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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1891
Page
2
Squire Mapes marks eighty six years in Moline. City official buys Friberg lot for 1600 dollars to build this fall. Several local residents return from health trips to Germany and announce family births. A Geneseo infant dies. a Davenport burglary targets jewelry. Augustana Association reports progress while community events and horse racing fill the papers.
Mrs Cecilia Wiese, widow of Peter Wiese, died at 6 am at her home 1410 Sixth Avenue. Born April 27, 1824 in Schleswig Holstein, she lived in the city about 34 years and leaves sons and daughters and a son David Schneider of Seventh Avenue. Funeral Monday with Rev. Menncke officiating.
Alfred Evans, once confined at Elgin for trying to murder relatives and burning a barn, has been moved to the Jacksonville asylum. He remains rational briefly but is a dangerous inmate with frequent wild fits and a plan to kill everyone he meets. He is strapped and under constant guard, with no sign of recovery and fears he worsens.
Roebinsen captures eight hundred meters within Fort Smith events and Ben Webber wins wrestling against Cullen. Robinsen and Webber returned from Arkansas reporting a strong showing, with Webber scoring about thirty points in the match. The piece notes a death in Denver and local farm life, then references a Civil War era recall and aging in the community.
In Moline a young painter Clive Whiffen, about 30, shot himself at home on Thirty pol Street after attending the play Ole Olson at Harper's Theatre. Coroner Hawes and a jury ruled death the result of a self-inflicted wound caused by a distressed mind following the theatre visit.
The clipping attributes dramatic nervous disorder recoveries to Dr Miles great restorative nervine. Reports claim Alphonso Hem of Butler PA recovered after a speechless attack, Mrs J R Miller of Valparaiso and J D Taylor of Logansport gained 200 pounds, and Mrs H A Gardner of Vistula endured dozens of daily convulsions until one bottle. Trial bottles and a marvellous cures book are advertised at Clendenin's with recommendations and guarantees.
An aged text promotes Dr Miles Restorative Nervine claiming it prevents dizziness neuralgia sleeplessness and fits for husbands and wives. It cites Woodworth Co Fort Wayne Snow Co Syracuse J C Wolf Hillsdale and others as large buyers with universal satisfaction and immense sales. Free trial battles and fee book on nervous diseases available at Wm Clendenin's drug store.
Jumbled OCR notes describe a new medical discovery related to nerves and bowels with mentions of Dr Miles and free pills at a Win Comdenia's or similar event. The text is garbled, lacking clear events, dates, or outcomes.
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