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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1891
Page
6
Advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a great blood purifier that removes the impurity causing nasal bloodshot and local catarrh. It claims permanent cure and nerve strengthening benefits, urging readers to choose only Hood's.
The article argues nasal disease remedies must be non-irritating and dismisses douches snuffs powders and syringes as ineffective. It cites many sufferers praising Ely's Cream for lasting relief from catarrh and related discomfort.
In Mendham area New Jersey farmers, long promised rail links, back a plan to lay and own a twenty mile line from Mendham to Morristown. A local farmer turned surveyor proposed routing via Morristown to connect with Morris and Essex and Delaware Lackawanna lines, creating a self built track through Bryantown Morristown and neighboring towns. Work has begun with grading nearly finished and controversy over right of way settled as some farmers resist or accept the route. If completed, nineteen miles of track will replace the thirteen currently envisioned, linking two major systems and delivering coal and goods to homes and farms.
A colorful portrait profiles Samuel Adhe, a New York journalist and member of the New York Press Club, famed for inventing mechanical and mental puzzles. It highlights his creation of the 14 15 puzzle and other games like parchesi and the trick donkey, recounting the origin of the donkey puzzle from a Pennsylvanian inventor and a girl named Anne. The article notes mass popularity in the US and Europe and mentions copyright activity and the 1860 emergence of the funny donkey puzzle variously linked to Glover and others.
A 10 year old girl on an upper floor of a West Detroit grain elevator near a revolving shaft had her scalp torn off by the shaft. Surgeons performed a pioneering graft from her sister Emma to Matilda Dresch, hoping to grow new scalp skin. The operation proceeded with anesthesia and careful planning, aiming to cover the exposed skull and restore growth over months.
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