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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1878
Page
3
An advertisement proclaims the only range usable with hard coal soft coal or wood offering perfect heat control for baking cooking or heating water. It features the largest oven warming closet and ash pan and guarantees satisfaction. Available exclusively through E. Smith & Company.
The London correspondent laments the rise of new titles and the pomp of modern aristocracy. He argues this class produces little real national benefit, citing idle wealth, movable offices, and a lack of public service. He divides aristocrats into rich and poor factions, both unproductive overall.
The heart is a hollow muscular organ with four cavities housed in a membranous sac. Each hour it beats about 4000 times, circulating roughly 709 pounds of blood, with every drop passing through the heart twenty eight times per hour. Historical views cast the heart as the seat of life and emotion, and tales recount Napoleon’s heart being stolen and rescued from a rat by a doctor who preserved it in a silver urn.
In Levallois Perret Morin died in an railway accident. His widow, overcome by grief, bound her hands and feet and lay beside him for a week. An old dog, loyal to the deceased, shared in the sorrow and was found near them. The case highlights a disturbing scene of mourning and self destructive intent.
The article discusses crewel yarns, noting imports from England and poorer German and domestic imitations. It highlights rising demand, potential for a strong domestic industry, and skilled women finding work in design and embroidery as a source of livelihood.
The San Francisco Bulletin notes a new code provision allowing a deserted wife to seek support from her husband without divorce. The first suit, Eudora Virginia Smith versus W F Smith, claims permanent maintenance for herself and child, citing desertion since 1877 and substantial income by the husband, seeking a court decree for support.
An American seeks Makart’s company by challenging him to chess at a cafe. After slipping into Makart’s chair, the game unfolds in silence until the American finally declares Mate. Makart storms off, telling a friend he cannot stand playing with a chatterbox.
Custom dictates simple ceremonies for widows with morning weddings and plain dress. A widow invites only witnesses to breakfast. a fifteenth day post cards announce the couple’s pew address. Visitors respond to cards within a month. widows’ remarriage timing and attire reflect strict propriety per Demorest's Monthly.
A man known as wipower refuses to remarry after five daughters block a new wife. He abandons the idea of another wife, instead keeping a savage dog and warning that no man may cross his door. If he cannot marry, he vows his daughters shall not either.
A fragmentary report describes a railroad event involving an Irish abel and a bell rung by a woman, with unclear details about timing and outcome.
The piece recalls old New England farm life with barn raisings where neighbors gather to lift frames using runners and oxen. Young workers perform hard labor while elders share advice, followed by feasting with pies and cider. As oxen grow scarce, such community events fade from memory.
A Poston physician and surgeon-dentist Dr Waters reports a soda based burn cure. He describes wet surface bicarbonate of soda in a bowl for wet burns and a paste or strong solution for dry burns, claims rapid relief with no reported side effects, and notes alternatives if bicarbonate is unavailable.
A Green Mountain stagecoach on the way to the 6 o clock train derailed after a trace chain broke, sending four horses and four men sprawling. Driver Lewis Glass was thrown and gravely injured though later improving. fellow passenger Walter Beirne escaped with minor harm. Guss Goff and William Surface suffered non life threatening injuries.
The Ministry of Finance sent four wagons the day after the fete to haul away funds taken at the exposition gates. Tickets were required for admission at five cents, with a French coin gap leaving bronze two-cent pieces worth about 180,000 francs involved in the robbery.
The readable fragments suggest a fallow week or phase aligned with a planned activity. Unclear specifics delay confirmation, with potential mention of a date or month and an intended benefit or outcome.
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