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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1879
Page
2
Poem fragment laments a broken harmony and fading love. The speaker recalls music marred by a single fault and imagines a timeless return of a forgotten tone in a dreamlike, mournful meditation on art and passion.
In a Boston romance recounted by a Detroit paper, a stormy day meeting on Washington and Winter streets led to a long lost couple reuniting. A Harvard-educated physician, now wealthy with two children, found his Lowell factory girl sweetheart now widowed with two.
Michael L. Sullivant once famed as the great Illinois farmer owned Broadlands in Vermilion County. He later built a vast Ford County estate of about 47 000 acres, loaning money to Hiram Silley and mortgaging his lands. Poor crops and low prices followed by heavy debt led to his sale and death aboard an Ohio River steamboat, leaving him penniless.
Sir Joseph Fayrer notes strong vegetarians in India's northwest provinces show high durability and development. He cites their diet of leguminous seeds like peas and beans, richer in nitrogen, as a key factor in precurability and vigor.
The market opens at dawn with Indians and country women selling diverse fruits and birds in cages. Fish displays outshine birds and insects in color, while meat is sold in strips exposed to air. Indian cooks use charcoal fires to prepare meat and fish, seasoning with ahili.
The piece traces the origins of the United States Coast Survey from its 1807 proposal by Jefferson and a $50,000 appropriation, through Hasslar’s leadership and the long gap caused by war and finances, to its 1832 revival under Southard with expanded scientific staff. It cites Martha J. Lamb in Harper's Magazine as a source.
The article discusses a historical canal project through the Jath region toward Suaz deemed practicable with excavation begun about 2500 years ago. It notes Ptolemy II during the 2nd century BCE connected seas near Suez, and Cleopatra’s 31 BCE fleet attempt to reach the Red Sea, with later blockage by desert sands ending the canal’s use.
A fragment notes that Baianr colors and trappings, even white horses, are manufactured from the French service and would provide a conspicuous mark in warfare.
A French correspondent compares Parisian and American habits of dress and grooming. He notes Parisians invest in taste, coordination, and upkeep, from wardrobe management to neat homes, arguing that Parisian women maintain a careful, stylish image from youth to adulthood.
A London Lancet letter warns against ear boxings by schoolmasters and pupils. It cites deafness and brain abscess risks from ear injuries, noting two current schoolboy victims and urging masters to abandon such chastisement.
The case centers on John W. Beaumont accused of murdering Isaac F. Bawden after a work dispute. A key witness, William J. Does, vanished before a retrial, later found dead in the Mississippi. Beaumont’s renewed indictment follows a long pursuit of truth by his relative William Dees.
The governor’s message is described as lengthy and incomplete, with critics saying a governor lacks a fair voice in state messaging unless he owns a newspaper. The excerpt references Japan’s silk production and notes potential disruption from American machinery in traditional silk manufacturing.
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