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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1878
Page
2
A Second Street citizen faced a delayed ascent as carpenters left him on a scaffold. A boy and an elderly passerby engaged in comic banter while attempting to move the ladder. After ten more minutes a private carriage arrived. the man descended reportedly dizzy. The exchange ends with the quip that justice is slow but inevitable.
The article discusses casting flaws from gas in metal, and a new method uses vacuum to expel gas. Molten metal is run through perforations in fire-clay into a vacuum cylinder, creating metallic rain to separate and remove gas before molding.
A fragmented note describes a counterfeit ring issuing small bank notes with a misspelled place name or official. After discovery a warning travels nationwide, prompting a second issue with correct spelling to exploit storekeepers who trusted the first misprint.
An English traveler in Russia reports that wartime changes boost internal industry and rail expansion. Gold payments, reduced luxury demand, and new beer manufacturing boost domestic production while famine risk declines. Large-scale mining and farming sustain the population. railroads now stretch about 12 000 miles as Russia accelerates self-sufficiency amid war.
In the Greeley Tribune account a single wagon road valley 66 miles from the nearest house hosts six residents a young quiet woman four workers and one wanderer Each night they trace long shadows at a lonely outpost with Indian houses and distant neighbors The two women left recently after long stints the former having never left the site and the latter reading fashion magazines weekly, describing isolation.
The article lists annual salaries for British ambassadors in major capitals. Paris Lord Lyons 50000 dollars, Constantinople Layard 40000, St Petersburg Loftus 39000, Vienna Eliot 40000, Berlin Odo Russell 35000, Brussels Lumley 19400, Rio de Janeiro Buckley Matthews 20000, Peking Veola arles 000, Rome Paget 35000, Japan Parkes 20000, Holland Stuart 18000, Persia Thompson 25000, Portugal Morier 30000, Washington Thornton 30000. Amounts reflect regular allowances for mansions or lodgings where needed.
The Tartfora Courant prints elaborate directions on chicken handling. The colored population reportedly knows how to do it and the editor could not raise as much as one year’s work from his paper herd. Galveston. News
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