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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1880
Page
7
A garbled note speaks of a love plea and rejection. The text reveals confusion and emotional shifts as the writer contemplates marriage and separation, mentioning meetings and weather as shifting moods. The fragment hints at a strained romantic exchange and unresolved feelings.
A Detroit Press piece recounts Mrs Major Wheelock and her husband, a respected pioneer, arguing loudly as he hunts for misplaced shears. He ransacks the sewing chair, bureau, and even a bottle, only to find them hidden in plain sight at last, prompting playful jabs about household order.
The Baltimore Sun correspondent notes California olive oil gains attention amid limited market supply. Farmers foresee profit as foothill plantings expand, citing olive hardiness to drought and cold. Grafting advised to improve varieties. A stray anecdote ends with a Massachusetts election joke about a wife displaying triplets.
After surrender, Lieut. Col. Key and his family faced extreme poverty in North Carolina. With a starving wife and children, he bartered his sword for a plow, used his charger as a workhorse, and endured hunger until aid arrived. A generous local helped them with shelter, food, and land, enabling hard labor and small subsistence. A pivotal letter of pardon from President Andrew Johnson arrived, easing their fears and offering hope.
A Rochester firm sold horses and carriages to George Kinner of Baltimore for 310000 and secured payment with a chattel mortgage. Detective Kavanagh tracked the hidden hearse to Armstrong’s farm, saved it, but was beaten by three assailants in Baltimore after filing a complaint. the Baltimore Police Superintendent was alleged to be kin of the man linked to the case. The tale also notes a Madison County bombshell injury and a divorce suit in Evanville Superior Court where Rose Cwan seeks separation from Patrick Gowan.
The piece outlines common beggar schemes in crowded streets including paying half fare to start a scene on a bus to elicit sympathy and funds. It notes pickpocket links, the reliance on a supportive network, and similar cons such as feigning illness or injury near hospitals to spark pity and donations.
A detailed description of a stage illusion where a Japanese top spinner unties a string, launches a top along a string, and then uses six identical tops on a table plus a seventh sent through a doll house. Bells signal the top’s travel through ten rooms. at the end the moving top returns and the other tops topple, concluding the act.
A story from Limestone New Era reports a Weatherford boy nearly died from windpipe obstruction before doctors arrived. An operation was performed in time but the attending physician did not arrive promptly, and the boy survived.
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