Picnic at Van Buren Point Prompts Local Buzz
Local notes report a Van Buren Point picnic with many citizens in attendance. Monroe introduces a new ice cream soda stand at his city drug store, and a perfume stock valued at over $1000 is highlighted. Public services at Presbyterian and Tabernacle churches are announced. A July 15 excursion to Dunville Canada is planned aboard the steamer Periwinkle, with a $1 round trip ticket. Leopold Gunther, 67, dies in Dunkirk after long illness. funeral Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Dunville
Canada
Periwinkle
Leopold Gunther
Dunkirk
East Second Street
Gunther
Baden
Germany
Second Street
Personal Mentions At Erie And City Visitors Highlight Alumni
A flurry of local greetings greets Jamestown and Rochester residents visiting the city. Names include F. BR Peterson, Mrs Jan Leliever, Jotn O'Brien and wife nee Flynn, Mr H J Miller, Mrs Hiram Exstein and children, Edward Warner and children, and Wm L Bogart with S G Snell. Also noted are Buffalo agents C G Krause and E C Babcock at the Bt. James, and Geo Chapman with Miss Millie Hendricks visiting Dove Street. Other entries mention N J U Worton of Dunkirk, Prof EB J Mark of Harvard visiting the Mark family, and local attendance at the Alumni event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Chapman
EB. J. Mark
Harvard College
Cambridge
Mass
Mark
E. King
Swan Street
Fredonia
Big job printing department announcement read
Read the big announcement of our job printing department. McCarthy's China display attracts Canadian visitors to Monroe's drugstore. Winslow Social Club plans Buffalo Picnic at Silver Creek tomorrow. The Johnson child Della V. dies at nine months. funeral at Tartfield Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winslow Social Club of
Buffalo
Silver Creek
Della V
Alumni Association Sixth Annual Reception at Opera House
Alumni gathered at the Opera House for the Sixth annual reception with Prof. Kraft leading the orchestra. Dell Tuttle welcomed guests, Mr. August Huber played zither solos, and Miss Clara Philippbaar sang. Eugene Cary delivered an address on alumnus duties, followed by dancing as the event was praised as the most successful yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera
Kraft
Conrad
Berlin
Weint
Dell Tuttle
Little Vailey
Association
King Winter
Misses i Drweert
Maud Murray
Swannee River
E.G. Perry
Dunkirk Academy
Clara H. Philippbaar
Eugene Cary
A Day Outing by Presbyterian Church and Sunday School
The Presbyterian church and Sunday School plan a day outing to Cassadaga next Tuesday. All congregation members and friends are urged to meet at the depot by 9 14 a m. Round trip tickets for adults cost 30 cents. The 5 8 members will be provided for. Come and enjoy a pleasant day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Cote Cassadaga
St Mary's School Commencement Impresses Columbus Tall
A large Columbus audience attended the St Marys Parochial School commencement exercises praising the pupils training and late years progress. The program featured a Salutatory by Grammar Dept pupils, a May Queen drama, recitations, tableaux, a valedictory essay Our Motto by Katie Murphy, and a closing address by Father Stephen highlighting the schools goals and achievements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
St. Mary’s
Sisters of Charity
Church Brotherhood
Columbus Tall
St. Mary's School
Grammar Department
Usder Em
Belle Connors
Dora Cavanagh
Thomas Pesmond
Thomas Lee
G. Shaster
John Fay
Lillie McNamara
Thomas Caney
Bernard Lee
Maggie Keough
Patrick Tandraban Ce
Pericles
Painter
Seville
Nora C. Donoven
Katie Murphy
Annie Johnson
Mary Cloughesey
Nellie Fitzgerald
Michael Holland
Nellie Egan
Damon
Pythias
Ida Emory
Nev
Stephen
Satin corsets and fancy fabrics in evolving fashion trends
American manufacturers offer satin corsets at 33.59 each indistinguishable from French 10 corsets. English cloths in vel vet and broche, satin and silk, priced 50 to 75, appeal to fastidious shoppers. Mme Nilsson's reception attire featured yellow ivory brocade with pearls. Poplin rises in windows and upholstery, styling portieres with unseen folds. Renaissance fashion lingers, Greeks reappear with dramatic effects each season.
