This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1883
Page
4
A jumble of advertisements and notices lists bargains on china glassware pottery and jewelry at merchants like Burcher and Dunkirk Druggists with selections of boots shoes and other goods. The page notes holiday sales high quality silverware watches and costumes plus local social items and a few obituaries.
Mr Frank Saunders returns home from Peekskill Military High School where he has studied since September. Rev P P Kidder of Dunkirk, ex-rector of St Marys church, visited the office yesterday. Edwin Isham comes home from Albany Military Academy after months away. Rev A TeRoy begins work as pastor of the Baptist church tomorrow with morning and evening services. Visitors listed include many from Buffalo Niagara Falls Cleveland and Boston. A desk tool from Lord & Thomas of Chicago is praised, offered free to general advertisers with postage. Miss Emma Timperly at Central Telephone Station shown for rural aid stories. Notes on a 24 hour dial watch from Fredonia water factory and railroad time tables adoption discussed. Censor item quotes local remarks on holidays, rail road avenue danger, roughs, and lighting concerns.
Notice to Mutual Safety Fund Accident Association members of the 1884 officers election at the company office in Dunkirk New York. Polls open from two until four. Also mentions Free Thinkers convention speakers and a Bradford Short Line cow incident between Bradford and Kinzua Junction with a cow carcass removal after the train continued.
Fragmented local items report a patent issued to Georgy Dunham for fire spoil tank extinguishing apparatus in Olean. J G Fisher prepares a cemetery monument map in Maple Cemetery, Fenton sues RoE and faces a $240,000 lumber contract claim. construction crews hire Chinese labor. Conk defense project tied to Randolpiend Soba. Chautauqua bonus proceedings awarded to Dine kirk Journal. Willa Camp sues Frank Preancuaiuhl for $100 in civil damages. Camp jailed for six months for drunkenness and mistreatment of family. multiple errors and unclear names per OCR.
Workers removing an aged sewer blockage in Cleveland uncovered a thriving subsoil community under Euclid Avenue. Among logs and sediment they found large sightless crustaceans, many small frogs, and a fat muskrat that likely swam up from the lake.
A compact church directory listing services and contact details for multiple local congregations. It notes regular Sunday services, Sunday school times, midweek prayer meetings, and cordial invitations to strangers, with entries for First Presbyterian, St John Episcopal, First Methodist, Tabernacle, German Evangelical, and other churches, including pastors and street corners.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.