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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1885
Page
3
A dynamite blast near Somerset Pennsylvania on Wednesday afternoon killed two men and injured three. Other late items report a series of shocks and incidents across the country including deaths, suspicions, and business woes.
A four story frame building at Wrest Fifty third Street owned by Mrs Van Veehten burned after eleven yesterday causing about 40000 dollars in furniture jewelry and dresses to burn and ten thousand dollars in damages to the building Alice McMahon escaped by crawling along window ledges to a nearby house and fainted upon rescue. The incident is followed by a series of brief notes on elopement Burns at Ft Wayne and other city affairs including Lacombe reappointment and a jailbreak in Emeranton with a 10000 dollar reward.
Noueat Rappaquah at Sulphur Springs knows Miss Scamper, a modest modern young woman traveling with an old gentleman. Didymus Dodd, a Philadelphia insurer and potential suitor, grows infatuated as Miss Scamper displays musical talent and independence. The scene centers on social maneuvering around a planned match and the newcomer’s charm amid a wealth-inclined resort crowd.
Reports from New York Cleveland Cincinnati and Toledo show flour, wheat, corn, oats, pork, lard, and beef futures and cash prices. Prices vary by city with Kansas, Minnesota, and Michigan wheat quoted, and hogs and cattle selling mixed.
An 19th century style notice promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children claiming it relieves pain and cures dysentery and diarrhoea among other benefits. It touts a pleasant taste and lists price five cents per bottle. A separate item references hotel clerk Frisbey of Sherman House denying a lease rumor.
An advertisement touts Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy as absorbing tumors easing itching and promising a permanent cure with direct action on affected parts. Priced at 60 cents, the medicine is sold by H P Monroe in Piqua. The Randolph Courant editor mocks February having four solid weeks and asks schoolchildren to compute when it repeats.
A collage of old advertisements and notes includes claims for a Voltaic Belt Co therapy, tonic cures, and medical endorsements. It mentions a Warren County directory project, a $50,000 library gift, Wells health products, Rough On series cures, a fire department fund, and local newspaper staff changes. It also notes a Meadeville Tribune quip about a cat and a masquerade play, plus barber shop styling, poultry trade, and local business promos.
A letter from Renney of Fredonia New Hampshire extols Dr Fenner s Blood Sliver Remedy and Nerve Tone for long nervous asthma and dyspepsia. The writer praises the tonic as a great health restorer and credits the inventor as a public benefactor.
An advertisement letter from C A Track to Dr M M Fenner of Fredonia NY requests two more bottles of Blood and Kidney remedies. It extols Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy plus Nerve Tonic for a wide range of conditions including biliousness headaches eruptions and nervous debility. Also promotes Dr Fenner's Kidney and Back Ache Cure and claims universal use and efficacy via H P Monroe of Dunkirk.
For sale a 46 acre Denkirk farm in good cultivation with stock, implements, and furniture. Includes residence, large barn with stables for five horses and ten cattle, pig yard, yards, running water, lofts, cellars, corn crib, heated hennery, and outbuildings. Watered by two streams and pond, 120 tree orchard, clover and timothy, vegetables, pasturage, new wire fence. Price 25000 with 2500 cash and mortgage terms. Eight adjoining acres available cheap. Contact the office with directions.
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