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Michigan OAKLAND COUNTY
but a great majority have come out of the conflict more than Roman fathers, better than Spartan mothers. And have hope's promises been illusive? Could you take a birds eye view of our town to-day, you would see each section line running north, south, east or west thrown into a hard and, in most cases, well worked roadway on which pass and repass the travel of the town; you would see a broad graveled road like the Appian way of old Rome leading from the commercial metropolis to the political capital of our state; you would see a well constructed railway traversing its extent from southeastern to northwestern corner, over which rolls the car of commerce, carrying the products of the soil, the manufactory or the mine, with tireless energy and incredible speed. By its side stretches the electric wire—that wonder of the nineteenth century—over which the untamed but obedient lightning flies at the bidding of man; you will see parks of woodland, none too large, all over town. On every side are smiling farms, with green meadows, and orchards bending beneath their autumn bounty; all around are horses, cattle, and sheep in countless numbers; barns filled with garnered grain, stacks of hay and forage lifting their peaks skyward, and corn fields in rank after rank away to the horizon.
Oakland Co. Michigan
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