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Rock Island Advertiser 1854 highlights and local notes
A survey of the September 27 1854 Rock Island Advertiser reveals political clashes between Douglas and Wentworth over patronage and the Kansas Nebraska bill, Whig and Republican union attempts, and editorials praising abolitionist stances. It preserves names of local merchants judges doctors and editors and notes civic happenings and a cholera outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. N. Taylor
Rock Island
O. P. Wharan
Douglas
Senate
Long John Wentworth
Rock
Cook County
Wentworth
Aurus
George W. Pleasants
Hook Island
Congress
Free States
R.S. Blackwell
Parson Brownlow
South
Knoxville
Tennessee
East Tennesser
Biedeker
Parean-Brownlow
Old
C. Plummer
FE. I. Bowman
C. HH. Leas
Harrisburg
Larper—Bond& Clippinger
Wait & Co
A. L. Wait
Dimock, Gould & Co
Judge Lynde
Mitchell & Lynde
Moline
W. Wheelock
James Fergus
Frazer Wilson
John Deere
Reuben C. Wells
Mahala H. Cutter
Amos F. Cutter
Wesley Arrowsmith
Susan W. Covey
Rock Island County
Aurora
Nebraska
John Wentworth
Rock Islander
Lander
Sabetta
Polercepy
Presidentllayes
Hag
Indiana
Kansas
Rock Islnd
Ordnance Department
Engineer Department
Mackenzie
Mississippi River
Island of
Ohio
Grant
Belknap
Dyer
Hegit
Iodman
Scyer
Rock Island Arsenal
Kansas State Fair
Dakota
Hayes
Moline Bindery
Brooks’ Crossing
F. P. Henry
Kenworthy & Beardsley
Pansy Missionary Band
Alfred Williams
Yiticond