Cash Premium Offers for Review-Dispatch Subscriptions
The Raftiew District offers flat premiums for subscribers old and new and now a permanent 50 cent premium on all subscriptions in advance. They will mail the Review-Dispatch to any address for one year for cash. A canvasser is sought in Rock Island County districts with liberal terms for those who join. White for more details to Sam Kennedy.
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Raftiew -Distri Rct
Prssq Im Cash
Welwant
Rock
Sland County
Hull
Village social ends with generous gifts and church note
The article recounts a village pastor receiving substantial remembrance from friends at a social visit. A cake with Love done another is displayed center table. Flowers and sunshine are praised. illness, funerals, and marriages are mentioned along with local events and a strike at a local company.
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Mebars Garfield
Ball
Fem Taylor
Edens Gate
Mary
James
Ask
Dua
Millsdale Road Conditions Halt School Opening
Roads around Millsdale are improving but many children suffer as the school remains closed until Monday. A local organization in Hilladale works on a relief effort while Dogiasbridge nears completion and travel may resume. Misa Brace has moved and Mrs Church plans to take her place.
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Hilladale
Dogiasbridge
Misa Brace
Social gatherings and school notes from January 1882
The article describes a neighborhood social at the Ransom residence on January 20 with games and refreshments, plus a welcome for future gatherings. It notes a closing of the Sabbath school for a time due to too few teachers and large classes, urging stronger neighborhood support and six-student classes. It mentions Heagy and Stoddard pumping a new shaft and hopes for coal transport improvements beyond mud roads.
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Heagy & Stoddard
Andalusia Ice Quality Amid Cold Snap
The writer notes nine inches of clear blue ice forming as residents bolster ice supplies. Mer chants previously raised seven to eight inches with slush. The river freezes to the island but remains open on the Buffalo side, hindering crossing at this point. A new ED.
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Mansill
Vennor
Buffalo
Cordova Club Dances Amid Ice Harvest Rumors Spread
Cordova notes a lively fifth hop dance on Fr night with about twenty attendees and a planned calico party next Friday. Rumors swirl about a person named Uncle Daniel Zim merman marrying, while library volumes and a civic monument draw local pride amid community progress.
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Cordova
Princeton
Daniel” Zimmerman
Wentyave Eau
Community event and school prize day noted
A January 27 Baptist church entertainment for cemetery funds and an earlier school prize distribution are recorded. The school’s oral exams showed strong pupil proficiency and reflected credit on teacher Mrs. Karr.
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Baptist
Karr
Schoo
Musical revival draws crowd and forms class of forty
Hampton reports a week of musical revival led by Miss Hemphall and Bundy. They held a free concert and canvassed for class members, forming a class of over forty who will give a concert on Friday the 27th. Admission likely five cents. Stoddard returns from Mattoon with progress of work. Blethen of the Kansas City Herald visits. Elvis travels on business to Moline Chicago and New York. Chas Stevens seen. Evra Wilcher from Carbo Clita visits Sabbath school. Dat 25 1882 subscriber.
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Mr Blethen
Kansas City Herald
Elvis
Moline
Chicago
New York
Wes
Chas. Stevens
Evra Wilcher
Carboo Clit
Watertown News Flash From Jan 25 82
Local notes report ice hauling on for farmers at twenty five cents per load and measles outbreaks among children. Edward Warren’s wagon collision at the post office caused minor injuries. settlement offered for a new king bolt. Mrs Chester Warren, Horace Cook’s daughter, buried from consumption leaving a husband and three children. Depot switch light exploded and depot burned down. loss noted. Uncle Brian.
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James Allsbrow
Lem Skinner
Edward Warren
Mero Warren
Edward
J J Howard
Waotertown
Chester Warren
Horace Cook
Uncle Brian
Watertown
Port Byron Weather Hurts Ice Trade and Local News
The Port Byron item notes severe weather affecting ice business as Shepherd and Denlinger store about 1000 tons. Harvey Randall first crossed the ice with a team last Thursday. Tax collector P F Cox may be found at Schafer and Casteel's store each Saturday. Deacon W C Pearsoll and family move to Port Byron, welcomed as a solid Rock Island county farmer. A drug clerk mistook horned frogs for iodide of potash, risking a fatal dose if used in a prescription. January 26th. Gatherer.
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Shepherd & Denlinger
Harvey Randall
P F Cox
Coe
Schafer & Casteel
Deacon W C. Pearsoll
Deacon Pearsoll
Rock Island County
Port By- Ton
Gatherer
Local meat firms supply fresh tripe and pigs feet
Mxsars, W. Horn & Co. announce a new local industry supplying grocery and butcher shops with fresh tripe and pigs feet each morning. They emphasize no chemicals used and rely on a single team, presenting a healthful nutritious diet option for patrons at meat shops.
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Mxsars
W. Horn & Co
Doctor Advises Blue Pill Yet Mercury Poisoned Me
A Hartford Courant note recounts a patient who avoided a blue pill after two mercury poisonings and instead took Kidney Wort prescribed by a druggist. The remedy is praised for relieving biliousness and constipation and restoring health.
