01 Jun 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1872
Page
1
A lyric about Robin birds returning to build a nest under blossoming trees. The mother bird faces weary days incubating eggs while the mate watches, and both birds guide their fledglings to take flight with hopeful wonder. The piece ends with a note of divine care.
In a crowded tenement, Susan Houghhood faces loss and poverty with resilience. Neighbors and two kindly adults shelter her after her mother’s death, and Susan earns trust by helping with chores and caring for a cat. Years pass as Susan and Uncle John and Aunt Jane grow to rely on her steady love, culminating in a move to a farm home with Susan later marrying Robert Worth and building a new life.
The piece extols duty and the calm acceptance of aging. It warns that wealth can bind a person to land and notes people often condemn others while neglecting their own faults. It remarks on how good humor and gentleness could win virtue, criticizing penitent overreach and blind self-critique.
In times of poverty illness and insult there is aid in faith. Religion offers comfort as a shadowed rock in a weary land and guidance toward the eternal glories beyond this life.
The text urges gathering scattered talents and strength to a single objective: concentrate to a point, and effort will swiftly kindle success, while spreading resources across many things dilutes impact and undermines achievement.
The piece argues that men who dismiss emotion show weakness and loneliness. It urges embracing filial, paternal, and fraternal love, claiming better to lose beauty in nature than to lose the heart’s treasures. It condemns coldness and praises warm, caring ties.
Addison argues ambition is natural and drives people to seek respect in their circles. It can move individuals toward advantage if rightly directed, though it often causes unease and unrest.
Advice from Hall's Journal of Health extols hot tea or coffee as the best beverage for those over fifty, arguing cold water during meals impairs digestion and that hot drinks revive the aged or tired. It endorses hot beverages as safer and generally beneficial, noting rare exceptions.
Advice on bright sunlit sleeping rooms emphasizing eastern exposure for morning light, clear windows, light carpeting, warm tones, and uncluttered views. Recommends appropriate window coverings, minimal furnishings with reposeful furniture, and hearth visibility to foster a cheerful restful atmosphere.
A man with three friends faces a tribunal. The first makes excuses, the second fears the judge, but the third speaks for him and is rewarded. Money deserts at death, while the benevolence of works travels with the soul to judgment.
The piece argues true progress comes from patient, steady works. Moral education, Sunday schools, devoted mothers, and temperance reformers slowly shape society, unlike flashy bursts of power.
The January 1872 Rhode Island sessions enact laws allowing action for injuries caused by intoxicated persons and amend a Providence street layout act. Provisions require city action within 60 days after reports, jury trial notices within 30 days, and publication of notices. The act preserves land ownership on taken properties and repeals conflicting provisions.
Rhode Island acts amend statutes covering intoxication liability and lease forfeiture for liquor sales and the Providence city ward division. The measures authorize enforcement via ordinances, set immediate effect, and address cattle control and public school salaries with specified penalties and repeals.
The City Council of Providence is authorized to require city officers who receive fees or city monies to make returns to the City Treasury at times prescribed by ordinance. This authority derives from consolidated acts including the act to revise and amend the Providence city charter and related amendments enacted by the General Assembly. The measure empowers financial oversight and streamlines municipal revenue reporting.
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