City Council Meeting Notes and Local Listings
Reading lists city officials and ward members for the upcoming regular council meeting. Also includes church notices, lodge schedules, Scandinavian Benevolent Association, and local government and school notices with names of officers and towns such as Moline Rock Island Cordova Milan and Coal Valley.
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Cordova Cordova
Port Byron
Uillsdace
Carbon Cull
Milan
Coal Valley
Cual Valley
Pleasant Ridge
Andalusia
Edginston
Huffaro Prairie
Muscatioglo
Rock Island
Rock Leland
Moline
Rock Island District Election Update
Fragmentary OCR note shows names and counties in Rock Island Mercer districts with unreadable context. Likely a brief local notice referencing electoral matters and contest at Rock Island area.
Legislative District for Rock Island and Henry Counties
Twenty precincts in Rock Island and Henry counties compose the Legislative District. State Senator candidates include B and C and Mopsrwex. Henry County representatives listed are Joan T. Brownine and M Grenece, with Rock Island pairing Joan P Fox of Henry.
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Rock Island
Henry Counties
B& C
Mopsrwex
Henry
Joan T. Brownine
M Grenece
Joan P Fox
Representative candidates named for Sixth congressional district
The article lists candidates for Rock Island, Henry, Bureau, and Putnam counties. It names Toomas J. Henderson of Princeton running for Congress, and Wm. L. Winey of Galva for the State Board of Equalization.
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Rock Island Henry
Bureau Lee and
Putnam Counties
Congress
Toomas J. Henderson
Princeton
State Board of Equalization
Wm. L Winey
Galva
Kenworthy and Beardsley Architects at Rock Island Court House
Kenworthy and Beardsley of the AW and Abstract Office are listed as architects for the Rock Island Court House in Illinois.
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Kenworthy & Beardsley, AW
Court House
Rock Island, Ill
Engineer Recalls Miss Cushman Crossing the Prairie
An Indiana rail worker recounts escorting Charlotte Cushman on a Hercules engine across a biting prairie wind from Logansport to Chicago. Cushman, determined and gracious, rose to the challenge as the train fought the gale, earning the engineer’s lasting respect and a free theatre pass.
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Anne B. Preston
The
Graphic
Chicago and Great Eastern Railroad
Hercules
Charlotte Cushman
Logansport
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Mike
Boreas
Sue
Prairie
Testatrix
Deere Gang First Prize at Illinois Iowa Trials 1874
The Lightest Draft Gang Plow named Deere Gang won first prize at the Illinois and Iowa State Field Trials in 1874. The award highlighted innovation in agricultural implements and the efficiency of the plow design.
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Illinore
Iowa State
Iowa
Gilpin Sulky Sets First Premium at Iowa Exhibition
At the DMnors and Iowa show, Gilpin Sulky earned first premium for its iron beams and iron frames, highlighting skilled craftsmanship. Competitors included other wagon builders, with awards mirroring the era’s industrial progress.
ADVANCE Walking Cultivator Review Highlights Market Leader
A recent feature praises the ADVANCE Walking Cultivator as the best and most substantial model in the current market. The piece compares build quality, reliability, and efficiency against competing brands. It notes ease of use and long-term value for farmers and landscapers.
Peerless Combined Cultivator Ad Surfaces in Market
An advertorial note highlights a Peerless Combined Cultivator suitable for riding or walking. The selling point emphasizes its unique build and market appeal with claimed advantages over regular tools.
New Jersey Supreme Court Allows Recovery of On‑Loan Bonus
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that a bonus paid on loan in addition to the legal interest rate may be recovered. The decision clarifies remedies for lenders seeking equity on loan agreements and outlines applicable conditions for recovery.
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The
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Yast Krapp Gun Manufactory A Major 19th Century Plant
The Yast Krapp Gun Manufactory at Essen near London Times reports a vast operation since 1810, run by Alfred Krapp since 1826. It employs about 10,500 workers plus 5,000 in mines and furnaces, with extensive rail, steamship, and gun production, massive furnace and forge capacity, housing, hospitals, sick and pension funds, schooling, and on site fire brigade. Guns and carriages are tested at proof butts and Dulmen practice-ground.
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Essen
Alfred Krapp
Dulmen
Westphalia
Walton Receives One Vote in Home Mississippi County
Walton, the Republican candidate for congress in the second Mississippi district, carried only one ballot in his own Tallahatchie County, reflecting weak local support.
