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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1884
Page
7
A vintage medical claim extols Burdock Blood Bitters as an immediate relief and cure for constipation and related ills. It cites personal testimonial from Rochester, NV, detailing long digestive trouble cured after using the product.
A Havana resident recounts a year old strange incident where Dr. McCorn was lured to a remote Glen shed by a stranger’s urgent note. The doctor was bound, a birth occurred in distress, and the kidnapper fled with a bank note while relatives remained unaware until later.
Fire4roiter Clingstone, clocking 2 14, is back at work and quickly overcoming his lameness.
A seasoned stable hand describes methods to feign lameness, backdate age, suppress appetite, induce disorders, and manipulate racehorses using crude tricks. He warns readers about dangerous practices while detailing why such ploys deceive buyers and affect racing outcomes.
Xu Hil na is correspondent reports a new trap for rats using a sheet iron pipe with a rim ends and a bundled two bushel sack. A corn crib and feed box guide rats into the pipe where a cut and sack trap them. After releasing them, a fright triggers a mass escape into the pipe and sack, yielding twenty seven rats on first use.
Buck Lewis janitor at Meigs School East Nashville once served as Andrew Johnson’s body servant and later revealed private affairs during the impeachment era. Johnson fired him and he later recalled the president’s words about betrayal and trust. The piece also mentions Maud S. and Jay-Eye-See weights in a passing note.
An obituary style testimonial extols Fenner Freeonne as a public benefactor while promoting Dr. Benner's Kidney Pain Cure and related tonics. The letter claims the remedies cleanse the stomach and bowels, relieve headaches and nervous conditions, improve sleep, clear skin, and aid various ailments. Distributed notices cite sales through H B Monroe in Dankirk and urge readers to obtain the tonics.
The programme lists events for a two day fair including a plowing match, a race for a three year old colt, a concert at 2 pm, trotting divisions, and prize money. Entries mention distances and purses such as 25, 1200, and 15 dollars with classes for horses and mules.
Friday schedule lists cattle and sheep examination at 1 1 2 p m and an instrumental concert. A 220 pm three minute race offers purses of 150 and 225. A grand ball features Sanrene Won and Charlotia as top prizes with mixed cash awards totaling 212.40 and 7.50.
The day features a grand display on tack ob wll Pas An, a 2 pm concert, and free der at Puase si Trivlec. Tickets range 87.5 to 44 dollars with 42 dollars noted. A 6:30 pm fireworks show caps the day after a Wrights et St. Dunkirk drill.
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