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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1881
Page
7
A local editorial urges enforce of state protection statutes for prairie fowl facing heavy hunting pressure. It warns that storms of lead threaten flocks and riverine food supplies, urging landowners to keep sport seekers off their property to protect reproductive powers and food resources.
An advertisement promotes Electro Voltair Belts and suspensor devices for young men and others with nervous debility and weak vitality. It claims to restore manhood and offers to send a trial to interested buyers within thirty days.
The text appears as an 19th or early 20th century medical ad fragment. It references remedies including Cuticura and Sanford’s Radical Cure. The narrator describes suffering and denial of pleasures, claiming cures for skin disease and catarrh with advertised products.
A reunion of the 12th Minors Infantry from the Civil War era was held in Cambridge marking the Aug 15, 1862 organization. Veterans, residents, and visitors joined a procession to the Court House square with remarks by General Henderson and Rev J J Walter. The program featured readings, music by Biehl's Band, and a meal served for 35 cents.
The text argues that the Board of Health holds near unlimited power to enforce city ordinances and health regulations. It discusses arrest authority for violators and for those disposing filth or deleterious material, with the marshal’s role in execution and responsibility resting on the Board.
A midnight fire threatened a lumber car and nearby box cars after rubbish ignited beside the track near Barnard & Skas Manufacturing. A watchman extinguished the blaze with water and laundry, warning that sparks from locomotives and unsecured yard rubbish pose serious danger to lumber cars and cargo.
An advertisement lists Henrys Carbolic Salve as a universal remedy for cuts sores and skin eruptions with a 25 cent price. It promotes Reneys salve as a superior imitation and markets Dr Green s Oxygenated Extracts for dyspepsia biliousness malaria and related conditions. Durins Catarrh Snuff and Motts Liver Pills are also touted as cures and tonics in the same page.
Rev Walter, Geneseo, officiated at a reunion for the 112th with a large audience. In the evening a soldiers' love feast was held and the 112th veterans enjoyed a rare, joyful gathering. Mr Drives of Coe visited town with butter and eggs for sale.
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