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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1884
Page
2
The excerpt surveys presidential tickets, deaths tax data, and national finances. It cites Vanderbilt plans, Western Shore control, and New York Times politics. It notes Mexico debt, tariff debates, and Prohibition imagery, plus editorials on Blaine and Cleveland.
A Chicago dispatch reports Rev. Talmage urging a new party and possible convention, while Democrats seek to form coalitions in Iowa and Michigan to claim electoral votes for Cleveland. Rumors of fusion with Butler and Greenback forces surface, with money influencing a large floating vote and potential Republican trouble.
Our Spécial Reporter notes quiet conditions with social mentions from Thursday. Adelbert Wait moves to Jamestown Street lodge. Deputy Prentice of Sinclairville in town. Frank Davie visits Youngeville, Pa. Dr. Trood attends Buffalo races. Jay Mericle shows a Cleveland badge from a Buffalo drummer. Local business notes include D. A.V. P. R. in good shape, Smith and Wilcox selling Ireland store, Derby Beebe hay scale, and Phil laps with farm goods. Several residents travel or visit, including Nathan Richardson, Juno Patterson, and Bradleys. The Lily Dale Leaflet missed issue due to patronage.
A distant general, John A. Lagan, to visit Chautauqua this week as guest of Judge Albion Tourgee at Mayville with a Wednesday appearance. A Corry man marries a widow after two weeks says love at first sight. A Salamanes Clift incident, a revolver misfire injures girl McNally. Drilliat editor E P Demury dies by suicide in Jacksonville Florida leaving a note blaming alcohol and misery and asking forgiveness.
A brief old time remedy note touts Rough on Pain for colic cramps diarrhea and external aches including sprains headache neuralgia and rheumatism. Also claimed to cure pain of a beast. Priced at 20 cents.
New York Agricultural Experiment Station presents observations on pear blight. Inoculation with infected sap causes rapid browning and death of branches and leaves, with fruit showing extensive internal discoloration. The disease also affects quince, English hawthorn, and juneberry, and is carried by transmission between trees. Bacteria are abundant in diseased tissue under microscopic view.
B Lewis Streetevass, director, reports experiments now test how the disease partially propagates. The team seeks to determine the mode of spread with absolute certainty, asserting bacteria are the cause and ruling out rational doubt.
A scientific American letter from an inventor outlines a wind driven farming machine with large windwheel sails and a steering tiller. A 60 horsepower version could draw ten ploughs at four miles an hour, plough four acres per hour with one man, and power sowing reaping mowing threshing grinding and irrigation. It could travel ten miles per hour and carry twenty passengers with a strong breeze, and is claimed to be inexpensive to build.
The New York market ends dull with modest gains and declines across sectors. Govs close firm while bonds, currency, and wheat trade show variable activity. corn and oats rise modestly, cattle and hogs mixed. overall room for demand remains cautious amid light volume.
The Dunkirk market page lists wholesale dealers Pid Mulhallant Co and Cory & Winklesen with prices on ham bacon cod and dairy goods. Grain and feed by Cory & Winklesen include screenings cornmeal cracked corn and shorts. Dairy and country produce show butter eggs oats marrows and berries, while poultry and meats cover dressed and live fowl and mutton. Miscellaneous items and general stock are noted under a miscellaneous section.
Train timetable notices from Buffalo to Pittsburgh and connecting lines list departure and arrival times, city stops, and through coach and Pullman service. Eastern time applies, with signals at flag stations and through connections to Boston New York Albany Syracuse and other eastbound points.
The New York Chicago and St. Louis Railway reports its passenger equipment on the New Trunk Line is all new with the latest appliances for speed and comfort. At Chicago, passenger trips arrive and depart from Union Depot Van Buren street. A time change goes into effect June 3 with further notice.
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