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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1884
Page
4
Health advice touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and other remedies, claiming Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup relieves teething pain, calms infants, and cures teething diarrhea, wind colic, and stomach issues. Advertises price in cents per bottle and sale through the works.
Young men are urged to send for a thirty day trial of the celebrated V oltue Belt and other electric appliances from the Voltue Belt Co of Mars ter. The offer targets nervous debility vitality rheumatism neuralgia paralysis and related ailments claiming complete restoration to health and vigor with a 30 day risk free trial and illustrated pamphlet.
Pills often precede a sense of weight in the back and lower abdomen with indigestion symptoms. Moisture and itching follow warming, and piles itch and bleed until Mr. Bosanko's Pile Remedy is applied. It absorbs tumors and relieves itching with a claimed permanent cure. Price 50 cents. Address The Dr Bosanke Medicine Co Piqua O Behl by HP Monroc.
Mixed old advertisements describe Wheeler Parlors on Center Street near the post office offering Shaving hairdressing and ladies and children hair dressing. Also references about cigars poultry lard lime and cement goods and Shilohs catarrh remedy with Lyons Bros and J Harper.
Erie store ads occupy this clipping with notices of millinery hosiery and underwear goods, repairs, and low prices at Buffalo One Price Clothing. Local civic notes mention public school reopening, voter registry scrutiny, and a temperance excursion to Buffalo drawing hundreds. Also included are brief items on street shade trimming, county fair preparations, and political rally remarks featuring Eugene Cary.
A scrambled locality note records visits and movements of residents: Mr A Richards of Forestville and H Burgess Blom of Forestville registered at local hotels. John Stain of Corry and MM Boyle of Hamilton Gat at the Erie. Joshias Pickard of Sinclairville and I TM Akenly of Friendship attend Mrs Pied Drives. Lin Cronkhile and Miss Janie Patterson recently from Poughkeepsie return home. BP Adams resumes preaching after a brief trip. Mr Ho if Perkins, former station agent, now Buffalo, in town briefly. Ducks are said to be numerous this fall.
All Dunkirk public school teachers are summoned to assemble at Uae Academy on Saturday August 20 for a meeting led by M J W Bascock. The notice is dated Dunkirk August 27, 1934.
Local items report the Vermont Station Free Methodist seminary term opening in September, a county court session in Fredonia before Judge Lambert on Sept 1, and a Chautauqua excursion tally. It notes bank matters at Phelps, a rifle injury, elopement fallout, a New York Republican outlook, a child’s death from a toppled pole, and Confederate era veteran encampment plans.
George Chaincy, new convert to Spiritualism, gave a lecture titled The Sphynx after opening with Whitman’s Leaves of Cross. He argued against oppressors of widows and orphans and urged morality through spiritual belief, condemning alcohol and tobacco, and stressing self-responsibility over distant judgment. The talk praised modesty, condemned hypocrisy, and received hearty applause. Detailing notes and date: Grarito, Aug 27.
A letter to the Indianapolis Times from William M. Johnson of Dallas Texas defends Mrs Blaine and Mr Blaine against a circulated slander tied to James G Blaine and Miss Harriet Stanwood. Johnson calls the rumor false and malicious and details his long acquaintance with the Blaine family and Miss Stanwood.
While reading at his home in Franklin Pennsylvania on Tuesday attorney F D Kinnear suddenly collapsed and became unconscious. A medical exam showed paralysis on his right side and he remains in a precarious condition with doubt about recovery.
An old advertisement asserts Wells Health Renewer cures palpitation dropsical swellings dizziness indigestion headache and sleeplessness. The claim emphasizes comprehensive relief from multiple chronic symptoms through the remedy.
Free distribution of sample bottles of Dr. Blankets Cough and Lung Syrup advertised. The syrup, promoted as a remedy for coughs, colds, consumption and bronchitis, is highlighted as the store’s popular offer with regular sizes priced 59 and 100.
Receipts given. Money refunded if orders are lost. Sold at all offices of the Co. Payable at 6,300 prices. Rates to 95 08. SUse. B 10e 890 196. $40 Fe. 90 26 120.
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