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Mme. Nilsson
Jon
Elmira Rates to Rise and Other 19th Century Local Items
A jumbled notice page reports Elmira Daily Advertiser rates rising on July 1 from six to forty seven per year. Across Erie and Chautauqua counties there are tales of odd animals, including a five legged calf and a live week old chicken. Measles sweep Warren families while a Chautauqua lake race offers a $50 to 2500 purse. A jury in a murder trial prays then convicts first degree. Oil producers meet to curb output with over 409 signatures to halt drilling. Local land deals, postmaster recovery, and school bond votes in Albeuny, plus storm damage near Gerry and Sinclairville are noted. The piece closes with genealogical data on Mrs Kath Glanchard Lartoo, born 1747, tracing her church affiliations and moves through 1832 Forestville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bartoy
Forestville Baptist Church
Hey
Look
Kath Glanchard Lartoo
Massachusetts
Presbyterian Church
Erie Co
John Bartoo
Edeo
Baptist Church
Lawover
Forestville
Climbing a Fence Makes a Woman the Star of a Show
A Chicago Tribune piece dramatizes a girl attempting to climb a fence in a humorous, observational tone. The piece describes repeated failed attempts, the suspense of reaching the top rail, and the comic relief of tiny mishaps. Eventually she slides down safely, vowing to avoid fences and prefer a companion to help next time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Terra Firma
Ala
Feu
Alepek
Efurt
Narrow Escape With Rattlesnake Spares Child
Last Sunday Mrs James Halford visiting John Carhart in Spring Creek prevented her two year old from grabbing a venomous rattlesnake. The child seized the tail as the snake rattled, the mother screamed, the child dropped the snake and both escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebron
Nebo Journal
James Halford
John Carhart
Spring Creek
Freemet
Erib
Anarow
Fragmented reflections on gender and poetry in verse
The passage laments women imitating men to gain distinction and muses on poetry as sorrow. It extols truth difficult to find and utter, claims reason as a curb to passions, and notes a single motion sealing a marriage as irreversible. It speaks in aphoristic, antiquated prose about art, emotion, and social roles.
Hood's Saraparlin Frighteningly Boosts Appetite and Vitality
A fragmented notice touts Hood's Saraparlin as a tonic that promises to awaken appetite, restore energy, and enliven bodily functions. The ad-style phrasing suggests a medicinal claim aimed at general wellness.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Teething
A vintage advertisement claims Winslow's Soothing Syrup relieves teething pain, dysentery and diarrhea, calms the stomach, and boosts energy. It touts an old nurse’s prescription, pleasant taste, and world spread availability at BE cents a bottle. Also mentions cigars and a Wheeler Bros shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viet
Horle
Mom Winslow
Winslow
United States
New deals for oysters meats and lumber goods
The notice advertises cheap cue tut deals in oysters fresh meats and lard. It mentions Coat Wood and Lumber with shingles lath red cedar and chestnut posts at Namilton's Coal Yard located near Enagle and West ard Streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Namilton’s
Enagle and
West Ard Sts
Local Building Materials Advertised at Hamilton’s Cast Yard
Advertisement lists salt lime cement sewer pipe and drain tile fire brick and clay plaster Paris land plaster and hair phosphates and c at Hamiltons cast yard located at the corner of Eagle and West third streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Eagle
W. 3d Streete
Ladies Hairdressing and Bangs Trimming at Wheeler Gros
Special attention to ladies hair dressing and trimming of bangs in all styles offered at Wheeler Gros barber shop located at Center &t.
