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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1884
Page
3
The article notes Singer Machines dominating the awards for sewing machines in a Chicago relief effort. It questions why other manufacturers were ignored and if their sales refused service, prompting 2945 applicants to receive machines. 2427 chose Singer while 517 distributed others.
Telegraph dispatches report rising cholera deaths in multiple ports. Dr Koch confirms the disease is Asiatic from the East, warns of its spread to Germany and beyond, and notes fumigation is ineffective. Other items mention Langson affair tensions with China, naval movements, and local notices.
The article reports Bolivian Chilean talks on a truce at Valparaiso, Bolivian Congress to decide President with Asce and Vachico, and Peru Chilian war impacts. It notes Iglesias and Caceres factions shaping governance, evacuations, unrest in Cuzco and Arequipa, and a call for volunteers amid border tensions and shifting cabinets. It names officials like Gregorio Ielayze, Lorenzo Iglesias, Caceres, and Quimper, plus locations Cajamarca, Trujillo, Huancayo, Cuzco, Arequipa, and Lake Titicaca.
Panamanian city of Panama battles crime and arson amid canal works. Jamaican and Carthagenian factions clash as police and soldiers patrol nightly. Riots wounded several. violence looms with a large canal labor force, fearing further bloodshed and possible foreign intervention. England and France watch closely. tensions echo past Matachin unrest.
A courier brings word of Mexicans disguised as Indians raiding Abbott and Duke's ranch fifty miles south, killing two herders as camp guards abandon the site. In North Frontenac a tramp rapes Miss Clow. In McKeesport a fight ends with Freseli killing Paponti. Other notes report a banker’s assignment and Aaron A. Sargent’s arrival.
An advertisement proclaims Dr Fenner's Kidney and Back Ache Cure as the most successful remedy for kidney bladder urinary issues back ache dropsy female weaknesses nervous debility heart disease and rheumatism. It promotes the memorandum book Dr Fenner's People's Remedies used worldwide and lists £1 P Monroe Dunkirk as the dealer.
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