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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1885
Page
2
The text warns readers that items from trusted correspondents will be received via private wire to the telephone exchange. It urges timely delivery by ten o'clock morning for game day underwriting and notes that stoppages or substitutions must be reported directly to the office. MONDAY APRIL 27 1885.
The premium list for the State fair will be larger this year with entries closing August 10. Restrictions limit exhibitors to four cattle entries and fowls must be shown in pairs or breeding pens. Prizes for various cattle breeds include gold medals and substantial cash awards. premiums cover sheep swine horses bees and domestic manufactures with liberal allotments. A general list of notices follows including birthdays and shipping statistics from 1884 and various political and cultural items.
A jumble of short items reports church attendance opinions in Boston, payroll rises for the treasury clerk, Honolulu newspapers, Protestant anniversary plans in Massachusetts, Kentucky navigation comments, Sweden neutrality, a Yonkers conservatory, Lexington horse sale results, Franco-Chinese tensions, and various local curiosities. Also mentioned are gifts, political reforms, and grain stock figures from Chicago.
A survey of sensational claims describes mountains of hematite iron, coal beds, lakes of soda, and a huge petroleum basin in Wyoming. Other items include a mock American church congress, a checkerboard puzzle, California trade figures, a Treasury cash count plan, and a rice cup dessert with currant jelly.
A 1535 bulletin from the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva analyzes wet feed and dry feed by products from starch and glucose factories. It explains that these materials vary by manufacturer, describe their appearance and preservation, and caution against relying on them as sole feed. The report notes high albuminoid content and the need for careful feeding to avoid satiety and reduced milk output.
On and after Monday Nov 17, intercity cars on this road run by New York lines. Leave Fredonia at 6:45 7:35 8:10 9:00 1:54 4:31 5:15 4:50 and Opie Fo. Leave Daykirk 6:20 6:25 9:09 11:04 noon 2:00 3:50 6:00 7:35 pm. Sunday departures include Fredonia 9:16 12:54 1:11 15 4:80 and 6:00 pm. Dunkirk 10:15 am 12:20 2:10 6:00 and 7:30 pm. Elmes Wheelock, Sup.
Local items report the New York Lake Erie and Western Railroad adopting a timetable or treaty tabre on November 24, 1868, as part of the line’s schedule changes and operations.
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