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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1898
Page
6
At a Davenport mass meeting the Citizens Sound Money club adopted a resolution urging President McKinley to call a special congressional session to legislate on the monetary emergency. The measure backs retirement of greenbacks and aims to uphold the gold standard through positive law and contract discharge.
An advertisement urges health through Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify blood and prevent illness. It promotes Hood's Pills as the companion remedy, claims disease terms will be expelled, and notes a price of 25 cents.
A sequence of sessions through early 1903 outlines Fathers and Mothers meetings led by various speakers. Topics include The Seahers Responsibility In Home Church Society and Politics. Additional talks cover The Law of Habit Alcohol and Moral factors. Events list dates and host addresses in New York avenues and streets.
The Twin-City Tee Co. employs 75 to 100 men cutting ice in the pool below the city. Fourteen inch ice is taken out, a power unheard of this early season by local icemen rivermen or any of the big inhabitants. The firm fills bluff houses first then island houses, with potential transfer to Watertown after. Moline Channel and Sylvan have not begun operations.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsers West & Truax and three Toledo wholesalers attest to F J Cheney’s honor and ability. Fragments describe Misses Johnson, Anderson, Lyon hosting Sorosis at Lutheran church parlor with Svea Quartet, Hemberg, new member Alda Hanson, and refreshments.
The minister describes illness including deafness throat and lung troubles and credits Aerial Medication with restoring hearing voice and health after three months. He offers free three months treatment to prove its efficacy and invites readers to contact J H W Moore MD in Cincinnati for symptom forms.
A Washington AP telegram says the Twenty second regular infantry including Moline and Davenport enlistees will be ordered to Manila by Secretary Alger. The unit at Fort Crook will relieve volunteers in the Philippines, possibly giving Phil Kennedy and Dr Skidmore a chance to return.
The Moline Free Public Library issued a supplemental catalogue showing 1557 added works and about 2100 volumes over five years. It features an extensive subject index with 2745 references, plus an author index, title index, and addenda. The collection stands at about 11 500 volumes with recent donations and ongoing acquisitions.
Scene in Paris as the Hispano American treaty is signed finishing a long negotiation. Ten arbiters of destinies sit at the foregn office table while Senor Villaurutia exclaims C est fini. American and Spanish commissions exchange seals and pens amid celebratory and somber moods.
It is reported that W H may extend the block to the alley north with a 110 foot continuous front in modern style. Leaseholds on the new store room are expected as soon as ready. Foundations may be laid early spring and next year could be a record for building in Moline. Substantial improvements including Deere post office block additions and new Auditorium plus East Marine factory buildings are planned. China stock hogs for sale and Thomas Electric Oil are noted.
In Paris the United States and Spain negotiate a peace treaty. Frye urges preserving senate courtesy over publishing the text. The pact cedes Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines with Spain paying 20 million dollars. The two commissions dine plans falter amid Madrid sensitivities.
The Wellsville mayor, C. H. Weltner, credited a ten year battle with pharyngeal catarrh to Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. He says eight boxes cured him, praising the pills as a blood purifier and urging others with similar illness to try them, noting high medical and pharmacist endorsement.
General Calixto Garcia Cuban war hero and head of the Cuban commission to visit Cuba died in Washington at the Hotel Raleigh shortly after 1 o'clock. Pneumonia from cold weather caused his death after a brief unconscious period. He was 60 years old and a Cuban native. Condolences came from President McKinley and Secretary Hay.
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