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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1877
Page
3
A poetic fragment captures a summer memory with wild blossoms, green leaves, and a clear water murmur. Birds, harbor sounds, and a amber glowing western sky frame a vow of priceless grace and a grand life lit by sunlit shadows.
New York dispatch notes the Vanderbilt will suit adjourned to December 4 as testimony is prepared. It chronicles Cornelius Vanderbilt family intrigue from 1864, comments on a lavish Vanderbilt wedding at St Bartholomew's, and critiques social display. Also reports on cigar makers strike, shift to women workers, rum laws, and Tilton Beecher fallout.
The North American and Ophir mining companies form at Warren Wyoming Territory near LaPlata. C. M. Gregory and F. O. Lawin discoverers with ledges 120 and 400 feet wide. Officers include L. Z. Farwell president and C. M. Gregory superintendent. Shafts planned, smelting works planned next spring, no stock for sale.
November 1877 real estate transfers listed from Freeport and nearby towns. transactions include Frekport properties tied to Fred Fetzer, Thos L Carey, J J Hewitt, Henry Metz, Jacob Figge, John Rice, Cronkrite, von Loh estate, Delate to Delamater, Henry Aspinwall, Cullen Brown, Richard Hughes, and others. Abstracts of titles, deeds, mortgages, wills, and loans offered by Taylor & Son.
How long will forests endure under heavy yearly depletion and rising manufacture. Experts estimate 30 to 50 years at current rates, a shift from two decades ago when demand was lower and production easier. Advances in sawing tech may outrun today’s machinery, yet the wooden age appears finite. Charles D. Robinson notes in Scribner's December.
A curiously moralizing fragment offers a recipe for emotional balance using seeds of true friendship and caution against self interest. It dismisses misplaced trust and advises prudence, patience, and discretion. The text includes observational quips on courtship and one farmer Irish joke about hunting and secrecy.
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