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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1871
Page
1
Why Lucy Ellen Didn't Marry Marigold
A rustic tale in colloquial voice tracing Lucy Ellen Marigold's thwarted romance with a barrister. Her genteel pretensions, the courtship, and a culminating confrontation reveal how deceit, pride, and lost faith steer her life toward lifelong singleness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Ellen
Honest Customer An Anecdote About a Short Codfish
A man famed for honesty tries to justify theft with a codfish tucked under his coat. The merchant catches him as the coat is too short, prompting a wry quip about honesty and adjusting his coat or the fish. The tale ends with a sharp moral on appearances and honesty.
No. Education vs riches and the virtuous press
The piece argues that knowledge comes from mental effort not inheritance, urging children to labor for riches and reputation. It praises a Goop Creed calling newspapers fair honest and reform minded, to inform without abusive controversy and to sustain good governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Thinking of Independence and Virtue in Work Ethic
The passage urges that work is honorable and idleness is shameful. It stresses independence, self restraint, and helping others, arguing difficulties forge victory and that true manhood rests on moral, personal virtue. It links pride with ruin and aligns honor with divine approval.
Well Directed Benevolence
The Golden Age urges wealthy benefactors to support individuals over institutions. It argues that funding struggling talent through mentorship and friendship can yield greater value than vast gifts to colleges or hospitals. The piece praises kindness that helps young people realize their ambitions.
Love as the highest good and life’s deepest joy
The passage extols love as incomparable to all earthly riches. It argues a loveless life is barren, while true love elevates even amid hardship, defining love as a soul’s enduring glow from cradle to grave and even beyond. It contrasts pure love with crude notions and asserts heaven is love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Heaven
A Costly Fashion Involves Hidden Poison For Poor Workers
London reports reveal English ladies use artificial grass tufts in hats dusted with Scheeles green arsenic copper compound. Women and children, paid little, inhale poison dust during production causing sickness and death. Telegraph notes simple work, widespread dust exposure, and tragic family cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Scheele
London Daily Telegraph
Deadly grass dust trade harms family for twelve shillings
A mother recalls her household’s risky work mining arsenic dust to harvest grass profits. Coughing, bleeding ears, and sneezing plague the family as they toil long hours to earn twelve shillings a week, choosing exposure over starvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devel
Joe
Labor and Capital as Seen by Wendell Phillips
Phillips argues that laborers who create tools and work with them are honest workers entitled to rewards. He defines capitalists as those who use tools to broaden production, and warns against a corrupt system that exploits others through banks, corners, and fraud. The goal is to reform to prevent despotism and theft by those who profit from others' labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Phillips
Wall Street
Funeral of Gen. Anderson at Nice Inspires Republican Simplicity
An Italian journal notes the funeral of Gen. Robert Anderson in Nice as a lesson in republican simplicity. Fife and drum led the procession. no drapery hearse or torches. coffin covered by the national flag. officers and soldiers wore plain dress and grave bearing. spectators felt religious sympathy. contrasts with European funeral pageantry of other dignitaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Anderson
Nice
Robert Anderson
Fort Sumter
Anderson
Women’s suffrage proved a failure state by state
The piece notes Western papers claim woman suffrage failed where granted and argues New England women should avoid politics. It urges women to focus on home life to influence with a greater impact than voting rights would provide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
A Persian Tale of Escape From a Tower
A prince imprisons a noble in a high tower with a sealed entrance. The isolated prisoner watches his wife visit and receive a strange set of items. She helps by offering a beetle rigged with grease silk twine and a rope so he can descend and escape using the improvised rope mechanism.
IX Tempo Reaching Preachers Should Weigh Words Before Speaking
The excerpt quotes Thackeray urging defenders of faith to curb extempore preaching and require clergy to consult a sermon book again. It laments long sermons, windy rhetoric, and emotional appeals that excite churchgoers while sacrificing reason and sober discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parsons
Thackeray
Thine Age and the Wisdom of Four True Years
A Persian king asks an aged man his true age. The old man reveals he is four years old, explaining eighty years wasted in folly and wealth, and only four spent in aiding others. He argues that the worth of life lies in deeds, not years.
One Year in Europe and Papal Transition
The excerpt notes dramatic 1870–1871 events: Germany unifies from a sovereign house, France suffers conquest and upheaval, and for the first time since the start of papal reign a pope passes beyond the years of Peter as a Piedmont prince becomes Rome’s crown, signaling Italian liberty in the eternal city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
France
Peter
Piedmont
Rome
Revue Des Deux Mondes Chronique
Timber Scarcity Shaping National Policy and Near-Extinction Risk
The article warns that growing lumber demand outstrips supply across Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan and could exhaust forests within years. It suggests dependence on Pacific shores for future material and urges ending extravagant timber use to preserve resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pacific
From Generation to Generation on the Scottish Heritage
A traveler by a funeral procession reflects on a 94 year old Scot and his descendants. The old man’s vigor, thrift, and religious roots shape a lineage noted for sturdy frames and sober, industrious lives. The piece meditates on how sins and deeds ripple to the third and fourth generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gisaanes
Duncan Duff
The
Christian Weekly
The Green Bay Horse Sermon Prank
A Wolfe borough pastor Father Allen left a sermon unfinished with a line saying the wicked flourish like a green bay horse a mischievous youth read it with horse added the pastor finished the sermon then preached the line aloud provoking uproarious laughter from the congregation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tory Flourisn
Father Allen
Wolfeborough
Allen
Free Pass Tale Reflects Dean Richmond Generosity
A reminiscence recalls Dean Richmond granting a free Central Railway pass to a printing office boy seeking a boat trip. The boy asked to ride Albany to Buffalo at no charge, and Richmond, with a rough voice but kind deed, approved the request saying he was glad to accommodate him as the first to ask on the right grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Richmond
Richmond
Central Railway
Albany
Buffalo
His Mother-in-Law and the Wild Sea Joy Ride
A man leans on a chalky ledge to watch his mother-in-law ship Curlew sail to a tropical country. He feels insanely glad as creditors press, wishes a quiet life, yet remains married and in debt. He dances on the shore then returns home at sunset to tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marsh
Lucy Ellen
Mr. Marigold
Lucy
Shopville
Alang
Reuben Fleet
Barrister
Marigold
Mr. Barrister
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