24 Sep 1875
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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1875
Page
1
Fragmentary notice lists mail service changes with closing intervals for WAM Mail to Racine, Chicago and the East, and various referenced meetings and lodge events in Moline Grove and nearby areas. It mentions pastors, Rev Wartt, and multiple lodge activities on Thursdays and Sundays with unclear details and dates.
The Tightest Draft Gans Plow team earned the first premium at the 1974 State Field Trials. Judges praised precision and teamwork amid competitive entries from Deere Gang exhibitors.
A 1874 field trials report notes First Premium honors for iron beams and iron frames at Pinole and Iowa State events. The record highlights competing designs and judges' endorsements.
The ADVANCE Walking Cultivator is highlighted as the beat and most substantial cultivator in the market, emphasizing dependable performance and robust design.
NASBY describes a chaotic test of a local currency in a Kentucky county, depicting farmers and townsfolk accepting paper notes as money. A farmer named Perkins cashes a note for whiskey and goods, fueling a surge in faith-based currency and rising prices while local officials debate taxing such money. The piece lampoons monetary theory and social chaos under inflationary pressure with sharp humor.
Instructions explain aligning shafts with reference lines, calculating belt length for standard and cross belts, marking floor holes for belt passage, and drawing full scale layouts. It covers pulley spacing, floor marking, and converting lever action to screw pressure using a 3.1416 constant.
A Vicksburg grocer tells of an old customer who bought a plug of tobacco made from sole leather. For six days he bit and pulled at it, believing it new, and only then realized it was leather. The clerk jokes that the man is the one aging, not the tobacco, as he asks for fine cut to go home.
A German peddler sells a man an extermination liquid. When asked how to use it the peddler says to "catch to bug and drop one drop into his moat." The man protests he could kill it faster by stepping on it. The peddler mutters that is a good way too.
A composite, period voice piece blends reflections on memory with scattered scenes of disaster and courtroom vignettes. It includes a rescue on foggy water, a Michigan governor anecdote, and bold noted characters such as Admiral Collins memorials, a Detroit youth poem incident, and a colored woman named Busan Black in a police courtroom.
A collection of jokes and quips about judges, farmers, engineers, photographers, and travelers. Includes a Nevada photographer's dramatic demand for stillness, a Vermont farmer’s long hours, and a Mississippi job seeker’s busy week.
A reflective poem recalls a golden dawn and a vanished hour. The speaker contrasts the lively morning scene with a jaded later life, hoping for a reunion on a green hillside at eventide. The poem muses on aging, fulfilled hopes, and the longing for one pure, unforgotten moment.
The Constellation arrives in Chesapeake Bay from New Bedford on the 3rd with all well aboard. The Swatara remains at Brooklyn yard, some desertions, crew replenished, to sail soon. Cadet engineers from Alert reach Annapolis on the 7th aboard Jon Hopkins. The British steel dispatch vessels ordered from Landore Siemens for Pembroke yard. Cooper takes command of the experimental battery near Annapolis. Marion leaves. Naval academy duty letters for Gridley Kennedy McCalla and Young. A monument to Mors la Tour Gravelette and St Privat placed near Metz on French soil. Bowles at Annapolis campaigns cadet appointments. 25 to be appointed, 140 applicants. Cadet system praised. education of all officers at Academy proposed. Cochrane proposes reforms for marines adding cadets annually. Columbus figurehead to be placed at Naval Academy grounds. Columbus 1819 ship figurehead described. A coast survey crew saves a distressed diver at Cape Cod. Counterfeit currency outbreak spreads from St Louis to Tennessee and Alabama, with hundreds involved. Authorities, led by Charles Anchisi, arrest multiple suspects. large sums seized. St Louis as likely HQ. Mercy of the public and merchants disturbed by fake notes.
A young man who settled near Toronto and brought a fiancée to Montreal for their wedding watched as she secretly married a coachman at a picnic. He had invited her from home and awaited her arrival, only to learn of the elopement and return home wiser and more fortunate for the escape.
Seven players contributed as St. Louis claimed a close victory in a hard fought game. Key plays by multiple teammates highlighted a balanced effort, securing the win in a competitive contest.
In a Detroit court a harsh exchange unfolds as an 8 man of forty, filthy and ragged, stands before the bar. The judge names Henry Jackson and taunts the loafer, calling him the meanest looking vagrant and threatening long punishment for laziness. The debtor protests no work or money, while the court scolds his idle life and hints at a severe penalty if he does not depart after his sentence ends.
Four men rode to a Huntington bank in daylight and entered the building. They pressed revolvers to the cashier’s head, forced the drawer open, and made off with about fifteen thousand dollars. A bystander was threatened, and pursuit followed, but the robbers vanished. The cashier had just credited himself with 87.60, which they noted. The incident caused great townwide excitement as residents armed for a chase.
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