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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1901
Page
5
A distressed mother speaks of nerves and illness shrouded by fatigue and pain. The ad claims Mrs J A Steo’s five year uterine illness improved after three bottles, with periods regulated and sleep restored. It touts Dr Pierce’s Pellets for liver stimulation and overall female health restoration.
Marshall Beck, a Chicago lawyer turned inventor, develops the Deere Mansur hayloader and side-delivery rake in Moline. The devices promise faster, cleaner hay harvests with less labor, substituting a revolving cylinder with wire fingers for the rake-bar loader and enabling windrow or swath loading. The Beck plan gains backing after earlier Dayton failures, with industry experts predicting strong sales and farmer benefits nationwide.
Letters pour in from across the country praising Deere & Mansur for the Beck patent driven hay machine. Beck declines sales offers, focusing on detailed catalogues and marketing while preparing hay curing literature. Meantime field trials on the Vin ton farm show promising results for alfalfa, boosting Moline’s industrial prestige and hinting at a potential exodus of Beck and his wife if opportunities arise.
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