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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1889
Page
8
Classified listing highlights fourteen styles of apparel and home textiles. Includes Ruchings Embroidered Shams Lace Shams Stamped Tidies Torchon Lace Collars Children Bibs Lace Curtains Curtain Net New Curtain Shades Pillow Café Laces Remnants of Lace Ladies White Aprons and Embroidered Aprons.
Sewartville resident Sarah Barlow travels with measles. J W Waters from Madison on business. Rock Island social scene includes dances and church meetings. Davenport hosts a new Building Loan and Savings Association. a Dover of civic items, a young death from diphtheria in Davenport. numerous local visitors and business updates across Stewartville, Moline, and Rock Island.
A testimonial from Geo Cotey of Merrill Wisconsin dated 1887 describes a thirteen month eczema battle cured in four to five weeks by Coticora remedies. He praises Cuticura Skin Cure Soap and Blood Purifier and notes many others in his area benefited while urging mothers with affected children to use the products.
Practical wartime era instructions describe killing methods for cattle using a rifle ball or blunt force, then skinning, removing entrails, and cooling the carcass. Steps include blindfolding, aiming from eye to horn, careful skin removal, gutting, washing with cold water, and halving the carcass after cooling.
A reader warns that Pekin ducks over a year old require separate housing as females attack and eat young chickens and eggs. Drakes are less aggressive but the female ducks treat chicks as delicacies and will raid nests when housed with other fowls. They lay irregularly with bouts of daily eggs then gaps of days to weeks.
A Iowa correspondence describes an unpatented portable fence with illustrations, detailing four pieces A B C and assembly methods. The piece outlines dimensions, materials, and notches to fit posts, with notes on wind exposure and staking for stability.
A religious reflection recalls Jesus healing a long suffering woman who touched his cloak in Capernaum. The piece links faith to recovery, notes immediate healing, and urges Christian workers to preach boldly while highlighting the woman’s trust and Jesus’ compassionate response. It also mentions community efforts toward a fair in Rock Island and honors a Methodist missionary woman's work among colored families.
J M Hall changes plan leaving Horton Kansas for a farther move and will send a new address later. The Congregational church bell replaces the cracked tone and sounds better than the prior bell.
Leander Palmquiat a pressman at Porter Printing Co married Anna Johnson last evening. The Sons of Veterans cleared about $20 from a Fisk Jubilee Singers concert on Wednesday evening. The last of fifteen horses afflicted with a illness at Dr Trevor’s stables in Vy 8 have recovered within a year.
The report lists Wheat and Corn prices in Chicago and New York with May July and March contracts, hogs and cattle prices from the Union Stock Yards, butter eggs and produce values, and a Cleveland anecdote. It also includes a humorous exchange about denomination at the end.
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