General Directory City Post Office and Societies
Directory listing city services and church notices with times and locations. Includes multiple churches in Moline Racine Chicago and surrounding areas plus society meetings at Wells Street and Main Street venues with weekly or monthly schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meenaxas Association
Meeta
Droid ' Slall Hunn
Wells Street
Moline Grove
Maeeta
Osventag
Draid
Lal. Duvrieo
Mociss Tiny Vemein
Arner
Salter
Houtouta
Pytittas
Molloe National Bank
Main Street
Masonic -Dorte Lodge
Moline National Bank
Manufacturers Lodge
Moling National Bank
Moline Lodge
Furia
Dunn‘’s
Local Officials Named in Rock Island County Roles
A list of county officials appears including Rock Island roles such as State Attorney, Master in Chancery, County Sheriff, Coroner and Superintendent of Schools, with names like Samus S. Gorer, E E. Parmenter, Henry Corrin Jr, Quincy McNeal, and Charles B Knox. The garbled text provides scattered titles and placeholder surnames, reflecting a public notices section listing appointments and offices in Rock Island County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E E. Parmenter
Rock Teland
Henry Corrin, Jr
Rock Stand
Quincy McNeal
Rob Fend Tictiverk Cizonge
Rock Island Figures in Local District Meeting
A garbled district scene from Rock Island mentions Henry Calonel and Jose Triode Weasants in a local assembly. The fragment hints at a community or district context with unspecified roles and actions in Rock Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saath Jtoniar Destrict
Rock Ieland
Henry Calonel
Miter
Jose Triode
Rock
Ialane
Granger Plow Saga Promises Monopoly Slant
In a rural reminiscence dated April 14 1874 the speaker recounts the Granger plow dispute over Moline manufacture and monopoly tactics. He recalls feuds with Bob and Jim as Grange members oppose middlemen while plotting a public show of force to expose favored firms.
Hints About Work for Orchard and Garden
Practical guidance from American Agriculturist on orchard and nursery stock timing. Advises early ordering, prepping ground, top trimming, grafting wax, and pruning. Includes fruit garden specifics for raspberries, blackberries, currants, grapes, strawberries, and asparagus with spacing, care, and propagation tips.
Garden guide outlines vegetables and hot beds tips
The article lists sowing times and methods for many vegetables including beets cabbage broccoli and carrots. It details hot beds cold frames sowing in drills and rows plus propagation notes for greenhouse plants and care for pests.
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Jersey Wakefield
York
Winnigstadt
Bergen
Paris
Erfurt
Lenormand
Walcheren
Moore
Stewell
Musselburgh
Ward
Laxton
Carter
Daniel O’rourke
England
Yorkshire
McLean
New Zealand
Spiritualism Credulity and Census Figures Cited
The New York Medical Review claims over twenty five years three million people embraced Spiritualism. It cites the last U S census reporting 24000 sane persons excluding idiots, and 7500 cases traced directly to the belief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Medical Review
United States
Naval Notes on Monitors and Wrecks Near Yokohama
Gleaned by Capt. W G Morris the Turkish chief constructor sails for London to discuss a stall monitor like the Devastation The steamship Messageries Moretimes from Hong Kong to Yokohama foundered with all aboard including Japanese exposit ion commissioners Costs and losses on a Spanish ironclad Letan and the British Superb and Fury described The Indian and military academy and other appropriation bills are under review at Congress Dr Heber Smith criticizes the shipping act and the Seamen's Friend society detailing charges of oppression and poor sailor welfare
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W. G. Morris
Ahmed Pasha
Constantinople
London
Hong Kong
Yokhama
U.S Naval Institute
A.A. Harwood
M. Jeffers
Worden
Commodore Jeffers
Growler
Red Sea
Deucalion
Aden
Admiralty
J. B. van Dusen
North Sixth Street
Brooklyn
North River
C. H. Delamater
Woolwich
London United Services Fazette
War Office
Woolwich Dockyard
King’s Own
Indian and Military Academy
Heber Smith
United States Marine Hospital Service
United States Shipping, Commissioner
Secretary and Treme
Urer
American Seamen's Friend Society
Jack
Smith
Shipping Commissioner
Seamen’s Friend Society
American Seamen’s Friend Society
Seamen's Friend Society
Board of Health
Cherry Street
The Rock Island Convention of Prairie Farmer
The Rock Island convention attracted many farmers and focused on cheap transportation. Delegates praised the gathering while debate centered on a Rock Island to Illinois River canal. Critics warn the canal could harm the Rock River, and broader internal improvement needs were urged alongside discussions of freight relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Ihs
Illinois River
Rock River
Record of Extreme Elevations and Trade Outlook
The text notes Lake Sirikol as the world’s highest lake at 15 600 feet in Bel yar mountains near Turkestan and western China, and mentions the Dead Sea at 13 000 feet below the Mediterranean. It also hints at growing demand for American cotton goods due to English imports and quality concerns in 1874.
