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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1885
Page
3
A hotel steward guides readers through an immense basement pantry showing ice boxes, meat rooms, and seafood storages. He describes keeping lettuce six weeks, quail and pheasant frozen firm, and terrapins thriving in a pen, with oysters kept alive for serving later. The piece highlights catering art and meticulous preservation methods in a grand hotel setting.
Harrisburg Telegraph recounts how the phrase painting the town red spread from minstrel tours. Manager Billy Welsh attributes its origin to Campbell Hic in Buffalo who advertised aggressively for Callender’s troupe and caused rival papers to attack, with locals saying someone was painting the town red when excitement rose.
Unclean Calcutta described as the home of cholera. The British Medical Journal urges immediate sanitation, citing Jonnabagan ward with 143 people per acre, lacking drainage, as sewage-filled, overcrowded and decaying. Soil saturated with excrement, sewage chains, and swathes of filth threaten the city.
Late news items report the Canadian Minister of Agriculture declaring the Bull Telephone Company's patent valid in Canada. Other items note a New Hampshire militia school opening in Nashua, a Maryland man appealing a life sentence with March 27 execution date, a Breckenridge v Kazhis of Honor ruling for $153,009 in Cincinnati, a murder of a sect leader in Kisheieil Italia, and various local matters from Albany to Norfolk County including a Taft McKear wooden mill revival and a fatal coal mine boiler explosion near New Castle.
At noon yesterday the final ice block was placed on the palace and the British flag raised. The central tower reaches ninety six feet two inches, the palace glows with electric lights. A fancy dress show featured three plaster figures, a queen bust on a high pedestal, Snow, and Bee the skater, amid a twelve foot water fountain and prismatic lights. Fireworks, torches, and the Tuque Blue Toboggan Slide entertained as a near town fire alarm reported. In Feuos, N Y, a fire destroyed Benll's photo gallery and Wright's hardware, with losses around ninety thousand dollars and earlier fires damaging several shops during a zero degree wind.
James Chumney, wanted for second degree murder in the Lamb killing three years ago, was arrested by a detective yesterday morning in Crversgart. The motive for his return is unknown. Several other notices report a Mexico entrepreneur’s golden wedding feasts, an Indiana asylum fire, a suicide aboard a Bremen ship, conversions to Christianity in Cincinnati, General Grant’s improving condition, a fatal fire in Ashland, and a proposed water works project for North East Pennsylvania.
Financial notes from New York and Cincinnati report steady US and state securities with steady sterling exchange. Grain and livestock markets show mixed prices: wheat No 3 red at 8. No 2 grain mixed corn and oats vary, pork and beef markets firm with range in hogs and lambs, cattle and sheep prices mixed across regions.
A brief notice from the weekly Miscellaneous section lists Suneire Markets in Hamilton. The entry appears as a corrected, regional market reference with limited detail and no additional context or dates.
An appeal for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children cites its cures for dysentery diarrhea wind colic and teething pain. Also noted is Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy and a news item: H Williams' single mill on Tona Wanda Creek burned for a $6 000 loss with $5 000 insured.
Marshall Michigan firm promotes the Electric Voltaic Belt and other devices to treat nervous debility vitality loss and related ailments. Thirty day trial with full restoration promised no risk. Also notes from Ripley Justice of the Peace William B Perry fractures and a St. Louis Review endorsement of Coca Beef Tonic. A Jamestown masquerade features "The Two Orphans" with a joke about one orphan being too large to act alone.
At a Niagara County Agricultural Society meeting Geo. A. Hoyer was chosen president with R. Kill as vice president L. H. Th as secretary and John G. Freeman as treasurer. The article also notes various local notices and advertisements including Wells health products and Rough on Corns.
A reader from Fredonia endorses Dr Fenner’s Blood Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic after using two bottles to cure biliousness nervous irritation and dyspepsia. The testimonial cites endorsement from Elon Jr C Lake of the New York custom house and calls the remedy a public benefactor.
Local clipping from New Tribune New York quotes a customer letter praising Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic. The ad touts cures for biliousness constipation headaches stomach disorders fevers pimples skin eruptions bad breath and nervous weakness plus kidney and back ache cures and lists LU P Monroe Dunkirk as a dealer.
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