both parent and child and lasts as an enduring, inheritable habit. It cites Solomon and warns that calm speech leaves a gentler legacy for children.
Horace Greeley argues against reliance on speculation and vice. He laments few youths learn trades and asserts many journeymen are European born, urging a shift from liquor and retail to productive labor to boost national wealth and alleviate hard times.
The piece reflects on the grave as a lasting symbol of memory and belief in life beyond death. It asserts that graves endure as marks of where the body rests and that the spirit preserves the memory of its earthly resting place.
The quote recalls Alexander Hamilton claiming that true genius stems from deep study. He states that when a subject lies before him day and night, his mind becomes pervaded by it. The resulting effort, he says, is what others call the fruit of genius, though it is really the product of labor and thought.
An Agricultural Letter laments undervaluing trees. A carpenter balks at passing a fine apple tree for porch clearance, risking its loss for five dollars. The piece advocates preserving trees over short term gain, noting farmers often plow under valuable trees to save crops and urging respect for trees’ long term value.
A Berlin court case reports continued belief in vampires among Poles and Magyars. A Polish estate owner dies in Roslasin in February, his eldest son falls ill and dies weeks later, and other relatives suffer illness attributed to the deceased’s nocturnal visits. The second son seeks to escape the same fate by precautions.
In a passage from Travels in Ireland Leith describes a morning encounter with a ragged man begging. The emaciated figure points to tattered clothes and sunken cheeks while insisting he is begging with a hundred tongues.
Rev John Hall counsels youths to start modestly and follow parental beginnings rather than chasing luxury. He warns ascent can be easy but descent is hard and costly, noting business trials health risks and pride driven embezzlement and swindling when one cannot afford high living.
Instructions describe making ice cream by scalding milk and eggs, sweetening and flavoring, freezing in a tin pail inside a wooden pail with crushed ice and salt, and turning the container to solicit contact with the freezing surface. The mixture chills in fifteen to twenty minutes and can be served or stored cool in the wooden pail.
A essay condemns scandal as a grave fault for women and urges caution in repeating falsehoods. It contrasts moral peril with theft of fame and emphasizes the burden of ruined reputations. The piece then shifts to bread making as a household art, praising Unbolted flour and diverse breads while warning of health harms from poor diets in the American South and West.
A spirited widow in Wadesboro North Carolina biting scratching and attacking relatives led to her arrest. She allegedly charmed the judge with a brief tirade dispatched the constable with an ink bottle and knocked down the jailer with a kick. Reports say she then turned on the prostrate jailer with a chisel.
Interior Texas papers trumpet peaches pears and apples and cabbages weighing eight pounds beets twelve to fifteen pounds onions two and a half pounds with other vegetables in proportion a Florida farmer proclaims a squash five feet in circumference weighing seventy six pounds as a standout.
The piece quotes The Golden Age observing that civilization is a buttering crust over a pit of corruption. It notes women’s crime rise and warns of a volcano beneath society while tending to flowers and vineyards above.
A physician argues from years of practice that blackberries are not useful and may be harmful for children recovering from diarrhoea or cholera. He warns there is no cause more fatal to life in these cases than eating blackberries.
The Painsville Telegraph notes an eight year old girl in Lake County who will harness her team of horses in the morning to hitch before the mower and cut six acres of grass before noon. She then feeds and cares for her animals and duplicates the work in the afternoon.
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