28 Mar 1879
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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1879
Page
1
The Moline Review announces Captain L. M. HAvestick will assume editorship, praised as a veteran journalist with deep Rock Island County roots. The piece reflects on longtime local figures, Moline’s social shifts, and debates over the Morine Water Power contract with the U.S. Arsenal, noting government neglect and calls for faithful contract execution.
The piece laments tramp intrusion in Ili nois cities and urges concrete work programs. It argues for a stone yard linked to city prisons to employ vagrants and reduce across-the-board nuisance and crime, noting authorities already hold coercive power.
Opinion in Moline holds the city’s quiet, orderly years under current leadership justify another term for the present head of city government. Voters favor maintaining the current liquor policy, seeing few issues with the existing laws and remedies, and warn against changes that could unsettle public order.
With clashes fading and opposition tickets quieted on this issue, the city election sees a calmer political landscape. Voters respond to the absence of loud campaigns and focus on local concerns and candidate qualifications.
Ephraim Warren of Watertown suffers from erysipelas. P Nelson of Davenport takes charge of the Reese House and will run it as a hotel boarding house and saloon. Mrs Moore of Tus REVIEW is confined by illness and attended by Dr Morey. D A Gault named clerk of the steamer Jose phine and sails from Rock Island tomorrow. N S Ketchum joins Wagon Company after years with Deere & Co at Marshalltown. H A Ainsworth serves on the State Board of Equalization and is called to Springfield for revenue matters. Floral window at Richards Lohrbeck praised. The REVIEW urges county teachers to send in articles on schools and reforms.
Friday evening Mrs Ann Eliza Young of Brigham Young's household will present her lecture In and Out of Utah at the Congregational church for Reform Club funds. Admission is thirty five cents. The talk is praised by press and pulpit and promises a lively address from a noted speaker.
In a lively Moline Review issue, readers are urged to rise with the sun as the paper sketches a dawn scene and pokes at local politics. The column notes township elections, court dates, and local development plans while praising early rising as prudent for society.
A diary-like notice contends Capt. Timm and Dr. McKinnie may form a low-license ticket for the city election. The piece urges Republicans to unite with principled citizens to elect clean men for Mayor and Council, warning against such a plan.
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