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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1883
Page
4
A jumbled old newspaper ad page offers cigars at Lyon Brothers and Wheelers Parlors for grooming services, plus clothing, jewelry, patent medicines, wines, and a large silverware sale. It promotes Speer’s Port wine, Druggists’ supplies, and a late January stock clearance of fine watches and jewelry with reduced prices.
Dr G M Smith presented a fine lamp to the Presbyterian church for the pulpit. Local notices mention prize drawings by City Drug Store with various prizes, Christmas timing, and a funeral attended by Free-Masons for Mr Frank Fatahars of Forestville.
Hurlbert Mouse Jate arrivals and many names from Stockton to Dunkirk fill the hotel lists. Special car guests include L&MS Ry officials and Cleveland Elkhart reps. Load from Brocton to Cleveland eyed as certain. Knights of Honor officers elected. police and court notes. Madam Lenn Hamilton case and a Methodist social on Ruggles Street planned with careful arrangements.
The Ladies Society will host a Basket Sociable next Wednesday evening the 19th in the Presbyterian church Lecture Room. A home talent musical programme will attract interest, with useful and fancy articles offered for sale. The ladies invite friends to attend. admission is 10 cents.
A circulated street report claimed Mr. George P. Isham had died due to business slickness. Isham refused full interview, saying he discharged two of his cigar factory workers for incompetence last Saturday and hired better men, calling the death rumor malicious fabrication. The owner insisted his business was booming and denied the impropriety behind the gossip.
George Dotterweich believes natural gas lies along the lake shore and hires Mesare Brownyer & Martin to drill five wells for Alva Colborne of Fredonia. Derrick and tools arrive, aiming for a vein at four to five hundred feet and potential local industry growth. Dr Stillman recalls 1840 brewery site odor prompting cautious interest in gas before.
Leonard Green and his mill are in training order as Perrysburg lodge gathers to view a local paper. The piece notes safe jailing of three prisoners, a foundered schooner at Catta raugus Creek, a possible trip to Oregon by Del Clark and Mrs Fizhings, and a large Randolph lawsuit where M L Fenton sues ex Senator E Fenton for 346000. A Sugar Grove note from Rev Emory dated Toledo December 8 hints at his derailed ventures and penitent tone.
An aged butcher with thirty years at the block computed carcass cuts by arithmetic. He estimated 100 to 125 cuts per carcass, averaging 110, with 2 carcasses and a half cut daily across 500 working days yearly, totaling 9,000 days and 92,500 carcasses. Bones averaged two inches, equating to 4,952,000 inches or 412,200 feet, about seventy eight tailes and one tenth in thirty years. A separate railway accident in Nicaur, Dec. 14, reports John Ryan and Edward McDonald, both aged sixty and sixty-five, killed by an express on the Shore Railway.
Call on H R Oehm for a large and elegant assortment of Blippers and ladies hand sewn button boots along with a full boot and shoe store lineup. Cash down brings bottom prices. Board and room at 29 dollars per month with two rooms available and fire insurance allowed. B Dawerss, proprietor.
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