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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1880
Page
6
The American Register recounts a Paris bank experience where a check is processed through a sequence of officers and cells, requiring about 25 minutes for a 100 franc check. The observer notes the slow tempo, the brass-buttoned uniforms, and the ceremonial steps before payment.
For half a century Sellers Taiver Pills have claimed to bring health and happiness to thousands of homes. Ask your druggist for them.
A column notes the noon hour as a social slice with lunch habits and street life. It mentions the peanut thief at the corner stand and the quick lunch routines, then hints at a fair verdict praising Perfected Batter Color by Wells, Richard, & Co of Burlington Vermont.
The Milwaukee Sun notes Mexico prepares for a presidential election and drivers in stagecoaches are urged to contribute to cam iga funds. The Commercial Advertiser comments on relative political risk and mentions the shift from ivory to celluloid for billiard balls amid broad industrial changes.
A Solferino tinted man fled to Tlaurd District Station with a baby bundle claiming to leave it with an honest citizen. A red headed woman later admitted the child was hers, saying a servant fed it from a bottle and tossed the infant aside. The officer escorted them to St Anns where the baby was found.
A long passage describes a crowd taunting a wanderer on Court House steps. The tramp, called a foreigner, answers in broken speech as questions about languages are asked in a rowdy scene. The episode ends with a quip turning the question on the crowd and a note on kangaroo tongue trade in London markets.
An aging San Francisco beggar, William Thompson, died after a 30 year legal battle over a debt backed by a Mexican grant patent. The drawn out suits drained him financially and physically, with repeated appeals and reversals culminating in the Supreme Court, leaving Thompson a symbol of harsh legal consuming power. He reportedly wished for a future where law and lawyers are unknown.
The piece discusses satire from Swift to Dickens, noting Thackeray's depth and the ethical edge of humor. It then recounts a Nevada City mining accident where Rareshiancher narrowly survived a fifty foot fall by manipulating a fuse, and ends with a schoolchild quip about parsing the word cow as feminine gender and a playful Mary reference.
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