03 Sep 1873
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1873
Page
1
The fragment from The Aldine presents September nature lines in praise of autumn with feathery clouds, sunlight on a lake, fragrant grapes, and blooming fauna. It shifts to a funeral hymn for Mrs. Kilaa Bride, pondering death, divine consolation, and the hope of heavenly home through faith, urging comfort and readiness for eternity.
From the New York Times July 7, the piece argues for opening the Indian Territory to non native settlement. It critiques past expedient policies, cites Cherokee and Choctaw leaders, and supports allotment and statehood while opposing land held in common. It notes strategic value, civilizational arguments, and calls for government action.
A London Times correspondent reports Vienna Exposition attendance and revenue lag well behind Baron Schwartz’s projections. Daily arrivals average 500 to 1,000 rather than 50,000 to 100,000, with Sundays occasionally reaching 60,000 to 70,000. Two month gross revenue near two and a half million florins versus the 18 million estimated. Turnstile counts are inflated by free and reduced tickets. Example days show many attendees paying little or nothing, correcting the prior high-price assumptions.
Naval Observatory officials finalize the 1874 transit plan. Five man parties will operate from Southern and Northern stations, with observers in New York and aboard ships. Southern bases include Kingveten islands Auckland and Van Dieman’s Land. Northern sites Yokohama Nagasaki Shanghai and near Siberia. The voyage may last a year with $150,000 authorized to refine Earth–Sun distance to within about half a million miles.
A readers excerpt outlines railroad passenger rights from an exchange. It lists five points: full fare tickets grant travel on the road until needed, tickets usable only in the indicated direction unless the company allows, passengers must proceed to destination without stopping unless the company permits, tickets sold for less than full fare have limited validity, and the company can restrict which trains tickets are valid on. It notes the Supreme Court ruling Churchill vs Chicago and Alton Railroad on stop offs and that a stop over check creates a contract.
The list records United States Senators whose terms end on March fourth in 187. Names include Eugene Casserly California William A Buckingham Connecticut Thomas S Bayard Delaware Abijah Gilbert Florida Daniel D Pratt Indiana Hannibal Hamlin Maine Charles Sumner Massachusetts William Hamilton Maryland Richariah Chandler Michigan Alexander Ramsey Minnesota Adelbert Ames Mississippi Carl Schurz Missouri Thomas W Tipton Nebraska William M Stuart Nevada John P Stockton New Jersey Treuben E Fenton New York Allen G Thurman Ohio John Scott Pennsylvania William Sprague Rhode Island William G Brownlow Tennessee Joseph W Flanagan Texas George F Edmunds Vermont Arthur I Bozeman West Virginia Matthew H Carpenter Wisconsin.
A 1878 Lincoln discussion contrasts the Emigrant's Home at the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad station with European hostels in Hamburg Olton Stanz Berne and across the Alps. The Lincoln shelter offers free lodging while analogous European homes demand work or contributions. In Nebraska the home aided hundreds to higher wages and land, with 4525 farm-hunters buying 473988 acres on ten year terms by 1875, while European hostels fade as their usefulness ends.
A new Royal Solomon Mother Lodge No 298 was organized in Jerusalem on May 7 under Grand Loge of Canada authority. John Sheville led the ceremony at the Cotton Megaro, with 12 local and visiting Masons present. An honorary life membership was granted to American Holy Land explorers, totaling about 2,000, in gratitude for Rob Morris’s initiative and fundraising.
The Chicago Journal reports Pawnee leaders invite Otoes Omahas Yanktons and Poene cas to join a projected punitive campaign against the Sioux. The piece mocks the notion of warfare as sport, notes Pawnee aim to muster around 1,000 warriors and hopes for up to several thousand volunteers from Iowa Minnesota and Nebraska, with anticipated scalp profits and a hot summer of fighting.
Dispatch from Scranton details a storm near the city on the 18th instant. Women and girls gathering berries sheltered in an old house. a vivid lightning strike killed two and scorched four others, tearing flesh and causing panic. Wounded and dead were moved to the city after swift aid.
Final preparations for the State Park advance rapidly. Workers since spring have turned woods into groves and lawns with broad avenues. The amphitheatre will seat nearly 4000, the floral hall follows a Greek cross plan with twelve entrances, dining halls for 300 each, multiple pagodas for ice cream, 780 horse and cattle stalls, 480 pens for hogs, and 170 for sheep.
The New York Times reports President Salvoncron pursues an inexorable policy against revolt, aiming to crush rebellion with bayonet and iron will. Carlists press Biscay, Bilboa endures siege, while Salmerón’s cabinet consolidates power for a durable republic amid internal Democratic splits in Ohio.
The government proposes joining the Black Sea with the Caspian by a four mile canal to connect the Manatch and Kertha rivers, lowering the route by about eighty three feet. It requires 82,000 workers for six years to pierce the separating mountain. A second plan calls for a Rhine Weser canal, eight and a half feet deep, forty four feet wide and over 100 miles long.
The Chisago Journal notes France maintains a protective revenue policy since the war and urges farmers pressed by free traders to heed the lesson. It also reports a potential victory for peace in South America with Paraguay Brazil and the Argentine Republic signing a joint peace treaty.
An attached car belonging to the Providence and Stonington line caused a delay as officers and depot staff argued. Superintendent Nason proposed moving the car himself, noting the offense to a hundred innocent riders. The creditor relented after a bold, swift maneuver to avert further damages.
A barber shop discussion on theology and politics inspires far ranging satire and blunt humor among patrons. A banker's son jokes about heaven and wings, while Universalist and Methodist views clash over eternal happiness in a lively Sunday morning exchange reported by the Telegraph.
In a southern town an elderly woman confronts a boy about race and morals, urging him to avoid white neighbors and stay with his own community. The scene contrasts with a Pact Coast issue about 27 steamers awaiting 29,000 Chinese migrants to California amid new anti-foreign laws.
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