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Hartford Courant
Workman Mr Epwin Surri Dies at Pealle Factory
Mr Epwin Surri died Friday night at the Peal House. His remains were taken this morning to Sterling. He was an excellent workman in charge of the beams at the Pealle factory.
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Epwin Surri
Peal House
Sterling
Pealle
Suspect Susan and a Burglary Turn in Davenport
A caustic unsigned letter from Busan prompts questions about the writer Susan known only by that pseudonym. The article also reports a Davenport burglary at McLaughlin & Lewis’s with a safe explosion, theft of cash and drafts, and the capture of “peg leg George” tied to the Holt & Wilson case.
Doctor Bull's Cough Syrup Said to Save Children
A Baltimore police captain testifies that one bottle of Doctor Bull's Cough Syrup relieved four children of a severe whooping cough attack. Swollen throats and necks caused choking until the syrup was used, and the captain believes the syrup saved their lives in one night.
Engagement of Lieut Schwatka and Miss Ida Brackett Revealed
The Rock Islander shares details of a planned marriage between First Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka and Miss Ida Brackett of Rock Island. Miss Brackett is described as a leading local figure, daughter of Joseph V. Brackett and sister of Mrs Captain Charles W Durham. The couple met during a Colorado trip last summer at Fort Benton, where Schwatka befriended Miss Brackett.
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Lieut Schwatka
Miss Brackett
Rock Island
Danforth
Ida Brackett
Joseph V. Brackett
Charles W Durham
US. Engineers
Albert G Brackett
Third US Cavalry
Fort Benton
Montana
Colorado
Col Brackett
Joseph W Brackett
Frederick Schwatka
Miss Ida
Schwatka
Entertainments in February at Captain Timm host
Captain Timm schedules February shows starting Monday 6 featuring Gibler Bros Humpty Dumpty Combination. Wednesday night presents Canfield and Lamont Humpty Dumpty. On February 15 Jack the Giant Killer by the Lilli pitian Comic Opera Company with a matinee. Captain also manages this troupe in Rock Island and Davenport.
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Timm
Gibler Bros
Jack the Giant Killer
Lillipitian Comic Opera Company
Rock I
Davenport
Runaway Iowa Couple Seeks License as Perjury Case Emerges
A sixteen year old girl ran away with James Jong from Iowa to obtain a marriage license in this county. He claimed she was eighteen, but the missing phrase in the oath rendered the perjury charge incomplete. The county clerk’s standard oath formed the basis of the legal challenge, leaving the case unresolved as the youth escaped.
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Iowa
Wal Ihe
Pargat
Epkin
James Jong
George Jones Arrested in Davenport Burglary Case
George Jones, described as a slight 125 pound man with a cut off right leg, was brought to Moline for preliminary examination before Esq Grover. Witnesses testified to seeing him with suspected accomplices near Holt and Wilson's store, at the depot, and at the burglary scene.
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Davenport
Kessler and Gartlandt
Esq
Grover George
Messrs. Wilson
Jos. Smith
H Stang
Mike Courtney
Holt & Wilson
Lundahl
George Jones
Holt
Dorman Holt
Marshal Miller
Rock Island
Anoth
Smallpox Fear Sparks Debate In Missouri Town
In Diapatch editorials and local chatter residents discuss how a smallpox scare shifts behavior. Friction over work, hunger, and drunkenness surfaces as people weigh health measures against economic and social strain. Some see the scare prompting stricter health rules and abstinence talk as a hopeful outcome.
Estimable 19-year-old Ella Benn Laments After illness
After months of illness the 19 year old Ella Benn passed away. She belonged to the Moline Temple U A T which held a meeting to arrange the funeral. The funeral was at the Baptist church with Rev Walley officiating. The Temple marched in procession and a choral offering by Mr Staxk-Its fra grange adorned the casket, featuring a triangle with a heart emblem. A large crowd attended.
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Moline Temple U
Baptist Church
Walley
Staxk
Taxes in Moling Astonish Outsiders with Low Assessments
A visitor from another state is stunned by Moling taxes which exceed six and a half percent of valuation. The piece notes local assessments are low, with National Bank stock valued well above par yet assessed at 40 cents on the dollar, making the tax rate seem three times higher than it should be.
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Moling
Well's Health Renewer Ad Promises Cure
A colonial era remedy advertisement touts Well's Health Renewer as a cure for liver or kidney trouble, consumption and debility. The brief mentions a $1 depot location Richards & Co. Maine.
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Richards & So. K
Maine
Death of Matilda Warren at 82 in Hampton vicinity
Mrs. Matilda Warren died Sunday evening at her father H R Cook's residence four miles east of Hampton after a three year battle with consumption. She was 82, survived by two children, and her well known parents have long resided in the county. Funeral held at 11 o'clock this forenoon from her father's house with Rev. Harper of Port Byron officiating, burial in Hampton cemetery.
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H. R. Cook
Hampton
Matilda Warren
Harper
Port Byron
Ampton Cemetery
Fragmentary note hints at a preacher turning to audience and a rug store
A garbled passage references a preacher becoming an audience member and a rug store. The text shows disrupted speech about patience, endless interruptions, and a show impeded by incessant men, with scattered clues to a rug retailer.
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Job
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