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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1884
Page
7
After Hendricks secured the vice presidential nomination on Friday night the convention adjourned sine die. Thousands of citizens and visiting statesmen gathered in Chicago to celebrate with whitewashing and vermilion bands painting the town. Hotels emptied as revelers resumed daily life on Saturday morning.
In Connecticut snakes are unusually plentiful this season with entries from Panbury and North Stonington describing rattlesnake dens, copperheads, garter snakes, moccasins and black snakes. James Crawford was bitten, drank whisky, and survived. others killed fifty one rattlers in a den. Milk snakes, water snakes, and tree-nesting black snakes also feature in local reports as season advances.
A Ramage county daughter was bitten on the right hand by a copperhead years ago. Two tiny blood marks appeared then followed by swelling and illness. The snake was killed and she recovered, but every year on the anniversary of the bite the right hand swells and she grows sick again. Remedies are applied to combat the renewed symptoms, and she remains in danger this year. The case interests medical observers, as none of her children are affected.
A vivid Rochester area sketch describes Cornelius Banta's country estate with a Persian bull and a hired man. The bull turns on the man, knocks him down, then drags him by the nose ring before being restrained. A donkey joins the mischief with sheep, and the man recovers, returning to work. The piece shifts to a St Louis note on the popular "fly-loo" card game in saloons, where players wager using sugar lumps as tokens and a fly as the trigger.
A historical patent remedy claims to completely cleanse the blood and relieve biliousness constipation and headaches. It also purports to heal stomach and bowels cure fevers pimples skin eruptions and diseases remove foul breath soothe nerves and restore rest and overall system balance.
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