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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1882
Page
2
Peter misplaces a costly card that changes plans for a family trip. He hides the truth, faces a stern mother and a public waiting before learning the card’s note foreshadows a change in schedules and a lesson in honesty.
The piece extols self reliance as the route to success. It cites George Peabody and Salmon P. Chase as examples who rose from poverty through personal effort, stating friends aided but did not determine achievement.
A garbled entry notes a physician attending a state function and mentions a rising concern over health, with vague references to age and possible links to diet or vegetables. No clear names or locations are legible, but the fragment suggests a medical context and public interest.
Whittier turns seventy four on December 17 and George Bancroft recently celebrated his eighty first birthday in Newport. Besconsfield's statue will stand in Westminster Abbey near Peel. Parisian scholars discuss a French Shakespeare Society. King Oscar of Sweden finishes a new drama Castle of Kronberg to be published in Stockholm and Berlin. F G Heath, a British writer, publishes a fern and leaf volume with colored autumn plates. Hubert H. Bancroft builds a private Pacific coast library facility housing 35 volumes and manuscripts. Miss Lelia J. Robinson becomes Boston's first woman lawyer, courting cases via colleagues after preparing them. she ranked tenth in a 32-student class at Boston University Law School. Paul H. Hayne, aged fifty one, resides near Atlanta with a tree-clad hillside study adorned with illustrated page works. Longfellow and Whittier top his favorites, though he regards Holmes as the greatest genius.
A collage of quips and jokes from Boston Courier New York Commercial Advertiser and Brooklyn Eagle features shoplifting humor bank jokes train rates and a parson’s remark about a creaky knee. It satirizes wit on manners money and church tales across several papers.
Practical tips for autumn protection of fruit and bulbs, cow profit through grade stock, tomato preserves, sugar apples in jelly, selling animals honestly, and a poultry lice control method using lime sulfur carbolic mixture and linseed oil kerosene for hens.
A compilation of household hints from the Utica Herald and Country Gentleman covers dairy tips and root growth, plus meat tenderizing, salt soap, chocolate jelly cake, tea cake, saving seed corn, coconut cake, and sweet potato pie recipes. It offers step by step guidance and measurements for homemakers and farmers seeking economical, practical cooking and preservation ideas.
The text warns that speaking all one thinks to friends and strangers harms others and society. It condemns brutality and false sincerity as pernicious, noting such honesty often disguises vice. It argues sincere faults may be worse than concealed vices and urges restraint to avoid harming others.
A Chicago Times piece on watercress celery onions and radishes as cheap nutritious condiments. Watercress grows by springs or clear waters and can be grown with ample irrigation. Celery, now easier to cultivate with level culture and dwarf varieties, is praised though harder to blanch. Radishes are quick to produce and should be sown weekly for a long supply.
A writer who studied the topic notes that getting married in New York costs money. The piece references a wedding in the city priced at about $25,000 with ushers and attendants, excluding attire.
The proprietor notes the high quality consistently produced by the establishment and pledges to spare no pains or expense to maintain its standing as the best in the state.
In the matter of price the live and let live principle has been adhered to in the main and a fairly profitable price asked never theless business is business and we are prepared to meet competition on any basis.
The ad states a full supply of staple goods and quick procurement of special paper styles. It highlights in stock the fullest assortment of Note Letter and Bill Paper in Moline, including several special styles, with commercial work prepared promptly.
The neatest and only practical covered tablet is introduced claiming to save fully ten percent of the work to which it is applied.
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