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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1876
Page
1
The item lists mayor and city officers including D L Wheelock and Stephen T Walker, with department heads and ward representatives. It also outlines post office closures, church services, and a long roster of fraternal and benevolent organizations meeting times at local halls and lodges in Moline.
List of representatives by town and their addresses including Cordova Coe Port Byron Zuma G C Wake Port OD G Mefurphy Canoe Creek Hilledale J Chamberlin Hampton Carbon Clif Thos Kerr Milan Coal Valley N B Wright Rural Coal Alleys Wao Miter Bowling Pleasant Ridge Jobo Buffulo Andalusia J Parmenter Edgington F J Whitney Buffalo Prairie D Mardock Drury Muscatine Joho Aster Rock Yeland Rock Island W L Sweeney H Case Asst Hock vlan Rock Island D O Reid Moline & Timm Asst Moline Molline
Representative in Congress is Thomas J. Huxperson of Princeton. Members named include W. L. Wuwey of Galvary on the State Board of Equalisation. Counties listed are Henry Hock Island, Borean, Lee and Pelham.
A damaged OCR item notes offices of Kenworthy and Beardsley in the court house at Rock Island Illinois. The fragment indicates a historical business address with two named solicitors or tenants.
At the Illnois and Iowa State Field Trials in 1874, Gilpin sulky earns the first premium award, highlighting iron beams and iron frames in the competing designs amidst early industrial racing equipment.
The item titled Advance Walking Cultivator highlights a substantial improvement in cultivation technology. It emphasizes enhanced efficiency and durability, suggesting greater productivity for farmers.
Sally Day clings to hope as Matt Boone and allies race to save Richard Hutton from hanging amid a bar room vendetta. Jim Blair, in disguise as Hutton, confronts the mob. a storm breaks as Blair is sacrificed to save Sally, revealing Sanchez as the thief.
Messengers pursued Sanchez in the woods and brought him in before sunrise. He confessed and was identified by Derring. He was strangled in the woods near a big redwood, ending further horse racing in the Boone area for the time being.
A speaker in a memoir voice inventories keepsakes from past romances including letters rings and portraits. The narrator recalls Willie Blake Howard Clay and Count de Twirl along with travel memories from London Paris and the Alps and hints at a December Scribner publication.
The Albany Evening Journal argues Governor Tilden’s large popular majority stems from alleged Republican disfranchisement in Georgia and Kentucky, with additional support claimed from Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and Arkansas. It critiques voting power versus character and cites various national incidents and oddities to illustrate political climate.
The governor John L Beveridge proclaims Thursday November 30 a day of Thanksgiving in Illinois. The Springfield proclamation, dated November 11, 1876, sets aside a time for worship and gratitude to Almighty God.
A satire on patent law recounts a Supreme Court decision that allowed the court to consult outside pleadings to reject a corpse freezing device as an ice cream freezer. The ruling dismissed the inventor’s patent, denying any vested rights and mocking endless patent frivolities.
The piece notes mourning attire with black crape as the sole trim and lists season’s bonnet styles including cap ot som, Gloss bonnets, and Gainaboroughs.
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