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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1872
Page
1
In a Rome to Naples journey a traveler tells of losing his passport and lodging in a dilapidated inn. A eerie groan and shadowed visitors reveal a hidden cellar beneath a thief’s den with corpses and loot. The tale ends with a life saved and a furtive friar begging for prayers.
A country youth learns the printing trade away from home and faces abrupt dismissal when a subscriber orders the paper stopped. He quits mid shock after discovering the paper remained in operation and the boss kept producing. His eyes widen at the miscommunication and the joke of the “uncertain business.”
Bishop Morley loved a prank. He ordered his coachman to fetch water, the man balked, and Morley replied by loading the coach with a pitcher and driving to the well. The exchange was repeated, amusing the village.
A fragment presents a list of maxims on forgiveness tolerance kindness and respect. It contrasts gifts to enemies opponents friends family and self with emphasis on virtue and obedience to God. The compact adage urges conduct that honors parents and elevates moral character.
A tongue in cheek guide suggests fleeing indoors for rest and urges outdoors exertion and fresh air as a tonic. It promotes oxygen as cheap and effective, superior to alcohol or sweets, and notes it is not taxed by government yet not free by act of Congress but by heaven’s decree.
The piece laments that many children from ambitious families waste inherited advantages through vice and dissipation. It argues parents seek utility and prominence for their offspring, but only steady, honest effort yields a lasting reputation and a respected name.
The London Saturday Review argues the post card embodies the age of rush. It notes lost courtesies and leisure, shorter sermons, faster scholars, and holidays turned into races against time as express trains and telegraphs shape a self congratulating, hurried world.
The piece extols walking over riding for health, noting city dwellers, especially the well to do, avoid walking. It cites a city family whose seven children walked two miles to school daily in all weather, boasting perfect punctuality and minimal sickness over seven years, and later trekking twelve miles in Swiss mountains.
The text argues wealth can empower good but warns against worshiping money. It cites Solon and Spartan simplicity as models to curb excessive wealth and protect national character. Wealth is useful as “sinews of war” and enabling prosperity, yet obsession risks decline.
A Chicago Post humorous observation on umbrellas. It notes practical uses such as shielding a stranger with back pain and weather-proofing plans. It also jokes about rainless days, umbrella misplacements, and the umbrella’s chameleon shapes and social impressions.
Skinner led the orchestra and praised his own overture. A friend swapped sheets with fragmentary music from twenty kinds. The performance collapsed into violent discord and a brawl ending with Skinner fighting the trombone player amid overturned instruments and a cheering audience.
The article traces the cent from 1792 with Washington on one side and thirteen links on the other to the shift during the French revolutionary era when Liberty replaced Washington, followed by the return to a classical dame with a fillet. It notes Jefferson’s naming, Morris’s proposal, and later changes to the reverse motif.
During the siege of Paris a milk shortage caused infant deaths. A French chemist developed a safe artificial milk, approved by government, using sugar, water, albumen or gelatin, soda, and olive oil, with slaughterhouse fat as a substitute. One Paris firm reportedly produced 132,000 gallons daily.
A Daily Telegraph communication, supposedly by an agriculturist, details the meager earnings of a laborer named Hodge. He works ten hours daily for eightpence, supports a wife and three children, with barely two shillings from the wife and two pence from a child. He pays four pounds yearly rent for a cottage. His daily meals are bread and water, a dumpling dinner, bread and tea for supper, with occasional cheese and an onion as treats, and rarely beef or mutton.
Advertising rates set at 1 004 dollars per square for one week with 25 cents per additional square. Twelve lines or less equals one square. Special notices before marriages and deaths double rates. Transient ads must be prepaid. Yearly contracts on reasonable terms. Yearly privilege limited to immediate business. Ads due by Thursday noon for next issue. Religious obituary and political notices charged as ads.
A humorous anecdote compares strength of will and strength of mind through Bob and his friend Waffles. Bob’s nervous temperance struggle contrasts with Waffles’s calm self control, prompting a quip that brute force lacks mind and a jackass has more will than any living being.
The article warns that throat and lung diseases arise from careless exposure to crowded environments. It describes how a delicate woman breathing tainted air in theatres or churches becomes prone to chronic bronchitis and eventual consumption due to repeated overheating and chilling of the body.
Independent of worldly concerns, mental pursuits bring rich reward to the devotee. They offer delight in cultivation and at least temporary oblivion to anxious cares in their abstract practice.
The document lists several enacted acts including wardens and ward clerks in Providence to be elected by May, creation of a Board of Public Works for sewer maintenance, protection of telegraphic messages with fines, repeal of Chapter 263 relating to harbor waters, and amendments to Chapter 91 of the Revised Statutes on offenses. A true copy is attested by Secretary Joan R. Bartlett.
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