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Walton
Mississippi
Tallahatchie
British Ocean Postal Service faces new mail contract plan
London reports the postmaster-general will not renew the U S British mail contract, effective January. Steamship firms must submit proposed sailings monthly with voyage logs. payments similar to U S subsidies, averaging about £100 per voyage, with total current subsidies around £110,000 yearly. Detention at Queenstown poses a risk to outward mail routes, challenging the plan's practicality.
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London News
United States
Great Britain
Queenstown
America
Irish Funeral Row Over Grave Precedence in Nenagh
Two men Thomas Slattery and Patrick Clancy died near Nenagh after their cart upset in a river. At the burial, factions fought over which coffin would be buried first, leading to a brawl with several people injured.
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Ireland
Freeman's Journal
Thomas Slattery
Patrick Clancy
Nenagh
Friends of
Slattery
Clancy
Dairy Show in London Echo Highlights Milk Trade Growth
The Oct 23 London Echo notes a new dairy exhibition at the Agricultural Hall attracting metropolitan attention. It cites England's 1 600 000 milk cows, held by 60 000 people, producing about twelve million pounds sterling yearly at sixpence per gallon. The piece links railway facilities and the Adulteration act to rising trade and urges pure milk to curb adulterants like Simpson and the cow with the iron tail.
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London Echo
England
Simpson
London
British Dairy Farmers’ Association
Thirty Five Miles an Hour Birth Aboard Western Train
A Baltimore American report recalls a woman named Richardson traveling from Indianapolis to Grisfield Maryland who gave birth to twins in a ladies car on a Baltimore and Ohio line train at thirty five miles per hour. She had four other children and continued to her home on Virginia's eastern shore.
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Western
Camden
Baltimore Ohio
Indianapolis
Ind
Grisfield
Richardson
Cincinnati
Frank Harris
Iarris
Harris
River steam boat season boosts commerce and profits
The St. Louis Globe notes a long steam boat season with fewer disasters and rising profits. The New Orleans trade recovered after pool system stabilizes rates while Keokuk Northern Line reports modest success. Express packets succeed and Illinois river freight rises though Missouri rates stay low.
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St. Louis Globe
New Orleans
Keokuk Northern Line Packet Company
Illinois River
Missouri River
Reverend Doctor Calms Drunk Passenger Aboard Train
An intoxicated man disrupted a car ride until a kind reverend doctor passenger intervened and calmed him for the rest of the journey. He initially glowered and cursed the others but later saluted the doctor, remarking that the doctor understands what it is to be drunk.
A Big Bonanza in a Monster Literary Weekly Venture
An enterprising publisher plans a weekly literary print, charging authors for publication and required copies. He will publish poems and stories from authors like Meta Lurline Popkins of Boscobel Wisconsin, in exchange for fees and paper purchases. He projects ample profit from contributors and advertising, betting on Illinois poetry and prose fans eager to see themselves in print.
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Ile
Meta Lurline Popkins
Boscobel
Wis
Illinois
Test of Penanahighirts in Toronto Mal bet outcome
A Toronto newspaper recounts a bet by D H Fletcher of Blake Kerr Boyd to write 3000 words in eight hours. He started at 1 am and by about 5 am had completed seven hours of work, totaling 3500 words, thus winning part of the wager and saving $10.
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Fletcher
Olice Blake, Kerr & Boyd
Prize Essay From Maine Town Exhibit About A Turkle
A school exhibition in Maine features a prize winning essay about a turkle. The piece describes the animal as aquatic then land dwelling with four paws a shell and a wet sticky hatch exit. It claims two kinds muck turkle and another in the pond and notes opinions on eating by French and Irish people and a child’s lost catch traded for a jackknife.
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Maine
Cat enters printing press in accidental office spectacle
A gray cat leaped into a Hoe press cylinder in a commercial office press room, rode several revolutions before the press stopped, then jumped into the flywheel and was carried around. The engine was halted and the cat was removed. The creature then left the office.
A Fair Count Telegram from New York 1876
Telegram from New York dated November 17 1876 reports the birth of twins to Maria and conveys congratulations to a Cincinnati father on the event The message reads Dear Father Maria gave birth to twins this morning All well Jobn Reply Cincinnati and ends with Give us fair count The era tone and fragmentary OCR reflect a social telegram note from a local paper
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Cincinnati
New York
FatHiEr
Maria
Jobn
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