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Wheeler Gros
Center &T
Geto Wheelers Tousorial Parien Center notice
Geto Wheelers offers Shaw ing hairdressing shampooing and ladies and children hair dressing at the center near the post office. Three chairs are in use as they run. Also advertised is Shiloh’s Liver Pills for sale by Lyon Bros. and J. Harper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geto Wheelers
Tousorial Parien Center Street
Shiloh
Lyon Hros
J. Harper
Buffalo One Price Clothing Store Ad Promotes Stock and Prices
An ad urges shoppers to hurry to Buffalo Center Street store for a vast stock of men youths and children's wear at low prices. It claims the shop is the best place to buy clothing and invites readers to verify prices and offerings. The copy also mentions a contact Reverend George H. Thayer and a separate testimonial about Shilon's Consumption Cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Center St. Olw
Geo. H. Thayer
Shilon
Lyon Bros
Harper
One Price
Center al
Dunkirk
N.Y
Taw
Displaced Bridge Collapses Over White River
A freight train derailed a bridge over the White River just north of the city yesterday afternoon. While repairs on the bridge were ongoing a rail gave way, the locomotive struck the displaced section and careened into the river. Two spans fell, a cart plunged into the water, with no casualties. Loss estimates range from 12,000 to 315,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inpranaracis
Jie
St Lo & C
White River
Counterfeiter Arrested in Milwaukee
Milwaukee June 27 A man using the name E J Marshal was nabbed trying to pass a counterfeit England note at Merchants Exchange Bank Milwaukee He carried another note of the same denomination and forty five dollars in U S currency The arrest followed information from Chief Doyle of Chicago where Marshal had operated last week
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Milwaukee
E. J. Marshal
Bank of England
Merchants Exchange Bank
Marshal
Chief Doyle
Chicago
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Saturday Evening Observer
Local Department
Evening Observer
Ealways
Harry
Marchew
Washempton
Western
Faldonia
THE
Observer
Puss
O51
van Buren Point
Academy
O. W. Kinane
Michael J. Gross
Mary Coburn
Charles J. Baker
Alice
Blaine and Logan Club
Knitting Mills
J. Girrorp
Douglas Grove
Peters Hotel
Campbell Galbraith
le Iy
Siewepape
F. BR. Peterson
Jamestown
Erie
Mrs
Jan, Leliever of
Rochester
L. B. Colwell
Friendship
Regis
Jotn O'Brien
Wife Nee Flynn
H. J. Miller
Hiram Exstein
Joe Abrams
Edward Warner
Children of
Wm. L. L. Bogart
8. G. Snell
Erie, Pa
Cartie Stevens
C. G. Krause
E. C. Babcock
Niagara Falls
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Arest
Bt. James
W. B. Hooker, Esq
New Tacoma
W. T
4. R. Gifford
Tie
Little Valley
N. J
Monroe's
City Drug Store
Stoddards
McCarthy
Alumnni Association
Lornellaville
Iene
Shepard D. Webb
Jamea i Curtis
Webb
Curtis
Olean
Brennan
St. Mary's
Arabia
Elmira Daily Advertiser
Salamanca
Justices of the Peace
Nathan
Stalis
Elmira
Birdie Taylor
East Conneaut
Warren
Henry Durnin
Maynard
East Otto
Henry Brown
Amanca
Tuna Valley Bank
Pennsylvania
Associated Oil Producers
Chautauqua County Board of Five Underwriters
Chautauqua House
Mayville
Selo
Joseph XI. Shekton
Lairly
Albeuny
Cattaraugus County
Gerry
Sinclairville
Starrelaese Notary
Hately Creek
John Phelps
Hood
Saraparlin
Wheeler Bros
Barber Shop
Center Street
T. G Jones Selita
Neanorise
Che Bireraie
Conler Street
Preeen Ws
Aartel ST
Aordias
Cape
American Express
Sile
Business Gards
Agene Cary
Lake Shore Bank
Buffalo Stron
Frith
Dunkirk WN
Stanley
Coook Hindery
James Irving
J Journal Building
F W. Krafet
Deer St
Cor
Sixth St
H. K. Williams
Reirolenn
Lee
Bradford
Titusville
New York
Richardson
Deer
Fourth
Kate
Arume
Brady & Slathery
T. A.B. Norris
Prot
Harkins
Dow Street
Old
Emiberts
Treet Neal
Presbyterian
B. Bradley
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