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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1889
Page
5
The notice warns subscribers in arrears over one year will be cut off if not paid by January 1. A $1 addition buys one year from payment date. otherwise the price remains $1.40. The publishing authority will take steps to collect overdue amounts.
Mr Stunner left school for the Thbssdass and returned home. Mrs S R Porter and family spent Christmas in Moline with Polly Pichsels. Zoz0 the Magic Queen booked for Harper's Theatre next Monday eve. H C Whitridge resigns as RB J P auditor. M R R Igiehart named successor. John N Ihuntoon at Mo Line Plow Co Texas now in Rock Island for holidays. The twelfth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Michael Bottz celebrated with a surprise party and gifts.
E H Kempster attended the Supervisors meet in Whiteside County. Frank Kempster returns home for vacation. Mrs crust visits John Hahn after a noon train arrival. H Fender and wife travel to Moline. Woodmen hold a special meeting. Ad Lambright found dead in Wash Rowe's Dutch Bottom home. he was about 38, owned 60 acres. Steve Hill shows slight improvement. Christmas greetings from Filisdaile, Dec 25, 1880.
The document fragment lists property plots, owners, and assessors including Joseph Hank, Christ Danielson, and Bailey Davenport, with block and lot references across Moline. It notes a 1850 date and references a fight after a Color Times event ending badly for Desoko, with a broken arm in a brawl involving O'Brien and Kep’s arm.
Probate records show proofs of death, depositions for wills, and guardianship rulings. Auctions and sales of real estate to pay debts proceed, with final reports, orders nisi, and administrators or executors discharged.
A broad collection notes Senator Pierce and Senator Chace figures in public life, authorship deals by Henry M. Stanley, a Chinese minister in Washington, and plans for limited memoir prints by Marshal MacMahon. It mentions Speaker Reed’s size, Emin Pasha potential hires, Pantheon panels, Trafalgar survivor claims, and a bizarre boating mishap tale from Wilkes-Barre.
A group of men scheme to trap a stranger who boasts he can select and wed the best looking widow at New York Central Depot within sixty minutes. They recruit others to stake $700, hoping the wager yields $500 from the man if he fails. The plan ends with the man marrying a widow who turns out to be the decoy.
In a fragment from Jeweler's Weekly a tense exchange centers on a watch in repair. One speaker taunts another about keeping a clean face while noting many hands pass over the item, implying repeated handling and critique.
Mrs Mary D Wuup from Abington Illinois writes that after seven years of rheumatism she could not speak or feed herself. She credits Rheumatic Syrup from Syrup Co Jackson Michigan for relief after four bottles. Signed P Fitz Druggist.
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