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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1882
Page
10
Mary E Barr presents a versescape on migration and longing as birds travel south amid harvest skies and a calm landscape. The piece channels a contemplative tone about home, flight, and the call to a better land within Harper's Weekly.
In Meredith Son's Philadelphia coton factory a room full of girls debate Ellen Churchill who refuses to sign a subscription for a silver tankard for retiring manager Rodman. Churchill, once a refined recruit now leading a room crew, earns envy for thrift and modest living while Susy Whiting defends her.
Walter Rodman, a long trusted clerk, wooes Ellen Churchill, a frugal yet generous woman from Lenwood. He learns of her secret sacrifice for her stepbrother Stephen, cleared by years of self denial, and finally declares to marry her after her noble acts are revealed.
A San Francisco column recalls Mile Mauri the ballet star and her unusual remedy for a sprain. The narrative parallels Fannie Elsaler’s case and depicts a morning visit to an abattoir where a calf and lamb are used in a controversial treatment.
Charles T Vansant earned hero status amid Civil War action at Ballad, reusing colors after rescuing a wounded colonel and bearing him to safety amid heavy fire. He recovered the flag lost in battle, hid it under a river stone, and later retrieved it for his regiment. The text also mentions a cholera-related death rate statistic and chloroform use in operations.
At eleven yesterday opening the Congress Hall Clapton drew about five thousand who witnessed Bramwell Booth wed Florence Eleanor Super of the Booth lineage. Gen Booth led vows and blessing as Miss Soper gave her daughter's hand, the ceremony ending with prayers, songs, and a final blessing from Rev Ryder.
An agricultural column argues farmers should shift from grain to meat and dairy production. It urges expanding sheep and hog herds, fattening cattle where climate suits, and exporting meat rather than grain. Wealth and soil fertility rise with sustained live stock farming.
In Talbot County on a Tuesday a farmer reports a huge rat slaughter on his land. Jen Carlisle notes rats chewed and destroyed two acres of corn and fed on cotton in a tenant cabin area, causing extensive crop damage and prompting alarm.
Mr Carlisle faced a rat invasion that ruined cotton and seed. He sought poison, then mobilized two bull dogs and five workers to tear down the chimney and corner hundreds of rats tunneling to a hollow stump. The battle lasted hours, leaving an empty flour barrel and an estimated three thousand dead rats.
A reader recalls a Suffolk family the Watkinsons of Lavenham and a son in America who, while visiting a chapel with an open door, appeared to his relatives in the pewyard and vanished. Later, in a heat sleep, he dreamed the same scene on a Sunday leading to questions about sleep liberating the soul.
A narrator discusses the lure of easy money from crime and gambling, recounting a bank cashier who steals $30,000, appeasing his greed with brief gains but facing losses. The tale notes detectives paying rewards, and a gambler losing $2,000 and facing further downfalls before arrest, with lines about the fate of bad men in financial ventures.
A Kingston led study reports Jamaica's sugar estates suffer at least 220 000 dollars yearly from rats damaging canes. Introduction of the mongoose in Kingston and across parishes dramatically cut rat damage, with some estates saving up to ninety percent of rat catching costs and eighty percent of destroyed canes.
Fragmentary text notes the gradual use decline of native law in Ireland and mentions a Union founded at Debln with focus on maize study and national legislation. The garbled content limits clear facts but indicates skepticism about a genetic or national factor influencing change.
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