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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1881
Page
6
Reports recount the President’s fragile recovery with doctors noting improved appetite and nourishment. Updates describe reduced swelling of the neck gland, cautious progress in stamina, and cautious optimism amid ongoing attention and prayer efforts nationwide.
The dispatches chart a fluctuating recovery as feverish spells ease and then recur. Attendants fear a crisis may come on Saturday, noting no steady gain in strength and a wound that fails to improve despite signs of digestion and sleep.
Choice extracts from Druggists tout Malt Bitters as a versatile remedy. Claims include malt hops calisaya and iron for health, with praise from female customers and physicians in town. Ads call it the largest bottle and best medicine and a sure cure for chills and liver diseases.
A compilation of human and animal physiology figures including average man weight about 140 pounds six ounces and skeleton 14 pounds, brain weights, bone counts, breath and heart rates, blood volume, oxygen use, and lung cell counts. Also notes on English French Belgian heights and a promotional line for Jacobs Oil.
Lewourn McGzx, en route to work in Vicksburg, promised whisky if broke. In Samuel Hawthorne’s saloon they drank and could not pay. McGzx died when Hawthorne fired a pistol, ending the dispute with a fatal shot.
An Express column mocks quack remedies urging readers to take Hop Bitters for quick recovery. The piece praises Dr. J G Holland as a widely read author and notes Scribner's Monthly and the Century Magazine plan a life size portrait by Wyatt Eaton, offered with subscriptions.
A compact ad-like passage promotes Kidney Wort as a cure for chronic kidney disease and long standing kidney complaints. It claims thousands cured and urges readers to try it, asserting habitual constipation and kidney issues as pervasive causes of chronic illness.
A compiled register shows numerous criminal charges and bail statuses across Rock Island Moline Milan and Hampton from May to August. Included are attempted rape larceny burglary and assault with bail amounts ranging from 50 to 1500 dollars and various magistrate approvals and jail holds. Names include John Barnett James Ross John McCarthy John Waldron George Green Michael Glenn Chris Schroeder John Bowman Lawton McGregor William Flaherty John Sheridan Henry Polen and Jane Wood among others with cases arising in Rapids City Moline Rock Island Milan and Hampton.
The steamboat State of New York between Hartford and Saybrook struck a rock near Goodspeed's Landing and run ashore by midnight. No lives were lost and no panic occurred. The vessel lies with its stern supported by the shore.
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