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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1869
Page
10
A damaged fragment evokes a cherry wood wall clock with glass and a brass face. The poem describes its pendulum ticking through night and day, seeing a family’s life and a haunting pace, ending with memories of generations.
A narrator buys an iron safe at a sale and later discovers inside fifty shares of a bankrupt company. Attempts to open the safe fail, burglars are hired, and the shares lead to a protracted legal battle over liability. The tale ends with a bankruptcy court verdict and lingering caution from the wife.
In a derailed column a writer invokes vast population counts to question crowding and burial space. He riffs on earth capacity across millennia, estimating land needs and visualizing crowd sizes with circle heat radii and square-foot plots, ending with a remark on cheese crop yields.
A compilation of figures and anecdotes from 1860s sources covers hives in Bavaria, a New York bride with a diamond, French Academy art, a New York asylum dreamer, Kansas property value, wages, and a miniature steam engine from a silver half dollar. Also noted are oxen teams at New Hampshire fair, curious surgeries, Utah’s land use, and a remarkable posthumous insurance and a strange Edinburgh pauper tale of regained sight after a mysterious pain episode.
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