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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1877
Page
1
Historical notes describe the High School building erected in 1878 cost 35000 and the Moling Public Library with 8000 volumes. It mentions reading rooms and free access, plus local manufacturing jobs totaling 1800 workers. A long list of local businesses and aldermen follows, with various church notices and public post office schedules.
An advertisement extols an improved plow inviting customers to call and see the best model praised for construction strength and lightness, highlighting its suitability for the coming season's trade.
Smythe in an awkward incident with hidden curtains exposes his private world. A judge and family witness the mishap when the curtains rise revealing him at an upper party. Rumors spread as coworkers mock his exposed privacy and he leaves wiser but humiliated.
In Chicago, Smythe, proud of a rule against patent right holders, dismisses outside persuasion but indulges a visiting inventor who praises Smythe, offers advice on a potato bag extinguisher, and seeks a light return. The tale ends with Smythe's generous reaction and renewed resolve to aid neighbors.
The Deere Gang Plow, titled The Lightest Drill Gang Plow, won first premium at Titania and Iowa Astate Field Trials in 1874. It earned the Grand Gold Medal at multiple trials, including 1876, and secured first premium for two consecutive years at lowstate Plowing March. The device is praised as the acknowledged king of the gang plow family.
The Cultivator known as Tale Cultivator won the Gold Medal at the 1878 Talend State Trial amid a field of competing makers. It has earned the Aret premium at the Town Skate Trials each year since its release.
A Hartford church during a sermon on St Thomas interrupted by a distant streetcar bell. A man dropped a manuscript and watch causing a brief commotion as passengers prepared to leave. The clergyman closed the manuscript and exclaimed that is all for Thomas.
A Major McDonald's ewe in Daviess County birthed a buck lamb and died soon after. The Major's heifer then bore a calf that died. The lamb was fostered by the cow and nursed to fat thriving health at about seven weeks old, weighing over fifty pounds.
A New York Times correspondent reports a grave in a wild hillside area near Hocodale Pa where Ismael Meredith first Treasurer of the United States and his wife Margaret Read are buried. The piece notes Merediths rise with Washington, his land speculations near Belmont, and the couple's later isolation and decline.
The passage outlines a sequence of Chinese feast days named after animals from Bird’s Dig to Heres Day. It notes customs such as fasting on the first day and describes animal honors tied to pigs cows and sheep, including a story of a dog safeguarding a sage and a man who killed him being eaten.
Mark J. Pendleton, a noted Euclid Avenue Opera House actor, wed Miss Alice Worthington, a wealthy heiress with a $240,000 own fortune. The wedding occurred last evening at 6 o’clock, and the couple departed for Philadelphia. Pendleton’s prior success includes a praised role in Peloy from A Crown of Thorns.
Dr. H E W Barnes receives a rare fossil mollusk specimen from our city. The bi valve left shell is exposed in its silicated bed, showing intact stomach heart and nervous structures. Under magnification the specimen reveals remarkable crystal like preservation pleasing scientists and rock enthusiasts alike.
The New York Evening Post discusses the long awaited discovery of the Venus of Milos arms. It recalls the statue's fame and the hope that the missing limbs will be restored, transforming the sculpture toward full beauty as masterpiece in the Louvre.
Fragmentary record shows Lilaois Revenue and Springhild Journal noting total collections in the Eighth United States Diatriot Colomel from October 20, 1873 to June 1, 1877 totaling 08.421,927 04 and reference to government for detailing. No clear names or places beyond generic entities appear in readable text.
A patchwork of gossip and contemporary notes mentions a man resembling tin in a London poet’s complaint, Ex-Governor William B. Washburn ill in Greenfield Massachusetts, and limited revolutions in Mexico. It cites Moran the American Minister to Portugal, Beauregard and other generals, church figures like Bishop Simpson, Lydia Sherman’s capture, and Moody’s sermon choices, alongside cultural notes on Miss Emma Thursby and Edouard MIchès touring.
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