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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1884
Page
5
A Dublin reader describes a years long illness with liver pain and paralysis of movement. After taking Hop Bitters, appetite returns, pains vanish, strength returns, and he gains weight surpassing his previous level. The note warns against excessive remedies and endorses Hop Bitters as life saving.
An 1884 patent advertises the Western Rotary anti tornado villa and pneumatic ascensional safety apartment. It describes a granite or iron vertical shaft, a flood and tornado proof dwelling on a marble foundation, water tight corrugated iron, pumps, a saloon, and life preservers for hogs, with agents sought to assume risks and insure lives.
A stranger rides through Arkansas and encounters a rural farmer whose pigs freely mingle with the household. The exchange centers on hospitality and neighborly banter as the visitor jokes about family and social norms while the farmer asserts his domestic customs with humor.
A Texas Siftings item recounts two travelers a darkie and a companion sharing a flask in hot sparsely settled country. They trade a dried tongue for whisky with comic mischief and accusations of deceit. The scene ends with a quip about mutuality and betrayal.
In the Musselshell winter of 70 80 a party of traders and buffalo-hunters staged a wild night attempting to toss gunpowder into a chimney to frighten Wyandotte Smith. Two-Quart Kettleson and others watched as Wyandotte sang and bacon was poked while a powder plot failed and doomed Kettleson to flee into the night. The tale ends with a missing rider and a unsettled inquiry.
A lively scene shows a grocer warning a boy guardian of his politically involved father. The boy plans to frighten him with phosphorous sketches, while the grocer recounts perils and cautions about campaign fever and the cost of politics.
A comic panel titled Hind Weart Disoease shows a cartoon exchange with a Native American character and a prompt about concealed heart disease. The dialogue suggests a humorous critique of medical fears and stereotypes.
A compact, period tone item notes Lent’s lax temperance as a Jeffersonian Democrat drinks freely, references the Second Adventists fixing November 4 as the end of the world on election day, and adds a wry Philadelphia Call aside on a Cincinnati man’s sea legs and a quip about beet tea’s origin in Henry VIII’s era.
A Pennsylvania court rule permits silence in horse trading and allows defective horses to be traded without full disclosure. The piece mocks the loophole as a humane but cynical law that prevents commerce from stopping over flaws.
A humorous note from Puck recalls Job as a patient man who endured many annoyances. The vignette contrasts his calm nature with a porous plaster he could not reach, describing how he would rasp his spine on a door edge to manage the discomfort.
In a Life column Mrs. asks her husband to meet at Morrison's book store around 4 pm and to mark the pavement if late, promising to erase it if she arrives first. Philadelphia Call notes Fred Douglass denying a rumor about his wife and eggs.
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