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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
3
Designated as an Official Paper of the City of Moline. Rates show remittance daily 2:46 except weekends, with mail options for one year and six months, carrier weekly Sunday edition, and a Twice-a-Week Journal option priced in advance.
The offer by M Lampre for the Panama Canal property at 40 million dollars faces scrutiny as buyers seek the best route. Critics cite potential financial interests and lobbying, while supporters urge expediency and expert guidance. The piece also notes comments on colonial child migration and a cheeky aside about Hall Caine and an Edward dinner incident.
L 38 McCabe announces candidacy for state senator pending Republican convention approval and seeks Republican support from party members who back his bid.
A local notice announces GEORGE W. JOHNSON running for state senator seeking friends' support. F FRANK’s and W G HEIDER's bids for Rock Island County sheriff are also declared subject to the county Republican convention with appeals for support.
Miss Cayenne laments to the Washington Star that her reputation as a keen observer and satirist is faltering after several people yesterday voiced pleasure at seeing her, as if they truly meant it.
A parent credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with saving his child's life after a severe croup attack. The letter details rapid dosing and phlegm removal, urging readers to trust the medicine. Price points for the products are noted, along with local pharmacy exposure.
Advertises Herbine as a universal blood purifier curing fevers skin eruptions boils pimples blackheads scrofula salt rheum and other impurities. Promoted by Soc Soc F J Clendenin and Battles Pharmacies with price details.
A visitor asks for the father at home and the daughter replies he is not in. The daughter recalls he told their mother that any bills arriving would find him away. The exchange appears in the Chicago American.
The report surveys diverse topics from Pretoria banning horse racing lotteries to portable bakeries mounted on automobiles. It notes Moscow fashion trends painting lapdogs, Arabia lacking wool factories despite exporting over a million dollars in wool, and Venice inspiring Italian cities to boost tourism with art expositions. It mentions Norway seeking a 2 million pound railway and telecommunication loan and Korea's gold wealth controlled by the king, with last year about 2.5 million dollars secured. It also cautions about morphine abuse linked to Paris socialites.
A reader notes the blunt view that a funeral may be grand if it serves a purpose and advises careful speech about aging relatives. The piece hints neighbors hold latent knowledge about private matters, reflecting social prudence in reporting.
A thrifty pear tree bears yearly and transplanted trees fail from fibrous root lack. Sod protects roots from freezing, while intensive cultivation encourages side-root growth. Shorten long shoot ends to foster bushy peach trees and plant several varieties each year to avoid a tree going old.
A brief description notes fur appears on the most attractive waists only in the slimmest possible strips, presenting a subtle suggestion of fur as a design detail.
From Chicago Jan 31 the Iowa and Atlanta steamers with about 300 people aboard are besieged by ice near Take Michigan. tug boats have failed to reach them. If the ice rams the vessels a loss of life is feared.
Chicago and New York wholesale prices show flour steady with various patent grades. wheat mixed with May around 85 3 4c and Oregon higher, oats firm. Barley stronger with screenings varied. mess pork trading active with December-January prices near 16.00 to 16.30. lard up with cash and future bids. short ribs higher. Potatoes, eggs, bitter products steady. live poultry firm with turkeys around 6 to 10c and chickens 34c.
Chicago markets report hogs firm with prices 6 to 10 cents higher. Pigs sold $4 75 to $6 55, lights around $6 20, rough packing near $6 20, mixed around $6 40, and heavy packing about $6 20 to $6 45. South Omaha cattle show slow demand with natives $4 60 to $ +. westerns and Texas steers weaker. Sheep market active with slight gains. feeders and stockers near $2 40 to $4 25.
Former congressman Charles FE Pearce who represented a St Louis district in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses died in his Planters hotel apartment from pulmonary trouble.
In a fragment from a Baltimore American note and a Chicago Record Herald quotation a bride laments drowning on the eve of her wedding. The dialogue recounts wedding attire with a watery silk gown and a going away dress as the couple prepares to part.
A student of law recalls cases where people were jailed despite innocence, noting bad luck in being drawn for juries that were locked up overnight. The exchange underscores skepticism about the justice system's reliability and juror conditions.
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