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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1890
Page
2
The Dispatch from Belmont dated Tuesday January 7, 1890 records local news and notices in a compact newspaper card. It includes brief items typical of late 19th century regional reporting. The page likely contains advertisements, classifieds, and community notices, reflecting everyday life in Belmont.
The Republican Senate caucus nominated Fassett for president pro tempore and Kenyon, Sehram, and Vreeland for clerk sergeant-at-arms and postmaster respectively. The Assembly caucus chose Gen. Husted as speaker, Chickering as clerk, and Manville as sergeant-at-arms. The legislature starts well officered.
An accomplished statistician estimates about 200000 people are employed by the United States government across postal, legislative, judicial, military, and civil service branches. He notes post office workers, contractors, and military personnel, with payroll around 165 million dollars annually. The article adds demographic context on office holders per population, highlighting the breadth of federal employment.
The Emira Advertiser reports Mrs Victoria Woodhull Martin has accepted invitations from American friends to run for the U S presidency. It cautions responses to Belva Lockwood Mary Walker and others while recounting recent political and public health notes from Congress and international dispatches.
Surrogate's court was convened by Judge Norton on Friday. Local residents in town Friday included Supt. Weaver of Angelica and Julius Wheeler of Wellsville. Numerous visits, small notices of illnesses and events follow, including a firewood shipment, a new engine for a coffee mill, and social gatherings at Friendship and area towns, with notable deaths and business updates.
In a scathing note the writer jokes about Mrs W C W Martin of London England running for presidency in 1792 but says she cannot win any ward in the city. He notes she lacks pull and has a record, urging her to stick to her London banker husband and to let the two old parties carry on with their campaigns.
A poetic piece presents the editor’s imagined escape from city life to a pastoral world. The narrator longs to abandon fashion, tracing a whimsical landscape of fruit trees, animal imagery, and rustic chores. The mood blends whimsy with a patently dreamy critique of urban constraint.
The piece notes Mr. Rogers as an experienced showman promising a premier circus and menagerie for 1890. It reports Friendship’s return to prosperity with 80 workers at a sash and blind factory and about 50 at a new shoe factory, plus reopening of a narrow gauge line with strong patronage expected. It mentions Geo W Robinson improving his grocery stores and lists a New Year dinner at Mrs A A Colwell with many guests from Port Allegany and surrounding towns.
Office men earn 75.00 monthly while road agents receive 80.00. Ladies and gentlemen are offered 78.00 per month. Address M. Clement in Friendship New York at Mrs. A. Simons’s boarding house. Call for details and placement opportunities.
The Waverly School Shoe gains praise for durable oak tanned grain and goat materials. Expect better value with shoes that outgrow before wear. customers urged to order one half size larger. Available in infant to ladies sizes with heel spring, all pairs warrantied for satisfaction.
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