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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1884
Page
8
A satirical guide urges boys to run away but ends admitting most try it only briefly. It mocks romantic notions of freedom while noting many youths return home, learning parental authority and life’s tests. The piece riffs on banks, sailors, hunters, and the lure of distant seas.
In a rural justice of the peace trial, a lawyer cites Higgie vs Stackwell as supreme court precedent. The judge retorts he will not be controlled by the high court, asserting his own authority while allowing the proceedings to continue.
A detailed 19th century description explains a heavy conical shell with two heavy caps and three glass partitions containing sulphuric acid glycerine and nitric acid. The design uses a steel rod to initiate mixing upon impact, causing a nitro glycerine release theorized to be highly effective at breaching entrenched positions.
A Brooklyn sign painter, starting in 1849 50, painted ads on rocks and fences across the West and led a billboard empire with 1800 agents. He and a partner claimed 1 500 000 mules and 90 000 signs, charging $30 000 for patent medicine listings in seventeen states.
Julian Hawthorne reflects on his father Nathaniel Hawthorne as a man and as a writer. He notes Hawthorne’s solitary artistic immersion, the later cool skepticism, and the distinct separation between the man and his works. He admires the strength of Hawthorne’s spirit and ponders how his books arise from a spiritual force beyond mere material life.
A river and harbor appropriation of 15000 dollars for Goose Creek Habana yields a comical misfire. An engineer finds a tiny 2 rivulet three miles long and a lone settler. The creek cost only 3 dollars to improve, leaving the rest to be returned to the Treasury or used upstream.
A Dakota territory paper predicts emigration may reach 300,000 this year, signaling hopeful migration trends. The projection reflects optimistic regional outlooks amid frontier settlement and growth pressures.
A moody man debates virtue and wealth while a bootblack and a landlady intersect in a comic misdelivery. He throws his old trousers to a sidewalk urchin, only to learn the boy was the wrong recipient and that a vanished courier altered his plans.
The article details a range of window treatment trends including irregular draping, cascading halves, chains of brass fastenings, high low contrasts, and lambrequin substitutes. Madras hangings remain popular with India ink chintz designs, while hand work and darned-work embellishments decorate scrim and grenadine curtains.
A Berlin cat adopts four young foxes and a Connecticut cat births seventeen kittens in one litter. H Stuart Wortley in Nature recounts a cat in Malakoff with a bayonet pierced foot, treated by a regional surgeon over two mornings, then returning for care. The NY Journal notes a comic feline moment as a household awakens to feline song.
A humorous Arkansas Traveller tale describes Mrs Flamiey dressing for the theater with a grandmother’s silver spoon on her breast. Her husband Henry remarks on fashion, and she later adds a large butcher knife to her attire before removing both.
In Paris a notoriety tale follows Sellier known as a tapstar at a cabaret behind the opera house. He moved from melodies to patrons in a wineshop with chorus members drawn by fame. A garroter targeted him but was badly beaten and cast into the street after the failed crime.
A comic scene on Broadway shows two famous singers arguing with critics after a newspaper review. The tenor and baritone accuse the critic of misunderstanding the music and threaten to confront the writer as they plead for kindness and praise.
A reminiscence of Henry Clay highlights his calm, witty responses in heated debates. An onstage interruption with a rattling window causing Clay to quip storms seem to be common upon us on all sides. The portrait notes his clear enunciation, lively illustrations, and pointed remarks about partisan critics.
The piece compares Brazilian emancipation efforts to American views on slavery, noting Brazil reduced slave numbers from 833 201 in 1878 to 147 168 by mid 1882 and highlighting Ceara and Acrape as leading emancipation centers. It reflects on expatriate failures and the broader lesson for observers in the United States.
The piece argues that the term professor has been overused by inadequately skilled individuals in many fields. It mocks misapplied titles from musicians to acrobats and barbers, noting that those who genuinely merit the honor feel diminished when called professor.
The scene centers on Mrs. Yerger mistaken for the elided mother as Gilhooly asks if the girl is her child. Yerger retorts that the child might be a grandchild, revealing tension and misidentification in a brief household exchange.
A Virginian explains why the Washington statue in Statuary Hall shows prominent upper and lower lips. He says Washington used two sets of ill fitting false teeth made in Paris on gold plates, which were still in his mouth at death, causing the distortion captured by the plaster cast.
The Rochester Democrat admires a French beveled window device called the busy-body that lets a woman see outside without being seen. It watches callers, helps avoid unwanted attention, and sparks debate about decency and propriety while praising its novelty and utility.
Pair of dialogue lines cited from the New York Journal, noting a contrast about customs. The husband suggests Japanese practices might improve happiness if women adopted them. The wife replies with disbelief and jest about changing appearance.
The article extols natural health practices urging moderation in medicine and exercise. It stresses warm seasonal eating, outdoor activity, full-body friction baths, and regular soap cleansing as core habits for maintaining health across life stages and climates.
An explorer is photographed by a traveler who meets him in the Congo. Stanley sits in a camp chair with a pipe while a circle of kinglets entertains him, some smoking pipes, as questions arise about his reception and remedies for heathen children. A fox reference closes the tale with social satire.
A burglar caught at a store door with arms full of goods pleads guilty and is jailed for five years. A lawyer offers to clear him for fifty dollars but the inmate refuses, citing a jury of men he has robbed. The tale ends with a quip on kleptomania and courtroom strategy.
A condemned man faced execution with unusual calm until hours before the planned hanging when he protested the degradation. The hangman replied that the victim was far above him, noting they would still face the rope. Hundreds of ladies visited, presenting bouquets, in a stark moral vignette.
A peasant sought a sage’s counsel to raise his seven daughters. The sage advised marrying them off early to gain freedom. The father later laments that instead of seven daughters he now has seven sons in law to support, revealing the advice backfired.
A jilted husband returns early to find his wife in a loving embrace with another man. Furious, he breaks his umbrella across his knee and mutters hoping for rain tomorrow, in a scene recounted from the New York Truth.
Washington society notes the deaf mute wife of Professor Alexander Graham Bell at large receptions. Bell guides her hand to greet strangers, she reads his lips and responds in measured tones. Her unsure debut gives way to confidence under his protective watch.
The New York Times calls crossing in a tiny non sinking boat foolhardy yet notes such boats keep a swimmer safer from drowning than a large steamer. The main danger shifts to starvation, fatigue, or exposure rather than sinking.
A generous New Yorker visiting Cleveland handed out $50 in silver to news boys and bootblacks. The man, recalling his own days as a bootblack in New York, said he started with brushwork and now wants to help the poor boys along.
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