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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1884
Page
3
An ad extols Hoon's Sarsaparilla and Hoon's Vegetable Pills as a superior domestic remedy. Claiming widespread family use, it highlights 13 vegetable ingredients, balanced action on liver kidney stomach and blood, and urges pairing with pills for biliousness. Includes testimonials, pricing, and distribution by Hood & Co and Foster Milburn & Co.
Reports from Portsmouth to Albany note health improvements and a judge's illness. London rumors hint at Earl Spencer Ireland tenure resignation. San Francisco cigar dealer Jacobs gains English property worth 3.5 million. Ohio widow Mrs. Rice dies by hanging during temporary insanity. The Continent fuses with Christian at Work. Ex-Auditor Cotterel missing and due to pay school funds. Bedford murder linked to a bloody monkey wrench. Pedestrian Harriman heads to Augusta on a $4,000 wager. Bowhead crew lands in San Francisco. a new Four Mountains volcano noted. Baseball brief scores. various city games halted by darkness. Apple crop touted as above average. Copper mine fire at Heels Copper continues. Gribble’s body found. Driven drills attempt cooling water. Odd Fellows convention in Ottawa. Labrador natives relief plan with Dominion aid. Accidental shooting case in Binghamton ends with acquittal. Mutual Benefit Association opens ninth annual session in Cincinnati.
In Albemarle County near Vienna Mrs Clarke wife of Justice Clarke aged sixty burned to death when attempting to burn a wasp nest with a torch. her home burned down. In Missouri Bateman pleaded guilty to the murder of the Mc Laughlin girls at Flag Springs and was sentenced to hang on November 21.
Professor Sauson of France reports on carbonaceous versus protein rich feeds for fattening pigs. Windsor pig gains 28 pounds in 123 days on barley and Yorkshire puts on 30 in 100 days with barley starch and sugar. Concludes growth needs more animal matter during youth. recommends dairy and kitchen refuse as protein sources. Also notes Niagara Falls park land award totals 493 409 dollars with Goat Island receiving 252 500.
An advertisement touts Dr. Bosanko's Tile Stomachs as a direct cure for piles itching and associated back and abdominal discomfort. It claims absorption of tumors and permanent relief, priced at 50 cents plus distribution through The Dr. Bosanko Medicine Co. Piqua. Also notes local business chatter about fairs in Sinclairville and calls for county seat relocation.
A free distribution of sample bottles of Dr asanko's Cough and Lung Syrup, marketed as the popular remedy for coughs colds consumption and bronchitis, offered in regular sizes 40 and 100. The Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese of Western New York is described as covering fifteen counties with one hundred churches one hundred four ministers and eleven thousand one hundred forty two communicants.
A fragmented notice notes patent or proprietary remedies “Wells Health Renewer” and other tonics claiming to treat coughs dyspepsia and impotence. It also mentions a grand jury indictment of an Olean man for hugging a girl and a planned telephone line from Jamestown to Cherry Creek via Clear Creek and Conewango.
A. J. Colt of LeBaruf Pennsylvania weighs and measures two colossal pumpkins. One weighs 110 pounds with a large circumference, the other 95 pounds. Advertises cures for colic cramps diarrhoea aches pains sprains headache neuralgia rheumatism for humans and animals, priced 20 and 5 cents.
An advertisement notes Wells Health Renewer by druggists and states the Sons of Veterans of Jamestown have secured enough members and sent in an application for a charter. Subscribers urged to join the Ev gxixa Observer.
A Lowell Massachusetts master mechanic recounts paralysis of the bowels from June 81 to improve after using a favored remedy. Despite advice from physicians, the writer credits the remedy with restoring health and enabling full recovery, praising its effects on liver, kidneys, and digestive organs.
An old public notice touts Blood and Liver Remedy along with Dr Fenner’s Kidney Cure. It promises universal healing from nervousness to fevers, pimples, bad breath, and bowel issues. The letter asks for more supplies and cites a dealer network in Dunkirk and New York Tribune correspondence.
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