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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1884
Page
8
The President advocates a separate modern residence across Lafayette Park for private life while keeping official business at the White House. He argues the public rooms are crowded, tourists intrude, and a private home would allow rest and privacy for the President and family without sacrificing state functions.
Four hundred laborers on the Schuylkill Valley road struck for higher pay. A Santa Barbara olive orchard paid twenty dollars a tree last year. A 550,000 Spiritualist temple is planned in Isostun. A Tacony mill shut down as workers refused to widen. The first direct line between the United States and Sweden is en route from Stockholmo. Miss Mary Divant of Manutinicus Island rowed five miles in rough water. Salaries for baseball professionals exceed 100,000 dollars. Selma, Alabama uses a public cistern as a pond for German carp. In Swain County North Carolina about one thousand acres will be planted in tobacco, five times last year. A Wall Street millionaire seeks 35,000 pounds for a home for "sus" potiveivers amid financial concerns. George W. Trabue of the Western Union died in New York. Prince of Wales medals at Queen’s College were won by BE L. Kilegerald. Pere Lyncinthe and wife visit Kansas City, to be received at First Congregational Church. Bank of Montepio in Mexico closes with creditors paid but banking likely to cease. Harrisburg Virginia opinions in tax case against National Transit Company favor the defendant. A plan to drain the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia promises rich lands and dry islands. Cherokee livestock lease pays 100,000 a year but only two cents an acre in rent. Sixty thousand acres leased in May for five years. Greanville, D.C. hosts a large transaction.
A historical Erie County tale recounts a hereditary insanity linked to a crime by Dr Fisk. The physician killed John Fenno after a dispute, claiming self defense, triggering a family tragedy with a haunted lineage and a missing, brutal swamp murder scene.
A stockholders meeting of the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company is set to discuss a proposal to issue bonds totaling 39,000 00 to retire betterment stock. The meeting was postponed until the latest date, with details pending.
A Burlington Hawkeye cable dispatch reports Politische Nachrichten advocates recalling Minister Sargent and our paper opposes any paper with that name. A Washoe Lake Nevada man found 125 wild geese on February 23 and left them frozen. he later retrieved and claimed them for a sacred day, a tale we distrust but note as read.
A Cincinnati citizen cries for help declaring a murder case drives him to flee. The scene unfolds as his wife pleads for explanation while he rushes to pack a valise and escape amid fear and confusion.
May markets show mixed activity in grains and livestock. Wheat No 2 red trades around 210 to 220, while mixed westerns and white varieties move with several bids and closes noted. Live stock in New York remains dull with steady dressed beef prices, sheep and lamb values vary by grade, and cattle sales in Cincinnati reflect shipment activity.
Report of the Condition of the Lake Shore National Bank at Dunkirk dated April 24, 1884 lists loans and discounts, bonds, due from reserve agents, other banks, and state banks, along with real estate, fixtures, expenses, premiums, and redemption fund. Signed by cashier T Colman and sworn before notary public Geo P Saunders and others.
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