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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1882
Page
8
The article blends scattered notes from Milwaukee to Moline including travel, theater, and social items. It mentions Stewart Rwain's return from Ohio, Mrs Langtry engagements, Mrs Sorel Faylor writing on German cookery, and various political mentions such as a constitutional amendment on polygamy and a select committee on woman suffrage.
Congressman Smith introduces a proposal requesting an eight hundred thousand dollar appropriation to improve the Colorado River region. Arizona Territory offices are vacant, with a dozen candidates for governor. Mrs W Fentus will head the new city hospital when opened. A mule accident at Happy Hollow injured a rider. The Topeka Legislature convenes this afternoon. Piatto Wicks is named temporary Speaker in Shelby County.
A local press reports improvement after a new enlarged Potter press debuts in Western Plowman. Winsox, once in ice business, has faced eleven weeks of illness with poor prognosis from dyspepsia. A Irish excuse claims a boy’s recovery via Dr Marshall's Long Syrup. May Gamble, aged 2 years and 4 months, daughter of George W. Gamble, died of membranous croup on Monday. funeral at 5 PM Tuesday from residence.
A Dubuque inventor Frederick M Collett applies for a patent claiming a process to prevent lime and other deposits from forming on the bottom of term leaders. The report notes Peoria schools propose job security during efficient service and continuous appointment after a teacher’s third year. Moline Building Association reelects retiring directors Edwards Fo Hemenway Girant Sismie joins Inter Ocean business dept. Yale law grad Aswart joins Inter Ocean as correspondent. many local notes follow on odd hobbies, public health smallpox, water supply woes, and a building association amendment on paid-up shares.
The resignation of H W Flower as Edgington Postmaster is accepted and J M Jones is expected to be commissioned on Monday. Jones is a young man of ability and high standing in Edgington and is trusted to improve the mail facilities of the community.
The piece lauds the Saturday Afternoon People as a refined drawing room page with varied society news. It praises editor and proprietor S B Parr as a superior editor, describes Mr Parr’s Ohio birth and Terre Haute upbringing, and criticizes cigarette smoking as unhealthy and inferior to cigars or pipes.
A new fixed passenger rate of seven dollars between Kansas City and Chicago has been agreed by agents. The Southwestern route anticipates changes in business as lawmakers address rail transport costs. Meanwhile an odd local note mentions a house plant fee and a horse brushing past a window in search of greenery.
Mr L H Barger misses the week’s press visit while his stone pumps business grows, with last year’s output doubling all prior years. Pipe Organ Factory plans, church contracts in Topeka Iowa City and Colorado show expanding markets. Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup touted. local druggists Wortack Hinton & Co. report strong sales. A Friday Silver Gray Ball at Cloriaty’s promises high turnout. A Swedish laundress at the Pearl House, age about twenty five, fell ill and died amid fever questions. Elisa, quartermaster for quarantined families, reports though worn, continues duties. Cranies A Tainsos and G D Dickinson sell Mo line Ice to H P Oakley, who now owns two thirds of the stock. Sylvan Island ice houses store about 5,000 tons. Remaining one third split between Andrew Shallberg and Swan Tropp.
The Argus notes the engagement between Licu Schwatka and Miss Adam Brackett of Rock Island. It questions the identity and honors of the explorer and urges clearer recognition of the Arctic explorer Schwatka’s distinction.
Mn Ravbven contests a pest house plan claiming his cemetery lease for pasturage interferes with business. He vows to sue the Board of Health in court seeking an objection free location possibly as far as the moon, where even there an injunction might bar the move.
Funeral services were held at the M E church Rock Island with the Moline Temple U C A T marching in procession. The chaplain Fred White read the grave services and a triangle heart wreath from Mr Nourse rested on the casket. Follett died after illness while reportedly taking out a life insurance policy. Revival at Vivanport Baptist Church grows with thirty four praying and many professing conversion as Dr Avitt preached on The Prodigal Son and Maxham sang several pieces. Services to continue next week.
The passage reports doctors seeing fewer vaccinations daily while noting soreness at the injection site in a subset of patients. It mentions expectations of broad arm soreness as a town awaits broader vaccine reception, and cites local business A Voegler Cos 81 Jacobs Oil calendar as a related ad. It also covers incidents of city transport procurement for patient use and several grand jury indictments for crimes and property theft.
Tim Gleason former Fourth Ward councilman of Cincinnati reports severe rheumatism last winter and spring. He tried many liniments and medicines without relief until using St Jacobs Oil, which gave a full night's rest and fully cured him. Akron Ohler Beacon
Nineteen Rock Island grocerymen vote to close down except Saturday night from next Monday to October 1 causing public outcry. Gazette questions if grocers deserve rest and family life and laments a shift from work as mere machines. Sparks debate on social rights and patronage.
A newspaper piece debates dancing versus intellect, noting dancing as physical sport and pressed for broader cultural clubs in Moline. It praises a women’s suffrage society, urges more varied activities, mocks a failing Shakespeare club, and ridicules a poem by Emma while urging better literary offerings.
Preparations are completed for a ball at Christy’s Hall with 75 couples expected. Capt Morris provides dressing room staff and supper, George Walker and Wil Moore aid floor management, music starts at 8 and ends around 10. program includes 30 dances January 12, 1882.
The tax governor of Nebraska offers a reward for Henry Tedrahn formerly Davenport who allegedly killed a farmer in fall. Tedrahn and a second youth had stolen to raise money, he shot the farmer when money was refused, escaped jail after being arrested, and is now at large. Tedrahn, 20, 5 feet 8 inches, light complexion, blue eyes, is well known in Davenport where he once worked in a dry goods store for two years.
The entry book lists transfers: Sebaldus Harris to Jacob L Harris lot ly aw ly 5 and ne ne 6 16 3w for 100 dollars. Thoras Evans to James and Mary Mur ph nw nw 25 17 Iw for 1900 dollars. Panel Bank to Charley Schrier pt nw 8 £ 6 4w for 2000 dollars. Jeremiah Chamberlin to Dora Dublin lots 3 4 and 6 in gene 6 17 w for 500 dollars.
Town spans 550 square miles of water surface. Lyons fire damages Schneider’s organ factory on the 10th. Clinton pedestrians cross the Mississippi on the ice. Keokuk Cement Company increases capital stock to 20 000. Of 35 participants in 1857 constitution convention, 30 alive. Newly married couple arrives at Indianola, husband leaves wife with trunks and 1500 dollars. Ex Senator Jones travels to Washington to aid Pontoon Bridge project for Dubuque bridge consent.
Cincinnati Gazette reports the steamer Telegraph arrived at three with Ashland murderers, prisoners held in an upper court room under a 1,500-strong militia guard. Citizens grow impatient as trial date nears amid heavy security and thirteen companies deployed for protection.
Report says Bourn contemplates founding stock yards at South Chicago to give the Wabash railway advantages over rivals and dodge current discrimination. He is said to have subscribed and today approved the project with estimated cost around £0000.
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