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Emma soon obtained a situation as teacher in a small village some twenty miles from Rockford, where she remained for two years. During her absence, her mother, to avoid being left alone, received as boarders two or three young ladies who attended school in the village.
All he'd have to do would be to cross the alley bridge, go down the Rockford stairs, and walk into the street." Kirby wasted no more time. He knew that the man who had tried to murder him had long since made good his getaway by means of the fifth-story bridge between the buildings. As he walked back to the hotel where he was stopping his eyes and ears were busy.
The first money she received for writing was in return for an article published in the New York Tribune. Their joint career in metropolitan journalism was interrupted however by a short term of residence in Rockford, Illinois, where Mr. Croly was invited to become editor of the Rockford Register, then owned by William Gore King, the husband of our sister Mary A. Cunningham. Mr.
About the time of her marriage and removal to W. her parents, with her sister, removed to one of the Western States; and it may be the knowledge that she must rely solely upon herself enabled her to meet her trials with more fortitude than might have been expected. Some fifty miles from W. was the large and thriving village of Rockford, and thither Mrs. Ashton at length decided to remove.
And we set twenty as an average." "But this is the first day," said Mollie. "We can we must get to Rockford to-night," insisted Betty. Rather hopelessly they tramped on. The sun seemed to sink with surprising rapidity after getting to a certain point in the western sky. "It's dropping faster and faster all the while!" cried Amy, as they watched it from a crest of the road.
It was in truth only a huge flimsy country town in those days, but to me it was august as well as terrible. Up to this moment Rockford was the largest town I had ever seen, and the mere thought of a million people stunned my imagination. "How can so many people find a living in one place?" Naturally I believed most of them to be robbers.
When they became settled in their new home they had still in hand money sufficient to secure them from immediate want, but as Mrs. Ashton wished Emma to enter at once upon her studies, she was very anxious to devise some means of earning money to meet necessary expenses. There was one family residing in Rockford with whom Mrs.
Ashton, and also of the other misfortunes which had overtaken the family; and no sooner did he learn of the arrival of the widow and daughter in Rockford, than, accompanied by his wife, he hastened to call upon them, to renew their former acquaintance, and in a delicate and considerate manner to enquire if he could assist them in any way? Mrs.
"Rockford Watch Company, Rockford, Illinois, 1874. "U. S. Watch Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1883. "Hamilton Watch Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1892. "These are some of the oldest and best known firms." Christopher thought a moment. "Of course I've heard of some of them," remarked he. "The Hamilton everybody knows. It is advertised in almost every magazine."
Two of us, therefore, took a course in mathematics, advanced beyond anything previously given in the school, from one of those early young women working for a Ph.D., who was temporarily teaching in Rockford that she might study more mathematics in Leipsic.
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