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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1884
Page
3
An advertisement extols Ayrin's Samsa- Parilla as a superior vegetable remedy with iodides of potassium and iron for blood disorders. It claims rapid cures of scrofula boils eruptions and skin diseases, relieves liver complaints and female weaknesses, and promotes vitality. notes forty years of extensive use and availability through druggists.
A Philadelphia Times excerpt on palm reading describes how hand shape, finger joints, and thumb form reveal mental traits and will. It links knotty versus smooth fingers to practicality versus inspiration, notes thumb as will indicator, and contrasts hard and soft hands across professions and behavior.
A brass and steel four inch dynamite pneumatic gun barrel and carriage rests in the Delamater Iron works shop. The device uses a high pressure air chamber and a dynamite cartridge to project a 100 pound shell up to three miles with precision. Descriptions include a wind responsive tail and telescope sights.
Describes a Newfoundland sealing voyage with crew approaching a seal patch. Young harp seals cry like an infant as they are stunned and skinned in rapid scalpings. The scene shifts to hunters resting, then back to pelts piled on deck before stowage, amid mother seals watching. Also includes a brief anecdote about Robert Toombs in Texas.
Dramatist Charles Gayler recalls Horace Greeley’s remarkable appetite during a wine-fueled chat at Union Square hotel. Stories recount Greeley demanding seconds of salmon and corned beef, and a Creole dinner where he refused insects and insisted on fresh buttermilk with soup.
In Tombe police court Judge Duffy fined two flashy men known as sports for contempt after they argued in the aisle. They pulled out $50 each to settle, and the judge ordered $2.50 fines, which the pair paid. The men were identified as Thomas G. Alford Jr., a turf figure from near Syracuse.
Fragmentary report lists life events as terse entries for Cypress and The Garden of Life. It hints at born and married notes in an Australian Melbourne Bulletin style, preserving basic sentiment without full details.
Leatheroid, a new elastic substance manufactured in Maine from cotton paper, resembles leather and resists breakage under tossing or hammering. Dr Broadus warns that half knowledge misleads in teaching and that half truths perilously affect pulpits and books.
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