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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1884
Page
3
Fragmented reading shows a sales pitch urging patrons to try a medicine named SARSALARILLA and to judge its effects by personal trial at a Lowell counter. The text emphasizes personal testimonials, directed use, and supposed health benefits across the body.
Reports from Amsterdam and Cairo cover bank liabilities, colonial aid, and six month grace for a suspended bank. Church appointments include Liradiey Covington Maes Davenport and Bishop Ryan's translation. Hanover elections show Meister Liberal gains. cholera cases rise as Berber garrison weakens amid famine.
McKenzie a noted temper st dies in Salt Lake City at age 47. Maudy the trotting Queen arrives at Chester Park Cincinnati from Lexington KY for winter. The Bonner party returns from Lexington. New York Board of Attorney passes Broadway Surface Railroad act. injunction dissolved and original act passed. Beveridge Brewing Company head Thomas Geveridge dies aged 74. Major M I Kidd announces contest of Steele in Wabash Indiana on grounds of fraud. Steele’s 54 vote majority noted. Gov Cleveland receives applications for postmasterships, few for Foda Amsterdam Canajoharie. many from women. A boy, Eugene Pucket, crushed at Grubbs Keniker Co Nashville works. Diphtheria outbreak in Chicago schools. health officials consider closing schools. epidemic in city with several fatalities. Knights of American Brotherhood in Cincinnati. Supreme Commander L F Thoma and others listed. next meeting in Milwaukee. Washington Monument height exceeds all, 520 feet 19 inches. Cologne Cathedral spire at 513 feet. Twenty-five days to finish. dedication February 22. Arrests in Murfreesboro Tenn for Detective Woolson murder. Young and Labranche jailed. Murd er case stirs. Oleomargarine fine in New York. Croft and Wyman fined $100 each for selling fat and foreign ingredients as butter.
Fourteen year old son of Dave Kruuser of Dayton Armstrong County Virginia removed nearly all clothing from his younger sister and held her by a red hot stove causing severe burns. The injured girl faces a long recovery as authorities investigate the suspected abuse and the boy’s possible charges.
Fragmentary OCR passage mentions a tribe with 2710S in population and 670 girls, claims about land area 1,473 acres per child, notes on heat ponies and peltries, mines on a reservation, ducks bringing specimens to a post trader's store at a military fort, and exchange for heads calico shells and trinkets, with references to the Big Horn mountains.
Fragmentary clipping argues progress via highways railways steamships and trade. It claims industrial growth requires mobility and commerce, contrasting persecution with the era’s drive for ideas and wealth, invoking Columbus and Magellan to illustrate relentless pursuit.
A dialogue snippet shows Miss Smithers questioning a young man named Fits Loon about business capital. He admits earning two thousand dollars a year on a salary, claiming no Roy capital but brains, while she probes whether that qualifies as running a large business on small capital.
A fragment quotes a governor in Arkansas joking about a rumor that his wife was dying. He laughs that she was not dead and adds that she “husseled ’round” and disappointed him, in a stark exchange with a feral acquaintance.
A brief interlude notes that the prince of Battenburg was barred from his wife’s table in St. Petersburg for not being of royal birth, drawing a parallel to the Marquis of Lorne being excluded from Buckingham Palace earlier. Louise reportedly drank champagne alone.
The Boston Commercial notes that Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll resembles Martha Washington, styling hair and neckwear alike. A bulletin laments laxity among youth in devoting to trades, business, or occupations, calling out Mono-Poets as brief versifiers who vanish after one ode.
Distorted ad copy touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain in babies. It claims the syrup calms stomach inflammation, relieves wind, softens gums, and eases the entire system. Sold nationwide by retailers at 20 cents a bottle.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Dosanko s Pile Remedy claiming to absorb tumors ease itching and cure piles. It notes back weight lower abdomen indigestion and a moisture related itch after warmth and lists price at 50 cents with selling agent J P Monroe and The Dr Busanko Medicine Co Pigna 0.
Young men are urged to contact the Voltaic Belt Co of Marshal Michigan for the Electro Voltaic Belt and other electric appliances claimed to restore health vigor and manhood. A thirty day trial is offered with no risk illustrated pamphlet free and promises complete restoration to health.
An advertisement warns buyers against fake cures claiming to match Dr. Losankos Cough and Lung Syrup. It urges insisting on the real remedy and avoiding deception. Mentions J. P. Monroe, associate of the late Wilbur I Storey, residing in Clyde, who could be an heir amid a contest over Storey estate and control of the Chicago Times.
A jumble of product pitches and notices references Wells health renewer Rough on Corns and Shiltons Cure. Local items mention Maggie Lennon in Batavia withdrawing 2100 from a bank, concerns about quail hunting in Ontario County, and railroad changes in Salamanca. Also mentions Dr W White relocation and second hand furniture business in Dunkirk area.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy Nerve Tonic as a comprehensive tonic. It claims to cleanse the blood, relieve biliousness and headaches, heal the stomach and bowels, cure liver issues, nervous debility, and insomnia. It markets the product as a universal remedy for many ailments and lists H. D. Monroe of Dunkirk as a seller.
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