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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1889
Page
1
MdLINE AND ELSEWHERE reports the death of Charlda Whiteksr a long time resident of Chrevber. The item notes her passing as the lead local obituary among scattered notices and brief agglomerations of community news.
Advert says spring weariness signals impure blood and urges using Ayer's Sarsaparilla to cleanse the system and restore vigor. It claims the remedy renews energy and vitality throughout the body.
The notice promotes Kemp's Balsam for throat and lungs with a free trial from pharmacists. It claims cures for chronic and acute coughs, asthma, bronchitis and consumption with large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1. A New York grocer Samuel J. Harris testifies that Ely's Cream Balm cured his severe head cold after one week of use.
In Chicago, Mrs Adda A Siekman appeared before Judge Shepard to charge her husband with breaking marital vows after she found telegram scraps and a cache of letters from women nationwide. Evidence included correspondence with Alice L Adler of New York and a frame actress, with Adler claiming she believed Siekman was single.
A garbled passage discusses running events and medicine with uncertain terms. It mentions wear away and potential outcomes but lacks clear subjects or dates. The fragment provides few identifiable names or organizations.
Mr T D Wheelock appointed superintendent at Mirline Plow Company replacing resigning Wm Evans. He has served ten years as assistant superintendent and oversaw machinery across the works. Wheelock is regarded as competent and popular with the employer, and the company celebrates the promotion.
Local manufacturers present 50 dozen dulaundried dress shirts at 75 cents each. Shirts use New York muslin and high quality linen with fine sewing and finish. About 600 shirts will be sold in the neighborhood at no more than six per customer and no dealer sales, priced at 785 per dozen.
The Rev OFP Peterson leaves after services at the Swedish Baptist church with his wife and boy for New York on the 18th to perform a ceremony uniting a sister of his in marriage. His parents and two married sisters live in New Haven Conn. He will travel to New York City then to the wedding in Alsac Me. The trip includes duties at the Swedish Baptist church with Mr Christ Lofquist assisting.
The March issue recalls the Harrison Campaign of 1840 and Miss Harrison’s school days while continuing popular serials Five Little Peppery Midway by Margaret Sidney and Adventures of David Vane and David Crane by J T Trowbridge. Featuring school tales, Professor Starr and Magon items, Theo dora Jenness pieces, R E Robinson and others, plus illustrated poetry. Price 20 cents. $2.40 yearly. Axelgon & Uilmark handle Wide Awake. publishers D Lothrop Company Boston offer a back issue for five cents.
The Board of Education ordered a notice for the annual election on April 6. J. W. Worr and Dr. W. K. Sloat named judges with F. W. Gould as clerk. Incumbents William Clendenin, J. W. Warr, and Nelson Chester up for reelection after short replacements. Warr praised for full term. Clendenin and Chester lauded after recent election.
Fragmented OCR text from a Pennsylvania item references Germans, caution, merit, theft, and a remedy. Names and places are unreadable, with garbled phrases about parties, projects, and individuals. The readable content shows no clear event or outcome to summarize definitively.
The piece sketches Moline Workman publisher and editor struggles with small readership and local notices in 1854. It recalls two street encounters over ads and a women’s dress reform letter from Moling, plus a review of Creston Clarke’s performance and local civic notes from Moline, Rock Island.
The piece weighs in on Moline politics with support for Mayor Nason's reelection, praising his adherence to the law and stance on liquor questions. It judges the Republican nomination as likely to unite pro law-abiding factions, while noting potential opposition from a third-party stance and possible candidacies by Warr or others. It also reports Adolf Weckel's finding that Rock River bridge taxes leave the city $60.84 ahead, with unpaid district read taxes contributing to the total.
The text recounts a woman with severe illness lasting months finding relief after using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. She reportedly slept after the first doses and was miraculously cured, buying a trial bottle at Clendenio’s drugstore in Shelby. The tale centers on Mary Lubhart of Hamrick and a local supplier.
W D Suhdrogelat of Bippue Indiana testifies that Electric Bitters are the very best remedy with every bottle giving relief. Abraham Flare, Helville Ohio, calls Pleethic Bitters the best medicine of his 20 years. Thousands endorse the claim and say the tonic cures ailments of the liver kidneys and blood. Available at Lepiento's Drugstore for one dollar a half bottle.
A dated advertisement offers a salve claimed to cure cuts bruises sores fever blisters and other conditions. It guarantees perfect satisfaction or money back. Price listed as 25 cents per box. Sale byWin Clendepib.
The document records a chancery notice in Rock Island County Illinois for Bradford N efits defending a case filed in the January term 1882. It states the suit is entered and the defendant must answer or demur by the first day of May, with publication of the notice.
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