Saturday Evening Observer sample readers seek verdict
A long note promotes the Saturday Evening Observer as a three cent Sunday paper offering broad home and general news, telegraphic services, and affordable reading. It boasts extensive dispatches from over forty five places, local and national items, and claims to outpace or rival city papers in quality and quantity.
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Arthur faction battles for delegates in Cattaraugus and Allegany
Intriguing political letter dated Salamanca critiques Edelman era maneuvers and details Arthur campaign activity across Cattaraugus and Allegany counties. It lists local supporters and opponents including Vedder Bradley Johnson Cox Shalliea Laidlaw Napier and Oaks. mentions Van Aernam Brewer Ward and Judge Scott as figures in the shuffle.
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Chicago
Serious Thoughts for Sab Bath Reading Card
Series of aphorisms on courage beauty and character from La Rochefoucauld Addison Garfield and Emerson juxtapose virtue and human flaws. Notes on sincerity, restraint, illustration, and the power of example. Ends with a reflection on truth and memory.
Quotations on religion and virtue from 19th century authors
The fragment presents a series of moral maxims and short quotes attributed to James Russell Lowell T Adams J Foster and Tryan Edwards. It contrasts humility in seeking Christ with the duty to strive and the law of requittal. The tone is reflective, emphasizing faith works temper holiness obedience and benevolence.
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Latest Fashion Notes for Ladies of Spring Parasol Styles
The article outlines spring and summer fashion trends for women including parasols like the Robinson Crusoe, sage green dress goods and bonnets, increased veiling, puffed velvet bindings on bonnets and hats, bordered net veils, chenille dots, real lace veils priced at two dollars, and tailor-cut suits in dark blues, browns, tans, and grays. It notes gilded feathers, gilt beads, colored gimps on chambery dresses for children, and a new guard cap made of lace or fancy straw trimmed with feathers. It mentions towels, button boots with fine cloth tops, house shoes with high heels, and new bonnet garni ture ornaments like lady apples and spiky gold accents. It covers ginghams, shoulder capes with white embroidery, wash goods such as batiste and voile, plan for large gingham suits, and decorative patterns for both ladies and children.
Salicyline Cures Rheumatism in Letter Ad
A letter from Fat Brook Pennsylvania dated April 4 1883 reports relief from rheumatism after using two bottles of Salicyline. The writer claims full recovery and return to work. The ad notes sales through druggists at 50 cents and lists Monroe Dunkirk NY as an agent.
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Fletcher of Jamestown Mail Service Discovery
Charles BE Fletcher of Jamestown is noted in an unsigned snippet about mail service delays and routine postal work. The brief mentions efforts to improve delivery, with a hint of frustration or challenge in the Kent run and related clerical tasks.
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Trade and Labor Across States and Unions
The piece reports ongoing moulders’ strike in Cincinnati and new union actions. It notes Chicago hotel and restaurant workers forming protective groups, Reading Pa foundry starting with 45 moulders, and efforts to reorganize the National Miners Union with an April Pittsburg meeting. It mentions increases in salaries for a state labor official, a New York cigarmakers circular against Stratton and Storm, and Ohio’s penitentiary bill abolishing the contract system with state employment of prisoners to minimize disruption to free labor.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ohio
Romantic Love Affair in Court Leads to Marriage
A Baltimore romance ended in a wedding at the Baltimore Court Room yesterday. Miss Mani Caldwell, daughter of physician John Caldwell, wed L. Barreda Turner, son of Robert Turner, amid jury intrigue from a celebrated will case. Turner denied influence from Caldwell as witnesses testified to flirtation and notes passed in court. The judge denied a new trial. the couple’s union follows the trial atmosphere and public ardor surrounding the affair.
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William Riley's Grime Revealed in Minnesota Father Murder
Grand Jury in Washington Minnesota indicts sixteen year old William Riley for first degree murder of his father near Adrian. Sister Mary Riley thirteen is charged as accessory after the fact. Details describe a brutal plan and concealment in a haystack after the gunshot fatality.
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Piri
Jett
Second Assembly District Republican Convention Notice
The Republican Electors of the Second Assembly district Chantaugua county are urged to send delegates to Teed's Hall Sinclairville for a convention Saturday April 12 188 for the purpose of electing five delegates and alternates to the Republican State Convention to be held at Wien on Wednesday April nd for other business. Clark Cummings a farmer in Cherry Creek died suddenly Wednesday morning. His wife heard a gurgling sound at daylight and found him dead. An autopsy found clots of blood in the brain. Mr Cum mings was about fifty years old.
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