DAILY: Daily news in the City of Bradford was at one time shared in a column in The Era known simply as “daily developments.”
It was for brief summaries of notable happenings, perhaps where “particulars of the incident could not be obtained,” or where an event was worthy of at least a mention in the news.
Here are some we found in 1890.
On Oct. 1: — “A new public telephone station has been opened at Aiken; grand millinery opening at No. 44 Main street today; the President yesterday sent to the Senate the name of N.H. Hastings to be postmaster at Austin, Potter County; and a freight train on the B.R.&P. Road ran over two track laborers at Carmon, near Ridgway yesterday, instantly killing them.”
On Oct. 3: “Workmen are tearing down the old Tuna valley bank building on the corner of Mechanic and St. James. A new structure will be erected on the site.”
Oct. 7: “A few cases of whooping cough are reported among the children of the Fourth ward; and the Bradford council chamber should be supplied with a 24-foot ring for the use of the quarrelsome statesmen who make exhibitions of themselves in that place on meeting nights.”
At times, that still holds true.
On Oct 8: “A vegetable curiosity in the form of a curious double pumpkin is on exhibition at E.J. Cross’s store. It is a regular Siamese twin of a pumpkin and was grown in Cross’s Washington street garden; and A rare and beautiful plant has just blossomed at the home of Mrs. J.R. Porter on South Mechanic street. It is known as the Angel’s Trumpet or Marriage Bell. The flowers are eight in number, pure white and delightfully fragrant. They are trumpet-shaped with a long stem and measure 12 inches in length and six inches across the top. They hang in a symmetrical group from the top of a plant about four feet high. The leaves are large, bright green and grown in a palm-shaped cluster at the top of a single stalk.”
On Oct. 9: “Goodman & Goodwin will open their elegant new clothing store in the Bovaird & Seyfang new block today; A new enterprise just started on Hilton street is the Bradford City Feed Mill; and Miss Dickinson’s millinery opening last evening attracted a great many ladies. The display was a bewildering one and the beauty and tastefulness of the articles exhibited excited much admiration.”