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Sirikol
Belyar
Turkestan
China
Dead Sea
Mediterranean
Orient
A Plea for Girls Education and Livelihood Skills
The piece laments the shift from home crafts to modern machinery and questions what remains to compensate the girl for lost work. It urges practical education beyond district and boarding school limits and advocates teaching useful arts so women can earn a livelihood. It notes teaching, writing, and accounting as paths when marriage is not an option.
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Alladdin
Pist
Anti Liquor Crusade Stirs Cities and Rural Districts
The Chicago Inter Ocean Opinion argues the anti liquor crusade has raised public awareness of intemperance and spurred moral suasion, though it warns a complete revolution is unlikely. It notes mixed reactions, women facing opposition in saloons, and growing temperance meetings and church involvement nationwide.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
New York
Harry Hill
Yacht Club
Houston Street
Goshen April Crusade Bloodshed Reported
Newspaper fragment describes a disturbance at a Goshen Indiana prayer meeting where Officer McAllister struck a German brewer named Nicholas with a cane, sparking local excitement. The text includes garbled lines but indicates a violent incident during a temperance crusade event.
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Goshen
Ndiana
McAllister
Nicholas
Bela Wil
The Cherry Tree and the April Fool Lesson
A speechless boy receives a hatchet for his birthday and faces temptation with the family cherry tree. After a playful deception about pranks, the father forgives him for truth and then jokes about overestimating skill in workers and the risk of inflated praise.
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Papi
Ale Father
A Woman's Tribute to Sumner Funeral Tale in Senate
Washington Letter from Ames recalls Kate Brown weeping near the capitol as a crumbling white azalea column and a vase of violets are placed by Sumner's bier. She recalls paying for the arrangement and hopes it returns to him, a poignant gesture amid funeral rites and public tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wherc Ames
Capitols
Senate Gallery
Kate Brown
Tagain
Kate
Massachusetts
Ces
Seisies
CVE
Vet St Card
Amg
Sen
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Post Office
Molline
Chica
Eloves
Tsua M
Racine
Lal
Chicago
Sineae
Cosanngallova L
Rev
H. &. Banas
Bservice Sibbath
Bohol
Bartist
F Borcuzas
WM. Covina
Reo Bisrises
C Wasapie
Serviers
Kowas Carmert
Father Roma
Catchiem Evers
SP mM
Maas
Hanting
Pao
Yucca
United Brethren Church
Banday School
Couty
Samus S. Gorer
Rock Talat
Schovals M
Stinebes
Nock Island
Sy Obosentinses
Enpwin H Jounston
Pet
Wow Wansven
Onop
Gaia Ts Dh Suanm
Geneseo
Oyode
Putnamounties
Moersture Board of Equalization
Witaetra
W.J. Entrikin
Porney and
Mt. VT
Rodman Avenue
Moline
Illinois
J.T. Browning
Trarney Ant Counsel
Patat National Bank
Moline, Illinois
Eugene Lewis
Lorney
Akaw and Notary Public
Ter Moline National Bank
A. W. Jamieson
Tende Street
Bank Building
Modine
J. W. Stark
Qurgeon
Plummer’s
Minois
Rock Island, Ill
G. H. Hill, M. D
Moline National Bank Oficebours
WEAT
Cc. F. Grantz
Wiinat Bet
Lynde
City Market
J. G Salisbury
Wells’ Street
Salter and
Atkinewa
Photograph Gallery
John Sigmond
P.L. McKinnie
Bob
Nell
Jim
Tarna
Salis
Avin Mount, Inn
Boston
Marble-head
Hubbard
Fashion Notes
Danbury
Conn
Worth
Brighton
Prairie Farmer
Vverd & Verve
Senator Sumner
Ifier
Sterling Pet
Linar
Saute
Larry
St. Joiy’s
Newfoundland
WIENS
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