Debonair Painters and Postal Card Craze From 1885
A Dunkirk notice reports painter Mr. Charlie Stecker plans a Europe trip to Germany for rest. It notes a vivid card collecting craze and describes local G A R posts and officers installed by B C Cronyn, including pension agent Sidney L. Wilson of Fredonia, with various names and positions.
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Charlie Stecker
Deer St
Europe
Germany
Monron's Collnge's
N. Y
Lios Bioe
Mance Briess
Morton's Carnera
Erie Co
B.C. Cronyn
Holt Post
G. A. St. of Feedpok
M. M. Fenner
B. Cobb
I. F. Weaver
D. W. Rood
Adais
D.—W. Sly
J. A. Rodenbaugh
J. E. Wooster
D. G
D. N. Thayer
Amos Bolster
Chas. Randall
P. C. Sidney L. Wilson
Fredonia
Wreck Delays Erie Train Near Cuba Beyond Olean
Erie train Sea the Erie due at 1 30 Thursday afternoon arrived six hours and 20 minutes late due to a wreck near Cuba beyond Olean. A freight engine derailed, was moved back to the rails, then derailed again. Obstructed track delayed all trains with little damage. A paper wheel tire slip blamed for the fault.
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Erie
Cuba
Olean
Burial of Walter Moore Follows Texas Death at 33
Walter Moore's remains arrived from Texas for private funeral services in Center street undertaker rooms. He was 33 at death. Mrs. Martha Fessenden of Sheridan died Monday night at 79 and was buried Thursday. Her son was killed in a fatal accident last summer. Miss Louisa Hale died at her father's Third Street home at 4 20 after typhoid fever and bowel inflammation. She was the oldest daughter. her five year old sister Charlie is sick but improving. The funeral for Miss Hale is set for 2 at the house with Rev. E P Adams officiating. Buffalo papers please copy.
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Walter Moore
Texas
Third Street
Mharlie
E. P. Adams
Buffalo
Bail for Sperry bondholders debated in Chauteauqua
In a heated meeting Jeu Goin denounces the bondsmen who signed for former County Treasurer Sperry. He argues the public should not bear any part of Sperry’s defalcation and accuses the bondmen of complicity or negligence. The piece portrays local anger over alleged financial misconduct and calls for accountability.
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Eniron
Evasixe Onsentze
Sperry
Dutiego
Chautauyqua
Mr. Sperry
Board of Supervisors
Chautauqua
Jeu Goin
Canajobari academy scales weighed for gravity study
Prof Ghirtes F Wheelock, principal of Canajobari academy, completed scales eighteen inches high that weigh a hundredth part of a grain up to fifteen pounds. The Spencerport post office was burglarized Monday January 26 with about £35 in small money taken and letters opened. No clue found, but locals suspect local talent, third burglary at this office.
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Spencerport
Assignment shields home creditors at Dunkirk iron works
Sellew & Popple assign assets to Orin Smith of Center street to protect home creditors including workmen, banks, and oil creditors. The Dunkirk Iron Works and Gowanda operations close temporarily while an inventory is taken. 36 workers are laid off. Mr Sellew, owner, has broad real estate and oil interests, with total liabilities around 12,000 though assets exceed debts.
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Sellew & Popple
Dunkirk
Lion Alrec
Ousxny. BE
C. D. Murray
Orin Smith
Center Street
Popple
A. R. Sellen
Sellew
Gowanda
A. R. Sellew
Schiew
E. P. Sellew
Mlr. Sellew
Lion Street
Sellow
Farmer's National Bank of
Cattaraugus County
Sellen
Ilfe
Smith
Bellew
Alurray
Mayville
Dun’s
County and vicinity news roundup and incidents
Rochester roller rinks pay a license. Dr William Blaikie lectured in Jamestown. Warren A Adamsey of Waverley Stock Farm Westfield in Canada to look after stock. A Troy and Boston train was stuck in a snow drift near Schaghticoke leaving passengers in a bad way. Lyons natives protest gambling, two places closed. Rochester firm contracts to supply 7 250 000 bottles weighing 10 030 000 pounds and 41 400 cars with Philadelphia glass works, a record. State law requires every employed child to attend public school at least twelve weeks a year or a $50 penalty. A new post office opens in Saltville Wyoming county. Rochester and Pittsburg trains stop there. A lamp overturn at Angola Juvenile Templars lodge causes $25 000 damage to Main and Lake Streets area including Thompson millinery Tickoor meat market and Sweet drug store. Senate confirms William S Steele to Mint Philadelphia and Lucius H Foster to Korea posting, plus Rear Admiral promotions for Satie B Franklin.
