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HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 16, 2013 100 Years Ago Melvin A. Warner, a D&H boilermaker residing at 32 Gilbert Street, was struck by switch engine No. 48 about 100 south of the Main Street tower in the yards at 8:30 o’clock Monday night and mangled almost beyond recognition. The engine was backing toward the station on the northbound lead and neither engineer Myron Morse nor conductor Bruce Campbell knew that they had struck anyone. The body was found between the rails…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 23, 2013 125 Years Ago A Suggestion: Would it not be worth the consideration of all Christian temperance workers and all that claim and do believe in prohibition to take some steps in the way of placing drinking fountains along the streets, especially those most traveled, so that our husbands, brothers, and children will not be obliged to resort to the hotels for a drink of cold water. It seems the height of folly to pay out…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 30, 2013 125 Years Ago The managers of the Central New York Fair, which opens at Oneonta on the 19th of September and continues for four days, are extremely fortunate in securing an engagement with the great aeronauts, Prof. Oscar Hunt and Prof. J.W. Price of Illinois. They will not only give an ascension on the second and third days of the fair in their monster hot air balloon, the largest in the world, but will perform…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, September 13, 2013 125 Years Ago Most of the stores owned by our Hebrew merchants were closed last Thursday night and they and their families observed the inception of the Jewish New Year. Thursday was the first day of Fishri, the first day of the year 5649, according to the reckoning of the Jewish calendar, and from then until after the tenth day of Fishri ensues the most solemn period of the year. Rosh Hashohah, day of remembrance,…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, September 20, 2013 125 Years Ago Of all the articles most interesting to the feminine mind perhaps hats and bonnets hold the first place. In hat shapes, both low and high crowns are worn. The Alpine hat, in felt, has taken a place among the popular hats of the day. A full line of colors can be found at Mrs. J.T. Fox’s millinery parlors on lower Main Street. Both short and long plumes are in vogue and the…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, September 27, 2013 125 Years Ago The fair of the Oneonta Union Agricultural Society, which closed on Saturday, was the most successful in the history of the society. Not only were the receipts larger, but the exhibit in almost every particular was ahead of former years. The balloon ascension attracted a great deal of interest. The aeronaut was a woman – Miss Viola. This, however, is simply her professional name, as she is the wife of Professor Price,…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, October 4, 2013 125 Years Ago The Local News: Miss Minnie Wilbur of Portland, Connecticut lost her pocketbook containing $15 in cash and valuable papers, upon the Oneonta fairground the last day of the fair. She had very little hopes of ever seeing it again, but advertised her loss and the pocketbook was returned by a Mrs. Hotaling who found it. The old “Indian Mound” on Walling’s Island, a mile above the village, the wonder for generations of…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, October 11, 2013 100 Years Ago Local News: Members of the Woman’s Club of Oneonta to the number of about fifty assembled Saturday at Neahwah Park for a day’s outing. The morning was pleasantly spent in wandering through the park, listening to the autumn bird notes and admiring the deep-tinted foliage of the October day. Tables were spread a little later, and at 1 p.m., all sat down to a most delicious picnic luncheon to which ample justice…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, October 25, 2013 125 Years Ago Will Randall, the 17-year-old son of E.P. Randall, a machinist at the railroad shops, was almost instantly killed soon after five o’clock yesterday afternoon by a pistol shot from his own hand. Young Randall and Harry McLean, son of M. McLean of the Central Hotel, were in the workshop of Randall’s father, which is in the upper story of the Randall house on Front Street. A short time since the boys had…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, November 1, 2013 125 Years Ago Attention Laboring Men: The recent strike on the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley railroad was due to a reduction of wages paid the Italian laborers employed from $1.25 to $1.00 per day. On the street railway recently built in Oneonta, mainly through the efforts of Hon. David Wilber, wages were $1.50 a day and home labor was employed – something of a contrast in methods. Laboring men here will appreciate the difference and…