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The Moline Review-Dispatch.

Dispatch was started by Oliver White, the daily being a five-column folio and the weekly a six-column quarto. The paper was a neat and sprightly sheet. Mr. White continued its publication for one year and then disposed of it to Sam. Kennedy, who ran it till December, 1882, when the office passed into the hands of Fred O. Dean.

While under charge of Mr. Kennedy, the subscription list of the Review was purchased, and the two weekly papers consolidated under the name of the Review-Dispatch, and is still continued as such. The daily was enlarged by Mr Kennedy to a seven-column folio. Mr. Dean continued the publication alone of the daily and weekly until Nov. 19, 1883 , when he sold a one-half interest to Newton J. Hubbard, and its publication was continued by the firm of Dean & Hubbard. The latter lived but a short time after becoming interested in the paper, his death occurring Jan. 1, 1884. F. O. Dean then ran it alone until May 15, 1884 , when he sold to J. H. Dean.

On the 15th of March, 1885, a stock company was organized under the name of the Dean Printing Company, to whom was assigned the office and good will of the paper. F. O. Dean was managing editor under the arrangement, which continued until July 1, 1885, when the Union Printing Company of Reck Island purchased the office, and ten days after transferred it to McGlynn & Groom, who are the present publishers. These gentlemen have been connected with the local press of this county for some years, know and appreciate the wants of the community in which they live, and therefore publish a live paper, which is read with pleasure by its numerous patrons.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock Island County

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Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock Island County

Submitted by W.Caudell

Illinois Ancestors

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