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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1884
Page
4
A terse historical notice records movements at Fredonia with entries showing arrival and departure times and codes. The fragment lists 620 aMa 19750 GIS MI DEPART Si40 4 ML Pte 545 ym as part of travel or muster notation, reflecting a structured military or civil movement record.
Washington observation reports generally fair weather over the Lower Lakes with local showers in the western portion and a slight rise in temperature.
An ad touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as pure and delightful. It notes a supply of 400 doses priced at $1.00 each, urging readers to obtain the divisible health tonic.
Distressed mothers urged to send for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething and colic relief. Claims immediate comfort for sick children, regulating stomachs, easing bowels, and reducing inflammation. Endorsed as a trusted historic remedy by a renowned female nurse and physician, sold by druggists worldwide.
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers an electro voltaic belt and electric treatments for nervous debility, loss of vitality, and related conditions with a thirty day trial and full restoration guarantee. Also advertised are grooming services, poultry and meats, and various local goods from Lyon Bros and others. The ad highlights multiple products and services with emphasis on health cure claims and trial terms.
An old classified ad lists items like lime, sewer pipe, drain tile, fire brick, clay plaster Paris land plaster and hair, phosphates, and more at Hamilton's Coal Found at Eagle and W three streets. It promotes Stubb's Cure with immediate relief and a 10 cent price, noting sales by Lyon Bros and J. Super.
An ad notes special attention to ladies hair dressing and trimming of bangs at Wheeler Bros barber shop on Center St. The page also lists Shiloits Catarrh Remedy as a cure of catarrh diphtheria and canker mouth for sale by Lyon Bros and J Marper.
Money orders available at all offices of the company with receipts and refund policy if orders are lost. Payable at 6,500 locations with rates to $5.50, $2.10 for $30.12, and other listed charge amounts. References to suspicious or nonstandard text omitted.
A long list shows the Lake Shore Railroad Company disburses 485000 to its employees each month. Reports from Dunkirk note sizable attendance at a polo game and a Germania excursion on the 13th. The German Catholic school opens on Second Street with a three story building not yet ready. A night blooming cereus display opens at Edwards & Co greenhouses. St Johns Lutheran picnic is planned at Halfway House Grove weather permitting. A street faker on Second and Center warns about dental topics. Freight on the Erie improves signaling financial distress may be easing. Levy's advertises new hats with engravings and Cleveland or Plain styles. A resident adds a third story to his home on West Second. The ML Sunday School plans a picnic at Lily Dale with reduced train fares for children. Rev. W. Palmer preaches at First Baptist. attendance large. Ground trip Lily Dale excursion trains are filled.
Fragments from a Dunkirk column list named residents visiting relatives in Jamestown Rochester and Buffalo. It notes travel to Chautauqua Lake and Georgian Bay, returns from New York City, and a death prompting business closure. A steamer excursion with a 2.30 p.m. departure is advertised for Lake Erie.
Dunkirk met a small traveling club at Point Chautauqua for a lively polo match. Local players included EL C. Perry, L. Cary, Win. Ley, WL 7. Smith, FL Van Devort, Le Var Burea, Butt Stanley, McVouait, Lyle, and Clarvin. The game opened with a Dunkirk goal and ended with a cathedral of cheers as the visitors pressed hard. A meeting is planned for next Tuesday with talk of another game and details released by the Freight Office.
Fire at the Pur est Avenue dwelling of Theodore Z Root last evening caused major upper story destruction and partial flooding of the lower sections. Fire Chief C E Jones led crews to save valuables despite delays from distant water lines. A separate note fronts Hazeltine murder case with counsel W Hollingworth Whyte reporting the defendant appears calm ahead of September term.
A medley of local items reports fires in Mendville, liquor worries in Forestville, a club election in Chautauqua, and a 12 year old’s referral to refuge in Rochester. The Medina Times suspends briefly. editor G. D. Squires camps on the Edward Hanian. A nearly 100 year old resident near Stafford nears her centennial, and a Harmony township man survives a runaway horse incident. Washington orders restoration of the Eric harbor light, amid Brainerd’s bill. The Howell divorce case in Batavia may reveal new witnesses from Rochester, tied to Denison Lynch’s murder case.
Lake Chautauqua season shows light crowds due to cool weather and scarce funds. Grand Hotel near full, lectures by Phy Ravert Burdette praised, Alice Lathrop admired, Chautauqua praised for air and order while asserting entertainment quality varies with speakers and theatre shows.
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