Deeds Filed for Record in Circuit Clerk Office
List of property transfers recorded March 1 84 to March 26 84 across Moline Port Byron Rock Island and Davenport areas. Names include Philip Keene Guyer Ashdown Tubbs Bleuer Smalley Johnston Osborn Dunbar Fraser and others with parcels in H R Edwards Port Byron Webb's subdivision Hitchcock Place Moline and Davenport additions. Severalชาติ lot and block descriptions with prices range from 100 to 1000 dollars.
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Philip Keene
Geo. Breger
H R Edward
Molina Philip Keene
O Long
Moline
Guyer
Gats & Wightman Qe
Port Byron
Mark Ashdown
Gates
John J Tubbs
Nel
Jacob Bleuer
Abraham Smalley
John B McGuffie
David Richardson
Edgington
W Hill
Laurie Hill
Webb
David
D § Davis
Richard Berry
Richardson
Edward L. Johnston
John Zollinger
Sam’l J Maxwell
John G Osborn
Wesley Hanna
Chase Peterson
Harriet M Warr
Hitchcock Place
Moline Bailey Davenport
Wesley Brown
Davenport
Rock Island
Jonathan
Cool
Edward Cool
Probate docket notes guardianship and estate actions
March 24 entries include guardianship of Henry Junge minor heirs with guardian report approved. Estates of Tindall Johnston Huleatt Steinhauer and others show claims final accounts and administrations approved, distributions ordered. March 25 shows Michael Kelly estate finals and distribution order.
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Henry Junge
Guardian
Thomas H. Tindall
Thos. Y. Johnston
Arthur Huleatt
Robert A. Huleatt
W. W. Curtis
Andrew McConnell
Amos Wright
John A. Steinhauer
Katherine Greve
Michael Kelly
Rooms for rent near American Express Office offered by D W Sickles Coal
A local notice advertises rooms over the American Express Office for singles or small families and directs applications to D W Sickles' Coal office. A familiar man reappears on the streets with a changed outfit, eyeglass, and a pale mustache, smiling oddly at women on a muddy crossing. Kill it.
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American Express
D. W. Sickles
Startling Discovery: Cure for Bronchitis Claims Real Results
Mr Wm Johnson of Huron Ohio reports his wife suffered chronic bronchitis for years. After using Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds she was permanently cured. Guarantee covers throat lung and bronchial diseases. Trial bottles free at Richards Lohrbeck drug store, large size $1.00.
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Wm. Johnson
Huron
Oak
Dr. King
Richards & Lohrbeck
Dubuque BishopHennegey Not Seriously Ill
A Dubuque telegram claimed Bishop Hennegey was dangerously ill in Dubuque. The note is false. he was only slightly ill last week, recovered, and celebrated at the cathedral Sunday as usual.
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Dubuque
Hennegey
Mags
Atkinson's Railroad Gallery Stops in Moline
Booming gallery arrives in Moline lasting until May 80th with railroad card photos priced at 1 dollar each and 1.25 dollars per dozen. Cabinet photos cost 2.50 dollars and eight dollars per dozen.
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Atkinson
Moline
Decline of Man Health Claim Promoted in Ad
An advertisement touts "Well's Health Renewer" as a cure for nervous weakness dyspepsia impotence sexual debility. The copy emphasizes a decline of man and offers the product for sale at $1.
Portly Philadelphia streetcar conductors replaced by light men
A historical notice claims portly Philadelphia streetcar conductors must step aside for men under 130 pounds while advertising Mensman's Peptonized Beef Tonic. It touts the tonic as containing blood making properties and life sustaining benefits for indigestion nervous prostration debility, with Cas Hazanp & Co New York as proprietors and druggists as sellers.
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Philadelphia
Mensman
Cas. Hazanp & Co
New Well
York
Two Clauses on Suffering and Charity Policies
The passage argues there are two sources of suffering, accident and misconduct, and critiques relief efforts that ignore cause. It warns relief without regard to cause risks encouraging vice, eroding personal responsibility, and undermining moral behavior by removing natural consequences.
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Nurrerera
Actins
Itv
John C. New Compared to Nebraska Senator in Quiet Life
An oil worker recalls John C. New resembling Senator Manderson in looks and love of leisure. He recounts a tale where New earned 40 000 in Mutual Union stock and invited a watcher to guard the cash while he sought a drink, wagering a small bet on a bird outside.
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Exchange
John C. New
Senator Manderson
Nebraska
Mutual Union
Indianapolis Journal
Yonler
George Alfred Townsend Gath War Correspondent Reporter
George Alfred Townsend known as Gath was born in Georgetown Delaware in 1841. He edited and reported for The Philadelphia Inquirer The Press The New York Herald The New York World and The Cincinnati Enquirer. Townsend covered the peninsula campaign Austro Prussian war Paris exposition and Johnson impeachment before returning to poetry and novels.
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Chicago News
New York
Europe
Johnson
Cincinnati Enquirer
Fortified Chapultepec Recalled In War Interview
The interview recalls Chapultepec and why the Mexican position was formidable in 1847. The speaker, a veteran of the Union army, praises American troops who scaled the cliff using human ladders and notes the monument to Mexicans who died there, while mocking the defense.
