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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1884
Page
3
Fragmentary notice notes instruments for application and supposed trademark on a bodily item. Mentions Pond’s Extract and counterfeit identifications. Readers are urged to wrap and wrap its mark, with references to supervision and protection against imitators.
By Telegraph. The rescued crew and passengers of the State of Florida reached Montreal aboard the Titania, with witnesses recounting a harrowing escape. Reports blame the captain for delaying boat access and describe boats capsizing, seven saved from one craft, eight bodies found, and a nightmarish struggle as the ship sank within minutes.
An elderly resident of Palmyria, Alliance, Ohio, Samuel Calvin, 65, committed suicide with morphine after fears of prison due to forged notes. He reportedly forged to pay debts. He leaves a wife, his second, plus a son and daughter.
Bucrecus C May 5 report a local natural gas drilling project reached 225 feet and struck a vein that, when lighted, produced a flame about fifteen feet high. Projectors plan to bore to 500 feet and expect abundant gas. In TiPioot Pa May 9, George Jenne killed William Ellis over a dispute about a leg chain. Jenne surrendered and is jailed. San Francisco May 6 James Clark reports a $30,000 shortfall in the accounts of Rudolph Iochkoffer, Austro Hungarian consul and large merchant. no arrest follows.
Reports indicate a widespread rise in excise license taxes amid a seasonal financial push. Officials in multiple locales note higher fee structures and renewed enforcement, affecting small businesses and vendors subject to license compliance.
General Grant was elected commander of the military unit of the Logis Legion. French municipal elections on Sunday favored the Moderate Republicans. Several financial notices listed: Nobilities of Butman Tompkins & Co credit assets and liabilities. Lemuel Shaw dies at Union Club. ship from Cross reports cholera deaths en route to Queenstown. Debt restructurings and court actions noted among Jersey cattle sales and local lawsuits. Damages from storms reported near Petersburg and Dinwiddie with hail. Funeral of Bishop Toebbe held in Covington Kentucky with notable clergy present.
Manager of Western Union announces fifteen cent rate per ten words to China India and points. Postal Telegraph follows with fifteen cents for twenty words. Telegraph breeze meets operator demands. Adjacent items note glass factory fire insurance claims and public notices. Benjamin death in Paris and Nova Scotia medical cure claims appear in this fragmentary report.
An advertisement touts Dr Fenner's Kidney and Back Ache Cure for kidney and bladder diseases, dropsy, female weaknesses, nervous debility, heart disease, and rheumatism. It promotes a memorandum book titled Dr Fenner's People's Remedies Used All Over the World and notes sale by H H Monroe in Dunkirk.
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