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Philosophies on ambition and chance in everyday life
A miscellany of maxims on seizing opportunity, frugality, and prudent living, with notes on farming, railroads, public debt, and local events. It mentions folding beds, good and bad improvements, tractor-like progress, charity, weather, and examples from towns like Wenona, Toluca, and Streator. It also references births, deaths, and local notices in a broad rural-urban mix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenona
Chicago Heights
Dwight
War Department
Washington
Congress
Illinois National Guards
Jon
John
Lord
Internal Revenue
Bpricefield
Isaac R. Mills
Litchfield
Illinois Central Railroad
Ferris Post
Princeton
Tiskilwa
Sheffield
Buda
Neponset
Wyanet
LaMoille
Kewanee
Bradford
Henry
Chautauqua
John A. Logan
Granville
J.A. Wheeler
Auburn
Yates
A. J. Lovejoy
Roscoe
H. 8. Rearden
Springfield
Statehouse
Burlington
Chicago
Omaha
Tim Sheehan
Wedneday
Spring Valley
Vermont
State Board of Agriculture
Dan Patch
Free Press
Lloyd Jones
Minnie Jones
Annapolis
Maryland
Government Naval School
Young Townsend
Wyoming
Townsend
State Reformatory
Industrial Committee
Reformatory
State Reformatory Stone Department
Pontiac
Florian Afton
Children’s Home Society
LaSalle County
Ottawa
Afton
Anderson
The
Home Society
Starr
Peck, Miller & Starr
McMannan
Cook County
S.S.S