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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1876
Page
4
A morning patrolman rises in wrath to reach Washington and uncover soulduggeree. He travels all night to the city and joins the war department committee to hear waiting voices. A Kentucky noble is swept away by the new broom as the investigating panel questions Pendleton’s fee.
A runaway express locomotive roars down a dark line without a driver as depot master and night watchmen race to avert disaster. Sparks fly, bridges and curves loom, and the monster looms toward a depot before heroes regain control.
A stranger climbs to the editorial room of the Philadelphia Mullin and meets Max Adeler. The visitor, seated in an old splint chair, endures a comic scene as he struggles with a jammed hat and bent posture before being told rules prevent extrication.
A Philadelphia office prank ends with a stranger being released after editors debate the prisoner’s fate for 25 minutes. A photograph of William Penn is given to the man and a streetcar ride to the Centennial grounds is offered.
The article notes a large westward movement from middle states in 1876, with many emigrants lacking farming experience. It praises those with capital and resolve, highlights careful land selection amid railroad land grants, and commends the Burlington and Missouri River railroad for offering low round trip rates and credit-based land purchases in Iowa and Nebraska. It invites readers to contact AMRO Land Commissioner in Burlington, Iowa.
General Kilpatrick recalls a Savannah moment when clergymen asked Sherman if divine services could continue. Sherman allowed worship but refused to pray for Confederate leaders, telling them to pray for both Jeff Davis and the devil. The meeting ended with Sherman denying martyrdom for the petitioners.
The Abbots of Mount Millary Sept Fonds and Martastern in Turkey join Abbots in Ireland to form a Trappist order house in Maryland. Brother Francis de Sales named their gent. The order vows perpetual silence and limited speaking, with meat and dairy forbidden. Monks work as blacksmiths, shoemakers, tailors, farmers, dairymen and millwrights.
A discussion on marital finance reveals silent wives and hidden assets. The piece cites a 1857 jewelry sale where a wife unaware of her husband’s business failure kept buying, only to see the costly jewels returned with a sting of insult when the husband failed financially.
In a suburban frame house fire, Mr Niermeyer escaped with injury while his blind brother saved two children. The three youngest siblings and Mrs Niermeyer perished, their bodies found among the ashes. The article notes the responder’s grim aftermath and the family’s heartbreak.
The Iowa legislature enacted a law to punish three card monte operators following years of traveler plunder on rail lines. The Chicago Journal reports operators bribed conductors and brakemen to board trains, undermining road managers efforts to curb them. Money and even theft of documents from the legislature were used to defeat the bill.
In the Salerao saloon Eureka Sentinel describes Pete Canavan recounting a recent card game for a dollar opening, doubling stakes each hand, and amassing a massive windfall of five hundred twenty four thousand two hundred eighty eight trade dollars, which he treated as his winnings.
The article reports Queen Victoria planning a discreet visit to Germany. She will travel incognito and use the title Countess of Rosenau, staying about a week at Baden-Baden in a private villa before moving to Coburg to visit the duke and his family. The German emperor may call on her during Baden-Baden stay.
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