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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1894
Page
2
Special correspondence from New York notes Bonnibss Toddlekina known as the howling beauty of the season. The child is described as smiling yet prone to howls, yet her sweetness softens any sharp mood.
The article details young girls outfits and accessories, comparing the four year old and the four year old’s wear with emphasis on cloaks, dresses, and hats. It notes fabrics like blue serge, lace, muslin, and gingham, with described collars, shirring, and belts and mentions specific wearer names in the fashion context.
Miss Fannie Brambley, 18, vowed never to speak to Jerry Cartell, her fiancé, after a quarrel. He left, pursued reconciliation, and she eventually relented, but spoke only after a length of silence. Their wedding followed, and Christmas brought a shattered vase that revealed she could speak again, lifting a burden from their home in Dyer County.
The aged father of Hon Brookshire, 85, visits an undertaker to arrange a coffin. He declines to die by hanging and asks to be laid to rest with a certain watch and a stable procession, describing his long life and his wish to pass in peace.
Deibler, famed Paris executioner, allegedly the angriest man in Paris, faced disappointment after a Roquette jail inmate, condemned to death, killed himself with a specially sharpened blade. He laments missing the Legion of Honor ribbon shared by others who fought anarchist suppression.
A Chicago editor notes a growing telepathic method of receiving messages from distant friends. He likens it to a trusted telegram but warns reliability varies among mediums. Also cited is an item claiming cordite outperforms gunpowder in naval guns, with test data from Woolwich.
Special correspondence from New York describes the Methodist Book Concern and Mission House at Twentieth Street and Fifth Avenue as a monumental eight story granite and brick building. It details its role as publisher of The Methodist Review Christian Advocate and other periodicals, and traces its rise from a 1789 loan of $600 by John Dickins to a large, world distributing enterprise.
The article traces the Methodist Book Concern from its 1798 beginnings under Dikins and Rev Ezekiel Cooper to a major New York publishing house by 1889. It highlights mergers, relocations from Pearl and Mulberry to Broadway and finally 160 Faithful Street, leadership by Sanford Hunt, and the ownership verdict that the books belong to preaching ministers, not the church as a whole. It notes profits, legal splits after 1844, and ongoing control by regional general conferences and book committees.
A 1894 piece urging strong local trade organizations to attract foreign capital and awaken dormant enterprise. It argues for a citizens group to publicize town advantages, ease location for manufacturers, reduce labor conflict risks, and capitalize on transport and material access to boost local industry and jobs. It notes shifts in manufacturing location choices and calls readers to participate.
A historical medical note extols the pneumogastric nerve as essential to heart and lung function and overall vitality. It discusses how nerve force sustains organs, links brain signals to bodily action, and credits Franklin Aifse LL B with research. The text promotes brain and nerve food products as cures for sleeplessness hysteria and sexual disorders.
An advertisement style tribute to Col Silloway and Col. Silloway’s wartime service and recovery attributed to Dr Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It touts cures of notable figures including ex-Speaker Charles J Noyes and claims Lincoln’s life was saved by Silloway with Stanton and Welles referenced.
A transport page lists trains of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy, Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul, and Burlington routes. It mentions arrivals and departures from Davenport, Sterling, Mendota, Clinton, Dubuque, St Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha with times and connections for freight and passengers.
A scrambled OCR snippet shows bus and train times and place names in a cluttered timetable fragment. It mentions times like 730 am and 900 am and includes partial references to places, routes, and operators, but the data is heavily garbled and partial.
An anglicized business card style list shows electrical contractors and associated trades. The dense readable text mentions names, firms, material sources, licenses, suppliers, and professional services intertwined with generic business references.
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