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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1889
Page
6
Light and lively column reports Mr and Mrs Twineham King of Stewartville welcome a new son. Harry Wilcox visits Stewartville. Various local notes cover births subscriptions shipments, trades, and a fatal stomach hemorrhage in Muscatine, along with church and lodge happenings and industry news.
The Meline Paper Co uses white print paper from wood pulp year round, moving away from rag. Sulphite process expands nationally with thirteen mills at 150 tons daily, and future builds to 1,000 cards daily. Ferris sees local timber potential on Moline bluffs. asks why local capitalists don’t start a pulp mill. Domestic sulphite fibre quoted at 67.50 to 100 per ton. wood pulp worth 2 to 24 per ton.
A historical advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for any case catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It includes testimonials from West & Truax and Walking, Kinnan & Marvin Toledo druggists and E. H. Van Hoesen, cashier at Toledo National Bank, asserting trustworthiness and financial ability. The note explains the cure is internal and acts on the blood and mucous surfaces, with price listed per bottle.
Local ad offers free trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam for throat and lungs at Moline drug stores. Claims relief for coughs colds bronchitis asthma sore throat and consumption. Bottle sizes 60 cents and 1 dollar. samples available tonight.
The service for Mrs. A M K Knowles drew many older residents. Rev. C L Morgan read Psalm 23 and spoke briefly. A quartet sang and pallbearers included Woodford Ainsworth White Grimes and Parks. A floral pillow was contributed by the M C A.
Mrs Moody about 70 residing with her daughter Mrs Murmun on Twentieth Street fell while descending stairs after being left with children. She sustained a fracture above the left wrist and facial bruises plus a leg injury. Patient resting comfortably under treatment by Dr Dunn.
Friday's dispatch notes that the late Mrs A M R S Ku left bequests to relatives and friends with at least one Moline friend remembered appropriately. It states she provided for the Y E Co A during life and that the public will learn more when the will is made public.
A San Francisco editorial advocates establishing an official county records searcher to provide accurate land title information. It notes current county recorders issue certificates on instruments affecting property, but questions practicality and potential benefits to prevent title fraud.
At the Moline city council, debate centers on fencing or elevating at Thirteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth streets where C B & Q yards sit. Supporters favor a viaduct to ease growing traffic. opponents warn of property-era impacts and ineffectiveness of gates. The council considers crowding tracks or removing yards as alternatives while vowing action soon.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Y M C A reelects all current officers. President Mrs Finman Groom, Vice President Miss Lizzie Montgomery, Secretary Mrs Abbie Rould, Treasurer Miss Carrie Altz.
W H Hatch, superintendent of Moline schools, spoke at a Rock Island Humane Society gathering. He praised the audience and urged cultivating finer feelings in boys ages 12 to 16 to steer them away from violence. Other speakers included Rev W S Marquis, Father Mackin, Conochie, Frank Nadle, G W Gue and Rev Mt.
A. F. Smith, state organizer for the I.C.G.T., organized a Juvenile temple with seventy four charter members in Stewartville. Officers elected include O. T. Reo and Hrumbaugh with Pini Seahsheley.
A box of mammoth raisins named The Pride of LeMoore was sent to L E Fish whose brother lives in LeMoore California. The card notes three tons per acre and a price of 5 cents per pound with net profits per acre of 265 dollars. LeMoore is in Tulare county.
The advertisement claims Screfulia and rheumatism are quickly cured by Hunnicutt's Rheumatic Cure and the cause removed. It cites endorsements from physicians clergy merchants and others and offers a book of particulars for two cent stamps. The product is sold by druggists at one dollar.
A notice promoting Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a trusted teething remedy. It claims nationwide use by many mothers over forty years with no ill effects and cites relief of teething pains bowels wind and digestive discomfort. Sold in a 25 cent bottle.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a mysterious nasal catarrh and breathing illness with reports of high fatality and scarce effective treatments. Mentions Ely's Otivm Balin as a claimed remedy amid uncertain records.
An advertisement claims a new principle sets out liver stomach and bowels through the neck. It speeds cures for Ness bad taste torpid liver piles and potion. Suitable for men women and children. Smallest mildest surest. 80 doses for 25 cents. Samples free at Wr Clandesins drug store.
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