Local Shop Ad Offers Cigars Drugs and Services
An assortment of local business pitches appears. Lyon Brothers Palace Drug Store advertises Sebo bay and Reo Line cigars at 53 Center St. Wheeler Pomorial Parlors on Center St near the post office offer shaving hairdressing and children’s hair care with three chairs. Other entries include coal yard, building supplies, Papillon Cure sold by Lyon Bros and Light & Tarpee, and Buflaton One Price Clothing Store at 47 Center St Dun kirk offering deep discounts on winter goods with a promise to undercut rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sebo Baie Community
Reo
Lyon Brothers Palace Drug Store
Center St
Dunkirk N
Onoh
Buffalo
Yoursele
Some Very Hard Nuts to Crack in Sewing Machine Debate
The text notes many sewing machine makers and questions why imitation Singer machines are scarce. It highlights Singer’s numerous first prizes, a Chicago relief effort distributing machines to 2945 applicants with 2427 choosing Singer, and 487 Singer machines sold in Danknk cities in 1883. The piece questions market preference and calls out lack of sales data from rival manufacturers.
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Singer
Chicago
Danknk
Mig
Center St
Dunwirk. T
Patten
M’gr
Dunkirk City News Item Highlights and Local Notes
Fragmented city notices and local society items mixed with a Buffalo death case and court verdict. Mentions J F Stearns seeking an office boy, land conveyances to John M Peck, Olive Ristey Seward and others, musical Virginia Miss family concert, and a Jamestown factory accident verdict of 8900 with appeal noted. Also references Dakota Dye visit and decorations meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Trepka
M.geo. Martyn
Jamestown
Mayville
Br. Mallyn
Personal Mentions And Hotel Arrivals In Nearby Cities
Manayzer Gilbert sits up while Mrs. W. A. Slack visits her father in the city. Miss Mabel Williams of Dunkirk visits Mrs. Frederick Stevens in Mariner Street. A long list of late arrivals at Eastern and Hurlbert House hotels includes names from Rochester Cleveland Philadelphia New York and Buffalo. School commissioner E J Swift of Forestville attended sessions in Rochester with about 50 counties represented.
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Mabel Williams
Dunkirk
Frederick LL Stevens
Mariner Street
Eastern Hotel
Alenson
Rochester
Frank 8
E. J. Swift
Forestville
Sanctia
Hurlbert House
iXing
G. IL Gieuster
J.M. Mousk
P. L. Leggett Stalland
J. M. Goldstein
Cleveland
Geo. A. Jewell
Binghanton
Wm. Apgar
Lady
Lipley
Lambert
Fredonia
F. G. Mars
Philadelphia
P. C.F. Schultz
Carpenter
Buffalo
Eric Hotel
PF. B. Lane
Chicago
DW. Dean
Evie
J. EB. Copeland
Cincinnati
M. Dahlman
New York
M.A. Whiting
Geo. Stevens
P. E. Legectt
Holland
Jac. J. Maglanchini
Philade
Alex. Reed
Dr. E. Y Wineman
Missy Glycan
Eric
Br. ‘A. ID
Smith
Grandia No. 18 well report stirs market in Transville
Transville Va January 18 Grandia No 18 well is reported producing 60 barrels per hour causing a market break. The report highlights the impact on oil prices and investor interest in Grandia wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transville
Grandia
VILLAINY AND MISHAPS IN THE COUNTY NOTES
A collection of 1883 events reports Elisha Putnam's death from bowel inflammation in Stockton, a deputy injuring his thigh in an accidental explosion, burglars convicted in Buffalo, a Ripley depot gun incident, a council proposal to drop borough status in OU City, and a missing Dayton man feared dead after a winter storm with long search efforts.
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Sheril McCleary
Satangpea
Ife
Buffalo Anil
OU City
Rinks Agi
Queer cause of divorce in New York suit
Samuel Brown of New York sues for separation on novel grounds after marriage in 1882 claiming his wife’s breath is so offensive he cannot kiss her. He alleges her former husband left her for the same reason and seeks perpetual separation with alimony, urging New York law to allow an absolute divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Brown
New York
Court of Common Pleas
Hungary
Bat
le Asky
Mr. Brown
New York State
Earth
Buffalo Express
Vox Populi Swindle in Local Drawings Stirs Outcry
An anonymous letter to the Observer accuses a city resident of printing 50 cent tickets promising a mare as a prize with an announced drawing date that was not properly published. The writer details alleged fraud, notes a later published result, and cites other local notices while recounting a distant farmhand tale from Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Histor Observer
Hau
Saidine
Who's Dat Knockin at the Door in Log Cabin poker game
In a log cabin three Black players poker with an old Black preacher as a target. Geother bro boosts a player he wins money as a preacher holds exactly four aces then turns around asking who knocking at the door. The other players gamble and the preacher pockets all, saying the knockin was you Mallah as he leaves. Washington Republican reports the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preacher
Hughes
Moriah
Fehlers
Mallah
Washington
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Sfeeton East Front Street
Thomas Calagee
Bash Talcott
Janes Kae
Robin
Grinwald and
Talcott
Ilegan & Co
TarLor
Lake Shore
Hood
Thele
T. C. Jones
Wheeler Ponsorial Pariors
Center Street
Paris
Sunitton
Eagle
Papillon
Papillion Manufacturing Co
Lyon Bros. and
Light & Tarpee
Emilton
Col. Eagle and
West 3Rd Sts
W. I. Edwards & Go's
Evening Observer
le Farmer and Observer Publiasing Company
East Recosp Sr
Martin
Alice
Soutiter
Arkive
Waaninaron Onakb
Dava
Opserviet
Dunkie
Kature
Kathe
J. F. Stearns
Mir. Buickney
Albert Beutter
Thomas iSirby
W. J. Austen & Co
Austen
Oswego
UP. Monrow
State of
John M. Peck
Josie Roddy
Frank Zoli
Hsband
Olive Ristey Seward
Eric Freight
Wager
Frony Street
Bagmaire
Aiwl Bowsiy
Albany Jasiuith
Hioeral
City Hall
M. Sharp
W. Bookstaver
Epels
Eugene A. Dye
Mellette
Spink Co
Dakota
Dye
Villenova
Flanover
Cherry Creek
Dyce
Dako
Spink County
Manayzer Gilbert
W. AW. Slack
Dora Koch
City
St. James Hotel
A. BE. Loudis
Dna
Mullen & Buchner
A. AL. Williams
Bradford
P. J. Holeran
Frank Jackson
Hookish
W. Ts. Durer
A. E. Kinner
Lapland Cottage
Central Avenue
Grandia No
Elisha Putnam
Stockton
Page
Hill
Ripley
Dayton
Bersee
Wesley Bersee
Michigan
Cottage
Cathmugs County
George Scofield
Scofield
Secreh
VOX Populi
Jasper Bonse
DeWitt
Elizabeth DeWitt
Lake Road
James Paxton
Kasper Rouse
Light & Harper
Dunkirk, N.Y
Hotel Simpson
Dunkirk Boller Skating Rink
Wilh
Afusic
M. McDonald
Missouri
St Louis
San Francisco Bay
Aose v
Son
Velvet
Danforth & CO
Central Avene
McCarthy
China
China Hall
N.Y
B. S. Teale
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