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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1884
Page
4
An 1883 inquiry notes imitation Singer machines proliferating across the Union while counterfeits rise for metals. It asks why the Singer dominates, citing Chicago relic aid where 2945 applicants received machines and 2427 chose Singers, with 487 Singer machines sold from the Dunkirk office that year.
Papillon Manufacturing Co of Chicago presents Parrmiox Cavarnn Cure for sale through Lyon Bros and Light and Harper. The ad promotes a treated medicine option advertised in this newspaper segment.
Advice to mothers about soothing teething pain with Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children Teething claims to relieve suffering and cure dysentery and diarrhoea, with price noted. Also includes brief local ads for hats, clothing, coal yard, hardware, and fashion stock from Carl Schauer and others, urging inspection of goods and sale terms.
The Buffalo One Price Clothing Store returns with a large assortment of clothing hats caps and gent s furnishing goods. Prices are lower than ever and the store offers easy showing of goods at 47 Center Street.
Fragments note sales in Dunkirk with houses for sale on Lion near Second and Robin street. Auction of Goract items, church and music notices, circuses planned, salon and needlework lessons, Salvation Army reference, local society events, and a lengthy Personal Mention section detailing visitors, birthdays, anniversaries, and local society news.
The county school commissioners divided state funds among districts, totaling 345,705.87. The 1883 distribution shows first and second assembly districts with 17,031.90 and 27,609.34 respectively, while this year’s reads 17,227.05 and 28,568.82, with Dunkirk among the largest towns receiving substantial sums. The Fauher thanks Swift for providing the report, detailing district by district allocations across multiple towns and divisions.
In Titusville a printing room scene erupts as foreman calls workers to see a man arriving town with a grip sack. Editors debate interviewing the stranger amid newsroom bustle while a legal matter unfolds in Little Valley with James Seeking on trial for assaulting a woman last summer. East Aurora sees John O Neal take his own life after learning he had tuberculosis.
Erie license totals show 229 applications across wholesale hoteliers bottlers eating houses and related categories. William H Williams of Salamanca pleads guilty to one liquor sale to Indians indictment while another remains not guilty. Butter market at Sinclairville records 65 tubs sold at 20 cents per pound. Corry sees garroting arrest of John E Muir, brother of William Muir, tied to Ernest Warren death at Clack and Warren Oil Works barrel factory.
James McCarthy urges Dunkirk shoppers to visit his store as the lease expires on April 1 1884 and announces the closing out of stock with 100 packages of new goods. He will be in attendance this week to assist customers and hopes to end the sale within the specified time.
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