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Angola
Main
Lake Streets
Norwegian Lutheran Conference in session at Church of our Savior
Curiaco January 30 report: Over two hundred ministers and delegates attend a Norwegian Lutheran conference in this city to settle long standing doctrinal differences. The Norwegian Lutheran America community exceeds half a million but is split among four synods over redemption absolution and justification. Four prior conferences failed to unite. The session is planned to last ten days.
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Curiaco
Church of Our Savior
United States
Camels and Tartar Herds and London Tunnel Jest
A miscellany notes camel endurance on 400 mile routes with 12 to 14 day treks, Camb agri breeds and meat value at thirty, Tartars owning large camel herds, Timbuctoo speed couriers covering 900 miles in eight days with dates and gram, Chicago Tremid Sunday events, Sunday symphony options, tunnel optimism about English exodus from London, St Petersburg population trends and infant death rate figures.
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Chicago
Europe
Channel
London
Life in Winnipeg and the climate contrasts
A Northwestern Canadian writes about life in Winnipeg comparing winters to New York, noting farm yields and the need for soil manuring. He observes clothing customs for seasons, discusses heat and air, and mentions pests like black flies and mosquitoes affecting comfort and health in summer.
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Winnipeg
New York
Minnesota
Iowa
Mano
The Early Days of Central Park Collected
Gen Egbert L Viele recounts drafting plans for Central Park in 1850 and seeing them praised by William Cullen Bryant. He notes the park’s public opening in 1862, the shift of elites to Fifth Avenue, and the transformation of the city’s downtown and Broadway as the park finally completed according to his original design.
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Central Park
Egbert L. Viele
William Culien Bryant
Fifth Avenue
Albemarle
Holiman
Broadway
Union Square
Lenoxres
Astors
Second Avenue
Ionz
The Toilet of the Same and Forrest’s Tragic Dietars
A digressive stroll through a spring serpents’ renewal ritual and a theater lore sketch. It blends a Brooklyn Eagle note on a serpent shedding old skin with commentary on Henry Forrest’s dietary habits as a reflection of his performance style and Shakespearean roles.
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Forrest
Brooklyn Eagle
Macbeth
Jamb
Lear
Rome
A False Weather Prophet
Hastings offered a preamble and resolution condemning a club weather prophet once in its employ. The vote ousted Pendulum Tack water, the so called professor, without pay after accusing him of misleading about December to April conditions. Pickles Smith argued for another trial before the decision.
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Hastings
Pickles Smith
Prophet
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Devart
Arrive
Tim
Gegart
Southern
Akelve E. Stow
Wasmuigrox
Maurice Loeb
Wren
Wale
Powercom
Henry Weiler
Tage Nheirmorances
Valentines
Thomas Brady, Jr
Kerry Gow
Opera House
Assemblyman Kruse
Cattaraugus 3300
Walter S. Wager
Jas. C. Wilbur
H. G. Colman
Boston
Robert Nelson
Toledo
James Harriet
Missouri Valley Junction
F. K. Lyon
McDonald Polo Club
Ty. m
E. C. Perry & O
A Lindstone
M. R. Mane
New York City
W. Mamson
Pemroe
St. James
Peter Wagner
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Third Ward
dJob
A. Hi. Smith
Fos. Harvey
Bradford
Geo. W. Miller
Brooklyn
Erie Hotel
Horton
Chauswauqua
Point Chautauqua Association
M. D. Kneeland
Ballalo
Albert Cummings
Jamestown
Walter K. Williams
Messrs. C. Stewart
Hornellsville
D. Hinckley
Clymer
James G. Osborne Jr
Philadelphia
Haw Jey
C. W. Richards
Charles Randall
The
Hurlbert
Onsterver
University of Rochester
George Tucker Selien
William Praecis Shero
Lake Shore
Brat Mopping Station
Spoory Bondsmen
Sellew & Popple Asslen
Ressens
County and Yecenity
Rochester Roller Rinks
William Blaikie
Warren A. Adamsey
Waverley
Westfield
Canada
Troy
Schaghticoke
Lyons
Rochester
Glass Works
Wyoming County
Saltville
Warsaw Valley
Rochester & Pittsburg
Senate
William 8. Steele
Mint
Lucius Hi. Foster
California
Corea
Satie B. Franklin
Norwegian Lutherans In Council
St. Petersburg
Snake
San Francisco
James C. Russell
N. J. Jackson
Coal & Wood
Fast Front Street
Buffalo Street
S.M. Hamilton
Eagle and W.third St. Dunkirk
Ieee Wl
Union Hardwre
Bradstreet’s
Bradstreet
Bradstreey
Telegrape 70 Pradstreet
TRE Bradstreet
Broadway York
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Léth
Mentel Daniirk
Batak
Micha
Chieasy Ea
Louis
Pacife
Duffale
Orc
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Westwake
Lesternel
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Chica
Acmi
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