North Alexander, NY
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Early History of Western New York’s Railroads
This long article from November 1937 is a hodgepodge of small factoids about railroad history in Western New York, including some that are wrong (the Erie Railroad reached Dunkirk in 1851, not Chicago). Nonetheless, there are some interesting little tidbits of interesting information in the article. By William H. Rial Batavia, NY The city of…
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An Unknown Man Killed
BATAVIA, Jan. 11. – The body of an old man, frightfully mangled, was found near the Lackawanna station at Alexander yesterday. From papers in his possession it is supposed that he was Peter Johnson, an inmate of the soldiers’ home at Bath, who had been to Buffalo to draw his pension and was stealing a…