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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1885
Page
2
The Evening Observer proclaims larger circulation than rivals and emphasizes reliable news from the telegraphic service and Absorbed Press Despatches. It invites trustworthy communications with full author details, instructs copy deadlines at ten o clock, and notes subscription and advertisement stoppage procedures.
John A. McCall, New York State Superintendent of Insurance, releases an annual report to the Legislature reviewing Life, Casualty and Assessment Insurance. He finds 1864's business prosperous, endorses sound companies, and cautions against drum or agency recruitment methods. He notes thirty six organizations examined found no illegal use of funds, supports a reserve fund concept linked to mortality, and praises the law against assessments and taxation with a member-benefit trust account as merit. The report includes recapitulation of statements and tables.
Philadelphia society notes report the formation of a ladies guild named The Congregation for the Extirpation of the Ecoulet to regulate dress at parties. The group formed after a young woman sued for damages claiming nerves were jarred by a low cut dress at a masquerade.
A church gathering debated modest dress with a heart or triangular cut, long gloves, and shoulder straps. The vote edged against straps, sleeves to elbow length, causing two dress reformers to withdraw. A rector may address fashionable women's wear in a future sermon.
The 1864 rise in land entries surprised officials, with Dakota entries totaling 12,457,150 acres in 1883 and 7,975,648 in 1834. Fargo dropped from 4,000,000 to 866,000 acres. Bismarck from 2,306,000 to about 300,000. Minnesota and Wisconsin also show shifts. Speculators seized railroad-accessible lands, while openings of new farms lagged behind, pressured by falling farm prices.
The London Economist lists staple prices on January 1 1875 and January 1 1885, illustrating gold’s increased purchasing power as currencies held steady. Coffee, sugar, tea, wheat, potatoes, pork, beef, wool, copper and other goods fell in price, meaning more merchandise required to buy an ounce of gold.
Tre Popeling accepts dedication of Gounod's Mors et Vita to be performed at the Birmingham Festival in August. A professor from the University of Vermont reports a method to make milk sugar from whey. The Norman stallion Leisure B. was sold for 5500 to Bowser & Son, the highest price for a stallion.
The issue features a frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken before his presidency and a personal sketch of the Prince of Wales by William Howard Russell with civil war era and literary illustrations. It also promotes Pennsylvania tree planting on April 15 to foster nature study, forestry, and public forests preservation. The rest covers historic notes on explorers, U.S. presidents, oil exchange data for 1894 and 1884, and a novelty iron disc experiment demonstrating metalworking sparks and periphery speed.
Ma E Marigens of Jackson County Georgia mentions a colored man living on his land once left in the Cherokee nation and twice by John A Murrell then shot at by Confederate soldiers now father of forty nine children and ninety years old He plows as well as any man Tukut recounts three Yankee travelers with contrived encounters including mock emperors and Napoleon comparisons and a Champs Elysees slap laughable tale
The Century for April includes two War Papers on the Capture of New Orleans by Admiral Porter and George W. Cable with over thirty illustrations. Other pieces include In Pain Black and White by an Atlanta Constitution editor, Roosevelt on Freedmen, and regional topics. price 35 cents, $4 yearly. Back numbers available from Century Co. Also notes on a German highway robber’s jawbone used as inkstand and milk shipments to Liverpool.
A Thursday session ended with a 76 to 40 vote defeating a move to place the Toutine life insurance plan investigation under insurance superintendents. A special five member committee will oversee the matter. The report also notes a series of local society items including a Rome dispensation for a marriage and the reopening of the Seaside Laboratory at Annisquam Massachusetts for marine studies from July 1 to September 1 under B H Van Vieck guidance.
Traveler's guide announces a new Sunday and weekday schedule starting Monday Nov 17 for a rail line run by N.Y. time. It lists departure times from Fredonia and Dunkirk with multiple daily options, including 5:48, 7:35, 8:11, 9:15 and afternoon slots, plus special Sunday departures to extend service. The notice is signed REMER W HLELOCK, Sups.
A historical timetable lists local trains and connections on the Western Division, detailing No 24 1884 plus additional trains from Dunkirk to Salamanca and Carrollton. It includes stop patterns at Sheriday Forestville Little Valley Salamanca Wellsville Andover Allegany Cuba Belmont Scio and Hornellsville with approximate times and daily or Sunday service notes.
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