"Chance for Somebody": R. B. Holbrook's farm for sale, 1878

“Mr. R. B. Holbrook, of Coveland, Island county, has offered for sale his valuable farm near that place. The farm contains 160 acres of prairie land, besides a forty acre timber or wood lot. It is situated on the east side of Penn’s Cove. The place has a water frontage of half a mile, and a good house, two barns, a well and spring, and the title is United States patent.” He did not sell; he farmed there another eleven years.