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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1875
Page
1
A night operator in a D Iowa railroad office reads a regional murder alert about Tim Lynch. The moment Lynch enters, the operator weighs a plan to capture him using a telegraph link to a downtown station, aiming to leverage the dangerous visitor for his own gain.
A timid telegraph operator narrates his tense standoff with masked outlaw Tim Lynch in a depotside office. As Lynch threatens violence, the operator uses careful timing and a call across distance to summon police. Officers arrive, Lynch is captured, and the operator receives a reward and funds to marry, though the memory haunts him.
Excerpt admonishes that every falsehood harms society and compares slanders to foul spiders from a rose. It argues new actions are the only acceptable apologies or explanations for the noble to offer or receive.
A terse maxim warns that the worst dupes are those who live in constant fear of being duped, implying a self defeating paranoia that shapes foolish behavior and harms judgment.
A terse admonition about people who seek constant small favors. It condemns easygoing help for those deemed unworthy, warning against unnecessary effort on their behalf. The tone implies a cautionary stance toward reciprocal kindness.
A reflective line discusses passions as convulsions that strengthen briefly but leave lasting weakness afterward. It contrasts temporary vigor with enduring vulnerability, suggesting ardor can be both energizing and destabilizing over time.
A reflective remark notes that an ill-natured man cannot possess public spirit because he cannot truly love the many who do not love him in return. The saying emphasizes the conflict between private dislike and communal duty.
A reflection argues that tracing the history of any modest family across five or six generations reveals the broader arc of society, offering insight more vividly than lengthy scholarly works.
The article asserts that mental causes influence the body. It notes anxiety grief and emotions can lessen strength and wear health, a connection known to many though not widely emphasized in education.
The text urges calm, quiet conduct to minimize conflict with others. It advises ending dealings with deceitful or abusive people, avoiding slander, and living so that others disbelieve false accusations. The overarching message is to let wrongs pass peacefully and keep one’s conduct cool and restrained.
A Robert Collyer reflection asserts that true religion yields fruits such as love joy and patience in daily acts. He cites examples from nursing a fretful child to managing business vexations, medical care, or locomotive repairs to illustrate tangible righteousness.
A moral exhortation urging steadfast faithfulness and truthful conduct regardless of wrongs or injustices. It emphasizes living by higher principles, treating every person with honesty, integrity, and the best effort, and avoiding deceit or meanness even when provoked. It calls for acting as a true man in all situations.
A meditative reflection extols grand ideals and humble daily tasks. It argues that profound views illuminate minor emergencies and that virtue shines in small social duties, with a serene heart organizing domestic happiness.
A column stresses that true capital is labor power not money, urging a lazy young man to work with bone and brain. It contrasts earning by labor with aiming for plantations or wealth, and cites colonial settlement timelines up to Georgia’s founding in Savannah.
A Grecian legend tells how Bacchus as a boy carries a sprouting plant from Hellas to Naxia. It survives by attaching to bones of a bird, a lion and an ass, yielding grapes that become wine. Drinking alters behavior from singing to lionlike vigor and then to donkey inclinations.
The passage describes a sunset over a retired meadow with no houses, a lone marsh hawk, a musquash, and a small brook winding around a stump. Light floods the scene in a pure, golden calm as thoughts drift toward a future awakening and a sense of tranquil departure toward a holy land.
A reflective piece ponders humanity’s place in the universe, arguing earthly life is fleeting and unsatisfying. It imagines a higher realm where beauty and memory endure, contrasting earthly joys with an eternal, unchanging destiny beyond mortal existence.
A fragmented quote recalls a public figure described as a barefoot boy. The passage notes newspapers mock him for extravagance and for lacking roots, while emphasizing the irony of his supposed luck and early life.
Doctor Livingston reports on the Londa people in Southern Africa with a slender build light olive skin and distinctive hair dressing. He notes hair piled on shoulders and arched eye corners resembling ancient Egyptians. Madame Pfeiffer describes Malagasy women with coal black coarse hair two feet long, often worn in a wild frizz that obscures facial features.
