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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1884
Page
4
A collage of ads lists Lyon Brothers Palace Drug Store at 52 Center Street as sole agent for Omeida Community and Hee Line cigars, plus pipes and plumbing supplies from Hamilton’s Coal Yard. Also promotes Papillon skin products, coal yard goods, and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething with claimed cures and a 95 cent price.
In Buffalo Center and Dun Kirk area shoppers are invited to patronize the Buffalo One Price Clothing Store. The ad promises to close out all overcoats and winter goods at reduced prices after this date. It guarantees to underprice any other Buffalo seller and invites customers to compare prices.
Anecdotal note questions why imitation Singer machines predominate. It cites the Chicago fire relief drive supplying 2945 machines to women, with 2427 choosing Singer and 517 other makes. It claims the people’s award for the Singer and notes 487 Singer machines sold from the Dunkin office in 1883.
Gil closed to-day at 1097. Ellis family Bell Ringers at City Hall. Tonight benefit for Relief Fund and GAR. Private hop at Turn Hall on Tuesday the 20th. Rink music nights shifted to Thursday and Saturday. Auction of land on Front street in Dunkirk offered at sacrifice. Dunkirk spotlight on local ads, theatres, and curiosities plus Gorton’s New Orleans Minstrels in Carlisle praised for lively performance and contortionist feats.
The Ellis family of six stays at Hurlbert House while Fred McQuember becomes a ticket agent in Saint Paul. Telegrams summon Mrs Chapman to Dalmyra. Numerous arrivals and departures fill St James, Eastern, Hurlbert, and Erie Hotels with guests from New York, Bradford, Buffalo, Rochester, Chicago, and beyond. A New York troupe presents Nobody's Claim at the Opera House, as Leap Year party finances close with a full report tomorrow.
A jumble of reports from Excelsior works near Silver Creek closing due to no orders leaving about sixty men unemployed. Warren sees the arrest of longtime Express Agent W A Shorf for an accounts shortfall around $1,000 who posted bail. Meadville schools showcase a new literature extract program yielding marked benefits. A Nickel Plate derailment near Ripley kills Fred Keog of Conneaut and injures five. Jamestown’s American House sale settles a mortgage for $31,000 with the bid by the mortgage holder. The Era cites tall local giants by height from Warren to Tarport and Bradford. A Lake Shore train incident sees a sleeping passenger attempt to jump from a moving car, restrained with bruising. An odd telephone quarrel between Mayville and Jamestown ends with a drunken accusation overheard by another party. Chautauqua Boat and Light Company secretary A F Allen Brown denies Warren gas fuel freezing claims, noting no fuel shortage and an increased customer count.
A January 22 1934 social at City Bfall featured appointed officers and committees arranging a grand hall with white duck floor coverings Florida moss banners and a ruby glass fountain. Guests from Buffalo Fred Stevens Palmer Ed Beil and Mary Curtiss admired music by Prof Krattt supper by Mrs Simpson and lively dancing while the Leap Year event left a lasting pleasant memory.
An analysis argues evening papers are read more carefully than morning editions and thus serve as a superior advertising medium. It notes readers are busy during the day, women often read after dinner, and advertisers are recognizing the advantage. John A. McCann, once of Jamestown Sunday Leader, moves to Marshall, to pursue business.
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