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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1875
Page
3
A long letter to The Review discusses growth in three interconnected cities, warning against predatory self interest and urging independent local efforts. It praises sidewalks as civilizational progress and calls for labor and capital balance, reform of township governance, and patronage of local businesses to spur shared prosperity.
A twelve man US backed crew under J F Wallace works four weeks to remove four feet of a rock ridge in the Mississippi about six miles above Hampton. The project uses a derrick flat boat and subaerial blasts with cost per cubic yard far below typical contracts, saving money for navigation improvement.
A special meeting of the city council on Thursday evening August 19 was attended by Mayor D L Wheelock and Aldermen Whipoole White Tuffley Gault Hemenway and Wittick. Clerk pro tem L E Hemenway was elected after the clerk was absent. The bill of O J Tuyitt for street work as assistant engine for 25 was approved. The gas committee recommended lamp posts at multiple street corners including Henry Salter Hoursee and Henry Spring and Henry Bass and Illinois Atkinson and Illinois Salter and Illinois Madison and Illinois Wells and Illinois Rodman Avenue Wells Lynde and Wells Bass and Wells Atkinson and Wells Ann and Lynde and Park and Lynde plus Rodman Avenue near the post office. The report was adopted unanimously.
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