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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1885
Page
3
The piece extols a German luminous wallpaper claim as a household boon, arguing it could illuminate nurseries hallways and bedrooms, ease nightly routines, reduce lighting needs and even prevent awkwardly lit domestic mishaps, while noting humorous social consequences and broader quotes on empire and manners.
In Cameroons the German agent Pattanus was captured and held as hostage. He was beheaded as bombardment began after a casualty among civilians. London police honor a brave act to stop a dynamite blast in Westminster Hall. Debris cleared at the White Tower, with fears of further attacks. Attacks prompt heavy security and Irish National League meetings denounce dynamiters.
A stitched news digest noting diverse items from January including Rev Charles Hamilton elected Bishop of Niagara after Bishop Fuller’s death. Mentions Arctic veteran Chief Engineer Melville seeking Arctic work. Wells in Butler Pa report thirty feet deep sand and one hundred barrels per hour. Tennessee sails for Havana. no filibuster traces. Hong Kong governor instructs French vessels coal loading to Saigon. National Board of Trade met in Washington. Frederick Fraley re-elected president. New York Senate bill on labeling liquor containers to prevent adulteration. Rafferty & Co. confess judgments totalling $20,250 to John D. McKenna. Silver Convention held in Denver with 1,400 delegates. Funeral of Mrs Francis J Danforth in Rochester with Court of Appeals attending. Whisky Pool in Cincinnati assigns five cents daily for debts. price of whisky up two cents per gallon. Kansas Boomers rumors persist amid doubt of engagement before March 4. Earl y, Lawrence, and Pittsburgh items note marriages and illnesses, including sickness in Bunker Hill from sour wine and frozen potatoes.
Financial notes from New York and Cleveland on January markets show money and mercantile rates, wheat and flour futures, oats, corn, and livestock prices with activity in butter, pork, lard, and wool. Regional summaries cover Cincinnati, Toledo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh price levels and trading tone for grains, meats, and textiles.
A fragmented OCR sports column fragment mentions Dunekire Mareets and corrected weekly features under a miscellaneous heading. Names and details are incomplete, with garbled spellings and unclear context. The readable bits suggest a recurring weekly sport or feature section with minor editor notes.
Special notices warn of teething ailments and promote Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup with claims of curing dysentery and diarrhea. Also reports Chosanko’s Pile Remedy and Bosanko Medicine Co advertisements. Chas. F. Peek retires leaving W H Greenhow as editor of the Holweniaville Tribune. A Tangent notes a Gingle mill on Tonsawanda Creek burned, loss $6,000 with $5,000 insurance.
An array of tonic and health claims appears from a Marshall Michigan firm offering thirty day trials of Electric Votrai Ber and other appliances for nervous debility, vitality loss, rheumatism, and related ailments with a health restoration guarantee.
A customer from Fredonia credits Dr Fenner s Blood Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic with curing years of nervous irritation and dyspepsia after trying two bottles. The testimonial hails the remedy as the greatest of the age and a public benefactor.
A New York Tribune notice requests two bottles of Dr. Fenner’s Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic for a wife’s improvement. The ad touts cures for biliousness constipation headaches pimples skin diseases and nerve weakness along with a kidney and back ache cure. It promotes memorandum books and claims worldwide use and lists H P Monroe of Dunkirk as a seller.
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