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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1884
Page
8
The speaker recalls a loved one’s death and the intimate afterglow of memory. A measured monologue describes entering the quiet room with the deceased beloved, the inability to speak, and the paradox of sorrow and reverence. A celestial message offers acceptance and rest beyond earthly struggle.
In a Washington mansion, Florence Bradly, a celebrated beauty, awaits a social gathering. A footman delivers a bouquet and a pink note signed only with initials or a mystery sender, prompting Florence to speculate who sent the bold gift as she prepares for Mrs Drummond's event.
Florence Bradly shines in a high society wedding after a secret admirer, later revealed as Mr. Saunders, sends flowers and verses. They meet again at the Drummonds’ party and declare love, leading to a magnificent marriage admired for its brilliance and eccentricity.
A writer argues that scarce apprentices result from indulgent parents who shield sons from manual labor and steer them toward clerical work. He notes many fail to pursue trades, leaving unskilled youngsters and a decline in craft quality. Manual training schools uplift interest in mechanics and promise more skilled workers. Scientific American.
Two Birmingham women sued for immoral conduct win nominal damages but fail to pay costs. A distress warrant leads bailiffs to seize premises with inmates effectively imprisoned. A male ally attempts to aid with provisions via a rope and bag, but bailiffs intervene and eject him. Furniture valued at 40 shillings. distress costs total 160 pounds. Also notices a counterfeit $20 note among secret service findings.
A passenger recalled a dramatic cattle stampede near a canyon. A calm cowboy rode in, cut across the herd, then rolled a cigarette as the leaders neared danger. He dumped a bag of salt to calm the cattle, causing the herd to stop and graze.
Washington correspondent describes A. B. Hayward, an $1,800 clerical worker in the penance office, as a one-armed bachelor about 40 who inhabits a high platform tent between Fourth and Sixteenth Street roads near Joaquin Miller's cabin. The wedge-roofed pine-walled shelter, furnished with oil stove, carpet, rocking chairs, book shelves and photographs, serves as a warm, comfortable parlor where he entertains friends.
A New York cooper bets a carpenter he can eat ten butter crackers about one and a half inches in diameter in ten minutes without water. He starts strong, slows, and finishes eight by the end, then yields that ten is a tough feat unlike a prior English comparison where the water drinker prevails.
A Terre Haute man who just won a divorce now employs his ex wife as a servant girl with more money and finer clothes. The piece notes the alleged torment of divorces if men treated wives as servants. In a barber shop Bass endures a barbed insult about being shaved after death as he reacts to the shop’s tense mood.
The article details lavish mausoleums at Woodlawn in the Bronx, led by a $60,000 circular Pantheon style structure on Central Avenue. It notes features such as Doric pillars, a solid bronze door, a granite roof, stained glass, and fifty-ton stonework, with Jay Gould’s absence of name on his tomb. It lists other prominent plots including Washington E. Connor, H. H. Cook, Henry A. Nurlburt, and Collis P. Huntington, plus Vanderbilt descendants and notable builders like Herter Brothers and H. M. Flagler.
On a rain swept Sunday the Los Gatos train of the South Pacific Coast Railroad faced flood waters near Hall's Station. Engineer Baldy waded ahead in rubber boots to verify rails while passengers and crew hunted gophers driven from burrows by the high water. After alerts at Alvarado and Newark, locals killed four to five hundred gophers and two hundred more were destroyed by rain. Authorities note gophers, squirrels, and mice are pests in southern counties, and the storm may have killed millions of them.
Practical guidance on patient, kind parenting stressing empathy for children. Warns against comparisons with others and overpraising. notes early impressions shape character and that dull seeming children can become successful adults. Emphasizes understanding that life feels new to youngsters.
In a village tale from the Pittsburg Post a judge visits Miss Lockwood at a hotel and learns of Harry Packer’s intentions. The pair plan marriage with a substantial dowry funded by family, securing $150000 and arrangements for a wedding day.
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