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26 Feb 1875
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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1875
Page
1
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Advance Walking Cultivator touted as the market’s finest and most enrapturing garden helper. It emphasizes ease of use and efficiency for everyday cultivation tasks with appealing design.
Special correspondence describes public passion in Brooklyn over the Beecher Tilton trial. It details saloon disputes, a courtroom audience, comic interludes, and a dramatic shipwreck rescue of Captain Parker in a whaling voyage, highlighting the era's sensational public interest.
The Delafield family suffers a remarkable mortality as Major Joseph Delafield dies in New York at 85 on February 12. The next day Dr Edward Delafield dies at 81, founder of the New York Eye and Ear infirmary. On the following day Henry Delafield, merchant and shipowner, dies at 88. All five brothers reportedly died of pneumonia, totaling over 400 years in combined age.
Hardin county Solon Plater denounces chapter 122 of the 1874 revised statutes shielding Negro children in public schools. He advocates leaving colored pupils to "Egypt" and the mercy of alleged inferior white “trash,” amid calls of racial prejudice.
A vivid description of water bears under the microscope contrasts with a Pittsburg Gazette excerpt about Senator Jones, a Nevada magnate famed for wealth, marrying for a second time after a social swirl. The narrative ties whimsical natural history to political salon life and marriage plots, including Miss Sullivan and figures like General Schofield.
A wild duck recalls an Orkney tale where an islander jokes about shooting two lawyers, distinguishing between men and a puffin nicknamed lawyers. The travelers react with disbelief as the duck debates the oddity of valuing a bird’s life differently from a man’s. The scene ends with the duck diving for dinner and Jack reflecting on the world’s quirks.
A gun fired in Echo Park creates an immediate silence followed by a delayed echo. The echo travels from roughly five miles south and returns in distinct reverberations, moving between glens. It intensifies, appears opposite the shooter, and then echoes again to the east in quick, snapping bursts.
A Watertown Wisconsin woman gave birth last week to five infants weighing a total ten pounds Two were stillborn and the remaining three died soon after birth.
A California waiter comments on the prominence and acuteness of San Francisco young women's noses attracting notice amid social chatter. The piece reflects public curiosity and light satire of beauty norms.
Story from northern Texas recounts Judson T. Mills of South Carolina, a stern district judge, and Thomas Fannin Smith, a lawyer who challenged the court over a contempt fine. After the judge imposes 50 dollars, Smith pays and quips of the amount exceeding what the court could show. The next day Smith requests the clerk's error be erased, and the judge remits the fine.
A quirky jumble lists names with "son of" ties and odd anecdotes about birth, death, and professions. It mixes long passages on John Smith, John Brown, Gabriel Jones, and others, noting relocations and fates in a parade of brief biographical vignettes.
Report describes two women occupying three seats in a crowded streetcar by placing a large traveling bag on the seat between them, a tactic noted as unseemly and distracting to fellow riders.
A Bible canvasser visits Macomb Street to sell a book as a lame girl answers the door. A man in the room fiddles and sings while the canvasser struggles to persuade, citing poverty and illness in the household as barriers to purchase. The scene shifts to telegraphic items about naval orders, court-martials, theater at Annapolis, and a fatal German duel.
The author argues Christianity built Harvard and Yale, educated the nation, and fostered scientific culture. He rebukes views that Christianity opposes science, stating Christian pioneers founded colleges and public schools and nurtured free inquiry. He laments Christians forgetting their role in advancing learning.
A Philadelphia Bulletin report describes a counterfeit liquor operation on Chestnut Street. Four men in fine dress mix raw alcohol with additives such as ice, moss, catechus, strychnine, vitriol, oil of conjure and acids to produce deceptive branded spirits. The piece portrays the adulteration process and the men involved.
A 1855 reminiscence notes Vice President Wilson joining the Senate as Edward Everett’s successor. It recalls that thirty seven of the original members have died and only Hannibal Hamlin remains among the surviving peers with a career spanning governor and collector roles. Wilson kept an autograph album of signatures and birth dates from his fellow senators now totaling 260.
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