16 Jul 1875
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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1875
Page
1
Readable portions list Rev Wood Collins pastor with Sabbath services and Sunday meetings. Mentions Rev Mr Peck and other pastors with weekly services. Scattered street names and addresses appear, indicating a community directory of churches and religious services.
At the Tuhiness and Town State Field Trials held in 1874 competitors showcased iron beams and iron frames. The judges awarded a first premium for superior construction and durability.
The piece highlights a leading cultivar in the market praised for durability efficiency and overall performance. It notes strong demand and steady growth driven by improved yields and reliable results across key farming segments.
A reflective poem speaks of faith during darkness and a dawn for the faithful. It envisions heavenly aid guiding a troubled soul toward redemption beyond death. The verse notes patience through toil and temptation, with a final, distant gate of pearl awaiting everlasting relief. Mowing, July 2d.
The text proclaims three words carrying meaning beyond sect or school. It urges faith in free born humanity, virtue, and a steadfast, childlike spirit capable of action, courage, and inner will despite oppression or doubt.
A Duckport bride, Mrs. John Scudder, journeys to New York with her husband and finds the hotel life dazzling yet unsettling. She restless explores the Cosmopolitan, noting fashion, mirrors, and kitchen secrets, while a mistaken streetcar ride exposes city dangers and comic misadventure.
Kitty endures a chaotic night as crowds accost her aboard a dirty streetcar and on the docks. She hides in a tavern by the Lamb inn, where an elderly couple offers shelter and recalls the city’s past, while John searches for his missing bride and the tale shifts to a quarrel of rumors and humor in high society.
The Grasshoppers New York Tribune recounts a 1670 plague of caterpillars in Auvergne and a bishop ordered law requiring caterpillars to appear in court under excommunication. A travel writer notes the document in Clermont library while noting its impracticality for western states with many religions and few graves. The piece laments grasshoppers as naturalized and irreverent.
A Boston Commercial Bulletin tale recalls a naive passenger who rings the bell rope to summon the water boy. Rustic pulls the rope, halting the train as laughter erupts. The conductor explains the rope’s purpose and the passenger’s earnest request for water.
Illinois has been chosen as a refuge for a small Catholic colony that fled Germany to escape Bismarck's Falk laws. Pilgrims arrived in New York first and then settled in Pentopolia, including female members among the group.
The Powhattan sails for Aspinwall to relieve officers and crew of the Omaha, then to Norfolk. Narragansett likely to San Francisco after La Paz and may be decommissioned. Lancaster due at Norfolk then Portsmouth to become training ship. Sabine to be placed in ordinary. Ensign Hanus promoted. Holman and Salter not qualified. E J Olson recommended for chief engineer. Pay officers board to meet June 24. Secretary of the Navy seeks 860,000 to pay remaining Farragut prize funds. distribution to 45,000 associated personnel amid fleet ties.
Three Illinois women win a contract to mow and plant on a 100 acre farm. The item blends satirical notes on women’s fashion, love, society, and politics with brief anecdotes from New York, Chicago, and Europe, including dames, judges, and notable gossip.
Readable fragments show a court ruling settling skim milk status under Illinois statute. The piece discusses dairy byproducts once deemed waste and hints at consumer uses and farmer practices, noting the law’s impact on cream and milk components.
In Kansas City a dispute between city authorities and insurers halted waterworks action on Monday. A stock of fireworks ignited, destroying about $40,000 in property as flames spread before authorities finally allowed water use to combat the fire.
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