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Title: The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: French, John C., 1858-
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Altoona, Pa., Altoona tribune company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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usiness unquestionably was active. The Lacka-wanna store run by the Lackawanna Lumber Com-pany did a larger trade than any other storeill Potter county. Yet it had a lot of com-petition, for Cross Fork also contained five groceries,a dry-goods shop, a millinery shop, two clothing stores,a shoe store, two drug stores, a hardware store, asporting goods store, and numerous other retail estab-lishments. It had three doctors, a dentist, and twoundertakers. Its post-office was one of the few in-ternational money order offices in the county, andaction by the President and the Senate of the UnitedStates w^as necessary to appoint its postmaster. Seven hotels—one of them ranked high among thebest in Potter county and offered a welcome to thetraveler. Three restaurants, one of which advertisedto purvey anything that Delmonicos did, ministeredto the wants of the inner man. Licensed saloonsthere were none, but each hotel had a bar, suppliedby the wdiolesale liquor store and there were unlicensed
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CHARLES H. ELDONPremier Naturalist of Central Pennsylvania, with Male Passen-ger Pigeon Which He Mounted. Now in His Possession THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 113 blind tigers or pigs ears, galore. Gambling densand disorderly houses also flournished, and any onewho really wanted to be wicked had every opportunityto be so. Lest this should give an unfair impression of thetown, it should be added that there were also fourchurches, and the efforts of these were supplementedby occasional visits from traveling evangelists. TheW. C. T. U. was active. So also was the Y. M. C. A.,which had a fine building, with gymnasium and baths. For those with fraternal leanings there werelodges of Masons, Maccabees, and Odd-Fellows. Oth-ers socially inclined derived their amusement from thelocal hterary society, card-clubs and dances. Tenyoung ladies, apparently of classical tastes, formedthemselves into a club called the Bellae Decem—theBeautiful Ten. ^ ^ * .k Back of all this activity in the tow

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