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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1884
Page
3
A defective catalog lists various cosmetic and medical items including Petteately Perfumed Delighful to Use Tailet Cream for complexion, Lip Salve, Beatifrice for teeth and gums, and 30 Special Preparations. Travel aids include nasal throat ear treatments, simple nasal syringe, and inhaler. Warning warns buyers to avoid counterfeits and states Pond's Extract is sold legally with a specific wrapper and mark.
Telegraph reports violent Gulf Coast storm sweeping from the Louisiana coast inland. Crevasses widen across parishes near New Orleans threaten vast sugar country and disrupt rail lines while Morgan City suffers structural damage and a church is moved from its foundations. Atchafalaya water rises seventeen inches and threatens levees along the river as authorities attempt to stem the flooding with steam pile drivers. Numerous breaks noted in St. James and Orleans parishes with several minor breaches near ports and rail yards.
A Jetter from the Canadian Pacific Railway reports surprising population shifts in Manitoba. The year’s count shows 2,400 residents from outside the province and 162 individuals from England, with many taking railway work and moving to the United States.
Washington March 19 Justice Hagner said he was not satisfied with how the jury for Kilbourne versus Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Thorpeon had been impanelled and discharged them from further consideration of the case.
Orangetown elects its Excise Commissioner as temperance groups claim the win while a cascade of global and regional items follows. From Prince Napoleon’s deterred plans to Südwerland to Dublin bankruptcy deeds, Andorra tense, and a Hamilton Ont. furniture estate valued at 50,000 with 16,000 in forced papers, the page catalogs varied events. Reports include strike settlements at Joliet steel works, Liszt servant Calanmella’s ties, German Austrian posturing, pardons board actions, and a cast of court cases, fires, earthquakes, and railroad updates across nations and states.
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