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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1884
Page
8
The dispatch mocks foreign imports and urges vigorous American youth to perform risky stunts on cellar doors and barbed wire to defend shortages. It quips about a live fish in lean water lighting up when an incandescent lamp bait is electrified, illustrating a bizarre phenom.
A foreigner who runs a tonstorial parlor in Philadelphia advertises for barbers to work in his shop. He seeks those who are not politicians and hopes to save customers from long talking. He says deaf and dumb men or Chinese are unlikely to answer.
The 70 year old Abbe Aur Liszt, recently blinded, is famed for an odd habit of insisting pupils use his first name Kanz and for a fondness for the zouate vegetable. His former pupils, aware of his weakness, shield him and send cases from across Europe to him.
A miscellaneous extract lists colorful phrases from a Mexican city newspaper, crude jokes about a Georgia man and his wife, and a New Jersey farming party at the shore. It also includes an extended, medical discussion on fever temperatures, comparing healthy ranges to dangerous spikes and the body’s burning capacity.
A couple near Troy New York held a private home wedding with only relatives and close friends present. The bride in simple attire welcomed guests at the door before the ceremony as the groom joined her before the clergyman and they were pronounced one. The gathering approved the unconventional ceremony despite gossip about Monsignor Ospel and Billy Florence.
Florence and the Monsignor Capel, meeting in Chicago, discuss theater attendance. Capel says he has not attended a theater in twenty four years and cannot patronize a place where the devil is preached. Both parties agree preaching the devil is reprehensible.
A Western tour stop reports Gen Hancock received a letter claiming loans to his nephew Lt Frank Hancock who has died. The claimant, described as a seasoned confidence man with a Texas Freemason swindle record, urged silent payment of 50 dollars. An El Paso lodge secretary labels him a professional rascal.
A crowded Paris street mishap leaves four people tumbling into the road after a passenger and a conductor intervene as a heavy van nears. Separate reflections warn of Australia New Zealand colonial expansion and a rising English speaking power in the South Pacific, threatening American maritime isolation and potential indemnities to China.
A man trained to avoid generosity asks a friend to buy a lottery ticket with a promise to share if it wins. The ticket succeeds and yields a prize, but the man balks at sharing and proposes a plan to time the division by checking their clock together. The exchange ends with a stubborn twist on fairness.
A brief aphorism highlights humanity as the ultimate marvel, praising human intellect, potential, and achievement as the universe’s most profound wonder. It frames man’s capacity for creativity, resilience, and discovery as sublime.
In 1874 Flood O'Brien Mackay and Fall organized a vast mining scheme on the Pacific Slope. Mrs. Tom Crittenden, widow of the famed prospector, provided diamonds as security and Keene bought her shares, turning a potential fortune into $552,870 profit after commissions. The widow’s wealth grew as stock surged from 33 to 265, with Keene delivering the profits and guiding her investments.
Dr Allison, a land physician, describes experiments on a thesis monkey about eighteen inches tall. The animal is tame and fed like the doctor, preferring fruits raw grains and cooked vegetables, with potatoes and rice as favourites. it eats with dirty hands and must wait for hot food to cool.
Clara Belle writes in Cincinnati Enquirer about fashion and dance at Newport halls. She describes the downslope silhouette of women, black stockings, and the quadrilla performance with rope jumping. A humorous anecdote ends with a spectator joking about calves.
A farmer and a visiting agent clash over a sewing machine. The agent misinterprets cloth sewing as farming gear while the farmer insists he needs no summer sewing for crops, noting their work is sowing and reaping. The exchange ends with the agent struggling to convey the non agricultural use.
In a village anecdote Grattan recalls his Uncle Dean Marley who treated humor as a way of life. Marley ordered the coach and four to fetch water from a well and drive there with a pitcher inside. Harrion Gray Otis later faced a milk shortage and resolved it by summoning his carriage for a milk errand.
A Philadelphia Call excerpt quotes Ben Franklin warning against signing flimsy papers. The piece also notes Franklin could spot a bluff and urges readers to beware trust in others, echoing his pragmatic caution about documents.
An Arizona correspondent recalls Mr Spencer’s survival after Indians ambushed him while carrying mail near the Hualapias. He endured leg and chest wounds, killed two attackers, and endured torture of a wounded companion while escaping from three-sided assault until rescued by soldiers at dusk.
A Larne gentleman cherishes a cat that shares meals, bringing a mouse to its master and later its own plate. Nearby a country house fire is thwarted when a cat awakens a sleeping maid by scratching her face, prompting evacuation. The writer notes cats performing tricks including cream from a teaspoon.
A parson visits a dealer seeking wine for his bees and notes a preference for gin from ladies. The dealer offers a superior line and the parson asks for about four gallons of the best. A Washington Hatchet line remarks that self reliance forms the basis of good manners and that those lacking it intrude and annoy.
A mixed summary of events from Illinois communities includes a plan for a $25,000 YMCA temple in Springfield, a fatality involving a child and a thrown bean, church roof improvements in Plano, and Chicago packers processing over 1.6 million hogs this year-to-date. Also noted are lawsuits, arrests, a public debt to insurers, a grand jury indictment, a robbery case, death figures in Chicago, a swindle exposed in Cleveland, and a murder trial update in Monmouth with a verdict of guilty of manslaughter and five years in prison frame.
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