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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1885
Page
3
The readable fragment describes a handsome clever reformer left in shadow, implying a dramatic concealment of identity during a pivotal moment. No dates or places are provided beyond the characterful description.
Mrs. Nicholson fears her crying baby will go unheard as nurse has left and her husband John is told only to ring a bell for cook. The couple quarrels and reconciles over Charles the husband, Emmy the baby, and the astronomer’s manuscripts. A sunlit scene ends with a tender parting and a quiet, midsummer mood.
Mrs. Nicholson confronts John about a missing infant after a memory-haunted scene. John denies touching the child but recalls a distant crying as Agatha recalls Emmy’s baby. The couple wanders through memory, rumination, and accusation, ending with the note to continue tomorrow.
For sale a 46 acre Dunkirk farm within the city on Lake Road to Buffalo. Includes residence, large barn for five horses and ten cattle, pig sty, outbuildings, two water streams, a pond, 130 tree orchard, clover and Timothy, vegetable garden, and barb wire fencing since 1884. Price 5000 dollars with 2500 cash and mortgage balance. adjoining eight acres available cheap. Call or address this office.
New York January reports a steady money market and firm government securities. Wheat and corn futures show mixed movement with prices near prior closes while beef, pork, and lamb markets in Chicago and surrounding areas reflect modest gains in select categories. Overall, trade activity remains cautious with bankers’ rates steady and currency exchanges stable.
Miscellaneous item notes weekly correction and references to Hominten and Yer.
Special notices touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething relief and universal cure claims. Claims it soothes infants, treats dysentery and diarrhea, regulates stomach bowels, relieves wind colic, softens the gums, and energizes the system. Price 25 cents per bottle and sold by all druggists worldwide.
A dated medical advertisement touts Josanko's Pile Remedy for hemorrhoids with symptoms like back and abdominal weight, indigestion, and itching. It claims absorption of tumors and permanent cure at 50 cents, via The Dr. Bosanko Medicine Co. in Piqua Ohio, sold locally. Also notes the death of John Crosgrove, a respected farmer in Ripley, Friday at advanced age.
An advertisement from Marshall Michigan’s Voltaic Belt Co offers to send their Elecmo Vorra to Barr and other electric apparatus users for thirty days trials to men and women with nervous debility, loss of vitality, rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis, and related ailments. Complete health restoration guaranteed with no risk. Also notes a local Kennedy mill burglary where a padlock was broken but the safe withstood entry.
Public notice reports a free distribution of sample bottles of Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup touted as a remedy for coughs colds consumption and bronchitis now offered in regular sizes priced 50 and 100. Jamestown water purity is claimed to be higher than six months ago and a movement to use it is expected to begin this year.
A garbled trade and local notices item mentions Wells Health Renewer and Rough on Toothache with claims of instant neuralgia and toothache relief. It notes Devon cattle breeding in East Bethany and a poetry-like catalog of cures. A bank cashier’s paralysis, a fire at Phoenix sash works, and local barber offerings appear among scattered notices and thefts, measles transport mishaps, and shop ads.
A customer from Fredonia Testifies to Dr Fenner Blood Liver Remedy and Nerve Tone restoring health after years of nervous tension and dyspepsia. He credits the remedy and the physician as a public benefactor.
An old advertisement touts Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic claiming the product cleanses the blood relieves biliousness constipation headaches and skin ailments cures fevers pimples and bad breath and soothes nerves It also promotes Dr Fenner's Kidney and Back Ache Cure for kidney bladder urinary issues and heart rheumatism and lists J P Monroe of Dunkirk as a dealer
Trains depart and arrive at Exchange Street and Louisiana Street Buffalo with standard time. New York and New England Express 8:50 am daily except Sunday. Fast Day Express with Pullman cars to New York 10:00 am daily. Rochester Local 4:05 pm daily except Sunday. Atlantic Express to New York and Boston with Port mains cars. St Louis Express to New York with Buffet cars. Trains toward Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge at 6:46 am 12:05 pm and 1:35 pm. Arrivals from Niagara Falls 9:40 am 5:00 pm 9:55 pm. Tickets and information at No 5 Exchange and at city offices. Henry Mont General Passenger Agent Buffalo and New York agents.
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