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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1872
Page
2
Freeport Journal reports President Grant's fourth annual message in full, presenting a masterly review of national affairs and weighing with greater-than-usual public interest.
The death of Horace Greeley is reported from a private insane hospital near Chappaqua. He died Friday evening at age sixty two after weeks of illness following the loss of his wife. The world mourns a busy reformer whose fame crossed borders. Leading New York churches held services and tributes poured in from clergy. The funeral is scheduled for today with President Grant, Vice President Colfax, and Vice President elect Wilson in attendance.
A compilation of excerpts mentions Gov Seward's Travels Around the World, New York Tribune advice to electors for Grant, and a California insanity plea affecting a land conveyance to Mont Eagle University. It notes a death aboard a train near Rochelle from a neck wound and traces a sequence of political and legal salients of the era.
Wasuixatox Dec 2 The President's Annual Message to Congress praises national peace and prosperity, outlines the Geneva tribunal award of 15.5 million to the United States from Great Britain, discusses boundary issues in Alaska and the Haro channel, and urges commissions and legislation to implement the treaty relations and emancipation reforms in Cuba while noting other international affairs and financials.
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