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May. 27th, 2016 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotPeople, it's only Friday. Save the self-righteous "nobody remembers what Memorial Day is really about" Facebook posts for like Sunday at the earliest, okay?
I got into a political argument on someone else's FB post today, only the other person never actually responded to me, just to a different person, and it's actually a bit hilarious. It brings out my inner troll (ie, my father's genes) and just encourages me.
Filled in more businesses on my Main St map! There are only a handful left, and I don't know if it's going to be possible to figure them out at all. Some are on the lower floors of what's labeled on the 1905 Sanborn maps as Yates's Hotel and Richardson's Hotels, for instance, and I can't find any newspaper evidence of hotels of that name existing in Canton at all. Which is pretty much the deal with everything left. In a lot of cases, I've been able to use the 1891 business directory to trace a property's changes in ownership, but some of them I just don't find any reference to in the newspaper at all. I know that Lucius Prescott had a saloon under one of the hotels, but it's never mentioned outside of the directory. Another saloon (oh dear, semantic satiation after the research today) was sold to A. H. Hoard in the early 1890s, and the last reference to it is in 1895, when it was denied a liquor license because the board suspected that it had been sold to A. Senter, a merchant of Potsdam. Alpheus Senter went bankrupt in 1900 and drowned himself in 1902, no mention of what business he was in, whether he'd sold it to anyone, or what happened to it after his bankruptcy.
I liked the first season of Wayward Pines, but I have to admit that I'm disappointed that they decided the show needed to continue the story by adding a new white guy as a new arrival. For a few obvious reasons.
How's the weather where you are? It's ungodly hot here. We had about a week where it was down to 35ish at night, still pretty chilly when I went to work, and comfortable (65ish) when I went home ... and then suddenly, over the course of a weekend, it switched to being 65 at night and 85 during the day. I'm not comfortable. At least it's supposed to storm this weekend.
I got into a political argument on someone else's FB post today, only the other person never actually responded to me, just to a different person, and it's actually a bit hilarious. It brings out my inner troll (ie, my father's genes) and just encourages me.
Filled in more businesses on my Main St map! There are only a handful left, and I don't know if it's going to be possible to figure them out at all. Some are on the lower floors of what's labeled on the 1905 Sanborn maps as Yates's Hotel and Richardson's Hotels, for instance, and I can't find any newspaper evidence of hotels of that name existing in Canton at all. Which is pretty much the deal with everything left. In a lot of cases, I've been able to use the 1891 business directory to trace a property's changes in ownership, but some of them I just don't find any reference to in the newspaper at all. I know that Lucius Prescott had a saloon under one of the hotels, but it's never mentioned outside of the directory. Another saloon (oh dear, semantic satiation after the research today) was sold to A. H. Hoard in the early 1890s, and the last reference to it is in 1895, when it was denied a liquor license because the board suspected that it had been sold to A. Senter, a merchant of Potsdam. Alpheus Senter went bankrupt in 1900 and drowned himself in 1902, no mention of what business he was in, whether he'd sold it to anyone, or what happened to it after his bankruptcy.
I liked the first season of Wayward Pines, but I have to admit that I'm disappointed that they decided the show needed to continue the story by adding a new white guy as a new arrival. For a few obvious reasons.
How's the weather where you are? It's ungodly hot here. We had about a week where it was down to 35ish at night, still pretty chilly when I went to work, and comfortable (65ish) when I went home ... and then suddenly, over the course of a weekend, it switched to being 65 at night and 85 during the day. I'm not comfortable. At least it's supposed to storm this weekend.
