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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1878
Page
3
Fragments describe a January meeting of teachers in Moline addressing school conditions. Topics include ventilation cleanliness and the need for a certification program for student attire, with calls for improved baths and laundry facilities, and a plea to protect pupils from unhealthy air and disease.
1877 notices report tax collection readiness at D W Sickels coal office Lyndon Street and collector Wickstrom move. public notices praise Justice Mapes and Mr Harper as Rock Island booms with hotel Opera House and charity ball plans. Local ads for frames tobacco watches spectacles and billiards stir civic chatter amid measles, court actions, and a grand ball invite.
In a January fourth special issue, Bell Mann & Co of Chicago sent perfumed items and soap instead of cash for a $200 contract. The playful donation fills the office with a fragrant scene and marks a peculiar act of enterprise.
The Brisbane paper lists auctions and sales of millions of acres across Queensland and neighboring regions. It notes 100,000 to 572,000 acres of land, tens of thousands of sheep, cattle and horses, with named firms Moling Plow Company and others advertising auctions and extensive holdings.
All persons owing the grocery bills prior to July 10 1877 are urged to call and settle now or the accounts will be handed to a collector. J M Horr. Lieut Wm Clendenin attended Springfield July 7 for a Military Convention with about 250 M G officers present. Gov Cullum spoke and hosted a reception in the evening. Adjutant General and others gave a brief history of the ration and vouchers for power of the area were noted.
Fragments describe a physician retired from practice promoting a French or English recipe called German Syrup for consumption asthma croup pneumonia and throat lung diseases. It claims worldwide use free distribution by Beiggists and lists prices 10 75 cents with three dollars for larger cures. Also notes local trade and merchants in Rock Island Whiteside and Albany areas and praises the Exchange inn.
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