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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1885
Page
2
The Evening Observer notes its four large Dunkirk circulations, exclusive use of the Uneigne Printing Company, and telegraphic agency links. It invites timely reader submissions with full author details and cites ad copy deadlines at 10 am for same day insertion. Subscriptions and stoppages require direct office contact.
The 1634 bill to restore the State Paper at Albany faces renewal as Senator Estey proposes designating a single Albany daily for official notices. If enacted, notices would run in Albany papers, saving readers from Albany publication costs while critics warn readers outside Albany may lose access. The controversy pits taxpayer interests against a state run notices system and suggests a monthly notice sheet as alternative.
The United States relies on foreign sugar supplies with Louisiana providing less than one tenth of the total and lagging each year. Beet sugar is not yet profitable and offers no reasonable hope as a domestic resource, leaving the nation obliged to pay foreign producers.
Dr Collier of the Department of Agriculture argues sorghum sugar could slash prices, potentially under one cent per pound, by improving diffusion methods and using sorghum byproducts. He cites demand equal to flour in value and notes sorghum grows across Western states and the South, promising national savings of about 100 million dollars yearly by replacing imports.
The inaugural address draws mixed reactions. Democratic papers broadly praise its civil service reform stance and trade tone. Some Republican papers find faults, while leading Republicans hail it as a promising beginning. The Albany Express calls it earnest and principled, urging loyalty to leaders of conscience regardless of election.
In House of Lords Britain faces possible war if Afghan and Russian outposts clash with India’s Herat in danger. A New York court case ponders a life policy paid by a sister to a brother amid hostile motives. In Lockport a prisoner, Elam Bumson, is linked to an Egyptian armor sale, leading to a duty dispute and release after customs intervention.
Early reports of the Dunkirk House blaze in Bradford said five men died, but later review found two fatalities. Victims identified as Dorney Freel, a Bradford butcher, and James L. Martin, a young American sailor. Owner William L. Montgomery presumed insured, with losses estimated up to 35,000. One survivor, Orville Tuller, suffered burns but is not fatally injured. Mary Tuller and her father returned to Dunkirk on Friday.
The New York State Board of Health and Prof C F Chandler analyzed eighty four baking powders under supervision of Prof Edward G Love. Only Royal was found free of alum lime and impurities. Love confirms Royal is composed of pure wholesome ingredients and free from harmful additives.
Friday morning train No. 3 west on the Lake Shore was forced to drop off a steamer at Westfield due to deranged gear. Erie arrivals ran three hours late. A Turnpike Street switch opened, sending the engine onto a side track with no damage. Between Dunkirk and Brant, one car left the rails delaying a freight. A wrecker was sent. trains then ran on the north track.
An old advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as spring remedy claiming increased strength and blood purification. It promotes Wood's Sarsaparilla for impurity and urges use now, plus Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purative Pellets as effective liver and bowel aids, phrased with period advertising rhetoric.
In Dunkirk the towns Stockton and Singlairville supplied substantial aid for the poor through wood, vegetables, clothing, and food. Donors include Mrs. Ames, Mrs. Stedman, E. M. Treshler, and many others who contributed potatoes, apples, buckwheat, pork, beef, clothing, and flour. The New York State Sunday School Association appeals for donations to expand its undenominational work aiding neglected children and youth across sixty counties.
A garbled OCR timetable lists trains from Dunkirk to Hornellsville and Salamanca daily and on Sundays, with stops at Forestville, Smiths Mills, Perrysburg, Cattaraugus, Little Valley, Salamanca, Great Valley, Carrollton, Vandalia, Allegany, Wellsville, Andover, Alfred, Almond, Belvidere, Belmont, Cuba, Friendship, and Belvidere, including extra local and holiday schedules and notes on days not running.
Buffalo to Pittsburgh trains run via Eastern time with through coaches between Buffalo and Pittsburgh. Departures include 6 40 am 8 40 am and 5 30 pm with arrivals to Buffalo late evening. Connections available to New York Albany Syracuse and other eastern points.
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