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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1884
Page
8
Review dispatch notes Delaware sheriff race based on most dits with humor. It mentions an inventor of an electric lighted bullet and a stage show with illuminated female armor dancers. It also reports on hair crops and a blue heron attack on Fish Commissioner William E. Sisty.
A 19th century collage covers Corsican bee swarming with lemon rind tricks and lemon juice, early potato transport history from Virginia to Spain to Italy, religious press leaders debating biblical timelines, a Vatican inventory including embassies, and a tale of the Duke of Buccleuch dining with common servants after a boastful guest.
A narrator muses on wine making and its woes while a tipsy passenger proclaims he owns the best saloon and tries to ride without a ticket. The conductor orders fare and the man, intoxicated, claims he could buy the road and ends with a fall into a ditch as onlookers watch.
A survey of clothing terms traces many fashion names to famous individuals. Derby hats To Queen Victoria given items such as the Kos suth hats Gainsborough and Rubens hats and the Jersey waist among others.
The article recalls Sheridan leading from the front with no wounds while Hooker receives only minor scratches. It notes Killpatrick and Custer’s heavy combat with few injuries and mentions Shobelef, famed for reckless charges in a white coat and charger, who supposedly possessed immunity, being wounded only by a stray bullet in a distant trench.
In a 19th century note, the author explains a simple shadow rule to gauge tree height. By marking ground lines three feet apart, placing a three foot stake, and aligning shadow tips at 45 degrees, the shadow length matches the tree height, best tested in summer for strong sun and dense foliage.
The Times-Democrat notes Felix Walker claims a patent for postage stamps printed on oil treated tissue with mucilage. The stamp printing adheres to the envelope and cannot be erased, only dampening loosens the tissue leaving the printing on the mucilage. Walker asserts durability after a year in pocket.
A boarding house morning scene from the Boston Budget shows ee Botte complaining of illness at breakfast. The landlady offers sympathy as he recalls a doctor’s suggested toning remedy and contemplates a poached egg and mutton dish.
A Beverly sailor spins sea yarns in a Water Street dinette tale of beans and large fish. He recalls halibut weights, a famed Gloucester cod, and a devil fish encounter while recounting poetry from the Sailors’ Own Book.
A fragment from a 19th century account describes wild ipecac and sweet william along a woodland path. The narrator learns from a guide about Egyptian clover, a plant left by armies after Sherman and Johnson’s march. The grass spreads across woods and hillsides and now invades fields, choking out other plants.
Higginson traces the westward expansion from 1795 to 1830 using maps and travelers notes. He details how settlement pushed from New York and Pennsylvania toward Ohio Michigan and beyond, noting population density shifts and the fading emigrant wagon era. The narrative links maps from 1708 to 1790 and 1800 1830 to show growing western settlement and the decline of the classic emigrant group.
Carter H. Harrison accepts the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor after a public endorsement. He pledges to govern like a businessman and defend personal liberties, criticizing the Republican party for corruption and reform failures while urging unity among workingmen and foreign-born citizens.
The narrative lists multiple incidents including a nine residence burglary in Woodstock with Thomas Mann a barber drowned in the Sangamon River at Springfield, a scaffold collapse on Washington Boulevard in Chicago injuring several workers, and other accidents and legal notes. It also records court rulings on Republic Life Insurance stock liability, charity board figures, a banker peddler case, a Bruce store fire, and postal money orders statistics.
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