Rules for accident care cover eyes and ears irrigation with tepid water and pencil tips, avoiding hard tools. compressions for arterial or venous wounds. coughing during choking. cold water for burns. smothering fires. breathing technique through smoke. avoid sucking on wounds. cautions on poisoning with vomiting triggers. acid poisons treated with acids. coffee for opium. float on back in water. raise head for apoplexy and lay flat for fainting.
An old-fashioned health note urges using a pint of milk before bed to thicken the frame and aid fever and Summer complaints. It argues milk, not meat, builds sound flesh, counters feverish myths, and recommends large milk pitchers at meals to improve health and prevent doctorsills.
A Herald of Health note warns marble-top tables are cold and rapidly draw heat from the body, potentially draining vitality. It recalls an invalid cured after avoiding the marble stand, and adds healthy people may feel shoulder twinges from sitting near one, praising or condemning its beauty accordingly.
Fragmentary text describes a man in Mantalla who falls downstairs and frames it as an accident or misfortune. It likens love and debt to acts done knowingly or rashly, implying reckless behavior without intent to harm. The passage reads as a philosophical aside on fate and desire.
Old Newburyport anecdote recalls Caleb Cushing and Rufus Choate in a famous court fight. Gerrish recalls their nerves over delays as Cushing fears the rival’s influence on juries. The piece shifts to a modern fashion column urging women to choose styles that suit their figures and reflect individuality, not mere trends.
A Methodist itinerant arrives in Van Buren where only a tavern is open. He offers to pay his board with his horse, and after he proves the horse is worth enough, the town capitulates. The result is two churches and a strong gospel presence led by Rev. John J. Roberts.
A reflective piece argues that ocean travel does not reflect global commerce. It notes sails thinly populate vast waters after land fades, with ships vanishing into endless blue. The text emphasizes oceans cover three fourths of Earth and remain largely beyond human reach.
A short treatise arguing against despondency. It contends intellect and health negate despair, defines despondency as a weak mindset, and urges perseverance despite brief griefs. It warns against misfortune shading entire days and calls for resilience over gloom.
Bea Tes FP pleases readers with a gentle essay on cheap pleasures. It argues small acts a smile a word or a share of fruit can brighten many lives from a widow with many children to busy workers. The piece urges scattering sunshine rather than hoarding it.
A satirical admonition urges constant neighbor surveillance and rumor to curb supposed misdeeds. It warns against minding one’s own business while encouraging spreading tips about others to keep them in line, promising social control and eventual “music” if the hints prevail.
A reflective piece on tiresome people who pervade social life with timely missteps and intrusive habits. It notes that such individuals, though not wicked, are sources of dread and social disruption, weaving frustration through gatherings and plans.
Dr Slack in Turf Field and Farm debunks the belief that hair snakes arise from horse hairs. He explains they are living creatures, Gordius aquaticus, with locomotion and respiration and can propagate. They are found in dry and aquatic environments, including grasshopper bodies and insectivorous birds.
Prof Simon Newcomb in a letter to the New York Tribune argues for placing an astronomer aboard a ship blindfolded and guided to any ocean. With chronometer transit instrument and proper books he could fix position within a hundred yards in one clear night.
An essayist recalls a neighbor’s obituary and condemns inflated obituary prose. He praises Christian charity while urging restraint and truthfulness in public notices. He muses on reading about Mrs Brown and reflects on personal vanity, exaggeration, and the desire to shield family reputation.
Rev. Thomas P. Hunt once lectured in East ern Pa using satire on dress and vanity to draw in women, then surprised men by revealing a West slang tale of hogs and a pig to imply roasting the audience, delivering a sharp rebuke of their vice with gusto.
A Schuyler Nebraska letter chronicles a historic weapon captured by Massachusetts volunteers at Louisburg 1745, used at Lexington and Concord in 1775, and at Bunker Hill the same year. It passed from Bray to Maj. John Jellison of Ellsworth Maine, then to his son and finally to the writer in 1865, with the writer’s family later serving in the War of 1812 and the Aroostook War.
A social reflection notes that petty disputes among neighbors, gossip, jealousy, and bickering, not high crimes, gnaw at community harmony and personal contentment. It emphasizes daily friction over sensational offenses as the true source of unrest.
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