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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
3
Classified fragment notes prices and figures with unclear context. Reads like a municipal publication line item or coupon style entry for Moline and Rock Island County official notices.
The article quotes a peace appeal from Boer leaders to accept British terms with dignified restraint. It praises their conduct, notes provisions for widows and orphans, and urges reconciliation and unity as South Africa moves toward integration into the empire and future welfare.
At the national conference of charities and corrections Dr A Knopf of New York urged donors to divert funds from building brakes and endowed colleges to constructing model tenement houses. He argued providing wholesome housing and home economics education would lift laboring families while not denying other charitable endowments.
The article notes that universities and libraries received about 103.88 million dollars in the past year and a half, while charities gathered around 27 million. It suggests blending business and philanthropy to create clean affordable housing for thousands of families living in squalid tenements, endorsing Dr Knopf's proposed experiment.
The article describes elaborate coronation preparations for Albert Edward VII with emphasis on etiquette, costumes, and ceremonies. It notes the demanding rites the king must endure, including kneeling thirty six times in an hour, multiple oaths, and the ceremonial anointing before crowns are placed. It questions the spectacle versus cost and hints at the challenges for the aging monarch.
Descriptions from the London spectator note two desert adapted animals in northern Sshara the addax antelope and Loder's gazelle. Addaxs spiral horns and wide hooves aid fast sand travel while rain patterns likely sustain food sources over vast barren zones. A Chicago writer Thornton Prime is profiled as a leading authority on crops and agricultural statistics.
The Monaco prince's divorce and renewed beef complaints mark a string of royal and civic woes. The draft of coronation plans casts Edward as the main spectacle, while uncertainty surrounds attendance and public appetite for royal displays.
An 19th century ad promises a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cure and endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure sold for 76c per bottle. The notice lists F J Cheney Co Toledo proprietors and multiple druggists who vouch for the firm. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and a herbal remedy with 60c price and digestion claim.
A poetic piece urges sharing all facets of life from weather to work to love while noting talk matters only if heeded. It promotes using a journal want ad in Moline for broad audience exposure and ends with an invitation to try it.
George Schump endorses Kamber Lain’s Pain Balm advertised in the Dayton Volk zeitung. He reports his wife’s eight week back pain relief after using the balm and says she is “born anew” and able to resume duties. Burdock Blood Bitters are also advertised as a stomach regulator.
Advertisement touts a ten dollar X ray examination and a new treatment with an electric oscillator described as gentle and capable of energizing the body. It claims to emit waves through medicated air, liberate ozone, and restore healthy bodily vibrations, invigorate nerves, enrich blood, and expel toxins.
An advertisement touts a drastic new cure for nervous debility insomnia and weak health. It promises rapid improvement from a few treatments without surgery, claiming permanent results and hope for consumptives and long-term weak lungs.
The article touts a therapy that revitalizes brain cells and tissues to strengthen mental and physical life. It claims the physician’s mild light can diagnose disease maturity at a glance and apply remedies, offering miracles for chronic nervous diseases with free consultation.
Dr J Alvin Horne M D and Associate Physicians listed with office rooms 49 60 61 53 54 and 55 in the Mitchell Lynde Building Rock Island. Hours given as 9 to 1 yesterday 2 to 5 and 7 to route Sundays 9 to sla m.
Railroad and steamer times listed for routes to Moline Davenport Dubuque Savanna Clinton Clinton via Davenport to St Louis and west to St Paul Minneapolis Denver and California. Includes connections at Baraboo Sterling and Des Moines, with notes on daily trains and Sunday exceptions.
Train timetables show Nos 2 4 6 routes connecting Rock Island to Peoria and busy lines to St Louis Cincinnati Indianapolis Bloomington with daily and Sunday variations. Steamer services Helen Blair W Young Jr City of Winona run to Muscatine Clinton and intermediate points with afternoon and evening departures. Lamont & Son, Rock Island, foot of 19th St., contact 12826.
R L McMank presents extensive experience in the business and offers to deliver the finest work with correct pose and finish. Patrons are invited to patronize.
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