Buffalo Evening News November 9 1905

[WNYresident]

One of my long time clients dropped me off a surprised today. He said these were sitting in his house for years. Plus some Buffalo Sunday Times from 1925.

My grandfather was 2 months old when this was printed.


Buffalo Evening News November 9 1905



Not in great condition but still very readable. I'll have to be very careful with these

[gorja]

Nice. Is that burnt on the right edge?

[Save Us]

Cool, thanks for sharing Rez.

[dgrzeb]

Love when IO used to find old newspapers in houses, was not smart enough to have kept them !

[WNYresident]

Nice. Is that burnt on the right edge?

I don't really know. Looks more like it blacken over age...Or if it is burnt it was not directly on fire but close enough to be charred.

[gorja]

Are you able to turn the pages to see what the election news was in the burbs?

[WNYresident]

I took more photos. I'm going to upload them after work. Some interesting stuff.

Democrats were pretty bad is 1905

My grandfather was only 2 months old. He was born Sept 5th 1905. His family was in Retsof, New York. I can't remember what year his father purchased the property at 1194 Lovejoy. That would be the year they moved to Buffalo. Had to be before 1910's because he graduated from an auto mechanic school on Harlem near William. When I go home I'll look to see the year on the diploma.

His father worked at the Retsof Salt Mine before buying property on Lovejoy opening up a bar. I'm pretty sure my great grandfather died about 1933 in the upper front bedroom and my great uncle his brother died on the floor in the lower back apartment. Don't know the year.

My grandfather never shut up talking about the past. He would be a dusty 111 years old this year if he was still alive. He would tell me how his father would take him into the mine to feed the mules. For the most part the mules never came out of the mine.

I took some photos of the articles in the paper. Wait till you see one. Talk about not being politically correct.

[gorja]

This is from the City deeds section of the Buffalo Courier Wednesday, January 11, 1922


http://www.fultonhistory.com/highlig...7b08573#page=1



I was wondering about the election because my dad's cousin had told me my great grandfather was elected Clarence assessor from 1905 -1909 but she had only had scanned this from 1907 -


So, I was wondering if there was anything for the Town of Clarence in there.

[gorja]

1910 US census
Name: Joseph Fracassi
Age in 1910: 38
Birth Year: abt 1872
Birthplace: Italy
Home in 1910: York, Livingston, New York
Street: Italian Colony
House Number: 43
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1892
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mariarosa Fracassi
Father's Birthplace: Italy
Mother's name: Lucia Picciano
Mother's Birthplace: Italy
Native Tongue: English
Occupation: Boss
Industry: Mine
Employer, Employee or Other: Wage Earner
Home Owned or Rented: Rent
Farm or House: House
Naturalization Status: Naturalized
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Years Married: 8
Out of Work: N
Number of weeks out of work: 0
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Fracassi 38 Head
Mariarosa Fracassi 23 Wife
Elvira Fracassi 6 Daughter
Earnest Fracassi 5 Son
Angiolina Fracassi 2 Daughter
Antonio Picciano 70 Father
Lucia Picciano 66 Mother
Domenico Picciano 40 Brother
Nanzio Iamonaco 56 Brother-in-law

[WNYresident]

Check this out. Gorja sent this over




That is my grand parents and great aunt/uncle.

I emailed my mom earlier to ask her if she remember this

Yes gram always repeated that story, when I first met dad, I think I went there once with them and dad, it was just a small grocery store........... uncle Mike had a German Sheppard there that did nothing.......and uncle Mike gram said had a gun but was too shaky to do anything......how did you find that, gram went there for her groceries since aunt Rondy was her sister...I miss gram and dad so much......

My grandfather used to drag me around all over Buffalo pointing stuff out.

I'm gooing to see what google maps shows for those addressses

[WNYresident]

I'm pretty sure this is the house. I just have really vague memories going over there.








The Arrow Food Store address is just a patch of grass now

[WNYresident]

They had rat issues in 1905

Stearn's Electric Rat and Roach Paste



I googled and found another ad.






http://www.ebay.com/itm/1906-Stearns...-/302025740749

[WNYresident]

Whirled around shafting.

Poor David Miller. 25 years old in 1905. He would be 136 years old now. I see he lived on Gold Street. That is off of Lovejoy

[WNYresident]

Intellectual Honesty Wanted says Warner.

[WNYresident]

Fat Plums for Democratic Patriots