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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1898
Page
8
Local briefs list Iowa City guests at Hotel Wind. Morrison and Des Moines visits. marriages, retirements, and civic notices. The dispatch notes elections and candidacy chatter, a naval court action, rail rifles movement, and assorted social events among residents and visitors in Rock Island and environs.
Crop Correspondent Thomas Campbell reports to the Department of Agriculture for March 1 on last year’s crops. Ninety percent of the corn crop remains. about half will be consumed domestically. The average on hand is 24 cents per bushel. Of the oats, 35 percent remains and 50 percent of 1897 output will be consumed domestically. Crop quality lagged, with an average weight per bushel of thirty pounds.
Random notes from Colona Illinois describe John Beeht visiting family, Hart family logs, and residents traveling to nearby towns. A violent raid on the Swanson farm in Pleasant Valley ends with kidnapping a daughter, looting, and a late wedding in Carbon Cliff.
An odd historical notice promotes a remedy for stomach and cough troubles. It mentions John Sebastian of Pennsylvania and advertises swift delivery by express with prepaid charges. The text blends medical claims with commercial language and dated phrasing.
An Italian immigrant named Guazone dominates large scale farming in the south of Buenos Ayres province. His holding covers 66,270 acres and employs thousands of workers. After harvest he ships over 3,000 railway cars filled with grain.
In Moline the Noahs Ark store on Third Avenue is touted as the cheapest of the three cities for groceries. The offer claims buyers can get more goods for five dollars than at any other place charging six dollars and forty cents. Call to verify the claim.
A Washington Evening Star exchange has an enthusiastic young man claiming old sentiments are dying out as a new race of parrots emerges. Senator Sorghum approves and notes hot finishes in recent campaigns. An unrelated advertisement urges avoiding coughs with One Minute Cough Cure from Wm. Clendenin and E. Heimbeck.
A fragmented exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer features Mr Bluster and Miss Easte discussing playful mischief in a tunnel while Mr Hillsters mentions kissing girls and the hopdoctor, with the humor typical of old city daily chatter.
A Rock Island traveler named L P Sigsbee, brother of the famed Captain Sigsbee of the Maine, asks reporters and the public to stop misquoting him. He denies any inside knowledge of the Maine disaster and says he has received no confidential guidance from his brother. He recounts being pursued by reporters and pressured to comment, while defending his own right to carry a family name without making news.
Charles J. Searlh of Rock Island announces his Republican bid for Congress. He cites local GOP support and public sentiment for a Rock Island county candidate. He pledges to serve the district, county, and nation if elected, praising principled public service. The notice closes with a testimonial for One Minute Cough Cure from Wm. Clendenin and E. Hetnitivels.
John Martin a teamster with LE Gaslogd fell at work tearing his right foot while a wheel ran over it. He was attended by Dr. Morean and expected to be laid up for some time. John F Bergman, of Dimock Gould and Cos, was struck on the left temple by a falling plank and rendered unconscious before being cared for at home.
Observer Hung records March climate data with 28 years of mean temperature, noting highs in April and lows between March and April. The entry mentions eleven cloudy and twelve partly clear days, alongside other weather notes and a nod to Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as a remedy.
Mrs. Cranston boasts of high social standing and ties to people in the higher walks of life. The speaker questions her lineage and recalls her father as one who wears spurs and walks telegraph pole linemen, a rough description of his occupation.
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