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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1902
Page
3
The fal line Daily Journal is listed as the official paper of Moline and Rock Inland County. Subscription rates are provided for mail and carrier delivery with annual and half year options. It is entered in the Moline post office as second class mail matter.
A town hall valedictorian speech features a high collar youth discussing The Tendencies of the Nation with verses and classical references. His anxious father, proud yet worried, watches as the address hints at reform but politics and labor matters threaten the future, including strikes and public costs.
Carroll D Wright reviews in North American Review June the sixteenth annual report of the United States commissioner of labor. From 1881 to 1900 the twenty year period averaged 50 percent complete success, 13 percent partial success, 36 percent failure, with 222 708 strikes involving 117 509 establishments and 6 106 008 workers all told. The average strike lasted 23.8 days and wage losses totaled 257 803 478 against employers. The era’s yearly wage decline tallies reach 830 504 500.
The long standing territorial quarrel between Chile and Argentina ends with an arbitration triumph. The amicable agreement marks a permanent adjustment and reflects a growing spirit of conciliation in the hemisphere, aided by the Pan American Congress in Mexico City.
Announcement confirms John Morley will publish Life of Gladstone in autumn with final proofs read by Mr Muortey. Letters will appear within the biography under political theological and literary headings. Also Forum becomes quarterly, amid crowded monthly magazines.
Sparse reports note rising discontent abroad with unclear groups involved. Authorities urge calm as observers watch for signs of organized protest. No confirmed events or dates available.
Article notes Count von Waldersee furbishing an asbestos camping outfit and other paraphernalia for a triumphal tour of the orient. It also reports Cuba sugar and tobacco business incorporation in New Jersey and jokes about liberal laughter degrees.
A state Democratic convention is called to meet in Springfield on June 17 1902 at noon to nominate candidates for clerk of the supreme court state treasurer superintendent of public instruction and three trustees of the University of Illinois. It will also form a Democratic state central committee with 25 district members and nine starve members and handle other business. Delegates come from counties per vote history with Rock Island County allocated 12 delegates.
Excursion rates via Rock Island route begin June 1 with low price tickets to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo and to St Paul and Minneapolis and other points. For further particulars inquire at C R I & P ticket office corner Fourth Avenue and Thirteenth Street phone 2196.
Woodrow Wilson head of the department of jurisprudence and politics was elected president of Princeton University on Monday in place of Francis Landey Patton who resigned.
Mrs W K Haviland of Armonk NY hails Dr Kings New Discovery for stopping a near fatal whooping cough and bronchitis in her daughter and a niece with advanced consumption also recovering thanks to the remedy. The note claims it cures coughs and colds and offers 60c and 1 bottle prices with a trial bottle free.
Notes from Finland report only about 30 percent of young men report for military exam in 500 communes. In one case 64 youths protested conscription and returned home. News about Swedish papers and Easter honors follows, plus multiple judicial sentences for police misconduct and malfeasance.
Mrs. Pease of Lawrence Kansas had been bedridden seven years due to kidney and liver trouble and prostration. After drinking three bottles of Electric Bitters she began to walk and after three months felt like a new person. The ad claims relief for headaches backaches nervousness sleeplessness melancholy fainting and dizziness. Sold by Clendenin's drug store for 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
An antebellum style health advisory warns that fast or slow, weak hearts cause palpitations and fainting. It cites a patient from Wor, llmutington, Ind, claiming Dr Miles' Heart Cure restored heart rhythm after taking two bottles.
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