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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1881
Page
8
The Moline Public Library offers free access to a writing desk and stationery, along with furnished reading and game areas including chess and checkers. Open daily with Sunday hours excluded, from 1:30 to 6 and 6 to 9:50, and from 2:00 to 6:00 on additional days.
Bulletin records mixed timetable notes for Omtoago and West East routes. Mentions Pacific Day Express Night Express No 7 and Chicago connections with departure times from L&F depot at Pitts Street. Mentions early morning arrivals, weekend service changes, and optional accommodations.
The column lists holiday goods displays and sales by multiple shops including Weese's New Casers, Gould & Co, Forward & Gleason, and Holt & Wilson. It mentions new stock in pianos at Bowlby's, the arrival of Christmas trees, and local scenes of commerce and street activity with various names and addresses.
Various local items note resignations and job changes in grocery stores, sales at Hull Bros and Bowlby’s, real estate and rail concerns, theatre offerings, and a temperance letter urging rights against liquor interests.
A morning recap notes an editor threatening to expose a grocer if sugar was not sent, then reports rapid refunds of sugar. It also advertises new butter and berry dishes, an odd horse hitching ordinance, and a mild Coroner quarrel. It compares a Peoria Journal to Bob Ingersoll, praising its strong religious zeal.
A jittery 19th century pamphlet blends dental care advice with warnings about rail travel and urban migration. It promotes Sozobonr as a purifier for bad mouths, cites tooth decay and tobacco polish harm, and threads in a drunken man in a ditch near Rock Island. It also mentions a grand ball at Curistir’s new hall with invitation committee members and notes a patent boot attachment from Gould & Co.
Today at the Market Square Weighmaster lists prices for corn and Timothy hay with various grades and weights. Hogs are priced per cwt with receipts including light and heavy categories. Cattle categories run from common to medium quality with butchers and feeders noted along with half-breeds and natives.
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