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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1873
Page
6
Readable passages recount social anecdotes and moral tales from an old periodical. The text blends dialogue, classroom musings, rural scenes, and short narratives about kindness, faith, and peculiar incidents, including a horse saving a drowning child and a boy's fables.
A religious tale traces a passenger steamer voyage through fog where a anxious youth asks about storms. A pious sailor reassures with scripture and later becomes a captain. A Jew-turned-missionary recalls the sailor’s faith and shares his own conversion.
An essay argues preserving timber supplies and learning from Germany and England. It cites Hanover’s state managed forests, a 1.5 million dollar net income from 650 thousand expenditure, and urges adopting German forestry practices to safeguard national wealth. It closes with two frontier humor anecdotes.
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