01 Jul 1876
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1876
Page
1
A reflection on human delusion about time and progress. People overestimate future results while workers see daily limits. The author urges strict, practical planning to avoid miscalculation, incompleteness, and unfinished projects.
An advertisement for Vineland New Jersey promotes fruit farms and vine Friendly land 34 miles south of Philadelphia with rail access to New York Markets. It highlights climate health resorts property values 25 dollars per acre payment plans and town lots in Landisville Vineland plus a brick hotel and local manufactories. It cites Vineland as fertile with loam soil and mentions Solon Robinson’s favorable New York Tribune extract.
A vicar tours a chancery estate in desolation and recounts the tale of Lindley Warwick a young squire who isolated himself for twenty years to guard a brutal secret. After a burglary incident a mother mourns, and Warwick retreats to a locked life until death ends his yo-yo of luxury. The servants honor his final order and keep his face unseen.
A Stockton California Herald correspondent describes a Paris medical school remedy for small pox and scarlet fever. The recipe mixes zinc sulfate and digitalis with water and sugar, taken hourly, claiming cure or prevention within twelve hours for patients and smaller doses for children.
The excerpt extols summer as a limitless tutor, a vibrant season teeming with life and divine beneficence. It invites offering to God, noting the earth’s green bounty and blossoms as expressions of gratitude and love.
A tall man in Boston is approached by an elderly admirer who asks if he was large as a child. He replies he was considerably big when he was little.
A four year old boy awakes troubled by a blocked nose. He asks his mother what is the matter with one side of his nose and why it won’t go. The fragment hints at a minor illness or discomfort observed in a morning scene.
Two Comstockers appointed to collect subscriptions plan to draw checks in the bank for their shares to raise the required amount. Their quick solution ends the trouble as they pursue the fundraising in a single moment.
A reflective column urges daily happiness through small acts like lending a garment, kind words, and encouragement, noting over a year that one kind act can greet 365 people. It then surveys historic wits and authors, contrasting their social reticence with their literary brilliance.
Patrick Henry rises from modest beginnings to become a powerful voice for colonial resistance. His early failures gave way to a dramatic courtroom triumph over the clergy, then a pivotal role in the Stamp Act debates, uniting Virginians from planters to common folk and steering public sentiment toward revolution.
A long article traces a 17th century clock gifted to Rev. Obadiah Holmes in Salem and its journey through the Holmes family. It notes the clock’s London-made weights and pendulum, its Restoration era trials, and Holmes’s steadfast persecution in 1651.
A proverb-like line notes that gentle speech and absence of scandal reveal a pleasant mouth. It emphasizes courteous talk over rumor and gossip, suggesting character shows in how one speaks about others.
Henry H M Patton of Lawrence Indiana writes to Cincinnati Times recommending Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for early consumption. He claims three bottles needed for his wife before improvement appeared, then full recovery after the third bottle. He offers witnesses if Alphabetical writes back.
Dates of Advertising indicate rates for one week and subsequent insertions with 12 lines per square. Special notices for marriages and deaths double the rate, prepaid ads, yearly contracts available, and early Thursday noon submission to appear in the next issue. Obituary and political notices treated as advertisements.
The document records multiple acts passed in 1876 including one enabling towns to celebrate Independence Day, another to enforce Chapter 144 on foreign insurance, and Chapter 577 approving constitutional amendments for publication and submission to electors.
Section details require amendment approval by electors at town meetings on the first Tuesday in November 1876 with voting hours unchanged. The Secretary of State to publish, distribute ballots marked approve or reject, and oversee counting and certification by December, with final proclamation in January 1877 if three fifths approve.
A ticket clerk is told by an elder boy and a younger companion that they both are underage for half price, but the older boy asserts the two youths under ten qualify for half fare each and they are admitted.
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