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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1902
Page
7
A mile and a half southwest of Volcano Springs California a drill blows a hole open, ejecting rocks steam and boiling mud hundreds of feet high. Driller Charles Briggs reports a terrifically dangerous explosion as a new well erupts and shakes the surrounding desert region.
Dr John Duncan Quackenbos, a Columbia psychology professor emeritus, described to the Medico-Legal Society how a young actress rose to fame after hypnosis. He said repeated hypnotic control submerged her visible self and revealed a subconscious drive that fueled her awakening success.
In Austin Texas a wave of spiritualist converts ended when a ghost stepped on tacks placed by doubters. Two men, John and Henry Jacobs, skeptically tested the phenomenon and provoked the breakdown as a ghost groaned in pain. The seance dissolved amid alarm and exits. A cryptic note on Morgan and a dental dyspepsia claim follow in the column.
A reader recounts life saved by a doctor at a cost over a thousand dollars. Miss Tharless questions the extravagance as Cholly Littlebrayne-Yes reflects on medical debts. The Observer of Events and Things offers a cryptic camel analogy about bearing loads.
A reader credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with saving a boy's life during a severe croup attack. Advertisements tout Ballard's Snow Liniment, Herbine, Ballard's Horehound Syrup, Rocky Mountain Tea, Ely's Cream Balm, Burdock Blood Bitters, Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil, and other tonics as cures for coughs, fevers, skin ailments, and digestive issues.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a fond mother relieved by an interpreter as a baby’s ailment stirs concern. A caller suggests a doctor while the mother relies on translation from a French nurse who suddenly speaks, leaving the scene in confusion.
Notice is given that the King Machine Company Illinois has assigned all property and that an inventory and bond are filed in Rock Island County Court as signee. Creditors must present claims within three months under oath and debtors must pay promptly to the undersigned Fred R Pollard Assignee dated December 12 1901.
Leave Chicago daily except Sunday at 100 p m and leave Peoria daily except Sunday at 12 noon with no service on Sundays.
Railroad time tables show trains of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and connections to Des Moines, Denver, Kansas City, St Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Davenport, Dubuque, Savanna, Clinton, Moline and Rock Island. It lists daily and except Sunday services, arrival and departure times, and note on branch connections and transfer points.
Train departures from Rock Island include No. 2 to Peoria and other routes to Springfield St Louis and Cincinnati with arrivals and connections. Main trains run daily from the C R Jr. PB depot with ten minute early departures to connect to the Union depot Peoria and east lines.
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