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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1876
Page
4
A Virginia City Enterprise piece notes the vast gold and silver losses from bullion handling and ore tailings, detailing wastage from mine to mint plus old mining routes. It juxtaposes this with a humorous list of table etiquette rules, illustrating contrasts in daily life.
The column notes dolmans regain favor with matelassees and silk or wool fabrics for outer garments. mink and chinchilla furs feature, Monograms appear on many items, and silk fox remains a popular fur. Buckskin underlayers and boas two yards long are fashionable, with sable and tal skin sets prized for luxury.
A Paris fashion note describes fur trim on boas and brown banded cloaks as affordable for babies and young girls. Deep mourning bonnets use crape, with bows, pockets, and elastic bands replacing strings. Velvet turbans feature handkerchief crowns for an Oriental look.
Moody and Sankey retell the saving defense of the Pass of Alatown during the Atlanta campaign. General Sherman’s order to hold the fort is quoted as a turning point and the hymn Hold the Fort is praised as both a spiritual and historical celebration.
A comic vignette contrasts English and Irish inquiry styles as an Irish merchant questions a chambermaid about Mr Smith. The dialogue mishears, repeats, and confirms in musical rhythm, ending with a playful nod to Alexandre Dumas.
Reports claim Governor Tilden's election would trigger a marriage to Miss Le lia Morse, daughter of the late Professor Morse, as a pretext for a White House mistress. Others say if he loses they would sail for Europe. The Morse family and friends dispute the engagement. Miss Morse and her mother sail for Europe next week for three years or more, denying the engagement. John Kelly and Miss Theresa Mullin to wed in New York, not Washington, amid Cardinal McCloskey relations.
A scrambled extract shows odd classified lines about two young women seeking washing, a photographer finishing babies in ten minutes, wood and coal splitting, and a piano cottage listing. It questions the genuineness of such notices and hints at authentic business chances like a fried fish operation in the West End.
The prose fragment mentions neighborhood markets and a person expected back in ten days, with references to a shoemaker and a medicinal bottle of soothing syrup. It also includes a caricatured editor praising airtight coffins as a chosen product.
Conductor McElroy of Pennsylvania told a railway irony at the conductors' banquet. A seedy man sought a free ride and was allowed a pass after a superintendent questioned why the man was not charged. The punch line rests on the idea the man was a conductor on a western road trying to live within his salary.
Hastings from near the house of correction drags her husband away from the post office where he waits for the latest returns. He resists, clutched by the collar as the crowd looks on, until she orders him home and he concedes after a brief struggle.
In a senate commission cross examination a witness confronted questions about his prejudice against Chinese. The examiner asked why he does not force his mother-in-law to dismiss Chinese servants, and the witness replied that a husband cannot dictate a mother-in-law’s actions.
In Burlington a pious father taunts his son with a list of misdeeds as a mock rebuke. The exchange escalates during a South Hill scene where neighbors’ reports are awaited. The election devolves into a beating as the votes are canvassed.
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