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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1893
Page
5
A fragmentary reflection on tree planting. The speaker notes that one who plants a tree creates friendship with the sun and sky, raises beauty, supports a home for heaven and birds, and contributes to song and motherly solace, embodying a noble act.
The 1810 departure of the Tonquin under Captain Jonathan Thorn marked the Pacific Fur Company’s daring bid to found Astoria at the Columbia River. After initial trade frictions and hostages, a violent melee on deck led to Thorn’s death and the ship’s destruction, with only interpreter Lamazee and a few survivors escaping. the disaster underscored missteps by Mr. McKay and Thorn, though Hunt’s land party later revived the venture at Astoria.
A traveler asks about loneliness in the Kar Weed prairie, and a resident replies that passing there means cattle not people. The visitor realizes the rancher means three hundred head of cattle rather than three hundred humans, illustrating local identity with land.
An elderly Californian in a canyon near San Francisco asserts he is the son of Napoleon, recounting a life spanning abductions in Vienna, adoption by the Plummers, a seafaring career, a wreck near the Columbia River, and eventual settlement in San Francisco while using the name Count Napoleon Huonaparte and previously Henry Seaman. He says he may not have long to live but insists the truth will out.
A McClure's Magazine passage explains how ears evolved from a gill structure as nature repurposes old organs. Separately, a New York miner recounts the terror of descending alone in a Pennsylvanian coal mine, where solitude and silence heighten dread until ascent.
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