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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1881
Page
3
In a plea from the Tritune a long critique argues that famine deaths stem from air starvation. It contrasts palatial homes with warm, airless interiors and crowded cellars, urging open air access, ventilation, and outdoor exposure to curb disease and death.
In New Castle Louisiana a Second Ward spectacle saw boys using drums and dogs to drive rats from Pearson’s drouring mill feeding on grain. The concerted attack killed 479 rats by day’s end, as drums cracked and dogs roamed, leaving the stable littered with carcasses.
Dr Martin of Atlanta recounts how a bulldog named Ponto pined after his master W H Harvill died. The dog followed the coffin and funeral procession, refused food, moaned nightly, and withered away five weeks later. A Connecticut note reports a large worm found in corn ears.
An eighty two year old recluse in Berlin lived for decades with minimal human contact, rich and indulgent yet meticulous in sanitation avoidance. She kept animals, wore a mismatched garment, and left a servant a legacy while directing most estate to a grandniece in England to fund a dogs’ asylum.
The piece lists land holdings in Ireland with 170000 acres owned by one man, 100000 acres each by three, 50000 by fourteen, 20000 by ninety, 19000 by 145, and 4000 by 452. It notes occupational group holdings by trades and asserts that about £1200,000 of the £21000 annual Irish rental is spent outside the country, warning that Ireland’s economy, dependent on agriculture, will suffer hardship until reform.
Mr Russell Sagd, a man of wealth in New York, recalls starting from the bottom in Troy N Y. He began at eight years old assisting his wife who urged him to earn living by making collars and calls for a foreign manufacturer.
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