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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1870
Page
1
A poetic meditation asks who will come to mourn the speaker after death. The lines evoke a summer sky, nature stirring, and a sense that life’s beauty and aging will be remembered or forgotten. The fragmented verse suggests elegy and reflection on time.
Aboard a sunlit Sunday on the Atlantic, a Yankee brig chases a mysterious, drunken crewed vessel. The boarding party finds a bloodstained cabin with a murdered captain, a lone ape aboard, burned cargo, and a torn photograph of a woman with a baby, before returning to the main ship.
The American Messenger quotes scripture on faith guiding believers through danger, poverty, temptation, illness, aging, and death. It reassures that God will shield, defend, sustain, and grant rest, songs in the night, and final victory for the righteous.
A playful tour beneath the sea highlights crabs and hermit crabs. The porcelain crab uses bristled jaws as a net while the spider crab scavenges the floor. Hermit crabs inhabit borrowed shells and engage in comic battles.
A humorous piece contrasts the lazy man who avoids effort and crime with a poor farmer who laments winter hens and buttered children. The lazy man shuns crowbars and drills, while the farmer bumbles through grocery trips and nose wiping, highlighting rustic foibles.
A personal column features a distressed appeal to Jane to return home to her husband and children. The note requests she consider the family and even asks her to enclose the gin cupboard key, implying domestic strife and a plea for reconciliation.
Advertising rates are set at $1,000 per square for one week with 25 cents per additional square. Special notices cost double and need twelve lines or less. Transient ads must be prepaid. yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms. Early submission by Thursday noon secures next issue. Obituaries and political notices treated as advertisements. The Minstrels show at Masonic Hall features a humorous misidentification of audience members with remarks about slaves and abolitionists.
A speaker recalls wartime separation from peaceful home life and a wife who rents out wash and chores. The narrative centers on domestic estrangement, violence, and the emotional cost of abolitionist betrayal, ending with a grim sense of debt owed to a wife for abandonment.
In a lively tale, Mrs Call, a hard of hearing widow, hosts a jovial gathering. Lydia, her daughter, schemes to keep a deacon from leaving before tea, sparking witty exchanges and a playful reunion as the deacon departs with a cheerful quip about the clever young woman.
In Peterborough New Hampshire a wood-sawyer raffled a gold watch and chain. He displayed the time in public and at a funeral, prompting amused and shocked reactions as the grave service ended with his quip about the hour.
Danish missionaries in Malabar faced a moral clash as a translator rejected a line claiming believers become the sons of God. He argued for a safer rendering and proposed that followers be allowed to kiss His feet instead.
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