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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1877
Page
1
A grim poem follows a late teacher who tallies pupil data including absences ages and admissions while overworked. She dreams of death and meets a medical student who uncovers fossilized school reports buried beneath the ground. The doctor muses on education and mortality.
A nostalgic poem recalls a girl awaiting her father at the cottage door each night, her blue eyes like stars in heaven. The speaker reflects on life’s changes and finds comfort in the belief that an angel will greet him at the gate when he goes to brighter days.
William Harden flees with ally Allelah after a raid on the fort. Burton and Jason More clash as Harden’s escape leads to a counter pursuit through the forest. Allelah helps free Harden, recovers dispatches for Col. Ethan Allen, and they reach Freeman camp with Washington’s letters.
A Chicago incendiary, Standen, faces uncertain punishment as juries disputed his guilt on a third trial. The article notes he has already spent years jailed and much money on fencing, offering limited comfort in his ongoing consequences.
A special correspondent sketches Peter Goelet at Broadway and Nineteenth Streets as the last great representative of old New York wealth owning a farm lifestyle in a cow and poultry yard amid costly streets. The piece surveys Tweed era corruption, sheriff levies, and the downturn in city charities with winter hardship striking laborers and the poor, calling for aid as cold deepens.
A long account describes Kidd treasure legends centered on Money Hill in Monmouth County New Jersey, with three hundred men at work and high pay promises. It notes wobbling spring prospects, rail traffic disruptions from heavy snows, and Vanderbilt family feuds over Cornelius Vanderbilt’s will as New York and New Jersey readers ponder fortunes, transport, and fortune races.
A humorous anecdote recounts Josh Billings visiting a slick insurance agent from Gar Angel Life Insurance Co. The agent asks bizarre questions about gender, weight, fits, loves, rats, and past sins. After answering, he is assured life insurance and shown a path to a term future, ending with a wry smile.
A fragment shows Lucy Ard appearing before the police court. His Honor responds with a slow solemn tone and grants a thirty day period. An exchange about a Squire follows, with unclear further context and names cut off.
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