22 Oct 1873
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1873
Page
1
A poetic meditation on the shifting seasons from spring to autumn, celebrating harvest abundance and the peace after toil. The speaker links earth’s labor to human emotion, ending with the blessing of rest and divine peace in harvest time.
In Helbrunt Valley, Colonel Helbrunt and Aunt Betsy foster a German settler legacy. Anna Helbrunt, a dreamy heiress, loves a frontiersman Professor with a dangerous secret, while Standmen returns home. A quiet engagement ends in a wedding at the red farm house, as Anna seeks a calm life with family.
Readings by five scientists warned of universal extinction from natural upheavals. Topics included the sun shrinking into a frozen crust, the earth as a rubber globe with molten interior, energy dissipation driving eventual darkness, universal drought and famine, and a insect plague threatening all crops and life.
Archbishop Manning argues there is no future for Italy or Germany due to irreligion and warns France and Spain if they abandon Catholicism. He sees Ireland with hope because of its devout people and cites England’s future as tied to a Christian heart. He favors religious education in schools to keep churches full and condemns imperial race ideas and German policy.
One half of Paris is working class with about 80 000 servants and 115 000 paupers. Around 21 000 patients reside in hospitals, with fourfold that number passing through annually. Last year hospitals and welfare institutions cost 22 846 000 francs.
The Old Catholics of Germany, meeting in New York, press for church reform and rapproachement with Protestantism. The movement, forming an episcopacy and parishes, rejects papal infallibility, curbs indulgences, uses German in services, and vows obedience to civil authorities, signaling a potential alliance with Protestants against Rome.
Preparations for the National Centenary feature centenarians. Miss Lucy L Nowell of Alfred Maine at ninety two near the Declaration hour will travel by Pullman palace car to Boston and then to Philadelphia for the centennial. Jacob Thompson of Akron Ohio, aging about one hundred four, plans to move to Chicago for the event. The festival raises debate on longevity and historic continuity with the nation.
A six and a half year old child leaned from a window and became caught by its pinafore on a lower story hook. The mother swooned in alarm as a neighbor urged urgency. The porter broke in, released the sash, and the child was rescued unharmed.
Delegates of the Evangelical Alliance arrived in Washington and were escorted to the White House where President Grant and Cabinet members greeted them. Rev Tiffany introduced the visitors and prayers were offered. American and international delegates spoke on Christian unity and faith in governance before proceeding to other city religious services.
A Colorado company proposes building a canal from the Platte drainage to water Arrapahoe Douglas and Ur counties and areas along the Kansas Pacific line. Hayden cites Geological Survey findings urging irrigation across arid plains from Montana to the Arkansas and Missouri basins to transform unproductive public lands into fertile farmland with railroad routes as catalysts.
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