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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1901
Page
7
A fragmented OCR line mentions a voyage or scene with vague maritime terms and numbers, lacking clear names or dates, leaving the main event indistinct but implying a nautical setting or travel activity at sea.
A physician proclaims a revolutionary method to restore vitality and cure chronic nervous and lingering diseases. He promises rapid relief and permanent cures for varicocele, stricture, blood poisoning, nervous debility, weak lungs, rheumatism, back pain, sciatica, and kidney weakness. He invites afflicted citizens to call for treatment.
The celebrated physician and natural healer Dr J Alvin Horne announces a one week free treatment. His office rooms are 49 to 56 in the Mitchell Lynde building in Rock Island and hours are 9 to 12, 2 to 5, and 7 to 8 with Sunday 9 to 10 a.m. demand.
The last Illinois legislature fixed hunting seasons for wild ducks turkeys grouse pheasant partridge mourning dove and other game. Non residents must obtain a $10 state license with photo and carry it at all times. The license allows trapping up to 25 birds out of state though this rule is a dead letter.
A quirky local column notes a Moline schoolmAm at Prospect Park mistaking ducks for guineas hens and retells a police joke about a patrol wagon incident with a one armed man. It also cites Perry Davis Pain Killer for infant cholera care with prices.
James McGarry, longtime Chicago saloon keeper and inspiration for Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr Dooley, is seriously ill and near death. Known as a political and social hub, his back room conversations with Judge Goggin helped shape the Dooley stories. McGarry, born in Gateway Ireland, is famed for wit and the brogue that flavored Dooley.
A reader from Bagnell Missouri attests three years of bronchitis and sleepless nights ending after using Chamberlin's Cough Remedy. The letter credits relief to the product sold by F J Clendenin and Ei Helm grocers in Moline. A separate English awards mention offers a 50 pound reward for a greater blessing to women than Rocky Mountain Tea.
A fragmented travel through the fifteenth annual report of the commissioner of labor notes wages in commercial countries and lists odd job titles such as Backers-up Ballers Band boys Batchers Hedmen Bellymen Blackashmen Buggy boys and more. Advertisements urge Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets Herbine Ballard's Snow Ointment and Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment with prices and local druggists.
Clarence Biddison an engineer on the Rock Island line is in serious condition at his Goodland Kansas home after a wreck last Saturday that killed the train brakeman. He was guiding an extra freight when a rain displaced track and a defective stretch caused the crash. He and the fireman jumped to safety but were badly hurt.
An advertisement row touts Cham Berlin's Colle Chhelia and Diarrhoea Remedy by F Lo Taylor and others from New Albany and Bradford County. It urges using Burdock Blood Bitters and Dr Thomas Electric Oil, Dean's Ointment, Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry and Rocky Mountain Tea via druggists as safer or superior options.
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