King of the Dudes Cor Hosts Delmonico Dinner
Barry Wall, 23, called the king of the New York dudes, hosted a fox-hunt dinner for twenty five friends at Delmonico's. He travels in many outfits with matching canes and dogs and wears stockings with five toes. Guests arrived in scarlet fox-hunting jackets and a horn pipe act was performed at 2 a.m. at his Park Avenue palace.
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Cor
New York Tribune
Barry Wall
New York
Delmonico’s
Colorado
Park Avenue
The Bouquet Business in a City Florist Shop
A Louisville florist discusses high demand for natural flowers and evolving styles, noting roses and violets as favorites, plus pricing from a dollar bouquets to small bunches. He explains sourcing from the east while highlighting competition, risks of wilting, and a cautious approach to customer tricks like crape pulling.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Fourth Avenue
Charity
Indies
Marechal Niels
Catherine Merwots
Phiadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Tintavin
Lasalle
Walking-sticks through history and soldierly use
The piece notes Chinese Gordon's walking-stick as part of a broader habit among European officers to carry canes in the field. It traces the stick’s origin to a medieval royal court and describes varied cane styles linked to professions, with modern sticks decorated in many luxurious materials.
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Atlanta Constitution
Gordon
France
Florida lemon gains premium with bright yellow skin
Mr Charley Owens praises Florida lemons for their high flavor and size. Although dull in color, skilled drying yields vibrant yellow skins, boosting display appeal and price. Lemons mature earlier than oranges, and profits from groves rise as plantings increase.
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Atlanta Constitutions
Charley Owens
Florida
Diagonal dress suits spark speculation in New York society
The article discusses a fashion gambit by tailors claiming diagonal gowns would let gentlemen wear full evening dress without risk of being mistaken for waiters. It critiques practicality noting suits warp, rust, and fail after one season. Observers doubt the plan’s viability.
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Walters
New York
Mengs Deanding
Newark
United States
Roscoe Conkling
Bathing Customs in Japan From An English Traveler
An English traveler notes daily hot baths for all classes in Japan with a communal caldron used before meals and at night. Prefatory ablutions occur in basins, with post-bath gargling. In hot weather families fan each other dry, nobles once walked naked in castles and parks, and deformities like hunchbacks are rare under a view of natural selection.
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Chicago Tribune
Japan
Medal of Caesar Found in Spain During Excavations
In Spain, near a village in the Aragon district, a bronze medal bearing Caesar’s profile and the inscription veni vidi vici was unearthed among Celtic Iberian coins. The discovery includes Roman bronze money and numerous well preserved dies. The local priest safeguarded some pieces, and experts deem the medal a perfect unique specimen tied to Julius Caesar and his dispatch to the Roman Senate.
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Cesar
Galagnoni
Spain
Epoca
Arrogana
Caesar
Julius Caesar
Rome
Crushed Literary Ambition
In a Texas vignette a man recalls abandoning poetry for crime reporting after editors rejected his work. He describes rushing dog-fight coverage to The Daily Bugle, only to have editors trim it to a few lines and receive meager pay, ending his literary dreams. He then takes a clerk job in a junk shop seeking broader scope.
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Texas
Badger
Daily Bugle
New Orleans Exposition Details Feature Vast Displays
The world exposition at New Orleans will allocate 247 acres to lakes and gardens, with diverse displays from Mexico Central America Florida and other nations. A large horticultural hall 184 by 600 feet will host rare trees and plants while Mexico occupies 140 by 900 feet of buildings. P J Berckmans of Augusta is named special commissioner to liaise with European societies on fruit and plant exhibits. A Mexican band and troops accompany the display and global nations pledge support.
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Atlanta Constitution
New Orleans
Mexico
Central America
Florida
P. J. Berckmans
Augusta
Telegraphed Woes from a Busy Window Clerk
A Chicago telegraph office clerk laments the hardest part of his job is waiting on the once-in-five-years customers. He describes crowded wires, demanding inquiries, and the clash between urgent wishes and practical delays.
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Chicago Tribune
Tim
Tom
New York
Rock Island
Ontigoou
Drying Up of Springs Across Regions
The Scientific American notes growing water shortages in New England and the Mid Atlantic harming mills and factories. It discounts forest loss as the cause, pointing to drainage tile work on farmland over the last decade and its effect on ponds and streams feeding mills.
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Chicago
Scientific American
New England
Mid
Ohio River
A Portrait or Division of a Remarkable Figure
A writer recalls meeting a striking, youthful man whose lavish dress contrasts with his lively, expressive features. The subject’s blue eyes radiate warmth, humor, and intellect, while the photographer’s capture misses the true vitality of the man.
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Vale
Jlass
Koeen
Thor
Polish nobles urge frugality to save Polish lands in Posen
An address in Posen newspapers calls Poles to shun extravagant spending during cardinal festivities and avoid costly dinners balls and hazardous bets. It argues self denial will protect native estates as German landownership grows, noting Germans hold 3,84,000 acres to Poles 2,872,600 and warning Poles cannot halt the loss of their ancestral properties.
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Russian
Poland
Posen
Yar
Dr Lagello Claims Prussic Acid Routs Strychnine Poison
Dr Lagello asserts prussic acid as an antidote for strychnine poisoning. He warns that efficacy relies on sufficient dosage and that both substances present two chances to a cure compared with one for the enthusiast.
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Chicago Harait
Lagello
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