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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1884
Page
10
A dramatic verse piece blends 17th century Salem witchcraft with 19th century moral musings. It casts Mistress Annie and neighboring Lita in a cautionary plot about danger, temptation, and fate, referencing Cotton Mather and a chastened future.
A dissipated London bore named Smith dominates a tale of friendship, romance, and a heroic lake of acrostics. Jones recounts a holiday in Boulogne where Enid Mountjoy is saved from drowning and Jones wins her hand after a series of comic misdirections and a Roman road map misunderstanding.
A fragment from La Rochefoucauld reads You are a continual intoxication the fever of reason highlighting a sharp, aging aphorism about desire and intellect.
The narrative tours Hermes and Nolus Streets describing imported goods, tailors, and houseware shops. It highlights the bustling market plaza near the Acropolis with Coreek costumes, embroidery work, and vendor chatter. A later aside recounts a wedding proposal scheme where guests secretly match partners through a president, resulting in twelve reciprocal engagements.
An Iowa farm anecdote follows a gentleman seeking to buy a horse noted as gentle yet “blind in both eyes.” A farmer confirms the animal’s calm nature, while onlookers recall the horse’s road shyness, now rendered useless by blindness in both eyes.
A tale of Dusenbury’s grumbling at a Thanksgiving meal ends with a quip about cabbage and corned beef. The piece shifts to notes on head coverings, baldness, and hair loss, arguing hats influence hair and proposing a reform in head gear while noting the beard’s resilience with age.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from the Carl Pretzel weekly style, featuring humorous exchanges about fashion, marriage, trains, and social quirks. Fragments mention a drummer, watermelons distilled as brandy context, and a window display with stuffed animals.
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