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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1882
Page
8
City residents are invited to use the reading room adjoining the station free of charge. A reception area with stationery is provided, plus a cabinet of curiosities and tables for chess and checkers. Open daily except Sundays, with modest hours stated.
The young son of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Mills of Rock Island died Wednesday from gravital illness. Smallpox reports emerge in Davenport with several cases flagged in the otherwise healthy district. Invitations are issued for a phantom and masquerade party at Christy's Hall by the Sylvan beat club on Tuesday evening February 21.
Daily openings at Simon Hirsch feature spring woolens while repairs on the Yaad building run about 3300 and likely 2500. Notices mention medical cures, local visits, and plans for sales of farm tools, household items, and a public auction near Miphia.
Mrs Levi Crane died at Saratoga California on the morning of the 25th after months of illness. She previously lived in Moline for years and worked as a watchman for Kentor & Co and a guard on the island.
Crowd floods Richanis and Lohr beck 3 seeking free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discoveries for consumption coughs colds and throat and lung protection. Also notes baptism services at the Baptist church and praise for Favorite Prescription by Mae Earty Ruups of McBrides Mich.
In Land of the Midnight Run Paul du Chailly derides Silas Williams and the Misses Cutler, trio of Malne girls, the only women to reach Norway’s Ringe dale falls. Wa Haaga died of typhoid at 1160 West Main Street. He was 27, German, once at the corn planter works, leaving a wife and two young children. Funeral Saturday at 2 PM.
Town items report social visits at the Deere home and a party of locals amid remarks on Mrs Shaw and her family. The Century Magazine plans home-building articles and drainage cautions. Cook reports ward vaccination canvassing with city costs and minimal refusals.
A Lynn representative reports Mr de Levett’s son describes his father’s cure from rheumatic pain after using the Great German Remedy St Jacobs Oil. The elder man suffered severe arm and shoulder pain, sought relief, and after three days of treatment the pain vanished and he has not felt rheumatic pain since.
Dr. Cook appointed by the Board of Health to inspect the 8d ward and vaccinate those who have neglected to comply with orders. The C R 1 P road needs an extra operator and a night man will be employed. Neue OsTERGREN sold property by Swander place for 1300 and bought west of Perkins on Henry street for 1825. W Bresser departed for Carlisle for a three or four week visit, his first home trip in six years. The poetry of Iration was illustrated by skaters at the rink Tuesday evening.
A garbled OCR text fragment mentions Dr Duna, President Gath, and Halli Davis with unclear references to catalogs, prices, and a "Gharthedd Halla Davis" event. Names and items are partly legible but overall content is incoherent and lacks a clear news event or published notice.
An article extols Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for stomach and blood cleansing and malaria. It also recounts a Deere & Company office march that ends with a humorous capture at Rea Chih and a老人 who recalls skating nine years before his fall with old skates.
The revised edition of the New Testament sold over two million copies on its first day. The text compares this extraordinary sales figure to Swayne's Ointment for itching piles, touted as a standard remedy. It urges readers to buy amid spring shopping days and advertises local merchants highlighted in the Dispatch columns.
Tax C RL and PLRR Co shows a net gain of ten percent for the last eight months versus the same period last year. The date of the concert under D Roy Bowlby’s management is not fixed but likely October 10.
A mixed-page item lists trade in fabrics at N Chester & Co and a range of civic notes. It covers a church stance on polygamy, early bias debates, a public street scene with Byios Pinps, and notes on Rev EOS P Warren selling property. It mentions Anderson's Oxato year, plans for a new building, and city council actions including street and alley costs totaling 6215 55.
An advertisement for Pure Cod Liver Oil by Caswell Hazard & Co highlights selection livers from the sea shore and claims medical approval. It asserts superiority over rival oils and touts purity and sweetness for parents and physicians.
A street car on Watha street was halted near the Wagon Company works after Sam Davin blasts fired nearby. An explosion followed, sending stones, screams, and blue flames into the air. The car continued on its route after the shock subsided with no serious injuries reported.
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