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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1880
Page
2
A Journal report cites a dispatcher who explained duties on Indianap olis lines and the risk of miscommunications during shifts. He notes men with telegraphic instruments control multiple trains and argues current pay fails to reflect responsibility, with top despatchers earning about 150 dollars weekly.
An aged monk recounts a Hangzhou tale of Shu who seeks a distant princess Leen by magic. The priest Chang thwarts her serpent enchantments, the lovers perish by an abyss, and a temple and hill named White Serpent Hall commemorate them.
A collage of quotes and anecdotes from various papers. The items include jests about bathing dress humor, a remark on a boy with a cigar ticket, lines about sunsets and horizons, seating norms on trains, school definitions of hypocrite, and a Boston Transcript exchange.
A Republican statement defends General Garfield against charges of misrepresentation and Credit Mobilier links. It recounts vote fluctuations in the nineteenth district across periods, notes 1873–74 declines, cites convention actions in Warren and Trumbull County, and asserts united GOP backing for Garfield in the coming election.
Judge D W McClung recalls a story about Bill English and his bill to withdraw the Kansas school land grant unless it supported the Nebraska compromise. A Louisville Journal note once labeled English the author of the meanest bill, a verdict the Judge notes as a lasting memory.
A collage of brief items spans foolish pride at a feast, farm advice on sowing, a warning about con men and staged cures, and social gossip from Boston to Paris. It notes a Paris impostor in love affairs, champagne in Rheims, Vesuvius lit nightly, and British naming trends amid a mix of curiosities and local anecdotes.
Albany Evening Journal argues the fruits of the Civil War are secure only under the Republican party. It cites Reconstruction acts and amendments as proof and contrasts with Democratic calls to repeal war measures. It asserts Democratic leadership would threaten preserved gains and urges continued GOP control.
A San Francisco Chronicle cor respondent tours the Chinese provincial city of Lanchoufoo, home to the Viceroy of Kansuh. He notes rare foreign goods, camel wool carpets, Kansuh tobacco, and Mongol traders. Prices are inflated by haggling as locals remark on foreigners learning trade.
Victor, eldest son of Prince Napoleon, has attained his eighteenth birthday and full majority under his house customs. He continues studies at Lycee Charlemagne and plans to enter St Cyr, the renowned Franc military academy, next year.
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