Grand jury seated as Pleasants opens May term at Rock Island
Judge Pleasants opens the May term in Rock Island with grand jury impaneled. The panel includes 27 of 36 jurors. nine fail to appear and nine are excused due to sickness or age. Court proceedings cover common law dismissals, chancery partition actions, and numerous mechanics liens and other civil docket items.
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C. P. Hengstler
Francis
Mary Freytag
Joseph Ditman
Special Commissioners
M M Corbitt
Witman
Alangon Sinnet
Maria
Berger
Williams White & Company
Va Milan Panel Company
Louis McGreer
John E Wray
F L Chick
John D Frels
Hampton
Ed McGraw
Whitmore Doolittle
Moline
James Bell
Port Byron
L H Dudley
Rock Island
JA Johnson
Coe
W W Elliott
Geo. Cropper
Edgington
Claus Schafe
Robert Ralston
Peter Fries
C Peterson
James Hardin
H Hampton
Geo. Palmer
Merrit Goble
Black Hawk
Wm. McLaughlin
Buffalo Prairie
Fred T Hass
Fred Freeberg
Coal Valley
Peter Engdahl
Wm. Jennings
Isaac Drury
W J Clarke Edgington
Ira Smith
Geo. McNabney
Ampton
McBurney
H W Olney
Louis Range
J F Robinson
J H Kauffman
Henry Sears
South Rock Island
Wm E Cox
Judge Pleasants
E Miles
Harvey Wolf & Co
Mercer
Tris
Louis ‘Range
J H Kaufman
Win. McLaughlin
I Foster, Jr
WJ Clark
P Eng
Christina Dene
Christina Willamuth
Partition
Petiton
Cathraine Mangledorf
Manter
Mantelstaff
Joseph Ditman Eal
Henry Nichol
Board of Ditman
Wm H Appleton
David B Sears Et al
Chancery
Elizabeth Bauman
Ferdinand Bauman
Jeanette Sienderson
Henry R Henderson
Jennie E Dow
Wm. G Dow
Michael Barry
Margaret Barry
Wm. E Teller
Emma Teller
Bill
T J Saunders
Dora Bobke
Chas. Bobke
Rock Island National Bank
National Paper Company
Margaret J
Sears
Keator Lumber Company
Frank Freebury Et al
Frank Freebury
G B Dickenson
Genenel Baring
Beet
Barat Inara
Maria Ubbard
Ook Tind
Baie
Way Freight. A Box and a Long Farewell
A somber verse speaks of a grieving traveler awaiting an open grave at the journey’s end. The rider, Walt, faces drizzling rain and a late train, with friends at home awaiting his return and offering love and tears. The poem emphasizes departure, loss, and a final resting place guarded by angels.
Tennyson at Aldworth and Unclaimed Letters Notice
A private letter recounts a visit to Aldworth by Tennyson and wife Mrs Tennyson, praising his modesty and intellect. The item includes a missive on the poet’s character and a list of unclaimed post office letters in Moline Illinois for the week ending May 8, 1884. The Paw Paw Courier reports a misprint about a fire incident and jokes about a missing dictionary.
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Boston Burnet
Aldworth
Tennyson
America
London
Eno
Bard
Harper
Lionel
Matthew Arnold
Browning
Moline
Rocksland County
Ilinois
Paw Paw
Ror Quick
Fighting Fire with Fire in Napoleon Era Strategy
The piece contrasts Napoleonic ideas with Eastern warfare, noting how British forces might face Mahdist or Rajput allies, and describing unfamiliar combat tactics such as soldiers lying on their backs to spear cavalry and backstabbing. It emphasizes the strategic advantage of swarthy Hindoolan troops in eastern warfare.
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New York Times
Napoleon
Treach
Clivec Lalv
Naton
Naper
England
Soudan
India
Punjauba
Kordofan
Hindoolan
Amended Anecdote of Hercul
A Rochester Post Express item recalls Hercules and Augean stables, noting envy sparked a reform movement among agricultural classes. The hero turned out 12 000 oxen for 24 years, then released 24 000 of his own, bankrupting guano factories and securing a market monopoly. The event is labeled the cleansing of the Augean stables.
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Rochester Post
Hercules
Augelas
Elis
Footwear and fashion names from notable figures
The passage notes how Wellington inspired a footwear style, Lord Cardigan a woolen polo Byron a necktie, with Byron’s name linked to a col or, and D Orsay to a necktie. It mentions Tom Ochiltree a race horse and Fred Gebhardt a canal boat immortalized in names.
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Chicago Herald
Wellington
Lord Cardigan
Byron
D'Orsay
Tom Ochiltree
Fred Gebhardt
Appointment of Chas Gase as county jail turnkey
A notice states Chas Gase has been appointed as turnkey at the county jail and is now filling that position. The item also mentions workers for Bradley Hammer tool plating and J M'ra Co Limited of Madison Wig. Readers are invited to tell friends about the Evening DisraToH and Sunpay Monnixoe Dis PATCH.
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Bradley
Fuutren & Johnson M'ra Co Limited
Madison
Wig
Chas! Gase
Local Notes on Spring Lamb Sales and Health Cures
Mention of spring lamb available Saturdays at Five Points meat market. Godfrey of Moline in critical Davenport cyclone condition. A discussion of historical health fads from blood cures to mud baths and sun and fish oil remedies, noting many cures faded into orthodox practice.
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Five Pointa
Godfrey
Moline
Cvenpg
Davenport
Atlanta Constitution
Indian Eye-Punch Relic on Display in Town
Old Indian John delivered a stone implement to Dr. Rafferty described as a compact torture device used by hoanya on patients. The tool, about a foot long and one inch wide at the ends, widens to three inches at the center with points aimed to strike both eyes. The ends served as handles to hold the device during the eye blow.
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Portland
Signal Service Training Rules At Arlington Heights
At the Signal Service training school in Arlington Heights students of meteorology and related fields must arrange study tables bunks coats and books in exact prescribed positions each night under chief signal officer orders. Their Sunday dinner consists of coffee bread and dried apples.
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Signal Service
New York Sun
Sigaa Service Training School
Arlington Heights
Veteran recalls sunstroke and health rebound
In August 1892 Dover New Jersey, Elijah Sharp, a wounded Civil War veteran, describes decades of poor health prior to using Parker's Ton ic. He credits rapid improvement to the tonic, noting restored energy and ability to work. The ad clarifies a name change to Parker’s Tonic and warns against fake substitutes.
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Dover
Egypt
Elijah Sharp
Mr. Sharp
Parker
PaRxer
Reales
Pankur
Miles
Hisox & CO
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