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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1876
Page
1
The Bristol Phere issue appears with editor A C Greene and notes publication on Saturdays. It mentions subscription terms, payment deadlines, and the option for the publishers to withhold the paper if dues are unpaid.
In a rainy May night, Uncle Barnabas and the family discuss a plan for improving income. Eleanor and her mother face a harsh choice about taking a service position to support themselves, weighing dignity against necessity as they parse the offer of a twenty five dollar monthly wage and a life of duties for an elderly lady.
In a small town a quarrel over damaged wheat leads Captain Lober to sue Uncle Joe Bassett. Joe admits owning no horse and with humor exposes the false claim, costarring a courtroom scene that ends with Lober’s defeat and the captain leaving town. The affair ends with Joe’s honor intact and his geese safely wandering. Capt. Lober moves away shortly after.
The article discusses cranberry cultivation as a valuable option for farms with wet valleys or swampy winter conditions. It notes cranberries thrive when allowed to grow two years, after which vines yield more bushels than potatoes and require less effort to gather. The piece emphasizes the fruit’s healthful quality and warns against overripe or poorly cooked berries, urging growers to select prime beds and avoid unsuitable sandier soils.
Eleanor resists menial duties but accepts Uncle Barnabas offer to become his adopted daughter. Susy volunteers for a job, pledging to send twenty dollars monthly home while staying in a gilded home with Aunt Prudence. Eleanor remains in the country, pursuing a different life, while Susy adapts to the new wealth and social expectations.
A fragmentary passage discusses guilt and burden, stating events are God's and a creature may lay down his head. The text is archaic and unclear, with punctuation oddities and incomplete phrases. No clear names beyond Cecil appear.
A short reflective note cites a Bacon quote praising mercy and warning of fear. It presents a philosophical musing on contentment and heaven while contrasting desires and anxieties in human life. No individuals or organizations are named.
A quotation emphasizes that successful child rearing is the planet’s greatest achievement, with all work culminating in that. The statement frames parenting as the ultimate purpose and fulfillment of human effort.
A Whipple quote on genius describing it as a blend of reason doubt not, judging, imagining, feeling deeply yet not being reasoning, judgment, imagination, or passion. It emphasizes genius as all-encompassing and undefined.
A devotional poem fragment by George D. Prentice contrasts the elusive future “Some time” with eternal rest in a heavenly homestead. It envisions a celestial city where sorrow ends and believers find rest, using imagery of mountains, flowers, birds, and palm trees to frame hope beyond life’s weariness.
A London tale recounts a navy veteran who earned prize money payable in guineas. He ties his shoe on a post, is seized by a press gang, and ends up aboard a warship. Years later a banker finds the bag, rises in fortune, and the sailor reappears seeking his wealth with the banker offering a future payment. The mystery of the disappearance remains unsolved.
The Dover Enquirer recalls Mrs. J. C. Wentworth of Orchard Street, once the teacher of the late Hon. Henry Wilson. The note from Wilson praises her influence in childhood and thanks her for guidance, recalling the old Farmington school and his humble beginnings. He also sent volumes of his History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America as tokens of gratitude.
Nineveh spanned fifteen miles by eight, with a wall a hundred feet high and ten chariots wide. Babylon lay within walls seventy five feet thick and four hundred feet high, guarded by one hundred brazen gates. The temple of Diana at Ephesus rose four hundred twenty feet to the roof support, after a century of construction. The Great Pyramid stood four hundred eighty one feet high and six hundred fifty three on the sides, base eleven acres, with thirty foot stones and three hundred eighty layers, built by three hundred thirty thousand workers. The labyrinth of Egypt held three hundred chambers and two hundred fifty halls, while Thebes boasted ruins twenty seven miles around, with three hundred fifty thousand citizens and four hundred thousand slaves. Delphic temple donations totaled five hundred thousand dollars, Nero carried away two hundred statues, and the walls of Rome measured thirteen miles around.
The piece highlights a spirit of mutual aid between workers and owners at Boston stores. Clerks were mentored and promoted within the firms, with five percent profit goods and country expansion drawing trade from older shops. A country boy rose from grocery work to start his own business with initial $300, later expanding with siblings joining in.
Amid storms of winter, a long discourse urges Christians to curb debt. It pinpoints causes from vanity to generosity, warns debt erodes character, and urges living within means, paying obligations promptly, and postponing purchases until affordable. It cites personal anecdote on sacrifice and notes hard cases of bankruptcy while stressing charity. It ends with advice to pay grocer, pen, minister, and printer, and to owe only love paid in kind.
Mrs Sniffles tries to reform Lycurgus by adding whiskey to every meal in a desperate, doomed experiment. The plan backfires as his appetite soars and he becomes a prisoner of the "cooking whiskey" regimen, driving the couple toward ruin and despair.
An old note explains that mirrors made with stinefoil and mercury on glass plates are easily crystallized by direct sunlight. A sunlit mirror often becomes dulled and speckled, failing to reflect outlines with precision. Careful hanging is advised to avoid surface damage and loss of reflectivity.
The piece explains how well water becomes polluted from surface sources and ground seepage, with bacteria and organic matter entering from nearby drains. It warns that sparkling taste may hide toxic changes and emphasizes pain as a crucial guard of life, citing examples of injuries and the need to feel danger to regulate actions.
Mr Green, famed diver, recounts extraordinary underwater sights in a coral sea bank. He describes clear waters revealing marble floors, coral columns, arches, and sea fans amid a fantastical submerged landscape, with vibrant variegated colors and pale plant life.
The notice outlines advertising terms: standard ads at $1.00 per square for one week, 25 cents for each later insertion, and shorter notices up to twelve lines. Prepaid contracts required. ads must be submitted by Thursday noon to appear in the next issue. Death notices inserted with double the standard rate.
A Detroit Herald and Torch Light praise Moody and Sankey as American genius and compare their common touch to Dr Pierce and the World’s Dispensary Buffalo. The piece highlights Pierce products such as Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets and extols his 900 page medical adviser at $1.50.
A passenger on a Kentucky rapid transit line stops the brakeman and asks how fast the train goes. The brakeman replies that it goes fast enough and tells him to get out and walk if unhappy. The passenger says he would, but fears his friends will miss the train at the depot for two or three hours, so he settles back in his seat.
A garbled excerpt advises readers to protect themselves from cold weather by breathing through the nose and wrapping toes in woolen hose. The fragment hints at winter precautions but lacks full context or clear attribution.
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