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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1879
Page
7
A reader examines a map fragment and notes unfamiliar geography. The partial text hints at the need to study the layout of the country to understand the depicted areas.
A New York Daily Advertiser correspondent recalls an incident at Coney Island hotels where club room members faced disturbances from public veranda observers. A burly, defiant man ignored warnings and was met by a club member who warned him to leave. The confrontation escalated with others trading insults and a display of hostility before authorities intervened.
A German visitor M La calle meets a Paris hostess at her home during a first visit. The exchange centers on delicate manners and flirtatious gestures, with the conversation hinting at hidden social meanings and coded proprieties. The scene involves a bemused observer and a chaotic distribution of formalities.
The article notes keepers along the eastern seaboard and in Florida watching hulls and warning ships. It describes the Lighthouse Board supplying portable libraries to lighthouses, with nine volumes each, shipped quarterly among stations, plus donated magazines bound for perusal and morale.
A French ship detained at a Southern Georgia coast port leads officers to amuse themselves with fishing and a visit to a farmer's home. The old man adopts phrases from their speech and, after years of nightly prayer practice, recites sins and begs pardon in fervent French style with intense pronunciation.
A State House policeman C. OC Cook swallowed strychnine by error about eight months ago and nearly died after a violent convulsion. He was revived after three hours of medical pumping and rubbing and later resumed normal duties aside from muscle soreness. He recounted the episode to a Nets reporter, recalling his frightful sensations and subsequent recovery.
In a courtly tale at Smoling Convent eight hundred girls are educated under Prince Peter of Oldenburg, chief of the Russian College for Girls. He inspects a hot kettle, orders a spoon, and tastes dirty water claimed as soup amid laundry cleansing disputes with soldiers.
Nick Folka promotes Kidney-Wort a dry vegetable compound said to treat liver and kidney diseases. Each package supposedly yields six quarts of medicine mixed with pure water and contains no poisonous liquors.
A testimonial extols Hop Bitters curing insatiable liquor thirst and restoring steadiness after two years sobriety. The piece also recounts an episode in which a British cavalryman Weatherly refused to abandon his son during a Zulu attack, saving him as bullets flew.
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