30 Nov 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1872
Page
1
A reflective narrative traces Thanksgiving joys and sorrows as families reunite around a table, honoring a past shipwreck and lost loved ones. Milly Moore confronts marriage prospects while a letter from a missing sweetheart finally arrives, yielding a hopeful union.
In Anchor Port a post office and shop keep Mrs. Aunty Gunty and her husband Job Gunter run groceries and hardware as sailors return home. Tales center on Milly Moore and Will Massett, romance, shipwrecks aboard the Golden Dove, and letters that bind families despite storms and separation. Captain Rawdon mourns the loss. Captain Kincaid brings news as life in port continues amid bustling trade and mislaid mail.
A misc item notes that wealth, knowledge, and health can be regained or improved but time once lost cannot be recovered. The reflection emphasizes industry, study, temperance, and medicine as remedies for other losses.
The excerpt argues that endless effort cannot erase a mist of vice. progress comes from rising to a higher moral atmosphere. It suggests that one gains power over harmful habits by elevating one's perspective and standards.
Advice from Wirt urges forming a steady reading habit, focusing on close, thoughtful analysis of each subject. Do not chase book to book with caprice, but store information carefully in memory to build lasting, useful learning.
The passage extols true religion as upright against personal desires and prejudices. It claims religion shatters old habits, redirects thoughts, awakens a dull conscience, and transfigures and regenerates the individual, even enlarging a small power into something good.
A compact meditation on love’s paradoxes and perils. It likens love to a chameleon and notes that beginnings are free but endings are not, with affection tangled by perception and emotion rather than action. It contrasts desire, delight, jealousy, ingratitude, and dissembling as forces shaping love.
A devotional passage quotes George MacDonald urging steady diligence and calm patience. It exhorts charity, reliance on God, and waiting for divine timing, comparing a single day to a thousand years and predicting a grand harvest at the end. The tone is inspirational and moralistic.
A sailor warns of danger when near rocks as the wheel deviates half a point. The tale extends to life urging honesty and caution against small vices. A boy learns rocks are hidden in plain sight after a master warns him of deadly rocks in the East River channel.
A Western paper hints Bates should abandon flag bearing abroad and take up a tool with serrated edges to cut prime vegetable growth into suitable lengths for culinary use.
A visitor finds an author writing in a sweltering study. The guest notes the heat, and the author quips that the room must be hot because he is making his bread.
An exhortation on expressing gratitude and praise to others. It argues that unspoken good thoughts wither, urging readers to replace reticence with honest admiration to brighten homes and relationships. The piece contrasts bold fault finding with the far more healing effect of encouragement and support.
In Carlysle Kentucky a man named William Wirtman recalled a thorn driven into his foot sixty one years earlier. Doctors could not remove it then for fear of lockjaw. The thorn later appeared when the skin loosened near the knee, was pulled free, and remained sound. The story comes from a trustworthy source in the Carlysle Mercury.
A Moroccan cave near Fez shows a ten foot high and twelve foot wide opening emitting horizontal flames with a loud hiss. The phenomenon, named Ben iguazeval, lacks lava or stones and may result from coal beds igniting and sustaining flame through natural draught. Researchers have not resolved its origin.
A Saturday night hunt for a clergyman’s horse ends in despair until he preaches on Job asking where the horse might be. A boy then reveals the animal is in Deacon Smith’s barn, delivering a humorous punchline.
A columnist condemns mothers who dress children in scant clothing during winter, arguing the practice endangers health and life. The piece laments fashion tyranny and predicts remorse if a child falls ill or dies, urging humane care over stylishness.
The passage argues that a thorough honest worker produces the best results in farming and elsewhere. It stresses pride in quality, finishing tasks fully, and not sacrificing standards even when hurried. Adopting a high standard and applying full effort leads to true success.
A traveler recalling the great pyramid of Cheops says its base and height exceed the combined mass of many city churches bricks and mortar. He notes one layer was removed for Cairo building and estimates the remaining material could supply a city of half a million for a century. Cheops was built about 2123 years before the Christian era.
A 19th century report notes that suspending iodide of nitrogen on a bass viol string causes the chemical to explode when high notes are played, while bowing has no effect. It suggests strong commercial potential for drugs and chemicals and imagines mass use to blow orchestras apart.
The piece explains that sprains and bruises cause swollen joints and severe pain. It prescribes plain water therapy: cold applications for heat, warm fermentations for tenderness, and a wet cloth under a dry wrap to ease tenderness. It argues water is superior to liniments and plasters.
The text advises stammerers to use rhythm and time to improve speech. By marking syllables with a steady pace Leander swam the Helles pont becomes Le-an-der swam the Helles-pont, aiding enunciation. Start slow, then speed up while maintaining rhythm to break the habit. Perseverance and attention are essential.
A tale about painter Stuart shows how a hidden art of coloring quickly multiplies when shared. He marks the count as a joke to reveal how even a small breach—one instead of many—can explode into an unwelcome spread of the secret.
A boy fallen from an apple tree awakes to ask for a pair of pants with a pocket behind. His mother, by his bed, learns he is regaining consciousness after the fall and humorously declares his simple wish.
A historic remedy suggests mixing one quart of vinegar with juice from six large onions, an ounce of grated soap, a quarter pound of fuller's earth, an ounce of lime, and one ounce of pearl ash. Boil until thick, apply to the scorched area, let dry, and scrape off. Repeat two or three times if fabric remains intact.
A celebrated physician watches her husband in a funeral procession and quips that such scenes resemble a tailor carrying home his work. Her remark underscores a wry, social humor about professions and mortality.
Two aged women arrived in Deerfield Michigan and began rebuilding a home with no male labor. They now set about leveling the primeval forests around the property.
A moral maxim urges overcoming evil with good as the only way to end malevolence. It argues meeting evil breeds further evils and that virtue can extinguish malice where it resides.
An old saying warns against trusting everyone who speaks for you as one who fetches will also carry. The adage highlights caution regarding rumors and unreliable informants.
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