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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1889
Page
7
Community notes from Friendship New York recount local commerce and events. Items include flour sales at G W Robinsons and Champon Roller flour promotions, ads for furniture and groceries, school board actions, weather and road work, and notices of sermons, auctions, temperance meetings, and local travels.
Personal mentions show Eng. King, Prof. Pollard, and John C. Drake in frail health or travel status. Names like Hattie Pendleton, Alonzo Shaw, Mrs. Warren Rowley, Ed. Robinson, Mary Armstrong, Mrs. Clarence Stannard appear alongside visits, sales, and property transfers. The piece catalogs community arrivals, departures, illnesses, and small events with scattered addresses and firms. An ad for Lane's Family Medicine and Uncle Tom Cabin at Academy Hall closes the item.
Supt Badger led an excursion Friday from the County House to the Barnum show in Hornell aboard the Lackawanna line. About 72 fares left Birdsall and around 40 from Angelica joined, enjoying the return trip as workers repaired washed-out trestles and track north of town. Engineer Cooper later arrived at the depot with the locomotive as the crowd cheered,-roosters crowing nearby. An accommodation train is expected Monday.
Charles H Hammond formerly with Friendship as agent for the Lackawanna and Pittsburg railway has been named general freight and passenger agent of the rebuilt Lackawanna and Southwestern railway with headquarters at Angelica. Trains run from Wayland to Hornellsville and will reach Angelica soon, with Belfast service by the 26th. The note lauds Hammond as capable and promising, and hints at future ties with Friendship. Also mentions auction sale of Lewis Dunning’s house in Friendship, butter sales, and wheat variety notes from Everitt with promotional pricing and mail orders for seed.
The town reports a free trial offer from druggists for Lane’s Family Medicine claimed to cure blood and kidney diseases constipation and skin clearing. A large 50 cent package is advertised, with praise from users including children and adults. Kemp’s Balsam for throat and lungs is also touted for coughs sore throat asthma bronchitis and consumption with trial bottles and guaranteed relief.
A letter from T A Slocum M C of New York advertises a positive cure for consumption. The note promises to mail two bottles of the remedy to readers who send express and post office addresses, claiming thousands cured by timely use.
An advertisement from Rondout promotes Dr David Kennedy's favorite remedy, a one dollar sovereign for nervousness debility and female health issues. It claims to stimulate the stomach kidneys and liver and to aid blood and urinary troubles, urging every household to keep a bottle.
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