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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1881
Page
9
Public library rules and hours for Moline residents outline access to a reading room and writing desk. It notes train schedules, postal handling, and depot drop times for express matter, with references to various lines and weekend restrictions.
A jumbled column cites meetings, licenses, sales at Fisk's, warehouse repairs, school hats, a mayoral clerical issue, digressions on health, weather timetables, and various local happenings. Mentions include Council Bluff, Clendinen building, and mayoral speculation alongside funeral rumor and fair preparations.
Local items report Fisk opens a premier millinery department in Moline with Miss Birnett praised as a top trimmer. Community notices mention Anna Patterson winning a gold watch, public school needs in Kewanee, Sabbath concerns about rail traffic, and various civic figures, health and legal notices amid a collage of regional happenings.
Chas F Hemenway rode with Miss Harrold when a Weaver two horse team sped past on Main Street. One horse climbed into Hemenway's buggy breaking the dash but causing no injuries. The piece notes a Dunlap Stiff Hat and reports a Supreme Court decision extending terms for county officers to 1881 making fall elections dull.
The column extols Hop Bitters as a glorious remedy raising strong people from illness and praises its bowel clearing and laxative effects. It mentions Philadelphia Press and W L Wells of Chicago visiting town with his wife and child, noting family ties to Clar ence Nason. A claim for Kidney-Worth as a cure for a habitual condition is included. Also notes Barnum's big steer death at Ottawa yielding two barrels of grease and a thin hide weighing 129 pounds.
Testimonial states the product Dr Clark Johnsons Indian Blood Syrup cures dyspepsia with strong praise. No dates or locations provided.
Readable prices across grains, flour, meal, and staples. Includes corn oats rye flour bran per bushel or sack, sugar coffee tea and dried fruit, along with live stock and hogs, sheep, and calves markets. Notable entries cover potatoes cabbage onions cucumbers and lemons per unit or bushel with varied per unit or per bushel quotes.
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