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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1882
Page
1
County correspondence recalls the death of Emery Wright after a car incident urging caution to Watertown youths. The town mourns, with schoolmates marching to the grave and prayers for safety in memory of a jolly friend.
A busy week includes a scare reported as a mull pow incident with no investigation findings. Miss Facing Alen returns from Philadelphia after two months visiting friends. Mr Charles Wainwright heads to Chicago with family to follow soon. Gaylord and Stones store closes for stock reform. Depot sheds replaced with a larger building and nearby improvements underway. Ladies Dancing Class party at Town Hall drew a good crowd and pleasant evening. Charles Shepherd returns to Oskaloosa after selling funds here.
Edgington news reports Mr Greeley Young travels in Dakota for a week or two while Mr Frits Slowe searches for better business location, and Mr John Krantz plans to farm next spring. Edgington sees travel to Rock Island, Moline and Davenport along with church services prep for communion.
A Philadelphia journalist William H Cunnington recounts a nocturnal ramble during a snow storm that ended with a severe neck stiffness. After a long theater visit and a blocked return trip he found relief the next day following the use of St Jacobs Oil, his wife applying it and loosening the stiffness.
Farmer Joslyn pits sons Rob and Bob in a yearly farming contest using two hundred dollars and land to raise crops. Rob emphasizes skill and new equipment while Bob pursues faster, newer gear, with Rob ultimately triumphing in the year end tally as the twin colts go to him.
Hampton January 11 1882 notes a snow melt and social drift as the Ladies Aid Society gathers at D Hunter's this afternoon. Mrs R A Stoddard and father return from a Kansas City visit. Wells and wife in town with old friends before they depart for home. Eugene Nabney remains ill and regional friends plan a speedy recovery. Francia and Mrs Herbert Oling visit Mrs H Thomas. Mrs RH Coomes travels to Clear Lake for her father Bunschider's deathbed.
January 11 1882 Cordova brief mentions include D Hall returning from New Year visit in Cincinnati and occupying premises of W B Dyer who resigns for a lucrative position at J Iase's threshing machine factory. Geo Marshall and Mr Marshall start for Keithsburg then Texas. crossing the river ferry proves difficult amid a long ice cut.
Weekly postal return for Rock Island county Illinois shows remaining mail in Moline for week ending Thursday January 12 1882. Names include Alkarma M Moll Onigen Aldrott Morris Asplund Mary Boswell John Ontigall Braun Carl Neleod Albert Follett E E Nyegid Gawble Josiah Nyststrom J C Goranson Hastengs W Ffgas F Halberg John Imelia Johnson Petering Mattie Bittenier Lawson Gerilla John Lilley Luna ta DG and others.
Coroner Morris investigates the Watertown death of Emery Wright an engineer with the O M B P R. He and other boys played on freight cars on a side track near a turntable. Emery aimed to jump to a flat car but the track moved and he fell struck by a rail fracturing his skull he died fifteen minutes after. The incident raises concerns about boy safety near rail equipment.
The article discusses public health concerns surrounding smallpox outbreaks in Moline, noting Dr Eyster’s efforts, the impact of fresh air, and conditions in homes where patients lived. It cites mortality rates in smallpox and confluent cases, mentions labeled patients and families, and reports hospital transfers and quarantine measures.
Morris received a message to hold an inquest in Rock Island over the death of Christina Halseman an eight year old girl killed by a locomotive near a residence on Illinois Street. The engine struck her as she paused to adjust spectacles near Hinds Street leaving head severed and body crushed. a verdict and empaneled jury recorded. The family is very poor and burial may be funded by the railroad company or county.
Eyewitnesses describe a horse named Runa Hamball tearing through a street near a shop. It bolted for fifteen minutes causing mud splatter but no injuries. Onlookers restrained the animal after it circled the area and returned to the shop front.
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