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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1884
Page
4
Erie Store promotes underwear hosiery and glove bargains while Buffalo One Price Clothing Store touts heavy discounts on winter wear. Megaphone notes a meteor display coming Thursday and Friday. Dr Langworthy to see patients at Eastern Hotel on mid November dates. Parish notes: Fr Frey moves to St George’s school awaiting parsonage completion by Christmas.
Names of visitors and residents on the Erie line include Ne Langworthy and Milfud Q Scott of Brocton. Clergyman Rev Mr Stong travels to attend a relative funeral. Various locals at Buffalo and Hamilton area venues. The St George’s new school building on Railroad Avenue is completed with steam heat, a large hall, and seating for about 860. first concert planned December 4 under home talent. Baker and Parton perform at the Academy of Music with Emigrants showings continuing.
Fragmentary clippings report diverse items: a deer shot near Red House, a Bath Advocate note on roads aiding 2,000 men, a Cattaraugus board of underwriters meeting in Salamanca, counterfeiting trouble in Rochester, and multiple regional incidents from New York state including political remarks, fires, accidents, and public notices.
The passage credits Burchard with saving the country by supporting Cleveland for president and laments that without his work in Huan, Romanism, and Rebellion others would have won. It expresses hope he would continue to guide citizens toward better leadership and marriage.
Letter from Watt Adell of Webster West Moreland County Pennsylvania compares Pennsylvania's election laws to New York and describes polling procedures, voter eligibility and secrecy, ballot handling, and potential fraud. He notes age, tax payment, and registration rules and recalls a Philadelphia ward incident as illustrative, urging scrutiny of New York rules.
In this city nearly 100 more men were relieved from duty at the Brooks Locomotive Works last evening. Three-quarters time remains for those still employed as total job cuts reach about 300 in three weeks. Selnen & Popple iron works report dull trade and reduced hours. D A V and two Tailway section men shift to five days weekly while repair shops adopt a seven day schedule. The downturn, linked by some to a shift in national policy, prompts cautious optimism for a quick recovery.
George Wiley, 23, a farm laborer for Danl Wopkins in Sardinia, left with his employer's wife Mrs Hopkins, a 46 year old grandmother, after years of service and affection. They departed Monday with a trunk of clothes left behind at Mr. Hopkins's home and later came into Hopkins's possession.
A string of aphorisms on wisdom envy pride and virtue. Notes on home life character strength and the world. A final line cites Robertson noting redemption through Christ and restoration of the sinned.
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