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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1883
Page
4
Dunkirk shoppers see a large stock of holiday wares from Rogers' cutlery to clocks and jewelry at J A Swapp in Third Street. Local ads promote Buffalo Price Clothing Center and Ishem's Pipe Display for low priced gifts. Notices report weather, school exam week, and Dr. Rogers resuming practice with outstanding accounts settled by January.
A new 80 page children book titled Lite Joe's Stories by Aunt Juliet, a Sbenkirk lady. Printed on tinted paper with neat typography yet some publishing errors. Clergymen praise its moral impact and readability for youths. Available at Abell Son, Weiler, and Bartholomew's nucy store for Christmas or New Year gifts.
An assortment of names and locales appears as fate arrivals at St. Janes Hotel and Tfarlbert House in New York Syracuse Boston Buffalo Rochester Mayville and other places. The list includes J. Whitton Lloruelleville AE Pulser Chas Carswadin Mussile Walter Boatten Danforth Grimes and others with scattered towns such as Rochester Joli and Huntington.
A public service schedule outlines a six week period of Thanksgiving prayers and a Leopard Street memorial service for Rev. Austin Diet, pastor of Kintlang. After a late morning service, interment will occur at Anwellen among family and friends.
The piece argues that a good school requires engaged students and devoted teachers, with patrons visiting to offer help. It urges daily parental involvement after school and notes promoting interest benefits all. It then lists district teachers and residents in Arkwright, plus several Town names and figures.
A Clarksville sale by G 2 Keller transfers 200 acres of oil territory on lot 10 and HL to the Angell Oil Company for 320,000 dollars in cash. The deal follows a season completing packing by the company and notes a prosperous year with 10 000 cages of goods shipped. A resident, George Auver of Pleasantville, witnessed a brisk turnout at the oil exchange where a stranger paid 500 dollars for a turnout and departed. Pennsylvania grants a charter to the Erie Mining and Natural Gas Company of Erie with 30000 dollars capital, to expand wells and light manufacturing and residences.
A fragmentary account describes Edison's early “Hello Machine” concept as an instrument transmitting articulations and waves of electricity. It mentions trials at Moor Park New Jersey, and notes engineers, companies, and lines extending to Dunkirk Jamestown and others. The piece cites figures like Miss Timperley and Paul Colerais, with forecasts of distant conversations via telecommunication advances.
Tobacco Porches abishieenin Meckday Go ods Call on LB. Oh, where you will find a large and elegant assortment of slippers. Ladies hand sewn button boots and in fact everything that is usually kept at a first-class boot and shoe store. Cash down brings bottom prices.
Short text states Brier rents at Isham St James Hotel offering board and room for 90 per month permitting two to share a room. proprietor listed as J B Dawa et al.
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