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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1885
Page
2
The Evening Observer reports on telegraph connections and reader submissions, urges authors to include real names and addresses, and notes advertising and subscription policies. It also details legislative actions and local anecdotes, including a Cork wedding toast, a home theft and recovery, and lists notable capitalists and inventions per readers’ votes.
The St Louis Court of Appeals held that when a seller overdelivers goods, the buyer is not obliged to accept or return at his expense. If the buyer tries to return and errs by sending to a wrong address, he bears liability for misfeasance, but damages are limited to the seller’s actual loss. The jury should not be instructed that the buyer must bear return costs or that failure to return entitles the seller to the goods’ value.
A compact survey of the United Service magazine with war articles in Century, notes on military readers and Afghan conflict, plus assorted items: governors general, railroad politics, Wisconsin governor residence, a long-distance walker, cartoonish jokes about Russia buying shirts, treasury appointments, New York fruit trade, and Mediterranean produce prices.
Prof Roberts of Cornell notes superphosphate has little value in Rothamsted style trials. Across 20 years, 3 cwt per acre yearly yields a net loss after fertilizer costs, while 14 tons of manure per acre yields higher crop products but still shows substantial losses when priced against unmanured baselines. Ammonia salts with superphosphate also fail to yield net gains.
A Country Gentleman report compares fertilized versus unfertilized plots over twenty years. Highest fertilized acre yields include 61 bushels grain, 9 pounds offal, and 34 hundredweights straw. unfertilized yields reach 221 bushels grain and 49 pounds offal with 11 cwt straw. Net gains after fertilizer costs range from 3.51 to 35.96 dollars per acre.
A Pennsylvania Farmer advises early potato preparation in a backward spring. He describes selecting seed tubers Beauty of Hebron and Early Ohio, forcing sprouts indoors, and planting depth tips. He notes LeBron and Late Rose as profitable varieties and how early market advantage matters for the gardener.
Smiths Mille reports spring arrival with a cheese factory starting up to three cheeses daily. Local schooling resumes with A Misa Laughenburg as preceptress and Miss Jennie Ellis assisting. Residents include L. C. Manley back from Miles with fine horses, a draft stallion Maringo 1400 pounds, Arthur Howard ill, and visits from Harry Clark, Dr. M. M. Feaner agent Sisson, Prof. B. Eliott, Gowanda buyers. Knowlton received two carloads of phosphate last week.
A man recalls years of illness under the weather, weakened and thin, until he tried Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. He credits the remedy with restoring his vitality, lifting him from weakness and making him feel like a new man.
Forestville news items cover visiting relatives, new officers in the Methodist Sunday School, marriages, and local business. The piece notes pension matters, property moves, and shop openings, with brief items on a Florida trip, oil and gas talks in Chautauqua County, and a dairy dispute within the local Grange.
Elm er Wheeloe Sap lists bus times from Fredonia and Dunkirk starting Monday November 17 1984 with multiple departures through the day. Times include morning and afternoon runs, approximate routes via NY labels like 645 7:26 9:10 3:50 and 6 20 0. The note appears as a transport guide entry with scattered digits and names.
A notice dated November 24 details actions by the New York Lake Erie and Western Railroad affecting the Thomas Table. The document records adjustments to certain financial or corporate arrangements, with official approval and a specified effective date.
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