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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1902
Page
6
In a moment of excitement, a substitute for profanity unsettles the crowd of Topekan sweet girl graduates. President Andrews’s performances send a chill through the ceremony as the onlookers gaze in round eyed horror and whisper that he has been swearing.
At the Democratic state convention Senator Stringer declared the party’s stance as championing the people's rights and opposing monopoly and oppression. He linked the party to labor, youth, pure public service, and accountable government, pledging to uphold liberty, law, and constitutional values against greed and imperialism.
In Topeka Kansas Dr Dre B Andrews headlined a graduation address at Linedin University delivering five stories all featuring the word damn. The gag sparked a moral uproar as Topeka’s sober civic tone clashed with the doctor’s profane humor and a past sheriff election controversy resurfaced.
Curtis of the Chicago Record-Herald describes Paul Kruger, the Boer president, as gravely ill and nearly immobile. The aging leader sits in a rocking chair, hearing and sight failing, memory faulty, repeating questions, and unaware of personal losses. Despite his good physical health, his mind deteriorates while his body remains strong.
Richard Croker declares he is entirely out of politics and living in England seeking rest. He denies English sentiments, explains his actions with Tammany Hall were consultative, and says he cannot name a political successor though Nixon is praised as a fit leader.
A quote recounts a man denying political ambitions and denouncing media claims. He distances himself from London activities and crown events, insisting his stables are not the finest in England and declining to name a successor. He curtails any future political life.
Dowie governs Zion City with strict rules including whiskers for men and censored speech. He prescribes a formal greeting Peace to thee with the reply Peace to thee be multiplied, and warns against foolish talk as God hates idle laughter.
Springfield Register mocks city water success by claiming water users now enjoy mud baths at home. Editorial tone lauds water department for providing mud baths via taps, urging residents to bathe.
The Illinois State Register says the party platform is broadly satisfactory to most Democrats in the state. It reinforces bimetallism and opposes the single gold standard and national banks of issue. The platform pledges government coinage and currency regulation by the United States, pleasing rank and file while challenging Republican views.
Children near the Fourth of July are already getting hurt from firecrackers as manufacturers push more dangerous explosives. The rising risk stems from intensified production and stricter handling of detonating devices.
A column laments dangerous firecracker use among youths and calls for safer Fourth celebrations. It notes strict explosives laws ignored in practice and warns of lifelong injuries from mishandling. The piece also recalls General T J Wint’s ascent from private to brigadier general and mentions a St Louis river incident. It ends with a sharp rebuke for selling unsafe milk to babies.
Real estate transfers listed with multiple parties and properties in Rock Island area. Guardianships and estates noted with final reports, discharges, and probate actions for John Glass J B Wheelock Henry Koch and Charles Youd. Probate events include wills, bonds, and widow’s relinquishment and property turnover.
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad offers round trip tickets to Spirit Lake at less than half the one way fare on select days. Special low rate excursion tickets available to Minneapolis St Paul Duluth and the Northwest resorts. Round trips to Colorado Utah Oregon and California at very low rates. Through cars available. For full particulars visit the depot at Fourth Avenue and Thirteenth Street or call 2195.
The Rock Island Union criticizes the candidate slate for the state central committee after Guy Scott was not chosen. It alleges misrepresentations by supporters of Cable and notes Looney was not a candidate for at large. It states Republicans do not want an Independent candidate for minority representative.
A broad critique notes 168,624 children under sixteen in mills suffer underpaid, overworked conditions. It contrasts slavery era housing with modern hunger-driven factory labor and searing poverty, questions national pride. The Twin-City Rapid Transit Co fired eight workers after a union meeting in St Paul, threatening a strike. In rail boiler maker action, unions call strikes from Omaha to Ogden. Martin B Higgins of Charleston re-elected president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union in Baltimore. Cincinnati will host the next convention. delegates must wear union-made clothing and smoke blue label cigars.
An old advertisement proclaims a hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure and notes on the firm's honor from West Traux Walding Kinnan Marvin. It claims internal action upon blood and mucous surfaces, 76 cents per bottle, with testimonials free and Hall's Family Pills endorsed.
The Journal notes it will mail issues upon request to subscribers or others leaving the city for a vacation or outing. Changes of address can be made as often as desired. It promises to deliver "all the news" like a letter from home and asks readers to send their address or call 2281.
Armonk New York mother credits Dr King s New Discovery for saving her daughter from a near fatal attack of whooping cough and bronchitis. A niece with advanced consumption also recovered and now is well. The medicine is praised as infallible for coughs and colds, with 60 cent and 1 dollar bottles sold by Clendenin s drug store, trial bottle free. Chautauqua repetition ends.
An extended satirical meditation on graduations from high school to college, mixing mock speeches, references to classical lines, and a parade of humorous ads. It alternates between notions of progress and a wildly invented vacation catalog promoting railroads and summer resorts, punctuated by playful nonsense Latin and comic asides.
The season brings thoughts of escapes for all walks, from bankers to shoe shiners, as people imagine pleasant journeys far away and yearn for respite from daily routines. The tone hints at universal longing for travel and renewal during vacation time.
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