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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1880
Page
6
Illinois schools enroll 704 041 pupils with 11 954 schools across 11 599 districts. The state operates 661 private schools serving 60 440 pupils and reports 4 045 illiterates. Public school spending last year totaled 7 531 94179 dollars. Male teachers averaged 4424 monthly while female teachers averaged 35 28.
The exodus of African Americans from the Deep South due to oppression has spurred a northern movement. An organization has secured several hundred thousand acres in New Mexico for colonizing the fleeing population, creating a new settlement project.
Gov Cullom pardoned Frank Hitzelberger and Joseph Green, Joliet convicts, for dying of consumption while in prison or after release. One died in the hospital, the other the day after reaching home. The piece also notes Joan Kettey’s long NYC public service tenure and mocks Democratic opposition to monopolies and office-holding.
St Louis residents furious over the official count of 343,000 prompt a private census. A local organizer reports an overall increase of 7,000 to 350,000 people since the census, despite higher expenses and scrutiny.
Secretary Sherman declares a candidacy for the Ohio Senatorship to fill the seat left vacant by General Garfield on the stated date or by Mr Thurman. In France De Lesseps advances the inter oceanic canal project across the Isthmus of Panama with a stocked company and a cost estimate surpassing 100 million dollars.
A Cleveland family of five with two visitors suffocated by gas from a defective base burner stove on the night of the 16th. One child died and several others are not expected to recover. Gen Garfield marked his forty ninth birthday on the 18th by visiting his uncle Thomas Garfield in Warrensville, while the uncle, age seventy nine, shared the date. The Pennsylvania governor issued a proclamation listing nineteen Republican and eight Democratic congressional winners.
Fire destroyed Twe Cheltenham smelting works near St Louis on the 18th causing an estimated loss of 60 000 and leaving 150 men without work. One man died in the blaze and foremen were killed along with four seriously wounded by a boiler explosion at a saw mill near Stevenson Alabama on the 5th.
In four months ending November first the national debt fell by 33 million 681 thousand 967 36 dollars. Observers doubt the public will welcome any change from the policies that produced this decline.
A pen portrait of Senator Conkling highlights his unrivaled personal power in the contest, surpassing leaders like Garfield Blaine and Grant. It notes his westward influence in Ohio Indiana, his popularity among crowds, and the fear he inspired in peers, likening him to Henry Clay and Chatham.
The notice urges recognition of coughs and colds as warnings of consumption and advertises Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a pleasant safe reliable remedy priced at twenty five cents.
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