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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1882
Page
8
A London discussion notes 5000 workers facing unemployment as 000 paupers are present, with advocates approving emigration to relieve strain on the United Kingdom. The unrest reflects rising concern over joblessness and welfare policy.
Personal to men only. The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshal Michigan will send Dr Dye's Celebrated Electro Voltaic belts and Electric Appliances on a thirty day trial to men young or old afflicted with nervous debility lost vitality and related troubles. Guarantee of speedy complete restoration of vitality and manly vigor with no risk as thirty days trial is allowed.
An influential movement in London aims to provide better musical entertainment and self-supporting concerts. Lady Folkstone and other performers have appeared, and the events have been highly successful.
A column extols Dr Swayne for curing flesh diseases with his ointment claiming vast patient relief. It notes endorsements from advertising agents and references Ox to Dan Ricz, a circus attaches, described as a young veteran used for promotional purposes despite limited activity.
A fragment from a 19th century piece humorously contrasts poetry and practical ethics. It riffs on misapplied quotations and ends with a pun about a young man and a widow, comparing her to a cow in a rural joke.
A drunken man near the Princess of Wales offered a handshake. she repelled him with a parasol. The magistrate sentenced seven days hard labor, but the Prince requested clemency and the man was released. The same period notes a Poor Man's Wife praising Parker's Gonger Tonic for curing her daughter after six years of illness.
An advertisement extols Parker's Ginger Tonic as a remedy to keep kidneys and liver active and prevent bilious attacks. It warns delay risks danger and health costs. The piece references Mrs. Jesse James appearing with her children in Kansas City for a lecture about her late husband, described as a failure with few attendees.
An ad boasts a remedy for stomach liver kidney and urinary issues sold at fifty cents by Richards and Lohrbeck. A Boston editor is ridiculed for failing to read a correspondent’s letter and it was returned unread due to poor writing.
An old advertisement touts Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic as a cure for all blood diseases, pimples, and liver and urinary organs, priced at W cents per bottle. It notes Richards & Lohrbeck sell the remedy and cites the Peoria Transcript on a separate snake bite claim about Phisky and a St Louis editor hunting boas.
Suffering from coughs colds and throat lung issues urged to call Richards & Lohrbeck's Drug Store for a free trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery. Early call suggested as success stories claim a regular dollar bottle’s value.
Aged seventy four, born in the Vale of Clyde, educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow. At twenty he held natural philosophy chair in Edinburgh and later led Caird Works Glasgow. He advanced ship modeling, built model steamships including the Great Eastern, and designed the Vienna iron rotunda spanning 860 feet. He was a key rail engineering innovator and a political advocate for workers’ rights.
The salve is advertised as a cure for cuts bruises scalds burns and skin sores with claimed piles tetter and erup tions and a money back guarantee. Price is 25 cents. The Glucose and Grape Sugar Association plans to consolidate factories due to likely suspensions nationwide and forms a committee to work on a plan.
An advertisement promotes a salve claimed to cure cuts, bruises, sores, chapped hands, chilblains and other skin conditions with guaranteed satisfaction. Priced at twenty five cents per box and sold by Richards and Sohrbeck.
A report notes a rift between President Arthur and General Grant over cabinet and other appointments. Grant reportedly seeks endorsements for allies to win congressional or other public office and displays administration support from Mabie and others.
A handwritten scan shows an offer for Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure claiming to cure lung diseases and coughs with a trial bottle at Richards & Lohrbeck's drug store. Allen's Braly Food advertised to cure nervousness and weakness with circulars from Allen's Pharmacy. A humorous exchange ends with a joke about spring amusements and house showings.
A brief advertise fusion notes Parker's Hair Balsam restores beauty and color with fragrance cleanliness and dandruff removing power. A humorous exchange features a young man calling a girl airs and her retort that she won’t go with a crank.
A description of Fidreston Cologne highlighting a delightful fragrance of freshly gathered flowers and spice as its distinguishing charm.
A mob of twenty men broke into a jail cell after midnight, dragged a man to a railroad track, looped a rope over a ladder, and hanged him. The crowd scattered as revolvers kept onlookers back. The victim cried for mercy before the fatal act.
Young men urged to reform a life of dissipation and excess. Aches and pains blamed on liver and urinary issues. The ad promises stomach tone, liver regulation, and renewed vitality through aging Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. Delay is dangerous.
The bridge project, once planned for 200 feet at low water and $7 million, has reached 185 feet and a cost of $15 million with a further $1.25 million sought. A gentleman reports chronic urinary and digestive weakness improved after using Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla for dizziness and bad blood.
A Boston dispatch reports gentlemen of Boston purchasing the Chicago Advance, the leading West exponent of the Congregational church. General C. H. Howard & Co. currently own it, and Robert West of 8 Louis is named editor.
The Boston Jointlot states Father Cassidy of Milford has no approval from Catholic bishops priests or people of America for his position regarding Decoration Day services.
A letter from Hincox of Montrose asserts that Dr 2 V Pierce’s Favorite Prescription cured his daughter’s decline thought to be consumption. The note thanks the doctor and credits the remedy to restore health, published in the local column.
Gen A S Grant plans to attend the soldiers' reunion in Burlington Vermont on the Fourth of July and then visit Montpelier immediately after to hold a reception before continuing to the White Mountains.
Secretary of War Lincoln and General Sherman plan to attend the grand reunion of the Army of the Potomac in Detroit next week. Congressman Bragg of Wisconsin will deliver the oration. Rogent C. Bricker, Alabama Chief Justice, once set type on a weekly paper for five dollars a week.
An odd sale ad mocks pricey meals and nerve products while a curio about a mysterious tidy and an Ohlo man’s nose salve hints at sensational novelty items. The piece plays on exaggerated promises and local banter.
A fragmentary item reports a canvassing scene with the line Make my living by walking and talking and a retort from a victim asking to talk to someone else. The text includes names Richards and Sobrbeck of Moline and a reference to a theme of health and vigor cures.
A brief notice describes a pest control effort titled Rough on Hata removing rats mice roaches bed bugs flies ants moles chi miinks and gopherd. The fragmentary text mentions Richards Lohrbeck and medical sections and an unclear treatise on blood and affections.
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