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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1875
Page
1
It references Father Roles and Rev HW Erkland with church services on Sabbath morning and Thursday evening prayer meetings. Names include Parmenter of Rock Island and Porter of Rock Island, with associated trustees and locations in Rock Island region.
A reflective verse extols that moral wealth outruns material riches. It contrasts a thinking mind and scholarly treasure with Australian ore, praising contented labor, tranquil homes, and fireside charity as superior to wealth in forming a true gentleman.
A fragmentary poem imagines a cycle of night and day with tides of dark and light and the soul longing for a beloved. The speaker envisions distant empires and cold star-tapers burning while awaiting a future reunion and dayspring. A mix of autumn imagery and yearning pervades the verse.
A reflective poem traces a plant’s early promise through April to autumn and winter. It moves from tender care and hopeful growth to fading leaves and enduring faith, ending with a vision of life after death as hope keeps the flower in heaven.
The article warns that ongoing heavy rains threaten widespread flood across the Ohio Mississippi basin. It notes floodprone lands in Missouri and Arkansas, Yazoo and St Francis bottoms, and extensive delta regions, with levees described as leaky and compromised. It cites Humphreys and Abbott on overflow areas and predicts danger if the Ohio floods join the Mississippi.
The report notes a first premium award at the Minnis and Iowa State Field Trials conducted in 1874. Competitors showcased livestock and agricultural skills with judges awarding top prizes for quality and performance. The event highlighted rural industry and community participation across the region.
The ADVANCE Walking Cultivator is pitched as the best and most substantial model in the market, emphasizing durability and efficiency for professional farming tasks. It highlights reliability, advanced engineering, and strong pulling power for demanding field work.
The article reviews historic Mississippi floods from 1718 to 1898, noting effects from the St Francis and Yazoo bottoms to the Red River and Balize. It highlights 1853 and 1858 events, river rise conditions, levee impacts, and cotton industry losses amid regional disruptions.
Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson has died in Copenhagen at about 70 years old after a life starting in poverty. Born in Odense his education was state funded. he traveled Europe on royal support and produced abundant poetry stories and tales, later famed for children’s literature and gentle, elevating works.
A jumble of notes describes Joaquin Miller using a firecracker as a pen and a Siamese ambassador detailing curious sounds from a toy instrument. The text appears as stray phrases about writing methods and a quirky device.
The record shows 35 guilty votes and 19 not guilty as the U.S. Senate came within one vote of declaring President Johnson guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. A single ballot could have produced the two-thirds required for removal.
The Philadelphia San Francisco and Carson City mints show a high level of striking with a notably large silver coin output. Gold coinage reached 1,739,062 pieces worth 3,353,000 dollars, while silver coinage totaled 22,898,216 percent valued at 10,070,368 dollars. Five and three cent pieces added 1,462,960 pieces valued at 130,365 dollars, bringing total pieces to 80,191,778 with substantial gains noted in mint activity.
A letter from Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson describes Southern women as fuller, slower in movement, with cream coloring and sweeter voices, while Northern women are quicker and more alert. She praises Southern women’s calm influence and fashion sense but laments the inertia of today’s Southern men, noting a younger, more modern generation emerging.
A Des Moines correspondent reports a Viroqua incident where two five year old boys were bitten by a rattlesnake in a barn nest while searching for eggs. Their mother rushed them home to find her infant had fallen into a concealed well of water, and within thirty minutes all the children died.
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