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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1885
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows a transit schedule with arrivals and departures for HASTERN and SOUTHERN lines. Details include times such as 30, 1245, 1130, 0530 and codes like 7710 pom DEPART. Readable entities are scarce. core items indicate timetable entries without clear destinations or dates.
The station reports lower lakes snow, then fair weather with slight fall and rising temperatures. Westerly winds push barometer up with a fall in the western area. A note mentions the Evanixne Onseaven kept at Maurice Doob’s confectionery and available at Henry Weiler’s newsroom for non-subscribers.
Dunkirk Journal issues a rapid stream of local notices and society items. It reports political caucuses and elections, school board meeting notes, hotel and business openings, illnesses, social visits, and a flood of short town notices from residents and visitors with scattered names and places across Dunkirk.
A Dun Kirk column notes Hen A Beltoy leaves for Daneville in Livingston Co to lecture for Bov M A and to cover a wide area. Mrs Helen Lynell denies seeking or needing aid from the Charitable Committee. A G Brooks ill with biliary fever. heading to Los Angeles soon with Mrs Brooks and daughter Mrs Patterson. Williams Steam Washers lent services to three remote families in a single morning, a swift wash. Cail & Son advertise menswear at reduced prices. A large crowd attends Captain Jack Wolf trial. pleads guilty to third degree assault and faces $15 fine or 60 days in county workhouse. Conductor John Wallis of the BRC road recovering from injuries, knee dislocation and bone damage. Dr. Cutler aided recovery.
A Democratic Third Ward candidate is tied to Lake Shore Railroad and Western Union, amid rail crossings without watchmen and calls for action. Mentions a May 11 1893 law requiring railroads to employ staff at crossings. Also notes local YMCA happenings in Albany and Syracuse, with youth Bible readings led by J T Jones Sr and books offered to boys.
A Dunkirk correspondent overhears an Irish brakeman trying to decipher railroad car initials in the yard. He reads sequences like RW and QO, Hotten Wood and Old Rails, Dr and W, Delay, Ginger and Wait, and others such as PFW and G Passengers Furnished Whisky and Cigars. The note dates February 25.
Major and Mrs. K. Abell left for Washington yesterday. Henry Weiler departed for the Capital City at noon. He will be absent a week as guest of his brother Ferdinand Weiler of the Treasury Department. William Bristol left for Washington Saturday night. Twenty men and two ladies from Fredonia took the cars here for Washington Saturday night.
A false rumor circulated in Cleveland Ohio that President-elect Cleveland had been killed. An inquiry by Mr E W Ross via his wife elicited that no assault occurred. A crank named Craig was arrested for loitering near Governor Cleveland's residence, with no assassination attempt found.
The Rev William Martin preached from Johns fourth chapter on God attributes and love. He urged personal faith and family ties with God, urged public sociable at Mrs Chambers on Central avenue next Thursday evening, and warned about running the event down. A Dunkirk Dunkirk exchange joke about Washington alive provoked excitement at the Dunkirk office. A Mayville meeting of the Board of Supervisors committee planned bond prosecutions and named M L Hipman as potential supervisor nominee.
Republicans and Democrats hold town caucuses to nominate officers for tomorrow's election. In Ward meetings in Columbus Lab and nearby offices, ballots and acclamations produced tickets with names such as John Lanning, Charles Finhaven, Cornelius Vrooman, and Dennis Reedy among others, while a musicale at Mrs. Isham's residence drew 60 to 70 attendees with performances by Miss Maude Murray and Miss Dewey of Fredonia.
Take notice that all persons indebted to Ernst A Hoffacker must pay up at once to the assignee Wm Zinmensay. Hoffacker’s agent will call and give receipts in the assignee's name.
The advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla cleanses the blood to cure scrofula. It asserts thousands have been cured and urges purchase from all druggists.
AB persons indebted to Jackson and Company per will must call and settle with Jas N J Jackson on Front Street. One coal of office at foot of Buffalo. d8w.
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