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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1883
Page
3
The town discusses the water works delay and a scandalous note game stirring curiosity. FP Skinner is tipped for district attorney, the fair draws near, and a neighbor’s wife reports flirtatious notes accusing a stealthy suitor who never appears. The tale ends with questions about the so-called Romeo.
Forestville reports show Frain our Special Reporter noting visits by Weren Parsons of Cherry Creek and Miss Sleeper on business. Duane Griswold leaves hardware after selling to Elmer Wiggins and starts with Cary Matteson of Dunkirk. offers his Academy street house for twelve hundred dollars. Local arrivals include Jule Williams from Dunkirk and Rica Daniel Bean visiting Mrs Dix. Hart Pierce leaves for Fort Plain to attend school. Funeral for Wm Burke held at his Academy Street home officiated by Rev Ball. Charles Pierce to attend Cornell after summer in Lock Haven. Theron Scovill and wife visit from Silver Creek. Fred Webb returns after 29 years away. Sheriff Lake on town business. Mrs Frank Gould of Dunkirk visits Mrs Shermeon. Warren Dow and daughter visit C D Angell and John Rider begins foundation on West Main. Lottie Tharrison attends her cousin’s wedding in Frewsburg.
A woman dropped needles at work and stepped on a rusty one while dressing. A fragment pierced her foot, leading to lockjaw and death from blood poisoning. A Catholic priest ignored pen tips stored upright, later suffering a similar fate after a puncture and ensuing infection.
Joaquin Mille’s Philadelphia Press letter condemns Harvard students making tobacco pouches and boots from human skins. He mocks the tanning idea, quotes shoemakers questioning durability, and imagines grisly executions to supply skins while asking what Boston would say if Oregon skins the dead. The piece ends with scandalous provocation about skinning people.
Albany Journal reports on hop picking season details from Otsego and neighboring counties. About 2 000 to 3 000 Albany residents travel to yards regionally with total regional numbers near 15 000 involved. Wages average thirty cents per box with brisk pickers doing three to four boxes in a day. Growers hire local and country pickers, provide music and amusements, and defer morality oversight to the pickers discretion amid lively but unruly yard life.
In a September 1879 reminiscence, Bode Hawkins resists college while Ambrose Tawkins returns to farm life. Charles Francis Adams is cited as a model his father must unlarn from, with Hawkeye tone. The Sugar Grove Fair advertises for September 11 with liberal premiums and a fine exhibition.
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