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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1882
Page
8
Schedule fragment notes trains to Moline and Minnesota destinations with stops and times. Mentions Chicago Express and passenger service patterns, including Sunday changes and morning departures, but legibility is limited by OCR errors.
Train timetable notes cover Ward Kanbas City and Atchison depots, with departures around 4 40s 11 10 4 mo and 12 45 noon. Mentions Union depots at Kansas cities and faster routes to the West and Southwest, detailing multiple runs and times.
An unidentified passenger finally reaches the location around 7 00 p m after a 6 12 schedule note. Transit lines show connections to another line but details are unclear.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe morning and night trains through Moline and connections from The Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific lines. Mentions Minneapolis and Denver routes, with limited legible details on schedules and depots.
A collage of town notices and advertisements lists various shops and goods from ANOX frames to Strate’s and Okerberg’s, plus a note on nine planned towers by Tux Electric Light in Rock Island. It records a growing field of candidates, a county jail count, and a slate of local events including a regimental reunion and a prize drill entry.
Tux Hiledales of Hillsdale Michigan won the free for all at the regatta here, besting the Marlow crew at the Arrow Regatta in England. Davenport security reports say Ed Davenport’s bridle theft led to an arrest. Rev J G Merrill will be succeeded at Edward's Congregational by Tur M L Williston of Carleton College. General Skobelieff dies in Moscow Hotel Dusssaux, heart disease. Edwards Congregational church to receive a new organ from Tux Marine Pipe Organ Co. Rock Island waterworks praised as ready. Wm Mygr missing from Davenport boarding house since July. feared murdered or drowned. Bard of Supervisors to meet for equalization, porch for grievances. Soldier's monument bids pending. marble firms review contract. Verdant March musical “gem” mocked as crank origin. Two Kahce brothers hanged by vigilantes for horse theft and murder in Henry county.
Local notes indicate Banns Coup s Forepaugh s and Cole s shows will perform in the area this year. With two already visited, the season will feature six performances, reflecting a lean year for the circus lemonade trade.
A new manufactory will be established in Davenport by Hamp and Wood. They plan a portable steam engine motor for pumping and churning. Our home military company drilled well Thursday under Captain Savage and is sharpening tactics. Elker Bros furniture and coffin dealers advertise big in the paper. Henry Eiker, once foreman at Patch, becomes junior partner.
A basketball nine named Actives is formed with members Amberg, Henning, Sadler captain, Crimmons, Tyrrell, Freed, Wheelock and others. A mob seized a C B Q passenger train at Monmouth on Saturday evening. the conductor sidetracked the train and warned another approaching train to pass through. Sheriff arrived as the crowd dispersed.
Dun's Commercial Agency records 8,597 business failures in the six months ending June 1882 across states and territories, totaling liabilities of $50,580,020. The same period in 1881 showed 2,867 failures with liabilities of $40,877,150.
Dr Dunn, Secretary of the Board of Health, reports to the National Board about a visit to Washington D C. The fragment notes a mortuary context and forwarding details from the city. The readable text is incomplete and names are unclear.
Settlers say the county soil yields good quality wheat and oats. The harvest will begin early next week with laborers arriving from the south by train. Wages are expected to be high this year.
Dexax & Co installs eight new plank floors in the grinding room as part of ongoing shop improvements. The work progresses with workers adjusting joints and securing panels to finish the flooring project.
The city will begin a new Rock River bridge project soon with a plan to ensure a sturdier structure and better approaches. Brown's Iron Bitters are advertised as a scientific iron remedy, while a Peoria veteran group excursion to the Island is set for next Saturday night and Sunday activities. Davenport reports a violent assault on a local woman and a separate arrest in a separate case, and warns of a dangerous suspect in custody.
Two runaway girls from Mitchellville Iowa Reform School were confined in the county jail on Friday. That evening they tried to set fire to the jail but were found and locked in a cell. Later one tore a blanket and attempted suicide by hanging, but the sheriff intervened. They gave names Myrtle and Sophronia. Authorities expected to collect them in a day or two.
An Argus report warns its own writers to avoid personalities and notes a connected circumstance from a sensational item telephoned to the Davenport Democrat that remains unpublished. The exchange hints at ongoing curiosity about a local scandal.
Cuas Atkinson, president of the Water Power Company, announced from Washington that appropriations for the Government power improvement are set at 55 000 to deepen the canal and tail race 15 000 for new openings and 30 000 to extend the wing dam. An unexpended 60 000 for dredging the basin is reapportioned making a total of 160 000 to be spent. If water is ordinary this fall, lively times and full employment are expected locally.
A new regulation on the Island bans freely granted passes allowing travel to Davenport. Previously holders could apply at headquarters and receive immediate permission and passes, but heavy demand overwhelmed officers. The change stops issuing such passes though permanent passes still permit single entrance and exit at any bridge, altering travel between the Island Davenport and Rock Island.
The accessors in the county have returned township books to the County Clerk after completing the 1883 wealth assessment. Twelve townships show a gross increase of 449,431 while five townships show a decrease of 58,074. The net increase is 806,357, with a tabulated comparison of 1883 versus 1881.
Last evening the Board of Education met to present the annual school expenses totaling 30,000 dollars. Salaries take 15,500 dollars, bonds maturing 4,075, repairs 2,000, fuel and supplies 1,500, heating for the High School 1,650, with the remainder for various small purposes. A new principal, J. D. Hubbard, is named for the second ward school. several staff and local business figures are noted in attendance and rumor.
A brief poetic fragment depicts a naval cadet, a young man marching with brisk gait and confident diction. The lines suggest a bold self image and a sense of destiny as he strides forward.
The Tux Davenport Gazette will soon have new proprietors as M. M. Butt of Atlantic Iowa buys the entire concern from the Gases Co. At the Chicago Trotting Meeting purses total 52000 across multiple race days with 225 horses entered. The will of Claus Speck of this city is probated detailing a widow and two children as heirs and Amelia Speck as executrix.
A physiologists' experiments show brain workers such as teachers merchants and clerks can do more work using Liebig Malt Extract as a nerve invigorant. The report emphasizes the product as a stimulant for sustained mental effort.
The funeral was held Sunday at 3 p m from the Swedish Baptist church to Riverside cemetery officiated by Rev J Standling. Born in 1816 in Elfsborgs Lan Sweden he joined the First Baptist church in 1848 amid persecution. He immigrated to this country in 1808 and settled in Moline where he served as a deacon since 1860 and remained a respected Christian figure in the Swedish community.
The article extols electric light progress with Tipton and Aurora adopting the tower plan and Rock Island considering it. It then recounts a late night encounter with a phrenologist in the Dispatch office who offered ten cent readings, argued with the editor, and misread bumps while insulting editors and ending with a tale of a tavern scene.
The accident killed James Eads a 27 year old Prairie City resident in Kirkwood early Sunday. Eyewitness accounts say he wandered from Monmouth toward the country intoxicated and was struck by a passing B and Q train. An inquest absolved the railroad and crew. Eads’s remains were taken to Prairie City for burial.
Chief Oralle received a letter about the Minnehaha Hose Company organizing city championship events to run races for summer practice and to reward top performers. The plan aimed to boost skill and pride, with various crews eager to compete and prove their abilities.
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