Downtown March 1895 — Peanut vender takes a wife

A downtown regular took a wife.

“George Kingsley, who keeps the peanut stand on the corner of Glen and Warren streets, has taken unto himself a wife,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on March 14, 1895. “On Tuesday night he was united with Miss Bertha Kingsley of Luzerne, the Rev. W. V. Bacon of South Glens Falls performing the ceremony. The couple will reside with the groom’s father, Mason B. Kingsley, Knight Street.”

In other March 1895 downtown Glens Falls news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• “Short purses can do some tall buying at the Rochester Clothing Company,” the retailer advertised in The Morning Star on March 5.
• “A thirty-five-cent oyster supper will be given at the residence of Harry Sweet Wednesday evening. A cordial invitation is given to all to attend and partake of the good things furnished,” The Morning Star reported on March 11. “The proceeds will be used to repaint the Friends’ church.”
• “An artist from a patent medicine firm did some unique and tasteful lettering of the windows of several Glens Falls drug stores yesterday,” The Morning Star reported on March 14.
• “The coming pool tournament at the Glens Falls Club, the details of which have been partly arranged, is looked forward to with great interest by the crack players at that organization,” The Morning Star reported on March 14. “It is expected there will be from twenty-five to thirty entries.”
• “A handsome new and unique cue rack for the safe keeping of private cues has been placed in a room of the Glens Falls Club,” The Morning Star reported on March 15, 1895.
• “The electric wiring in the Presbyterian Church is about completed, and the incandescent lamp will supersede gas in a few days,” The Morning Star reported on March 14.
• “The Presbyterian Church pews, which have been stacked at the Transportation Company’s warehouse while alterations in the interior of the church were making, are again being placed in position,” The Morning Star reported on March 21.
• “Mrs. Blake, milliner, is adding to the attractiveness of her establishment over B. B. Fowler’s store by a fresh coat of paint and paper,” The Morning Star reported on March 15, 1895.
• “To the ladies of Glens Falls and vicinity, I take pleasure in informing you that I have rented the store №26 Warren Street, opposite the Post Office, Glens Falls, which has been fitted up and is now being stocked with the exclusive lines of millinery, cloaks and infants’ wear, which we will show the ladies of Glens Falls and best selected stock of high grades novelties in the latest fashions,” S. Mynfelder advertised in The Morning Star on March 19.
• “A pair of trousers that will not rip or shed the buttons are certainly a novelty. The Eagle Clothing Company advertises them,” The Morning Star reported on March 20.
• “Dougherty & Russell’s barbershop has been treated to a new coat of paper and paint,” The Morning Star reported on March 21.
• “A movement is on foot to organize a division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Glens Falls,” The Morning Star reported on March 22.
• There was sarcasm in this letter to the editor published March 22 in The Morning Star.

“A gentleman residing on Maple Street is considering the possibility of stocking the lake which has formed in front of his residence with trout and bass. Signs will be placed at the proper points around the margin, and notices will be published in the newspapers forbidding trespassers from taking fish from the waters of the lake.”

• “Mason Brothers are fitting up a business office and cashier’s desk in the front of their meat market at the right of the entrance,” The Morning Star reported on March 29.

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