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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1883
Page
3
A columnist argues life in rural towns equals city life in earnestness and virtue, condemning dull inactivity as a wasted life. The piece then shifts to a humorous scene with a boomerang trick, a lodge mystery, and a chase as a new lodger seeks another candidate.
In a court, Mrs Woodruff, about forty, admits shame after being caught gargling whisky to cure a sore throat. The judge jokes the remedy works by workhouse punishment, warns her, and she plans to travel to Toledo. The exchange satirizes medical quackery and local color.
The London Medical Times endorses a light bitter beer as a nutritious, economical beverage. It argues tea coffee and milk have drawbacks, water is unsafe, and a modestly alcoholic, aseptic beer made from malt and hops would provide palatable nutrition at low cost, with minimal harm when consumed in moderation.
A group of Auburn men planned to confer a boomerang degree on John Wellington a Black man who claimed knowledge of Wesenry. A lodge of emergency met in the cellar of F N Richards store as the African was brought in and forced to lie face down over a barrel Grandis dao Richards restrained him with a firm hand as he anticipated the supposed lesson.
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