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Evening Observer

Location

Dunkirk, New York, United States of America

Date

Oct 04, 1883

Page

3

Forestville News from Special Reporter M A Champlin

Forestville notes and local updates including travels of Miss Lottie Clark and teachers to Jamestown, a horse wagon accident on Lodi Street, Cora Dye’s death after a long illness, barn struck by lightning injuring a cow, stock dealer Frank Knapp selling Holstein calves, new groceries stocked by Daniel W Parsons, bridge repairs on Lodi Street, Tyler Searls’ forestville visit and Bradford sale talk, Vassar College attendance and Dakota relocation reports, and regional county officials and farms near Aberdine with population around three thousand.

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Superstition on the Erie Canal

An Erie Canal boatman, recounting years of superstition among canal workers, recalls Dead Man's Row and unlucky lifts. He recalls a smallpox death aboard a boat named the Erie, fumigation, and haunting ghosts. The piece links superstition to drivers, linemen, and captains as dangerous memories linger along the ditch.

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Why Men Do not Marry in the English marriage market

A Whitehall Review essay argues the English marriage market has become an arena of keen competition. It contends women’s natural impulses are ignored, social conduct pressures couples, and mothers shape girls to expect favors, while men often fail to declare love amid cautious social scrutiny.

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