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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1884
Page
2
A garbled OCR of a Lenore poem fragment recounts a broken golden bowl a bell tolls and a spirit floating toward the Brygian river The text mourns a departed beloved and hints at bereaved lovers lamenting a loss with scattered phrases echoing Edgar Allan Poe themes
A review of royal prompting in Parliament notes the princes general liberal tilt while avoiding public declarations. The Prince of Wales recently delivered a non political address on housing the poor, following the Duke of Cambridge whose cautious, business like speeches dominate military topics in the Lords.
A Danish youth visits a lawyer and asks to identify his parentage in a tangled tale of polygamy and inheritance. The lawyer bluntly answers the boy is a real estate mistake, revealing a family saga centered on a Norwegian patriarch and multiple marriages that cloud the heir.
A derisive, satirical essay mocks romantic depictions of Chinese men, arguing a Western stereotype reduces the Chinaman to unromantic, utilitarian figures. It claims Chinese courtship lacks passion and reduces betrothal to dull ceremonies devoid of love or poetry.
The piece argues that to truly admire a character one needs flaws and emotional depth. It contrasts critics who value wit and diction with those who seek more than polished surface, noting some people are too restrained for biographical interest.
The Mexico coffee districts along the Vera Cruz Tobuso coast and states Colima Michoacan and Guerrero supply Germany with beans. A plantation resembles a college farm with coffee plants in square beds grown from twelve months old. Plants bear fruit at three to fourteen years with profits per plant ranging from 40 cents to 3 20, workers earning about 25 cents daily. Bananas and castor oil shade crops and crops ship via water to New Orleans and beyond.
In a fragmented report a man questions a Black man about a theft, the suspect claiming to have found a coat pocket and evading arrest after a masked assailant, described as nicely dressed, fled with the cash. The scene ends with the pursued individual pondering the outcome and a bystander watching.
The article discusses the phonograph as a practical yet remarkable discovery enabling sound reproduction and secret correspondence, with imagined uses and a note on the device’s potential. It also references remarks by Professor J J Wood on sea serpents and a Boston Globe quotation on societal ethics and invention.
The interview profiles Dr. Richard Jordon Catling aged 66, recounting his invention of the Gatling gun during the Civil War era. He details early prototypes in Cincinnati, factory sales, Butler’s purchase, market ruin, and how the weapon spread to Europe, Asia, and Africa with governments adopting its use and capabilities. He notes ranges of two to three miles and rapid fire of up to 1,200 shots per minute.
A Rehoboth man uncovers a 19th century notice of Matthews Watson of Barrington who lived in three centers and died aged 107. The piece notes an improved method of death by self harm and recounts a Jamestown Pa youth who killed himself with an iron rod connected to an electric line.
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