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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1882
Page
10
The fragment warns to weigh words before speaking to avoid harm and preserve friendships. It emphasizes patience, discretion, and kindness while advising against reckless talk that could hurt others or bonds.
A Chicago Herald piece recounts interviews with drugstore owners and physicians about hypodermic syringes and morphia use among the literati and disssolute classes. It describes needles, doses, medical outcomes, and personal anecdotes including a Chicago journalist, a former health commissioner, and a university teacher’s decline under narcotics.
Mrs Merrigoround confronts her spouse about late theater visits. A note pinned at home claims Naan Hunnys went to the theater with Cousin George and will return by one. Mr Merrigeround had reserved opera seats, highlighting marital strain and social outings.
A brisk morning exchange shows a farmer declaring he is a man of business worth $10,000 and seeks marriage, while a sharp woman of business worth $16,000 refuses him in a witty, hurried tempo. The odd street vignette ends with a terse rejection.
A collage of quirky anecdotes and jokes from bygone papers. A woman schemes to free herself for an hour, a lawyer delays a wedding, a child fears thunder, and a comic mix of misadventures across stations, farms, and towns.
The latest foreign fashion features spring from refined textures like silver and green enameled thistle bouquets and ficelle lace tabbers over silks. Velvet caps with pale satin trims, woolen gowns in royal blue and caramel tones, and bold velvet basques pair with floral lace and beaded accents, while black jet jewelry and white lace dominate evening wear.
The passage argues women suffer in elaborate clothing while men enjoy comfort and freedom. It blames fashion for duller female sensibilities and wages a provocative critique of historical dress norms. It cites Mary Dean from Indianapolis Journal on clothing signaling progress toward suffrage.
A novelty item called a cow-tail holder is shown at a New England fair. The device weighs only ounces, measures six to eight inches, has clasps at each end for the tail and the leg, and can be fastened or removed instantly without harming the animal. It reportedly costs fifty cents.
A humorous yet caustic meditation on carpets in a 19th century home. The piece details misfit sizing, constant replacement, and moths, blaming the carpet’s alleged malevolence for household frictions. It questions durability, dust, and the impracticality of repairs versus new purchases, ending with a mock plea for an ideal, dustproof, elastic carpet.
An excavation near Poitiers reveals a Gallo Roman town with a 114 yard by 79 yard temple complex occupying five acres, plus a 90 yard stage theater, streets, and many buildings covering over seventeen acres. Artifacts include iron bronze and earthen goods. archaeologists call it a second century settlement with well preserved remains.
A collage of brief notices recounts Rosetta Day at 110 in Virginia and a Brookn City judge near retirement. It notes Captain Ames’s death near Baltimore after a stroke and a bell-boy’s joke about the President’s shoes. Also mentions a Michigan claim on an Irish estate, a Providence widow-to-be, a 110-year-old veteran riding to church, Archbishop Purcell’s age, a dual marriage ritual in St Louis, and Lt. Squires moving from Fort Yates to Chicago with Miss Fargo’s match.
A collage of satirical lines and fragments from various papers. Witty exchanges about a new color named four o clock and a maid named Mary. Comical notes include a Norristown man’s yacht purchase and a Laramie Boomerang disclaimer about John the Baptist.
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