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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1885
Page
3
The California Legislature convened in Sacramento with no United States Senator vote before January 20. Speculation centers on Ex-Governor Stanford accepting a nomination, which many expect could lead to his election if he agrees to stand.
A Globe-Democrat article notes shells form major industry worldwide. Shells vary in shape color and texture and are used for horns lamps ladles boxes bangles and jewelry. Cowries fetch high prices, with Paris shell cutters and a Zanzibar trade illustrating bustling markets.
New York Times interview details stage painters tricks for glittering sets. They discuss bronze powders glossing, using glass and lacquer to imitate metals and stones, and logics made of zinc to create colored marbles and jeweled palaces. Gaslight and frosting crushed glass yield iceberg sparkle.
A Cincinnati Gazette piece mocks boyhood restraint with household logic while a New Orleans dispatch reports the Works Exposition in New York pulling in about $4 000 daily against $5 000 in expenses. Rain and a car strike hurt attendance as 800 exhibit loads still arrive and the Board of Managers reportedly borrows funds to cover immediate demands.
The report covers Wheat, Corn, Oats and Pork markets with prices from New York and Cleveland on January 5. It notes No. 2 red wheat at varying bid levels, corn and oats prices across grades, and meat values including lard and pork. Also includes wheat futures in Toledo and Cincinnati livestock updates with regional price movements and trading activity.
Duneire markets are reported for the Farmer and Unskewer and corrected weekly in the miscellaneous section by A. M. Damien.
A jumble of notices reports a Voltaic Belt Co Marshall Michigan offering a 30 day trial of their electric belt for nervous debility and vitality loss. Other items mention a Buffalo New York Philadelphia rail line appeal, cough remedy ads, forum notes on newspaper typography, and local business updates including a hotel nearing closure and barber services.
Special notices promote Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething infants claiming immediate relief from pain and a cure for dysentery and diarrhoea with stomach regulation. It notes pleasant taste and availability worldwide at 25 cents per bottle, luring mothers to buy. The second item reports Johnny Moore of Olean having his amputated foot buried, later pain relief when a twisted big toe bone was realigned.
A Bosanko Pile Remedy claims to cure internal and external piles by acting on affected parts and relieving itching. Price 50 cents, mail order from The Dr. Bosanko Medicine Co Piqua Ohio. Also reported a runaway horse belonging to James Gorton of Alabama smashed through a Batagas store window causing about $300 in damages.
Letter from Fredonia New York praises Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tunic from Dr M R L Fenner. The writer, suffering from nervous irritation, diliousness and dyspepsia, credits two bottles with a complete restoration and hails the remedy as the greatest of the age.
A New York Tribune letter from Dr. M. At Fenner in Dear Sir offers two more bottles of Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic. It extols cures for biliousness constipation headaches pimples skin eruptions and skin diseases. It also touts kidney and back ache cures and a memorandum book for sale via J. P. Monroe at Dunkirk.
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