Dog bites man,
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| Here are a few items involving family members that were reported in local newspapers back in the days when almost everything done by people – and dogs – was considered news. |
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| Syracuse Weekly Express, September 12, 1889 |
| SKANEATELES,, Sept. 6 – Mrs. Mary English was arrested and brought before Justice Smith on the charge of poisoning hens belonging to her neighbor, William Major. Her trial was held yesterday and resulted in a verdict by the jury of not guilty. George Barrow of this place appeared for the people and M.E. Driscoll of Syracuse for the defense. |
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| Marcellus Observer, October 28, 1898 |
JORDAN DEPARTMENT:
Attorney John C. McLaughlin is making some rapid strides in his pursuit of legal business. He has a large number of cases on the docket of the next calendar and has one more important case which if he succeeds in gaining and the prospects are very bright, he will gain a fee of about ten thousand dollars. A few such cases as this will place John on the sunny side of easy street. |
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| Marcellus Observer, Wednesday July 26, 1922 |
We had a notice last issue of the death of John J. Major. The Skaneateles Democrat says:
He was buried in a casket covered with a piece of cloth be made and finished, He had spent considerable time experimenting for the Glenslde Co., in securing a special finish on some cloth and had successfully completed his experiments a short time before taken sick. It was his desire that his
casket be covered with some of this cloth when he realized his end was near.
The Glenside Mills sent the cloth to the John Marcellus Mfg., Co, at Syracuse where the special casket was made. |
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| Skaneateles Press, January 10, 1941 |
Skaneateles Falls news:
Joseph Major had the misfortune to injure his hand in the wringer of a washing machine last week. |
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| Skaneateles Press, October 27, 1950 |
John McLaughlin bitten by Airedale
while raking leaves
John McLaughlin of Fennell St. was bitten by an Airedale dog last Saturday afternoon as he was raking leaves.
Mr. McLaughlin had stopped momentarily to speak with Mrs. Ford, a neighbor, when the animal attacked him, biting him in four places.
Taken to a physician’s office, it was found, happily, the bites were not deep.
The dog was to be confined for 10 days. |
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| Skaneateles Press, November, 15, 1957 |
John McLaughlin
notes 75th birthday
at home, Monday
John McLaughlin of Fennell St., one of Skaneateles’ famous teasel marketers will note his 75th birthday at his home on Monday.
Mr. McLaughlin is the son of the late John McLaughlin Sr. and Elizabeth Curwen (Kerwin??) McLaughlin, and was born November 18, 1882 on Fennell St. at the house next to the P&C grocery.
His interest in the teasel business was a natural thing since it had been in the family since the 1890s when his father, John McLaughlin Sr., established it here. John McLaughlin Sr. later sold the business to Cornelius McLaughlin, father of J. Ray McLaughlin, present village clerk.
In 1924 John McLaughlin Jr. and his brother Frank started an independent teasel business of their own which they conducted until last year when it ceased to exist, there being no further demand for the product. |
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| As far as I know, the subject of the following story was not a member of the family, but her story is too unusual to ignore, and she did have a familiar name. |
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| Syracuse Journal, Saturday, March 9, 1907 |
Cannot Stop
Her Hiccoughs
MAHANOY CITY, PA., MARCH 9 – Miss Maggie Major of Ellangowan has been suffering for the last six weeks from hiccoughs, and although she has received treatment from four doctors, she has not been relieved.
She goes to sleep at night and rest well,, but as soon as she awakens the hiccough starts again. Every known remedy to the medical profession has been tried without success. The woman is gradually wasting away under the affliction. |
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| Unfortunately, there was no follow-up story on whether her problem was ever resolved. |
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