Moline Daily Dispatch History

Moline Daily Dispatch - The First Edition

Velie Made Luxury Cars and The Plantation - Now a Bank

Velie Helper

John Sears Put the Mill in Moline - And the Black Squirrels in the Trees

Ol' Muddy

The 1965 Flood - Dispatch

Harned Von Maur - Early Ad in the Dispatch

Families Shaped the Dispatch

Dispatch - The First 100 Years

Dispatch - Early Crew

Dispatch Building

Prairie Soil

John Deere Found a Better Site - Moline

Mrs. Butterworth - Familiar Names

Moline Dispatch - Behind the Scenes

Moline Dispatch - Battered Beat

John Baker - Our Medal of Honor Winner

Moments Perserved by the Moline Daily Dispatch

Photo features in the Dispatch made us a closer community.

We made fun of our local paper, but a lot of us delivered it at one time or another. One of the best ways to have walking around money was to have a paper route.

Does anyone remember the stack of newspapers delivered with a loud whack!, the folding of the papers for good tossing, and the canvas bag for holding them?

In bad weather, Mom or Dad might drive the route and help deliver the papers.

Collecting the subscription one week at a time was a normal procedure. If the family was not home, the paperboy came back another time.

The reward at one newspaper was better than cash. The boys who turned in their money got to pick out free comic books (minus their covers).

I made my first fortune in the baking business: washing pans, sugaring doughnuts, mopping floors, hauling flour and shortening to the basement and from the basement.