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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1878
Page
6
A fragment recalls a summer day when Death meets Cupid strolling with sparrows. Cupid toys with a change of arrows in a light, bantering scene amid pleasant weather and mythic imagery.
The institution in a healthy city part provides Primary Intermediate and Academic courses with emphasis on bookkeeping. Board and session fees are listed at 75 dollars per month with music and extras. Apply to Superioress Lyoxa Iowa for details.
A San Francisco Chronicle report details a leper hospital and eighteen leprosy victims in Bull Run alley, Chinatown, with rotting structures, furnaces, and alleged filth. It notes nearby Chinese vegetable peddlers and lower occupations in the Bull Run quarter.
A London Daily News correspondent describes Russian soldiers as highly energetic in camp and on parade. The piece notes their loud morning greetings, rapid song-led marches, and the vivid morale during a Saturday review. Swedes or Finns in the ranks appear indistinguishable from locals. General Blufield leads the troops.
A 19th century French project drained 8000 square miles of swamp in Gironde without government funds. Nurtured by 112 communes, land reclamation created forests valued at 10 million dollars publicly and 25 million privately. Proceeds from selling reclaimed land financed schools churches and other works, plus 800,000 dollars invested in national securities.
An exchange notes there are no reserved seats in heaven provoking thoughts on standing room. A Cincinnati Breakfast Table remark and a child’s joke about fish being thieves due to fish hooks frame a light, humorous vignette.
A downtown resident, native of the land that gave Bismarck birth, remarks on a young man thought to be courting or courting a niece. The observer says he is bold and ready, and questions his intentions and manners.
The passage notes large U S mills producing flour and a cage product, with annual wages and totals indicating tens of millions in output and payroll. It references twenty five thousand mills and yearly figures around 50 million barrels of flour and 4 million of an unspecified product, totaling about 20 million in wages.
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