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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1873
Page
1
Peter Patterson, a cranky New York bachelor, follows a doctor's advice to move to a buxom widow Mrs Mantle for health and flowers. He courts, consents, and marries her, trading a hotel life for a country home and nursing. The doctor predicts a merry union and Christmas wedding.
Hates of Abdberttatny advertises rates for square ads at 1 000 dollars weekly 25 cents per additional square. Twelve lines equal a square. Special notices before marriages and deaths cost double. Transient ads prepaid. Yearly contracts on terms. Privilege limited to own business. Ads due Thursday noon for next issue. Religious obituary and political notices treated as advertisements.
A story recalls S Prentiss hosting a lively dinner in Vicksburg. A stranger boasted of his drinking prowess, then Prentiss asked if he believed in metempsychosis. The reply sparked up, and Prentiss claimed the next life will transform each person into what he is best suited for, joking the guest would become a corner groggery.
A miscellany of maxims contrasts hypocrisy with virtue. It urges honest self-scrutiny over excuses and extols kind expressions as transforming, urging practical living over self-indulgence.
The text notes that greater difficulties heighten the honor of success and that one may endure unmet hopes without becoming unhappy.
The passage argues that harsh circumstance awakens higher perceptions while diminishing indulgent comfort. It claims elevated ideals find objects everywhere, whereas the base habits crave palaces and banquets.
Quote by Chapin praising the essential nobility of a man who labors honestly and dislikes the hollow prestige of fashion, wealth, and inherited coats of arms. He condemns those who ignore family history and seek status through indulgence.
A devotional excerpt quotes Spurgeon urging unwavering faith with phrases about God’s omniscience and love. It emphasizes fearing trouble with Jehovah leading, and cites “Fear not I am with thee” followed by “I am thy God” as core consolation.
A sermon urging daily practical peace with others. It compares small personal irritants to emery in a shoe, arguing even minor selfishness harms harmony and can provoke constant irritation and hatred in others. The speaker stresses living peaceably with all and avoiding actions that provoke others.
The passage reflects on human vanity and mortality as trials of life thicken, noting that fame or poverty alike end in oblivion. Generations feel the same transient emotions, and while individuals fade, nature remains unchanged, with the world attracting future generations to the graves and beauty beyond.
The author praises dedicated home time for husbands and fathers urging sacred priorities with wives and children. He argues men should balance work with家庭 life and invest in children, claiming the home question will shape America's future.
The passage reflects on peace versus truth, the fragility of nature, divine care for all life, moral consistency, and eternity as a divine treasury. It emphasizes that even weak things receive God’s care and hope opens a glimpse of what God prepares.
Anecdotes on grief whitening hair in a single night and a Vienna sexton facing a perilous trap. Nebraska sod houses rise amid railroads and homesteads as settlers embrace free farms. Live oak timber off Georgia coast fuels shipbuilding legends and a comic Congress hanky anecdote.
The tale recounts a Massachusetts woman who buys a hair switch and experiences red skin and labored breathing when worn. A Boston medium channels a spirit who claims the hair switch is cursed to cause choking and insanity, tracing the danger to the original owner's personality.
Biographical sketch describes Robert Schumann’s quiet, unassuming nature. He listened intently yet seldom spoke in conversations, entering rooms, playing a few chords at the piano, and exiting without uttering a word. He acknowledged his own shyness and limited speech, even in letters to Zucalmaglio.
A parson, after criticism of his sermons, offers a lengthy, humorous pledge to simplify his language and avoid grandiose jargon. He promises to align his daily and nightly studies with the understanding of his audience.
A noted critique examines a recently published song titled Kiss Me Darling When I’m Gone. The piece questions how a lover can be kissed after departure, deeming the concept unreasonable and impractical for a woman to oblige once the suitor has left home.
A vivid tribute to Jersey describing dozen medieval churches, ivy-clad walls, narrow thatch roads, and farmyards framed by trees and cottages. The piece highlights picturesque lanes, interchangeable landscapes, and the timeless rural character surrounding the island’s villas, farms, and thatched homes as seen from Hearth and Home.
The Indianapolis News style burlesques a wedding gown with lavishly absurd details. The bride wears a white megath erium silk dress trimmed in blue with elaborate ruchings and floral accents. Presents include an oyster-freezer teeth and quirky heirlooms from the families, culminating with a cabbage seed gift from a ninety-year-old grandmother who cracks nuts with her teeth.
A man in a hotel pretends to attack a muffled child and threatens bystanders. He draws a knife and stabs the wooden doll, then reveals he is a ventriloquist fooling the crowd. The episode ends with the crowd anger turning to disbelief.
A man dressed as a laborer walked through Berlin with a sealed packet addressed to someone in treasury bills. A passerby helped read the address, revealing the misdelivered letter. The porter charged ten thalers for delivery, but the recipient found only two sheets reading the German equivalent of Done.
A sermon urges women to abandon fashion and seek liberty in work and exercise. A Lancaster report then details a brick house built in ten and a half hours with over 100 workers, from foundation to roof, photographed at regular intervals.
The Poughkeepsie Telegraph describes a Catskill pass between Shandakin Centre and Westkill in Ulster County where snow and ice persist year round. A five mile hollow road winds past high mountains with an ice cold stream, a narrow fifty foot wide pass, and nearby caves holding large ice masses. Vegetation grows densely on the rocks while wildlife is scarce due to cold.
An engineer on the West Jersey railroad reports that silvered mica reflectors in locomotive headlights allow identifying a person at four hundred yards. Tests on Reading and North Pennsylvania lines show strong adoption prospects due to economy durability and labor savings. A locomotive accident example shows the reflector surviving a smoke stack collapse with minimal damage, unlike metal reflectors which would require replating and bending.
Larry F recalls a jovial baggage master named Bill on the Boston and Albany line. A small Scotch terrier blocked him during baggage change and was kicked, provoking the owner’s outrage. Bill remains blunt, asking if the dog was his and joking about mad dogs and reactions.
Rico argues wealth comes from nature realized by labor with prudence saving as capital. Wealthy include inherited, accidental, or self-made gains. the poor mirror these causes. Idleness fuels poverty, curable by industry, while wastefulness is cured by economy.
A scientific writer outlines how vibration affects large structures and vessels when step breaking and repeated notes. Examples include an English bridge nearly toppled by a fiddler's tone and a French bridge collapsing under marching troops. The same principle explains glass tumblers shattering from repeated vocal notes.
Taunton boy, inspired by Putnam and the Wolfe, takes grandmother cat to the cellar with torch and fire-crackers. Grandmother rescues him as his cruel prank ends with three switches from the plum tree. A cautionary tale of mischief and consequence.
H. O. Houghton recalls a pale man named Noah Webster visiting a Vermont printing office nearly 50 years ago. Webster urged spelling words as printed such as theater and center, guiding the apprentice toward a future leading a firm that would produce thousands of tons of Webster’s dictionaries.
Advice for cleaning carpets and textiles using a teaspoon of liquid ammonia in a gallon of warm water to restore color on acid or alkali damaged carpets. A method with ox gall in three gallons of warm water freshens colors and removes grease, suitable for tables and floor cloths.
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