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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1885
Page
3
The Canton district expelled the bishop and thirty missionaries amid the latest late news items. Other updates include political nominations, trials, and cultural notices from across the United States, with brief mentions of deaths, bills, and civic actions.
Des Morsis Iowa January 17. Oskaloosa city council unanimously backed a resolution declaring prohibition a failure and detriment to city interests, urging repeal and a special legislative session for a strict license law. Brookers January 20 Rankin Post G A R endorsed retirement bill for General Grant and urged veterans to push passage in the House.
In western Quebec the Crown Lands notice threatens eviction of many Gatineau settlers, cancelling patents and offering property to bidders. A settlers league forms amid fears of forced resistance to any adjunction.
A Baltimore Street scene recounts a peddler selling small sticks of sodium as a supposed magic device. Crowds bought the errant novelty, leading to burns, damaged clothing, and several prankish misadventures. Victims describe injuries while detectives weigh action against the street vendor.
Winter attire in the Adirondacks features scarlet and woolen layers for warmth and visibility. Street cars in St Paul employ small front stoves but suffer rear-door drafts. A clipped note from Arkansaw Traveler hints at dialect humor, while an advert invites subscriptions to the Evmane Onemarze.
The report covers New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati and Cincinnati markets. It lists flour, wheat and corn prices, oats, rye, and lard values, with rail and river exchanges noted. Livestock and wool markets show firmer or unchanged tendencies, with specific bid and ask ranges and regional variations.
Erroneous OCR fragment mentions Dunkirk markets and a corrected weekly report with unclear names including Alomitizon. The readable text hints at a commerce/market note published by the FakmMror and OBSERVER, but specifics are not clear. The item preserves a period-appropriate briefing tone.
SPECIAL NOTICES. Are you disturbed at eight and broken of your rest by a sick child crying with pain of cutting teeth The bottle promises immediate relief and cure for crying and diarrhoea regulates stomach and bowels and tones the system It is sold by druggists worldwide Price 25 cents Also a local rumor denial about Frishey lease of the Sherman house in this city.
Piles remedy claims to absorb tumors and cure itching by acting on affected parts. Advertisement notes back and abdominal weight, indigestion symptoms, moisture and itching after warming, price 60 cents, address The Dr Bosanko Medicine Co Piqua. Also a local note that Straight of the Cattaraugus Times has quit tobacco and threats against selling or lending it, with his sons issuing a card.
An advertisement from the Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers a thirty day trial of the Extortro Vortai c Barr and other electric appliances to cure nervous debility loss of vitality and related ailments. It guarantees full restoration of health vigor and manhood with no risk beyond a short trial period. Also notes a humorous editor’s remark about February having four solid weeks and a call for students to calculate when it will recur.
A patchwork of health ads and local notices runs through the page. Wells Health Renewer touted for vitality. Rough on Coughs offered as cough remedy. Dr M M Fenner tends a sprained wrist. Cattaraugus County clerks named Albany winter posts. Meadvill Tribune cat weather joke and piecemeal notes on local editors, barber services, poultry and meat purveyors, and social events.
A low clarity testimonial proclaims Dr Fenner Blood Liver Remedy Nerve Tonic as a great age defining remedy. The letter-like note credits personal restoration after using two bottles and references a New York contact, framed as public benefactor praise.
An old New York Tribune ad touts Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic. It promises blood cleansing, relief from biliousness constipation headaches fevers and skin diseases. It also markets Fenner's Kidney and Back Ache Cure for kidney bladder urinary issues and other ailments. The piece notes availability from H P Monroe in Dunkirk and a memorandum book titled Dr Fenner's People's Remedies are Used all Over the World.
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