Buffalo Courier-Express (Buffalo, NY)

"One more boy, Wilson Knapp, a little fellow aged 10 years, who lives at No. 212 Rosevilie Street, closes the chapter of juvenile depravity and misfortune. Wilson, who is one of a gang that has made the life of Contractor Joseph Runhill miserable for the past week, was caught redhanded and was turned over to the police of the Seneca Street Station, who locked him up on the charge of malicious mischief." (the kids were racing around with Joseph's horse and buggy.)

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"Unique Organization of Druggists Stages Dinner
All Members are more than 50 years old, have owned drug stores more than 25 years
Harry J. Dimond presided last evening at the annual dinner of a unique Buffalo organization, one of the most exclusive clubs in town. There are only 30 members, no more, no less, and to be eligible you must be 50 years old or more and have been the owner of a drug store for at least 25 years. The group is known as the Buffalo Veteran Druggist's Association
Nearly every one of the 30 members was present last night when Mr. Dimond scurried about the corridors of the second floor of the Fairfax at the dinner hour to marshal the members to the feast. He was the liveliest and busies member present. Harry J. Dimond's beetling brows, his heavy moustache and his waving locks belied his 81 year for they are not yet quite white, only iron gray. Not only is Mr. Dimond the prime mover in this organization, he is its best beloved member, to whom the others present paid tribute because of the fact that he has been the owner of a drug store in one neighborhood in Buffalo for 58 years and on one spot, his present location, 330 Connecticut Street, for half a century.
Next in line to Harry Dimond is the vice-president of the organization, Cornelius J Dwyer, of 3223 Main Street, who has been in the drugstore business in Buffalo himself only 55 years...
With the passing of Mr. Thurston and Mr. Stoddart, Harry Dimond inherited the presidency in perpetuity, that is to say as long as he lives, which his fellow members hope will be a long, long time."

"Going Strong After 60 Years
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"For three score years, Harry J. Diamond, one of the deans of Buffalo pharmacists, has been compounding prescriptions, settling differences and giving advice in his little Connecticut street store, and has been success in all three lines of endeavor which he conducts under the rules of the old school.
Druggist 60 Years, H. Dimond Still Eschews Modern Gee-gaws
No departmental additions for his little pharmacy in Connecticut Street.
Still doing business at the old stand, Harry J. Dimond, 82, will mark his 60th anniversary as a prescription druggist Tuesday. His store at 330 Connecticut Street, his joy and pride, might have stepped just as it is from the mists of the pasts, for Dimond will have nothing to do with vending all the conveniences of city life in a store that was meant for pharmacy.
Although many so-called improvements might be made to the store, they would only spoil it, because the shelves of bottles, the showcases filled with medicines and soaps and simple cosmetics, hovers a spirit of friendliness and neighborliness that the old proprietor has developed and which no modern furbishing ever supplies...
Rows of Prescriptions
In the back room of the store, where supplies of chemicals are kept, hang rows of prescriptions, filed on long wires, which represent the hopes and fears, the joys and sorrows of four generations of customers...
'I believe in live and help live,' he says, and his reputation bears strictly to this policy. People bring their wills to him for safekeeping, they come to him with their domestic problems, and with the trails and difficulties of their lives.
First in Women Clerks...
Dimond's was the first drug store to have women as clerks, and that move was much criticized at first. But, as usual, the proprietor stuck to his guns. At the time, one of the heavy items of the trade was the chest protector, and many women hesitated to ask a man clerk for so intimate and article of apparel. Many of the young women whom Mr. Diamond has trained in the business have studied and become pharmacists themselves.
In fact through his career, Mr. Dimond, whose earliest ambition was to teach school, has interested himself in encouraging young people to study pharmacy. Fifty years ago and more, he gave talks on the drug business at the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy. In his talks, he emphasized the ethical aspects of the business and he always remembers that "money isn't everything."
Started ion 1879...
He started his business on August 1st, 1879, around the corner from his present location and moved a few years later, when he heard that the horse cars were going to pass along Connecticut Street. He first had a telephone in 1881, when his number was 145.
In January, 1880, he married Helen J. Hall and since her death about two years ago, has kept his home above the drug store and is on hand most of the day to greet his customers. At the front corner of the store is an arm chair, which he calls his private office... His only reason for going into pharmacy instead of school teaching, he said, was that he 'liked to do for sick people,' and he has been doing for them now for four generations, with many a visit to the sickbed and many a visit of consolation and many a flower sent out with a packet of medicine."