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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1884
Page
8
Bios Cameron lauds Daniel Webster as a towering figure whose intellect dwarfs contemporaries. He calls Webster a stately column with minor defects and doubts nature will repeat such exceptional gifts.
The record shows 1,911 seamen deaths from disease out of 4,659 total in hospital and abroad. Drownings totaled 2,131 by shipwreck or other causes, with 1,086 by other means, and 26 killed by accidents. Overall 3,453 accidental deaths. figures are approximate, illustrating relative mortality by disease versus accident.
The Missouri Supreme Court holds that information a physician obtains from a patient for diagnosis or treatment is privileged and may not be disclosed on the witness stand. The ruling emphasizes that it would be wrong to reveal diagnostic knowledge while keeping the patient’s spoken words confidential.
The Tur Polyclinic endorses single use paper towels for wound cleansing over sponges. Paper towels cost from 6 to 7.5 dollars per 1000, are available in the sick room, and originate from Japan with unobtrusive pale colors.
The Turquinologist notes Java cifichona gardens started five or six years ago and will soon yield with bark a promi nent export. Nursery trees numbered 736600 in 1884 and 1205800 in 1882. plantations held 2207380 in 1881 and 2099400 in 1882. Nine varieties exist and ledgeriansa show 9 to 114 percent alkaloid.
The Mexican Central Railroad spans 1,225 miles, 670 miles shorter than the Omaha to San Francisco Pacific routes. Cost per mile differs sharply with $24,000 for the Mexican line versus $66,228 for the Pacific roads, reflecting labor and management advantages. The Pacific lines show big profits despite limited development area. The Mexican Central traverses a populous region with many historic towns and cities, promising strong business prospects.
A historical note critiques life insurance, showing that large premiums were paid but many claims not fully paid. Reported figures from 1874 to 1883 indicate premiums of about $17,401,116 and death claims of $9,707,700, with policyholders receiving interest on profits rather than full payout. It questions the fairness of the industry and outlines the perceived flaws in the distribution of life insurance proceeds.
A fragment notes scarce recovery of money allocated to families of deceased in wartime losses. It mentions only a small portion returned and points to failures within allied life insurance programs that began but faltered.
Two of three large fortified positions to guard Germany’s eastern frontier near Posen and Konigsberg are nearly finished and soon armed. By year end Thorn will gain similar fortifications and join Posen Konigsberg Strassburg and Metz as key strongholds. Danzig to receive dockyards arsenals and a fortified harbor as part of the second line defenses.
The Independent surveys scientific opinions from college officials on athletics. Bishops and ministers condemn intercollegiate sports as moral decay while others defend moderate play on campus. Also covered are aviation notes, ocean charts, and circulating curiosities from science and industry.
A humorous note on a forthcoming article about handling bees. The text jokes that bees are easy to manage unlike people who panic after quick bee encounters, suggesting the country needs guidance on avoiding bee mishaps and quelling public overreactions.
A comment about a painter named Lee and a picture in a shop mentions no offers yet. The shopkeeper asks to remove the work, while a Blind Asylum is cited with unclear context and no clear action or dates.
A long excerpt argues that Mexican society resists modernization, with Creoles, Indians, and Mortizoes clinging to old methods. It cites a National Railroad lobbyist, Thomas C. Purdy, describing a haciendado who stubbornly uses donkey transport for 200 miles. The writer notes widespread reluctance to adopt cheaper rail transport, despite clear economic benefits.
A Peck's Sun exploration lampoons men's dressing-gowns, noting how few men wear them yet how poorly designed they are for comfort. It mocks gift patterns, oversized sleeves, long tails, and impractical collars, urging reform and warning women against gifting such garments.
Alaska spans from Maine to Florida in length and from coast to coast. its resources include seal fur fisheries, fish, minerals, and petroleum. Population totals about 1,500 whites and 31,386 natives, with 9,000 claimed by the Greek Church and limited US education efforts noted.
In a brief exchange the prescription clerk calculates the time to complete a patient’s order. He says about dinner time, five minutes to finish, eighteen minutes to eat, five to return and two to put the prescription up, totaling roughly thirty minutes.
An armed mob overran the Owensboro County Jail in Kentucky, killing jailor W. J. Lucas and hanging Richard May, a Black man, in the courthouse yard. The crowd fired on deputies, damaged the jail, and scattered. Lucas died at dawn. May’s fate followed a night of mob violence and fear of further executions.
The item catalog reports murders and assaults including a 16-year-old fatally stabbed, a 15-year-old fatally wounded, and other violent incidents tied to quarrels and a murder-motivated by wives. It notes a Kentucky resident killed by an ax, embezzlement schemes, arrests, and a church project in Pune County. Also covered are a thunder strike death, a prize jury verdict, a railroad accident, and a misplaced confidence tale in Indianapolis.
Dispatch from Paris reports three new cholera cases with one fatality. Heat and deserted streets accompany the outbreak as patients are moved to pest houses. Paris notes rising virulence with seventy two deaths in Muracilles in a day. Dr Koch travels to Berne to discuss excluding cholera from Switzerland. Austria seeks Ottoman cooperation to block cholera. Odessa quarantines French ships from the Mediterranean for two weeks. In Washington, Frelinghuysen orders inspectors at major ports to certify ships and passengers bound for the United States and to report contagious cases by cable.
A jumble of phrases mentions Pittburgh band organs California ostrich eggs and a Dublin mayor, mixing with notes on a Chilean death at age 122 and a Talca to Santiago lineage, plus an Onsen wood Me dental clipping. The garbled text reads like a miscellaneous clippings page.
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