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Newspaper

Moline Review Dispatch

Location

Moline, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 09, 1884

Page

12

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dover Egypt Elijah Sharp Mr. Sharp Parker PaRxer Reales Pankur Miles Hisox & CO

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