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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1884
Page
2
The report notes a campaign in Chicago aimed at ending the practice of granting facile divorces. It cites rising public concern over divorce norms and advocates stricter standards to ensure legitimate marital dissolutions.
An Erie Observer excerpt parries a mix of local quips and reformist gripes on monopolies and wages. It discusses the Kentucky whisky mystery at a state insane asylum, tariff-induced hardship in Lehigh and Berks mines, and Catholic views on Bishop William O Hara. It then shifts to Delmonico property talk in New York, detailing a 1948 consecration, a Delaware formation, and a venture to acquire a Delmonico charter with limited initial activity.
A thin woman speaks at a church session about renouncing the world and the devil to become a Christian. She declines complete renunciation, joking she would rather join a sideshow than become a living skeleton. The elder presses for a total change of life, and she exits the room.
A weary photographer discusses capturing infants and dogs on film. He notes babies resist expressions while dogs, especially pugs, often pose easily. Italian greyhounds prove the hardest, unable to keep still as the photographer labors to achieve a satisfactory likeness.
A Philadelphia Press summary reports Lemuel Thomas a sixty year old carpenter who impersonated the savior at a Jenkin town supper. After the feast he grew weak and died of paralysis of the heart three days later, sparking belief the death was divine punishment or a bodily reaction to the mock rite.
Mr T R Allinson writes to the Times detailing his month long experiment to feed the poor cheaply in London. He avoided flesh milk and tea and lived on a sixpence daily diet of porridge bread cocoa vegetable dishes and fruit with weight gains reported.
Trade and commerce notes from Cleveland and Cincinnati detail flour, wheat, corn, oats, and sugar prices, with mixed railway and livestock quotes. Prices rise slightly on hogs and cattle, while bacon, lard, and bulk meats sell at steady to firm levels. regional reports cite No. 2 red wheat, No. 2 white oats, and various futures or cash figures for January and February.
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