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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
10
In a village drama, candidates spar over choosing the county seat with Concord at stake. A tense exchange reveals ambition and lingering personal frictions as a woman seeks release while a man presses for a businesslike outcome.
The tale centers on Col. Keever facing an electoral day amid a strike by Sampson over back pay and higher wages. The Blizzard, once a learned but poorly subscribed paper, suffers finance woes as Sampson clashes with the Colonel, culminating in a cane strike and a chair attack before four Harmony gentlemen arrive to intervene.
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a universal cure for eczema itching humors carbuncles and skin ulcers. It claims internal use purifies enriches and vitalizes blood supplying skin with nourishment and promises lasting results with prepaid trials. Also cites Painkiller Perry Davis promising quick stomach relief and warns of imitation products.
Col Archibald Keever hosts four Harmony visitors in his workroom. They plot a special election to move the county seat from Concord to Harmony, praising Keever's influence and urging his backing while sharing drinks and convivial boasts.
Méil Carrier Burnett Mann of Levanna Missouri recalls years of back pain and fatigue until six bottles of Electric Bitters cured his kidney trouble. The testimonial notes relief from stomach liver and kidney symptoms and promises satisfaction guarantees from Clendenin's Drug Store.
Col Keever faces a plan hatched by Harmony men to buy the county seat election by funding 60 days of labor for 20 voters, totaling 2490 dollars, and assigning the vote to Harmony instead of Concord as Col Dingle outlines a sham support scheme. The exchange hints at bribery and political manipulation amid a tense townsite dispute.
An old notice warns of summer cholera infantum and its sudden, rapid progress in babies. It touts Perry Davis Painkiller as a remedy that checks diarrhoea and vomiting and can save infants, listing prices of 265 and 50 cents.
A Winchester Ind veteran M. M. Austin reports his wife was sick a long time and cured by Dr King's New Life Pills. He claims the pills worked wonders for her heart. He urges readers to try them at 7 cents a bottle at Clenderin's Drug Store. The ad repeats a similar claim from a Journal notice.
Round trip tickets to numerous western and northwest destinations go on sale on specific Tuesdays in May with a fare plus two dollars for the round trip. One way settlers' tickets to western regions are available daily in March and April, priced from fifteen to twenty five dollars. Also promotes Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption with a testimonial from a Texas editor and mentions trials at Clendenin's Drug Store.
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