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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1879
Page
3
The Sisters of Charity establish a well located institution offering primary, intermediate, and academic courses with bookkeeping as an option. Five month board and tuition total 76 dollars with music and other charges. Reductions available for day pupils from Futten and Clinton.
Free gift offer for a medical book addressing consumption asthma catarrh throat and voice ailments. Includes author’s name De. S B Wolke of Cincinnati Ohio and a note about treatment of various diseases. Postal details requested for replies and postages.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin argues ragmen are not inherently disreputable and that rag collecting is honest labor. It explains rags come clean from households, describe cleaning methods, and note the industry supports paper production without moral decline.
A promotional piece claims that blood purity creates a rhythmic life free from kidney troubles and piles, praising Kidney-wort as an unfailing cure for these evils and noting it aids digestion.
Burleigh argues church advertising mirrors business. Affluent but dissolving congregations flood papers while solid parishes stay mostly out of print. A floating city of ten thousand seeks Sunday entertainment, drifting with the latest sensational display.
Architects and school boys study maps and plans while Wells, Richardson & Co of Burlington Vermont presents Seamon's Dyes as the most convenient form of colors. These dyes are the best available for general use and are carried by druggists.
In Dresden during Caureur's student days a stranger asks a native for directions to a church. The native declines politely, then the pursuer explains he did not know either after asking his brother, who also did not know. The anecdote ends with a humorous, self-deprecating moral.
A dramatic medical claim describes a dragon devouring thousands and conquering the world with diseases of the kidneys and bladder liver and rheumatism. It asserts Kidney-Wort cures the disorders and is sold by all druggists.
An odd collector at Ederburg Castle buys twenty drum sets for sixpence each, rents a cart, and hands out prizes at an open air juvenile meeting. A Constantinopolitan Jew purchases six hundred rusty helmets from the Turkish Government at sixpence per pound, later selling them up to fifty piasters before an Armenian buys the lot for eighteen shillings per helmet. The authorities then repurchase the helmets from two to three pounds each, deeming the initial sale a folly.
Wells Richardson and Company of Burlington Vermont supplies the preferred butter color used by authorities in work. Jones and Faulkner win the $100 first prize and Ki S Houston of Kenosha Wisconsin wins the $50 first prize at the great dairy fair.
A New York hotel long resident contrasts a high calorie life with a frugal routine. He recalls companions who overindulged in rich fare and drink and died early, while he kept a simple, varied diet and avoided doctors for twenty five years, claiming greater longevity.
A bedridden man reports six years of sickness costing 8200 annually, totaling 31200, ended by three bottles of Hop Bitters taken by his wife. He notes she has done all housework for a year without missing a day and urges others to learn from this result.
The Savannah News reports a strange gulf condition near Key West with thousands of dead fish and a current of poisoned water. Theories point to noxious vapors from a submarine volcano, pumice along the coast, and a recent earthquake as possible causes.
An old advertisement asserts life is full of sorrows yet Dr Bull's Cough Syrup never disappoints and offers relief for 25 cents.
Major John D. Adams and Colonel J N Smithee were fined fifty dollars each and jailed one minute for carrying concealed weapons after a May street fight with pistols. Adams owned the Gazette and Smithee edited the Democrat. shots were fired and Smithee wounded twice.
A Herald reporter visits St. Ann's Church on Eighteenth Street to observe a mute service led by Rev. Dr. Galandet. The silent congregation communicates by gestures while youths and older members share quiet exchanges, and the room remains focused as prayers begin after benediction.
Proctor argues that heat from the sun during the lunar day and cold of long nights cause gradual surface changes on the moon. He notes temperatures vary by about 500 degrees and that geological features like peaks and ravines may eventually fail or shift, though not due to volcanic activity.
A West Virginia farmer recounts his dog’s savior act when the animal led Morris Tofft to a horse suffering a severe colic. The dog guided the handler to medicine, stayed by the horse until daylight, and celebrated the recovery with joyful barking, as witnessed by a Parkersburg letter to the Cincinnati Commercial.
A Lonpox policeman must content himself on about 35 per week and to weapon huts club. It is not expected of him there as it is here, however, that he shall be in more than one place at the same moment.
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