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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1885
Page
4
Local notices report auctions, entertainments, church services, polo results, charity drives, and community threats to housing amid street conditions. Meetings at Buckley’s and German M E church echo fundraisers and prayers while a cagey landlord dispute surfaces. Reading notes cover freight, wages, and public notices with town figures and upcoming events.
The Olean and Dunkirk McDonalds polo teams faced off in a packed Dunkirk rink last evening with the McDonalds prevailing 3 to 2. Excelsiors battled hard in a fair, closely watched contest as spectators filled the stands and galleries.
Thursday night at the Opera House will feature Ricard Pallee of Buffalo speaking on justice to labor and to capital in a debate on the burning labor question. The event invites readers of Henry George’s Progress and Poverty to hear the advocate for labor. Mrs George McChesney of Corry died suddenly in New Orleans after a health scare and a detective traced her to a suburb and a park bench before she passed away from spinal meningitis.
A fragment from a Southern travel report notes that election irregularities exist in the South, with quotes from Georgia and South Carolina men boasting about suppressing Black voters. The writer travels Callahan to Cedar Keys, criticizes false railroad claims, and describes Tampa as growing with new stores, packing and shipping orange fruit, and an improving economy.
Arthur Billings relocated on Geo Billing’s farm while Geo Skidmore bought land in Portland planning spring grape planting. Heman Haley returned from a ral West. Marvin Kelly moved near Ventre ville. Miss Ellis stays home for holidays. Mrs Elmer Francis visits Geo Payne in Stockton. Frank Powers operates a storm wood mill to craft wood seats. Holly canvasses for fruit trees for Le Clarke and Herrick of Brighton. Walker Parkhurst, who moved to Minnesota last winter, has gone to Dakota.
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