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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1884
Page
10
A lyric fragment praises blossoms on trees in white blue purple and pink hues. The verses hint at a Rhymes by James Whitcomb Riley influence and playful floral imagery.
In contemplative verses from Chambers' Journal, the speaker recalls childhood lullabies and lost songs as modern city noise and routine repair fuse with recollection. The wandering spirit seeks familiar tunes across decades, linking memory to the passage toward death.
A historical account traces Geronimo’s capture at Hot Springs Agency in 1877 by Indian Agent Clum and Maj. Wade’s delayed arrival. It notes repeated escapes from San Carlos and Fort Apache, the Hot Springs refuge for renegade Apaches, and the broader campaign led by Gen. Crook against Geronimo and allied chiefs.
In a tense confrontation at the Agency, Geronimo and other renegade chiefs faced Agent Clum and a large police force. Clum disarmed the chiefs, warned them no harm would come if they surrendered, and ultimately had Geronimo ironed and taken to the rd-house. The captors then transported the ringleaders, including Geronimo, to San Carlos in chains.
The quote reflects on nature's patient, meticulous molding of social extremes from beggar to emperor, suggesting that fortune and character emerge through long hidden forces. It envisions a continuum of human worth shaped by time and circumstance.
The Germantown Telegraph urges tree planting to raise land value and long term timber benefits. It offers cabbage worm remedies using smart weed, methods for cider vinegar, hillside farming advantages, raised potatoes under straw, and promoting poultry raising as a profitable family enterprise near markets like Philadelphia.
A garbled domestic recipe list includes lousekeepers aids with sour milk eggs and soda, fruit desserts like blackberry preserves, clear beef soup, poached eggs in vinegar, milk cheese process, fruit cake with ample spices and brandy, plus slow bake notes. Contains multiple dishes and home remedies with measurements and steps.
Dr. H. P. Gauthier describes a diphtheria remedy tested during an 1865 Natchez epidemic. He reports about 100 cases treated with tincture of iodine and adjusted dosing, plus decolorized tincture for internal use and liberal bread and starch in the diet, claiming markedly improved outcomes with a small number of deaths when patients were moribund on arrival.
An anecdotal note from the Brooklyn Eagle recalls a AMateur Thespian’s query about Much Ado About Nothing at Haverly's Theater. Two ladies behind him reportedly discussed spring styles, highlighting theater talk and light social bustle rather than performance details.
In a Mississippi town a weary group seeks shelter from a poor landlord who reveals a ramshackle inn. He explains the rooms, meals, and meager provisions with blunt candor, offering seven up and pay for all with a single shilling of tobacco. They depart noting their social reward.
The excerpt cites Macaulay admiring great imagination yet avoiding poetry criticism, contrasting with Hazlitt. He notes fluctuations in his own work, doubting it against ideal history but finding it trustworthy and agreeable. He admits his style may inspire imitation but warns his manner is near a bad one. Chambers' Journal.
A man boasted of buying a suit with fifty dollars saved by oil speculation after his wife lent the money. He claimed oil would rise from 1.10 to 1.20 and he would be safe, insisting he had made the suit himself and was ahead of the market. A second item notes a sharp decline in blindness in England linked to eye surgery and better sanitation.
A collage of jokes and snippets from various papers lampoons misunderstandings of language use. It includes cartoons about marriage delays, fashion spoons, and a Punch editor’s salary, with humor about cigars and outdated phrases.
A photographer notes after twenty five years and 147000 sittings that the left side shows the most characteristic likeness while the right side is the most symmetrical. He cites testimonials and representative Americans including Bryant Willis Evarts and others from the New York Tribune.
A merchant tests applicants by reading a stylized card ad that lists a good playing hand with aces and king of trios. The scene shows a humorous exchange as the man delivers the ad proof.
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