11 Feb 1875
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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1875
Page
1
A fragmented travel guide page lists numerous Michigan professionals including KEEL GREEN, GEORGE GRISWOLD, and JUSSEN & ANDERSON among attorneys and counselors at law in Traverse City Elk Rapids Northport and Chicago. Physicians EDMUND JUSSEN and others are noted with locations in Traverse City and Sherman.
A scanned notice lists JOAN JLELAM a tea and general merchandise dealer at Burdwhyitle with a promo urging to get tea, COY a general merchant in Spencer Urevk Michigan, FULLER an insurance agent for Mutual Life and other companies in New York Hartford and Home Fire, and TESSE CRAM a notary public in Traverse City. Probate Court will meet at the County Clerk’s office in Traverse City on the first Monday of the month at 1 o’clock a.m. Judge JT. SUOFIELD presiding.
Fragmentary report notes a Sunday race or match with Toledo involvement and a distance timeslot around 740 to 6.50, plus a Washington appearance and a Baltimore result of 75. The text is garbled without clear names or outcomes.
Agricultural College and state homesteads offered with pine lands and rail lands in Iowa, Nebraska, and Michigan. Listings include numerous sections near Traverse City, Falmouth, Kalkaska, and Bay areas with prices per acre, tract options, and references to schools, churches, and farms. Includes maps, free information, and payment terms, with sale notes on first rate farming land and timbered tracts.
The readable text lists scattered numbers and codes, mentioning acres and a set of cryptic abbreviations. It appears as an OCR fragment with unclear context and no coherent events or named entities to anchor a fuller summary.
Real estate list describes multiple parcels adjoining Traverse City, with groves of oaks, level lots, and names like Front Street and Washington Street. Prices range from 1 500 to 4 500 dollars, highlighting business locations and dwelling sites, including two lots 4x1 rods at State Street and Boardman Avenue and blocks 11 14 near Wellington and Washington Streets.
A lengthy ad details multiple farms near Traverse City, Michigan, with varied sizes from 50 to 160 acres. Listings describe cleared land, timber, creeks, barns, and houses, rail proximity, and prices ranging roughly from 1000 to 4000 dollars plus terms. Several tracts note proximity to towns, roads, and a state geologist endorsement.
A blotched land catalog lists numerous parcels in townships near Manistee and Muskegon rivers. Sizes range from about 1 to 643 acres with pine timber estimates up to millions of feet. Prices cited include 15000, 17000, 7000, 350, 3200, and 4000 dollars. Many tracts lie on or near rivers, with road access and riverfront value noted.
Miscellaneous excerpts describe a devotional hymn to the Land of Beulah, a winter night tale of William and Margaret Edgarton benefiting from a wealthy donor after a stranger’s kindness, and a South Carolina family lineage. The pieces blend faith, generosity, and historic recollections with brief vignettes of virtue and community.
A middle aged stranger visits Mr South and stays week after week. The family tires of hospitality as the guest eats breakfast with them each morning and supper each evening. With humor and charity they urge his departure while praying for the departing guest’s blessing at worship.
A lively writer admonishes young men to grow a mustache with boastful advice on appearance and wit. The piece playfully urges grooming and style as essentials for clerical work in a dry goods store. It ends with a Louisiana census showing white and black populations and a black majority.
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