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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1884
Page
11
An old Confederate flag dispute unfolds in a Fredericksdown tale with Barbara Fridchie defending her banner as crowds jeer and gunfire erupts. A mob shames a rider, residents recall a struggle to keep the flag from being removed, and Miss Frietchic’s awkward pride frames a community’s contested memory.
A historical sketch recalls Theodore Hook as a notorious prankster of his era. It details the Borners Street Hoax in Berner Street London, where thousands received letters ordering deliveries to a quiet house, causing a chaotic scene. Hook later repeats mischief in a dinner party stunt with actor Daniel Terry, posing as a guest and mixing with guests before the host discovers the deception.
A sketch of Theodore Hook and Tom Hood as lively hosts and punsters. Anecdotes recount Hook keeping guests in laughter with clever repartee, punning verses, and humorous misadventures at social gatherings.
A recounting letter discusses Arizona’s prehistoric people, their cliff dwellings, canals, and ruined cities. It highlights Cass Grande near Florence, ruins scattered across canyons, and the potential for further discoveries in the Gila River valley.
The Contemporary Review recounts how police and prosecutors in Russia wield arbitrary detentions for political crimes, with harsh penalties and routines of legal assassinations. It notes mass arrests during trials, deaths in prison, and executions or exiles for acts as minor as possessing proclamations or aiding revolutionaries.
A vivid sketch describes Dutch country where windmills form a core of industry. The narrative notes wind power aiding corn grinding and land drainage while detailing turf roofs and cheerful tile contrasts.
The piece argues that certain individuals wield concentrated mental power to enchant and guide others without force. It recounts Henri Martin, a ninety year old lion tamer who tamed beasts by gaze and presence, facing a hyena with no whip and no flinching. It cites thinkers like Emerson and Butler on leadership and the idea of magnetism in directing attention and belief.
A lecturer in an eastern city argues that Siberian exile life is not the brutal dungeon myth. He describes two exile groups convicts and banished miscreants, with convicts working in western Siberia and banished settlers farming in the east.
An excerpt from Harpers Bazar recalls coronation customs for Anne Boleyn years past. Two Countesses guarded the Queen with a cloth for her face during meals, a practice called hom age duties. The passage notes the social niceties and power dynamics of court life.
Col Cockerill and a fellow delegate narrowly escape mob violence in Chillicothe after a German passenger is found with his throat cut on a West Union to Columbus stage. Allen G Thurman intercedes, vouched by his long acquaintance, leading to their release as investigations reveal the injury victim was a deranged detainee who had attempted self harm previously.
A historical note argues that the prodigal's privation referenced in the parable may refer to eating kharub pods rather than husks. It describes the pods as four to ten inches long, gelid inside, with a sweet but sickly taste, fed to swine in Palestine and Cyprus.
A Toledo Blade feature describes octoroons in New Orleans as a distinct social group between white and black. It notes social ostracism for mixed-race women, praises the beauty and education of many, and highlights the varying outcomes for men and women in this lineage.
In 1846 Webster spoke on tariffs at a Philadelphia banquet. The Pennsylvanian printed a counterfeit edition of his 1824 free trade speech as a prank, selling thousands before the ruse was found. Horace Greeley bought copies for the New York Tribune, while Webster laughed at the joke.
The Saturday Review humorously likens poets to earthworms in a Darwinian frame, noting poets’ habits, slow labor in verse, and constant critique by early birds. It suggests the poet’s toil resembles the worm’s digging, with critics ever watchful and devouring drafts.
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