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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1885
Page
2
The paper describes how news tips may be sent with full sender details as evidence of good faith. It urges correspondence authors to provide real names and addresses and notes space will be given for free public discussion. It lists advertising deadlines, subscription arrears rules, and printing orders, dated Saturday April 18 1885.
The Sanitary Protective League of New York urges a new bill requiring hotel and lodging house owners to obtain annual health certificates from city Boards of Health. Certificates ensure sanitary premises with proper plumbing, drainage, clean water, and light. Noncompliance risks damages to occupants and possible rent dismissal for tenants. the law aims to curb tenement overcrowding and garbage buildup in towns like Dunkirk. Modern urban health steps are urged, stressing cleanliness to prevent cholera next summer.
New York City angler W. W. Wood caught a 111 lb tarpon at Punta Rosa on the Gulf coast of Florida using standard gear. He also landed five tarpon, the second largest 98 lbs, during a brief stay. His feat is highlighted in The American Angler with tackle details and methods.
The notice highlights a new edition of Students' Songs with sixty songs and full music, selling for fifty cents, edited by William H. Ulls and published by Hosea King. It also advertises cookbooks by Farm and Fireside publisher Mast Crowell & Kirkpatrick and Charles E. Thorne Complete Poultry Book, noting price, postpaid availability, and practical value for households and poultry keepers.
A quixotic collection of odds and wits cites botched place names and pithy quips. Reported items include a bill on Niagara preservation passing legislature, alleged postmaster claims, polar expedition plans, society rank jokes, a Connecticut deacon’s Sunday remark, Missouri land jokes, matrimonial musings, a salacious roller skating tale, Seneca Lake steamers returning after 30 winters, funerals reform talk, and a Hudson Valley wedding of Mae Busse P. Borrme to Alfred Manning.
A New York building inspector reports 185 infractions in structures built 1879 to 1885 by Budden aick and urges immediate dismissal of the examiner who missed reporting the use of inferior materials. The item notes a wider political stir in Washington over Col. B C Boudinot’s marriage plans and various legislative actions in New York.
The text outlines a vast area resembling Texas in size with a population near that of New York. It describes strategic passes from the north and west to India, noting Russian possession could threaten western India. Herat, Afghanistan, is cited as a provincial capital at about 1,500 feet, key to western India’s land entry.
Fragmentary medical text argues scrofula is caused by underlying evil and urges addressing root causes directly. The prose references strains of disease and blood qualities, touting bold drug claims and warning of ineffective remedies.
In Forestville New York May Day 1855 was remembered as a "gals day" with a large town gathering. The event featured Ex-Queen Miss Fannie Colvill and a full pageantry including a May Pole, coronation, sceptre presentation, a banquet, and dancing. Local leaders, musicians, and organizers were praised for creating a memorable community celebration that year and long afterward.
An varied clump of medical cure claims for a vegetable tonic and a bank safe-burglary near-miss tale. A Randolph jeweler's misstep and a cashier’s near accident frame a brief reads as a mixed local row. Dr George E Clare endorses Lic Cos Beef Tonic.
M W Wagner of Macomb Michigan, mayor and stockholder in Voltaic Belt Co, operates a large stock farm adjoining the city with forty mares and a fine herd of young horses and colts. He owns celebrated stallions Blick Cloud Recorder Strathmore Jo and Comanche Chief, lauded by Wilkes Spirit of the Times and Turf Frontier for advancing Michigan breeding. N Crosby post 550 G A S lists Salamanca chapter officers led by Geo N Shedd as Commander and R D Wilcox as Surgeon among others.
On and after Monday November 17 1894 the Dunkirk and Fredonia streetcar line will run with revised times. From Fredonia departures include 5:45 7:25 8:10 9:25 11:45 1:15 4:15 4:59 and 6:09 PM. From Dunkirk departures are 6:08 8:25 9:00 11:04 AM 12:29 PM 2:00 3:50 6:00 and 7:25 PM Sundays show morning runs from Fredonia at 9:15 and 1:35 AM with additional 1 15 30 and 6 00 PM services. Elmer Wheelock initials appear.
Train listings show schedule details for MW) and No 37.4235 with westbound and eastbound runs from Hornellsville through Almond Alfred Anilover Wellsville Scio Belmont Belvidere Fiendship Cube Hinsdale Olean Angany Carrollton and Dunkirk with varied daily, Sunday exceptions and arrival times. Other trains No 21 No 10 No 1d No 9 cover additional stops and daily patterns across the Western Division.
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