Description
This download contains abstracts from The Moline Review, 1877 and The Moline Review Dispatch, January-October 1891 and January-December 1894, Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois; 303 pages.
In addition to vital records Janet Pease included in this volume references to local events, visits from out of town visitors, and house and barn burnings.
From The Moline Review, May 4, 1877
Geneseo, Henry County: the Geneseo House owned by I.S.Hutchins (who had earlier purchased it from Abram Miller) burned May 1st. Hutchins previously was the landlord of the Island City Hotel in Rock Island. Ira and C.B. Miller worked to save the structure, but did not succeed. Miss Ada Miller’s piano was burned. Burd. Miller rescued James Day from the flames.
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