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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1885
Page
4
A fragmentary old newspaper page blends a poetic lullaby with a stream of local items. It notes theater masks, weather, shipping, and multiple community updates from New York to Buffalo including illnesses, travel, events, and several minor notices.
Rates are laid out for travel to the inauguration with tickets on sale February 28 and usable until March 10 to Washington via several routes for 19.35 dollars. Meanwhile ice cutting shifts to private use as Grother expects better quality ice this year. Local notices mention a clerkship for W. D. McKinistry and various arrivals, church matters, and county politics critiquing advertising practices.
Secretary Thompaca adds fox and geese and morris to YMCA amusements. Dominoes chess and parchesi welcomed. Twenty young men attend Sunday service. Praise meetings growing in popularity and helpful. Effort to add bathroom to association rooms proceeds.
Blizzard disrupts Lake Shore trains with delays east of Cleveland and wrecked platforms. Reports show No. 4 arriving 4 hours late, No. 21 late from Bradford, and No. 31’s pay car attached. crews reroute two engines westbound. In society news, August resigns as President of the Gesang-Verein. Thomas Tickle to serve as new president with an election planned. a private masquerade ball is set for February with details to follow.
Next Saturday at the Opera House Joseph Murphy performs Kerry Jow a noted Irish drama with a gaol company. Murphy a leading comedian of Irish character in recent years is praised for delicate sincere and humorous portrayals with quality hunter scenes and avoidance of crude gags.
About 1500 spectators watched the second of three state championship polo games between Buffalo McDonalds and Olean Excelsiors at the Armory Rink. Excelsiors led 1-0 at 18 minutes. the match was tightly contested with fast skating and larger rink giving the visitors advantage. A horse shoe trophy was presented. final game will be in Olean in about a month.
Morrow B. Lowry born March 6 1813 in Mayville died January 19 at an insane asylum in Philadelphia aged 72 buried in Erie. He lived in Jamestown Clymer and elsewhere leaving many relatives. A strong abolitionist, he served in the Pennsylvania Legislature and State Senate representing Erie and Crawford counties. He was paralyzed in 1870 but recovered and remained active in politics, with family ties to Jamestown and North East. A Sunday meeting at the Presbyterian church and Baptist church events in coming days invite public attendance.
The funeral of Frank A. Shaler was held Sunday with a large crowd including the Swengerbund Dunkirk Fire Department and Germania Society. Processions moved from the Shaler home to the First Presbyterian church and Forest Hill Cemetery. Floral emblems honored the deceased. Interment followed with Mason involvement for William Cooper whose funeral also occurred in Dunkirk. Parish aids and community thanks were extended to Gouldsboro and Independent Hose 3. An iron/industrial note mentions a future project to pipe water to Jamestown and a lake car for the Water Supply Company.
The piece covers canvassing by book and patent article agents in the United States with earnings and installment plans, noting woman canvassers and typical goods. It also reports a LondonTimes correspondent on theosophy and allegations around Madame Blavatsky and Coulomb, plus a French scene defending small birds as pest destroyers.
Sir William Thompson, inventor of the silver galvanometer for recording cable messages, later invented a more marvelous instrument the syphon recorder. It writes the message without touching paper, using a tube pen and electrified ink to spray onto the page.
A Fourth street merchant criticizes a scheme described as Tubways marking goals as sold. The remark suggests the signs drive customers to seek a new promise, framing it as a costly and elaborate plan.
Police Captain Washburn notes that much so called fine detective work stems from luck, but concedes that a large share comes from hard work and sharp detective ability.
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