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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1892
Page
3
Belmont news roundup with remarks on a liquor store query, DeMolay communications, local society events, races, and crime notes. Mentions Belmont hardware store plans by George L. Tucker, a court docket preview, and various town happenings including weather, farming, temperance meetings, and a minor street fracas.
Friday and weekend visits unfold across Corydon Wellsville Scio Friendship and Belmont with the Hancock County social scene. Notables include Mrs H Nobles of Corydon visiting. Saml Hanks and E D Barnum on business. Geo L Tucker Jr calling on a Cuba friend. Elmore Willetts at the Farmers Club. J Middaugh Jr from Friendship at a club meeting. Dr Major from Scio with Chas Winchell. Etba Reynolds Esq pursuing a suit in Salamanca. J L Seely promoting cigars. Luta Wilkinson departing for New York City as a publishing company agent.
Anecdotes from Belmont and Friendship recount Editor Barnum of the BeLMont Patch losing track at his depot after a publishers’ meeting. Fries of the Register offers a corner behind the press as Barnum sleeps among dirt and cockroaches. The piece notes the Publishers’ meetings, a roadside collision near Bolivar, and local notices about Prohibition, temperance, and weather observations.
Geonze Worden relocates to Angelica to join J. Lentz mill. Death of C. Jenning at 84 with funeral at home. Rev. Hass lectured at Baptist church. church resignations and local visits noted. Community updates cover education board hires, repairs, farm news, marriages, and small-town events across Belfast and surrounding towns.
List of names of unclaimed letters in Belmont New York May 1892 including Mrs Jeasie Ames Mrs Dr Bowen Happy Tom Bunel Miss Christina Craig Charlotte Free born Miss Lucy Knuckels L Sciebiens ky Hall E Gordon and Miss Eliese Gim mer.
The article argues that top and bottom parts of a carriage wheel move at equal speeds, citing observations from buggy rides. If the top moved faster, the bottom would lag in returning to the barn. It claims wheels rotate from the center with uniform speed and even jokes about locomotives. The note ends with a quip about tropical trees being green.
A reader’s glance through the Dispatch page reveals a flood of eclectic items from prices and products to notices. It cites copper value, alcohols, fashion, loans, and local ads, while urging readers to bring auction bills and enjoy low prices at Sortore and Richardson outlets.
A jumble of brief items mentions land and worms, metal temperatures, a cash sale at EV Sortore, farm sizes, a claim about Queen Elizabeth, Lake Baikal depth, neuralgia tea warning, a Belmont house for sale near Belmont Union School, thanks from Mr and Mrs Andrew McEvoy for sympathy after their child’s accident, club rates for Dispatch journals, Babcock stock farm fence advice, a Jefferson West Virginia woman's claim after Sarsaparilla, and no summer classes at Westbrook Commercial College Olean NY with catalog inquiry details.
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An East India missionary provided a simple vegetable formula claimed to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous debility. The retired doctor says he will mail the recipe gratis in English French or German to any reader who requests it by sending a stamped letter to W A Noyes 820 Powers Block Rochester New York.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole positive remedy for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, builds up constitution and supports nature. Proponents offer 100 dollars to any case not cured and invite testimonials from readers. Sold by druggists.
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