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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1882
Page
6
Report of a firefighting hose race on Main Street with Minnehaha and AOT teams racing 23 yards. The event drew spectators as hydrant positions and a 60 foot start gap influenced the outcome amid close competition and ongoing preparations for future heats.
The author consents to use of his name for the Senate race without canvassing and urges unity behind H. A. Ainsworth for paid office. He thanks friends for their confidence and expresses support without seeking office himself. Claus Speck dies at 57 from stomach cancer. funeral on Monday. A German immigrant story mentions a three year old dying at an aunt’s house amid voyage tales and a duckling memory.
Weekly list of names awaiting pickup at the Moline Illinois post office ending June 22 1882 includes Anderson J H Norris J H Aunt Annie Olson Alf Connell Mary A Paulsono J F Dahm Betty Payne Jno A DeRue Felix Person B P Dunker Thos Phillips and others. The note urges readers to request advertised letters and comments on Guiteau sentence with calls for presidential action and a strong sharp rebuke to President Arthur including a suggestion he should kill himself if he can.
Timm's Hall shows extensive cyclone damage with plaster loosened and walls torn. plans by Mr. Schmid to convert the space into a handsome small opera house in the West. mentions Moon interest in the condition of State Senator Hale, Virginia, with unclear phrases about timing or opponents.
The long planned Tuam Hall enlargement proceeds with tearing down a low east wing. Projected to add 24 feet to length and 6 feet to width, new dressing rooms and a 52 by 28 foot stage, modern scenery, eight exits, marble wash stands, ventilation, steam heat, and gas lighting at an estimated cost of 10 000 dollars, completion hoped in three months. A near miss at Rodman Avenue crossing prompts calls for freight trains to halt until outgoing trains clear and for safer crossing procedures.
Two women, one blonde and one brunette, ride a streetcar to the Woman's Exchange and debate wheat prices and market speculation. Their lively talk about mill grinding, farmer feed needs, and speculative brokers amuses a board of trade passenger who signals for the car to stop.
An account from the New York Academy of Defences describes Prof. Doremus showing gas passing through sandstone and brick via a tube, deflecting a candle with breath. He warns sewage gas penetrates substances easily, promotes chlorine as the best disinfectant, and urges periodic chlorine treatment to disinfect hospital walls and reduce disease.
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