14 Dec 1878
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1878
Page
1
A reflective piece with a bereaved parent yearning for the lost child. The speaker describes imagined reunions, the child’s small footfalls, and a hope that heavenly guidance will comfort during grief. The verse envisions the child walking beside a tender God, easing sorrow with faith.
A misdelivered meeting spirals into romance as Miss Carrol arrives by mistake at Madame Marie Delatour’s house. Eugenia Carrol, Ralph Fleming, Charles Redmond, and Miss Fleming’s friend Carrol Fleming reunite, revealing hidden identities and forming seven lives into a joyful, fateful Christmas future.
A quotation attributed to Thomas Hardy envisions a future where speech yields to writing as every man voices words as he sees fit. The passage reflects on language evolution and the diminishing spoken tradition.
Ladies are urged to seek Hop Bitters as the sure path to health strength and beauty, suggesting cosmetics from abroad are ineffective without good health. A trial is presented as proof and readers are directed to view another column for more.
A fragmentary piece offers maxims on loyalty and action. It cautions against thinning lines between youth and age, urges steady labor, and praises the steadiness of experience over novelty. The quotes touch on self-governance, purpose, and the dangers of complacency. Named sources include Steele quotes on mind and labor.
A compact reflection on riches describing the weight of possession and the fears of loss and misdeeds. It notes the burden of care in obtaining wealth, fear in retaining it, temptation in using, guilt in abusing, sorrow in losing, and the final burden of account.
A reflective piece extols duty over self and recalls that happiness and usefulness come from serving others. It invokes a model of ministering rather than being served, urging adherence to duty as a guiding life principle.
A professor advocates nightly mental rehearsal to enhance memory. He urges implanting desired ideas before sleep and repeating them in the morning. He emphasizes organizing knowledge into pigeon holes and notes that sound logic conscience and good humor aid memory development.
The piece argues never to undermine another's self opinion, noting it harms rather than helps. It extols preserving a satisfactory identity and urges leaving people be, with caution against forcing unfavorable views. It laments vanity and urges restraint in offering faults, suggesting mirrors should aid uprooting sin only with pure intent.
A defense of writing under real names and attacks on anonymous letters and pamphlets. The piece denounces anonymous writers as cowards and sneaks, urges readers to ignore such material, and argues public reliance on accountability and honor in discourse. It condemns covert acts used to advance even seemingly good ends.
A humorous tale shows Mrs Brown tied to a web of exaggerated marriages as Minister Mills learns the truth of her plight. Deacon Wilt reveals the comic names behind the names, prompting Mrs Brown to switch churches amid astonishment and renewed rumor.
A Massachusetts woman living fifteen miles northwest of Sutro, known as Old Dildine, the hermit, visits Sutro every six months to sell eggs and buy staples. She says she will be sixty next October, has lived alone in the mountains for twelve years, and survives on 260 Angora goats and eight hens. Self possessed, she avoids whites, prefers Piute companionship, and recalls a troubled marriage ending her prior life. She is about five feet six, with auburn hair, neat dress, and insists on seclusion.
A year before Richmond fell a refined but homely woman with a splendid voice visited Washington. Lincoln praised her marriage prospects and urged a bachelor Major C- to wed. At a White House reception she sang, moving the Major to tears. Eventually he married her, and Lincoln credited the match as a wise act in 1864.
An Eastern Pennsylvania penitentiary official cites a miner from Scranton serving 12 years for stealing food to feed his starving wife and children. The miner, aided by a fellow prisoner, recounts breaking into six barns for Indian meal, a kitchen for fruit, and a spring house for meat, with one partner turning state's evidence. He laments long confinement for a crime driven by hunger.
At breakfast Mr Smiley jokes that since Jimmy Puck spun the earth in forty minutes, buckwheat flapjacks with honey are fit fare for a ferry. Hannah, please pour a hot one.
A Kentucky paper notes the lock of intelligence assumed by the young lawyer in court should be stopped. It argues such arrogance would cause the presiding judge to doubt himself and feel he knows nothing.
An editorially noted United States Senator suffers excessive fatness deemed potentially fatal. Chemistry endorses Allan's Anti Fat as a safe remedy for obesity, claimed harmless and beneficial by distinguished chemists, sold by druggists.
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