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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1879
Page
2
The piece describes a French creche as a model of child care where working mothers leave infants during work hours. It notes the creche’s age, layout, and routines, with sleeping and eating areas, and praises its potential to protect children from poverty and harm while offering medical care and relief to mothers.
Fragmentary historical note describes shift from multiple sermon minutes to prefaced Bible reading and longer expository preaching. It notes clergy’s emphasis on Bible divines and pompous titles, and change in method toward extended texts and formal lecturing.
The piece recounts the disappearance of Timothy Rye and the wife’s odd behavior each evening at nine, as townsfolk watch for clues. Rye returns home to a festive scene revealing he was not dead but involved in a broader plot aboard a ship, with the wife suspected of complicity.
A fragmentary tale recalls an old sea captain famed in Havre days. A boy admits placing a plaster on a sailor, prompting a comic exchange as the captain demands why the sailor cannot rise. The scene ends with a quirky note about a passing locomotive and a canyon morning.
Professor Wylie leads a balloon experiment as Chinamen are lifted skyward amid cheers. A sudden jerk leaves them on tiptoes, squirming while the professor misreads the scene from above. The escape and antics continue as observers report the humorous, perilous moment.
A French imitation gold case maker discovers his former worker, now to be married, is involved with a theft ring. The man attends his own wedding feast with three accomplices, the bridegroom collapses, the bride faints, and police raid the couple’s lodgings finding stolen goods. the groom is jailed for the night.
A ship rides three days and nights of furious storm the waves towering and wind roaring. Passengers endure near collapse with many on deck sixty hours straight. Amid panic a man named Brad clings to fear as a small child calls Whoa Emma from his berth and the voyage continues through the night.
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