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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1884
Page
9
A somber first person verse recalls a little boy who died and the grieving family. The speaker describes midnight quiet, maternal sorrow, and the hope of heaven where they will reunite in the riverside paradise with the boy. The poem ends with visions of home in the skies and eternal family ties.
Walter Witherell, a thrifty mechanic farmer, is drawn into the Grand Orient Petroleum Mining and Manufacturing Company through Plausible Sparkler. Jennie, his wife, foils the scheme by falsely supplying a stock certificate, saving their savings and mortgage, and later reveals the ruse. Walter learns a hard lesson about speculative schemes and vows honesty.
In Noel Allante Monthly prose the author muses on childhood grief and its distinct weight. The piece contrasts adult indifference with a child's view of time and the comfort found in tomorrow, suggesting the morrow steadies sorrow and tempers present passion.
Artist Mr W B Conely discusses in a Detroit interview the need for flawless models in life drawing classes. He explains strict background checks, wages offered, and the challenge finding women deemed pure and confident enough to pose.
A Colorado pugilist named Thebold travels from Wyoming to Denver to challenge Johnny Crow. In a late-night match at a baseball park, Crow knocks Thebold cold with a brutal blow, leaving him bloodied and claiming he is done for. Cowboys back home whip Thebold afterwards.
The piece contrasts how some ignore true need without a dramatic appeal and recalls a soldier begging with vivid testimony. It observes robust yet casual people inheriting measured constitutions and notes a fashion critique of a stand-up shirt collar that exposes the Adam’s apple and chin.
A collage of dated quips and jokes from Carl Pretzel’s Weekly and various papers. Observational humor on marriage and dogs, tales of slipping cakes, a leaky prairie job offer, odd advertisements, and a temperance elephant prank, all tied by light satire and comic misdirection.
General Beauregard argues in the Century that the South faltered not from superior Northern force but from weak leadership and timid direction. He contends a strong executive and proactive strategy were essential to counteract the North’s advantages.
An elderly man chides a fashionable girl over her dress, claiming sensible suitors dislike such attire for its waistline. She counters with a laugh, then coerces him for fifty dollars. Extracts reference Benjamin Franklin and Emerson, noting flaws in vanity and tolerance of merit.
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