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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1870
Page
1
A narrator recalls missing an eastern train in Syracuse while dining, rushing to catch the correct departure, and chasing the correct train to its end. Depot officials confuse him, bystanders jeer, and he returns to find friends, with the crowd debating the mishap and a later moral about appearances.
A compact poem fragment contrasts two graves two yards of earth with a hero's rusting sabre and a doomed woman under rain and ground. It laments mortality and asks for grace in the life that ends beneath the ground, referencing Oklahoma and possibly New.
The verse counsels self reflection before judging others and warns against breaking friendly vows and harming a brother’s fame. It urges guarding one’s own good name as a treasure and choosing measured, polite behavior to avoid words spoken in anger that rebound.
An 1860 article extols tomatoes as valuable and healthful, urging careful culture to improve earliness, size, flavor, and color. It details germination in a warm box, transplanting steps, open ground culture, pruning, keeping fruit clean, and late crops, with emphasis on Lester’s Perfected Tomato and seed purity from J Payne Lowe.
The article explains that sea phosphorescence is caused by tiny motile organisms excited by disturbed water. Professor Necharme notes these creatures become visible with fortyfold magnification, measure seven to fifteen hundredths of an inch, and glow brightest before storms. They live in bottles and react to agitation and chemicals.
The piece extols modesty as the source of true beauty for women, likening it to shade in painting and a halo from virtue. It cites the maiden blush as the ideal hue, warns that lack of modesty leads to melancholy and repentance, and contrasts lasting character with fleeting youth. It ends with a vignette of a little girl hunting eggs among idle hens.
The San Francisco Pacific argues there is ample Western ruinous frontier space for ministers abroad and urges bold action. It says to seek out fifty ready fields from Mexico to Alaska, and to create one’s own work rather than wait for vacancies.
A reflective urging to act with magnanimity and give freely even if betrayed or pressed by others. The counsel emphasizes benevolence over cold calculation and argues that generous acts foster long term safety and better outcomes.
A historical agricultural table shows yard and length measurements that define one acre. Examples include 20 yards by 242 yards and 40 by 121, plus several other metric analogs such as 160 yards by 3014 yards and 220 feet by 198 feet.
Classified rates for advertising are listed with one week at $1.00 per square and 23 cents per subsequent insertion, with larger notices for marriages and deaths. A cheeky anecdote describes an American household employing a Chinaman named Chang, his misadventures with hair, ironing, and a Tribune, as recounted by Amelia Eliza and attributed to Newark Journal.
A geologist hosts a dinner after dissecting a Mississippi alligator. Guests praise soup while Buckland argues it is alligator not turtle. The scene highlights prejudice and imagination, as attendees debate the dish’s true nature and the diners’ reactions.
A fragment discusses the wooden nutmeg legend and its North South bias. It recounts traders sending nutmegs to Beaufort South Carolina where a planter buys them, guests try to crack them, and they are found hollow. The tale mocks southern gullibility and northern cleverness in a dated stereotype.
The fragment hints at Mme de Penigny’s distress in Jerusalem and the East’s famed trade in roses. It notes her weeping and questions of purpose, with remarks on the East’s smells, perfumes, and trade value such as ten francs for authentic scent.
The piece argues marriage offers the worst chances to spoil a life, claiming a wife can debase and ruin a husband as a spouse can drain ambition, energy, and character. It frames the marriage relationship as uniquely harmful to both parties.
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