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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1884
Page
7
A speaker weighs bold confession against restraint in a faltering moral ode. The voice pleads for pity and salvation, contrasting yearning with demure behavior while addressing Christ as savior. The archaic diction and emotional tension reveal a devotional erotic tension framed as self restraint.
Henry Arthur Herbert of Muckross Ireland and the Earl of Aytesford lead a new ranch agency that claims thousands of acres and plans to sell at low prices to defeat ordinary promoters. Herbert boosts American style hotel plans at Muckross while bragging about holdings in Texas and Killarney approaches.
A critique of contemporary lighter literature condemns its lack of sincerity and reliance on surface ornament. The piece laments artificiality in fiction, noting readers seek flesh and blood rather than decorative veneer and dead models.
A fragment discusses bravado in beasts and humans, arguing dogs show more appalling courage than lions or tigers. It notes dogs bite larger predators and outmaneuver threats, while humans falter when facing danger, redefining true bravery.
A physician in the New York Sun notes a high pulse and fever in a man on the street. The subject resists medical advice, declaring he will pursue proposing to Old Jones’s daughter tonight despite the risky situation.
The Chicago Herald notes an upcoming exhibition in St. Petersburg featuring primitive Slav chairs and tables alongside costly period pieces. The exhibit aims to attract antiquarians and artists, with organizers inviting dealers and others holding antique furniture to submit items to the committee.
University rowers in Germany train with English trainers who report the students cling to beer and tobacco during practice, hindering fitness and race performance.
Consul William Coppinger describes Liberia colonization efforts by the Colonzation Society. He notes compulsory education, a $20,000 college, and strong health. Emigrants receive ten to twenty five acres and sustenance on arrival, with growing demand for trades, teaching, clerical work, and farming profits.
The first Negro song was presented before an audience in a theatre by an actor named Herbert. Known as Pot Pie Herbert for his pot pies, he sang The Battle of Plattsburg in 1815 and debuted in Albanian, making a rare early impression with black paint and a satin chair before the curtain.
A magazine excerpt presents a Washington letter from West Point dated August 16 1770 describing a planned dinner for Mrs Cochran and Mrs Livingstone. He jokes about a modest feast with bacon beef green beans and pies and notes iron plates and plain serving. The tone blends humor and hospitality from General George Washington toward guests.
The article notes that about 200 arctic voyages have occurred in 800 years for various aims and fates, with the Greely expedition among thirteen. It cites 500 men passing two winters beyond the polar circle and 19 lost, and argues that such expeditions double the world’s knowledge of magnetic forces. It praises moral qualities gained, contending the peril inspires endurance, courage, patience, and faith, making these northern research efforts incomparable. It reflects on Pompeian Italy’s cleanliness and durable architecture as a contrast to modern design.
The Fortnighty Review notes a decade of swift progress in Chilean wine production with wider wealthier support and extensive vineyard planting. Prices are expected to fall enabling profitable exports as French expertise and capital enter the industry. The piece also mentions railroad travel harming vision due to constant window watching.
A passage likens a good speaker to a singing bird with poised posture and curved gestures, comparing tonal emphasis to a pleading child and a morning wind. It invokes nature’s influence on Greek rhythm and painterly water colors to describe expressive delivery.
A judge recalls a meeting of The Club of Strange Recital where Darby Monroe a recluse violinist plays Emotion revealing a transformative power. The narrator and Williamson witness changing emotions from laughter to tears to reverence as the music moves them, ending with the violinist’s calm departure and a note on France’s telegraph wires going underground.
A sentence notes a lunar eclipse at sunset Saturday visible in Boston. The text promotes 78 Little Liver Pills as comfort and suggests one pill is a dose, reflecting old ads.
A promotional notice urges sufferers from kidney and liver complaints to try Kidney Wort as a natural remedy. It claims to act on the kidneys liver and bowels cleansing poisonous humors and restoring health, asserting cures in obstinate cases and encouraging readers not to be discouraged.
The largest grape vine in California grows in Ventura. It is 25 years old and has a trunk circumference of 40 inches.
Rev H H Fairall of Iowa Methodist Journal endorses Ely's Cream Balm after testing it. He notes catarrh is prevalent and urges a thorough treatment course, insisting the balm cures most head and throat troubles when applied to the nostrils with the finger.
An editor of the Indiana Gazette proclaims five years of using Dr King’s New Discovery for severe and mild coughs, claiming it never fails and offers a free trial bottle at Richards & Sohberbeck's drug store with large sizes priced at $1.00.
Advertises telegraph operator salaries of 240 dollars a year with no vacations for women, urging ladies to buy Diamond Dyes for better coloring and faster, brighter results at 10 cents. cites Richardson & Co of Burlington, Vermont.
In Holland the land is cultivated by 145,694 persons with 60 percent owning property.
A mother reports her daughter’s health and spirits fully restored after faithfully taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla per directions. She calls it a blessing and hopes other anxious mothers learn of its benefits.
Sufferers from quinine remedies will value Ayer’s Ague Cure a tonic bitter of vegetable substances. It acts promptly to break chills cure fever and expel poison with no harmful effects. The Lookout Mountain railway under Colonel Cole will be completed by June 1885.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as a universal remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and is offered at twenty five cents per box by Richards and Sohrbeck.
Mr Geo V Willing of Manchester Michigan reports his wife was almost helpless for five years. After using two bottles of Electric Bitters she can now do her own work. The tonic is praised by many testimonials and priced at fifty cents a bottle at Richards and Sohlerbeck.
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