29 Nov 1879
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1879
Page
1
The poem speaks of autumn harvest and November winds, praising divine gifts and blessings. It expresses gratitude for kindness, mercy, and peace, and prays for God's continued presence to comfort the weary. It envisions crossing the mystical river to a heavenly home where Thanksgiving endures forever.
A poetic excerpt evokes a national gathering with pilgrim and guest arriving from all directions. It reflects reunion, affection, and kinship as gray-haired elders reunite with family members and memories resurface. The verse highlights emotion, homesickness, and longing for loved ones.
A humorous Thanksgiving scene unfolds as Elder Sniffles debates temperance at a family meal with Mr. Maguire and Mrs. Maguire. The dialogue covers portions of turkey pie cranberry sauce and plum pudding while the elder repeatedly advocates abstinence and restraint.
The piece asserts that truths gain no force when weak and that in calamity relief only comes from God. It states善善恶恶 are fixed and that God inherently sees and judges them as they are, emphasizing immutable moral order and divinely grounded response.
A terse meditation on enduring despondency and presence of divine satisfaction. It suggests life’s value persists as long as life lasts and rightly lived.
A concise meditation urges testing character by deeds not feelings. It asks if life shows fruit of good works and spiritual labor in daily action, signaling that true faith reveals itself through productive, righteous outcomes rather than transient ecstasy.
A reflective prose snippet questions why skeptics cling to a fabled religion and why critics haunt a tragedy. It compares fear and remorse to a ground-swell rocking a silent ship and tomb, arguing efforts to seal sins fail against inevitable disturbance and memory.
A reflective piece contrasts distant thunderclouds with the earth sown name in flowers. It argues that to be good one must find love and reverence, distinguishes gentleness from cowardly flattery, and asserts genius thrives through toil and hardship to gain strength and immortality.
Samantha Allen quotes the Chicago Inter-Ocean on Thomas and Maggie marrying to keep house alone. She warns the first year is precarious and urges patience, noting both spouses show unexpected faults in daily life. Strong willed habits, laundry days, and home routines test couples.
A long note explains incubation timelines for several birds with detailed embryo stages and growth milestones. A Denver case follows a dying man who confesses a hidden crime stemming from his son, revealing a murder sacrifice. The piece ends with cotton yarn manufacturing advances in the South and a tale of a valuable old painting sold for a fortune.
The piece argues that “nursery” culture and baby weighing are fashionable trends reflecting mothers’ pride in childcare. It contrasts modern Parisian trends with Rousseau’s call for maternal devotion, noting a shift since the Second Empire toward relegating children to nurses and displaying them as social toys.
The Jordan Valley displays a vivid tapestry of flowers described in Tent Work in Palestine. Blossoms cover the ground across stony soils and marls, with red anemone, lavender stocks, white broom, purple nettles, yellow kutufu, orange marigolds, clover, bodés, snapdragon, salvias, garlic, geraniums, cistus, umbels, camomile, and white borders of deep green herbage.
On a journey, the Rev. Dr Bledsoe faced three pedantic bores who overbearingly displayed their learning. He endured then stated gravely that they both know all there is to know, adding that the fool only lacks what he already knows.
The Saturday Review reflects on Pompeii’s cataclysm in A D 79, noting that many bodies have been found, suggesting higher death tolls than Sir William Gell’s estimate of 1300. The piece praises how the ruins illuminate ancient Roman life, with frescoes from the House of the Tragic Poet and Naples Museum paintings highlighting first century art.
Early church fathers opposed glove use but dignitaries wore jeweled silk and linen gloves. Bruno of Segni notes linen gloves for chastity, Boniface VIII favored white silk, and William of Wykeham’s gloves in red silk with gold embroidery survive at New College Oxford. Glove color varied with seasons. origin date unknown.
Harper's Magazine notes the sparrow family in Europe and North America but observes one sparrow whose song is notably dull. It contrasts this bird with the catbird and robin, suggesting no more dullness than its kin yet provoking strong dissent from critics who prefer melodious song.
Fean described as the white-lipped sire associated with subterfuge and treachery in the text, suggesting a folkloric or fictional lineage with a focus on cunning and deceit.
A quotation from Robert Collyer extols writing and speaking with clear, precise words. It describes how honest thought and choice of language build understanding and truth, guiding teachers, orators, poets, and the press toward effective communication.
A Provident goat seeks life insurance for his kids but meets a benevolent anaconda who proposes a Granger mutual scheme. The plan collapses as the anaconda boasts low operating costs while crushing the goat, and the scene ends with the anaconda's cunning.
A Boston Advertiser report notes a New York donor funds transport and erection of Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria. Lieut Commander Garringe leads the project with Navy leave, seeking to place the obelisk in a New York public park after its transfer from Egypt.
A Vienna barber courtship story tells of a poor girl selling her hair for eight florins when a gentleman at a salon offers one hundred florins for the longest strand. He pays and takes her address, revealing himself as head of a large Vienna industrial concern, hoping to aid her family in dire need.
Josn Billings surveys reasons people marry amid scarce resources and social constraints. He argues marriages arise from love or necessity, yet many wed for unclear motives and face regret. He notes calico and dry goods as symbols of circumstance shaping unions. The piece uses witty, observational tone to reflect on the marriage game.
A Rondout man who died left three sons as his only heirs. A week after his death the sons allegedly fled with all the property before lawyers could intervene and divided it among themselves. The note laments such sordid, grasping behavior and the discouragement it brings to lawyers.
A reader from St. Paul recounts how Hop Bitters cured his wife after urging use. He reports the remedy improved her health in under two months and has kept her well for eighteen months. The letter ends with the writer enjoying being humbugged.
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