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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1885
Page
3
Kane social and business notices recount weddings, auctions, and shop openings. Reports detail a wedding in Kane, a social at the Old Folks Social, a funeral for S. M. Swanson, local personal notes, and forthcoming steam power exhibits at a fair. A mix of ads, arrivals, and community chatter fills the page.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a local groceries and provisions shop at the People’s Store offering flour feed meal and related goods. The text hints at selling at hard times and low prices, but details are incomplete.
A reader denounces youths portrayed as hard cases and condemns petty theft from elders. The letter praises a Justice of the Peace for prioritizing the town’s reputation over fees, criticizing wa rrants issued to newly spoiled youths and the public shaming of citizens through legal channels.
Thousands attended a grand band tournament featuring eight groups. Whitney band won first with Coudersport and Friendship taking second and third. solo cornet renditions highlighted the program.
The Warren cigarmakers pledge not to patronize any Warren tailor who has not signed the newly issued price scale from the tailors union. The move follows the rise of a unified pricing plan for garments and split reactions among manufacturers, drawing interest from former K of L affiliates. In Kane, Pa, John Lyden’s tailor shop offers goods, while City Drug Store promotes paints and oils at low prices, with Jas D Macoway endorsing the line.
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