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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1885
Page
3
To the majority of persons time is money. To save one is to save the other. When setting out to purchase your clothing remember that we offer both fine and money by our vast stock of ready-made garments. Fresh stock, varied sizes, under-selling competition.
Clearest readable fragment shows a school or police boy club advertising free suits with each purchase. Includes mentions of clothing tradesmen and school companions. The line hints at a promotional program for police boys or a club with free suits for members.
The issue lists Kane Bakery offerings fresh oysters fruit and seeds, a sermon schedule at Presbyterian Church with Rev. G. G. Barses, and daily wares from merchants O. B. Lay, Myers meat market, and Mrs. Searles Millinery. It notes Arbor Day plans, local court news about Geo. Satcher, and incidents including a boy’s leg surgery by Dr. Kane and a freight train accident.
Local items from Kane and nearby towns cover daily life and commerce. Obvious ads for O B Lay’s and Johnson Siegfried’s highlight goods from boots to fancy goods while notices report livestock losses, school trends, and community events at the Kane Graded Schools and St. Elmo.
A boy named John Lynch, sixteen, was fatally injured at Renovo on Friday evening when a train on an adjacent track started while he crawled under cars at a crossing on his way to the foundry where he worked. His father died at Driftwood and his mother is confined in a lunatic asylum. He died at 2 AM Saturday and was interred at Driftwood. The incident prompts calls for a bridge over the track to prevent further tragedy.
Stock of fall and winter suitings arrived featuring broadwales meldon corkscrews furred beaver chinchillas and the American make Beaver Dam overcoats and pantsuits advertised. The shop offers overcoats pantaloons business suits and fine dress suits with guaranteed workmanship and prompt job work at the Zanzi office near Torpedo office Warren Pa.
Letter from Tacoma dated October 12 1885 reports rumors of crude petroleum near Elhi on the Cascade Division line of the Northern Pacific. Tacoma Oil Company formed to drill a test well, with Kneeland and Nelson supervising. Well at 300 feet shows a large gas vein, boosting speculative excitement. Also notes regional economic tensions over Northern Pacific control and Cascade division completion. J.D. Magowan ships window glass and O B Lay advertises wool blankets.
Last evening Engineer Gleason encountered two women walking on a local accommodation train route from Clarendon. They did not move off the rails as the locomotive halted quickly after he blew the whistle and applied air brakes. The younger woman jumped clear while the elder was torn by the engine irons but escaped serious injury. both attributed their actions to confusion.
GC W Spettigue travels to New York to buy winter goods while Dr K Condon returns from Philadelphia after a brief visit. The Wilcox and Burning Well Railroad advances with Italian laborers at work. Local misadventures include a squirrel hunt with pheasants and a minor accident. Postmaster Aldrich’s woods journey yields Ohio news and Nasby reference. Wilcox, Oct 27, 1864.
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