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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1883
Page
4
Diverse items on residents moves and home improvements, a new amusements section, sales notices by McCarthy’s China Hall, sidewalk complaints, church farewells, hotel arrivals, a large livestock and prize exhibit listing, and community notices about fairs and excursions. The jumble includes personal mentions, adverts, and timing for upcoming events in Dunkirk Jamestown and nearby towns.
The article describes the synagogue customs for the Jewish New Year. Services extend beyond the Sabbath with solemn rites and the sounding of the ram’s horn, the Shephar, in multiple blasts. Orthodox congregations echo 100 blasts on Tuesday, while German Polish and Russian worshippers wear white garments and skull caps during prostrations.
A fragmented 1883 list from the Agricultural Society of Northern Chiuano shows prizes awarded at the Atmanal Pair and Livelines Exhibition ending September 22, 1883. Exhibitors from Forestville Sheridan Fredonia Jamestown Dunkirk and other places are named with ages and prize amounts. The document includes stallion, mare with foal, harness and road horse categories and various entrants such as Wainer, Merrill, Jewell, Griswold, Peters, Glynn, Downer, Newton, Tarbox, and many others, with addresses and prize details.
Readable fragments report Mrs Lucy Brown of Hanover near 100 years old died of old age in Stockton. Stockton hosts a ten piece cornet band with $150 outlay for instruments. Jamestown wiring work for Rapid telegraph company bells likely finish this week. Dr J T Edwards of Chamberlain Institute will lecture at Jamestown next Tuesday. Erie locomotives dispatched to relieve a blockade on the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio road. NY and PA Telephonie Co workers erect poles for a Jamestown Sugar Grove line and sold hundreds in telephone tickets to local business men.
A flood of late 19th century advertisements from Dunkirk and Buffalo trade in Fall and Winter clothing at Buffalo One Price Clothing Store 47 Center Street with Mason lithographers, druggists, and patently advertised cures. Other items include oysters, paints, vaudeville style notices, and portrait photography at Gilford's Art Gallery nearby on Third Street.
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