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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1879
Page
2
A train approaching Portsmouth was halted after a watchman spotted a loose express car spring on the track. Telegraph signals from Greenland prompted a stop, preventing a possible wreck at Kittery and averting a heavy financial loss, with passengers and rail staff grateful for the warning.
The New York law now allows modification of a divorce decree after remarriage to the new spouse. Catlin, long separated from Miss Marion Bradford, sought to marry a Yonkers woman who insisted on a New York compliant ceremony. After several legislative attempts, a 1876 7 bill passed last winter enabling the Supreme Court to modify the decree in his favor.
A Nevada mine hosts a subterranean ball as Captain Matt Canavan ferries guests 1040 feet below ground to a cavernous underground ballroom. Miners and guests in simple attire enjoy music and refreshments in a surreal spectacle unique to the Comstock.
An amusing account describes a toad on a melon hill that slowly sheds its skin. The observer narrates the toad's awkward rubbing, the peeling of the hind legs, removal of the cast skin, and swallowing the shed coat as part of a bizarre natural behavior observed in July.
The Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company of Rochester reports a strong sales expansion reaching far beyond local markets. Its intrinsic value and broad household presence position it as a lasting, influential business in the nation.
A farm tale from Oglethorpe Georgia recounts a hen hatched six years ago that lived through hawk and owl dangers, laid eggs, and hatched chicks and geese. Last February she showed masculine changes, crowing and spurs, and now is described as a full fledged roaster in a humorous community sketch.
A Petersburg stranger claims to be the last armed Confederate, carrying a worn musket and empty cartridge box while wandering toward Georgia after life in Massachusetts. A Sumter ga notice says a white lady plowed with her husband as team, the ground thoroughly broken as proof of her skill and his role as the horse.
The advertisement touts Per fected butter color from Wells Richardson Co of Burlington Vt for dairymen. It claims a perfect June tint and asserts the product does not injure butter unlike crude annatto and its preparations.
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