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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1884
Page
2
A scattered OCR fragment mentions Washington ladies disliking Mgr Capel over marriage, a religious exchange noting fewer theological students, Davis honoring Mrs Dorsey at Natchez, and a new flower named Confederate Roach. It references editors wanting Sailor Chandler and Mrs Logan for president, a Fire Dept. in Ohio, and political figures like J C Haggett and Toombs with obituaries of Garrison and Phillips.
A lively sketch notes John Sherman’s modesty amid presidential rumors while Hesey B. Payse is framed as a late entrant over seventy. It questions Tilden's relevance, mentions an absent funeral, and toys with Harrison and Butteray as a ticket, all amid satirical city rivalries in Boston and Chicago.
A San Francisco possum note reports Bishop Kip meeting a baker after New Year. The baker jokes that bakers were tipsy, while the bishop notes there is no service the day after New Year’s. The exchange pokes lightheartedly at pious readers.
A Scientific American note on yeast fermentation explains alcohol forms in dough and a London firm once tried to extract it for profit. Modest oven changes could yield alcohol without harming bread’s taste, but teetotalers warn bakers may also run a still in backyards.
A long critique of the so called sensitive class from 1884 urges selflessness over self admiration. It condemns youths who view sensitiveness as virtue and calls for forgetting self to focus on others, developing benevolence and humility in social life.
The Bradford water works contract is let to Messrs Coon and Mooney of Kingston for 53455.40 dollars. Engineer George T. Keith of Olean will supervise construction at 230 dollars monthly plus expenses. Tarport floods force 25 families to seek high ground as the town shows 16 feet of water rise.
A compendium of Broadway and touring news noting Bret Harte kin in Boucicault’s troupe, Irving’s receipts, disbanded Richard Mansfield Company, Fred Warde adding The Gladiator, Carrie Swain’s script, Mils in London, Boucicault Australia tour, Madison Square revival plans, Gilbert Sullivan opera Princess Ida, Rose Coghlan’s engagement, numerous company closures, harsh Philadelphia press on Cooke’s Corners, Miss Expen Teeny’s media presence, a suicide case in Erie, Mag Grubb renamed Marc Stewart, New York drama slate, and C R Gardner’s attack on Sara Women’s Heart theater.
Cleveland and Chicago markets show firming prices across flour, wheat, corn and pork. Reports indicate gains in winter and spring wheat, cash and futures mixed, with steady demand for livestock trade and steady to higher cash prices for meats and oats.
The report describes an all new passenger equipment for the line with modern safety appliances for safe travel. It notes trains arriving at and departing from Union Depot Chicago on Van Buren street with a schedule effective December 1st until further notice at Racmor.
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