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February 15, 2024

160 YEARS AGO

Local—Real Estate: Mr. N.H. Lake has purchased of the Prentiss estate the building in which he does business, and in which, for about 40 years this paper has been published.
Mr. Andrew Shaw, Jr., has purchased the building adjoining us on the east, of the Stowell estate, to be occupied by him as a hop store. Mr. S. will become a resident of the village in the spring.
Mr. D.A. Avery has purchased the lot opposite the mansion of Mr. Sill, on which he will erect a residence next season.
Cards and circulars are printed on our new Yankee Card Press at the rate of 10,000 a day. Call in and see it work.

February 12, 1864

135 YEARS AGO

Local—In these days when there is so much reading matter offered in books and newspapers at a very low cost, there is greater need of discrimination in the selection of what shall be read, and especially on the part of young people. Much of it is trash, and not a little of it positively hurtful. There is enough that is entertaining, instructive and amusing, to meet all proper demands.
The Miss Doubleday house on Pioneer Street has been sold to Charles R. Hartson; consideration, $4,500. It is the intention of Mr. Hartson to put the building in first rate condition for a dwelling, in the rear of which will be the bottling establishment.

February 15, 1889

85 YEARS AGO

The work of erecting seating facilities at Doubleday Field for the coming summer got underway in earnest this week. A force of 34 men is on the job, a Works Progress Administration project, and plans are being made to add from ten to twenty-one later in the week, according to Harry A. LaDuke, the foreman. The men will be taken from local relief rolls. The demolition of the old grandstand at the county fairgrounds has been completed and the steel has been transported to Doubleday Field for use in the new grandstand being erected there which will seat 700 people. Working from plans drawn by W. Carter Burnett, local engineer, the force has completed the laying of the concrete foundation of the new stand and cutting and erection of the steel will start the middle of the week.

February 15, 1939

60 YEARS AGO

Wendell Tripp has joined the staff of the New York State Historical Association as editorial associate. He came here from Geneva where he has been a member of the history department staff at Hobart College. A graduate of Drew University with a Master of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, Mr. Tripp is currently a candidate for a doctor of philosophy degree at Columbia University. A major in American History, which he has taught for a number of years, he is a specialist in the history of New York. At Fenimore House, Tripp will serve as managing editor of the New York State Historical Association’s quarterly “New York History,” and will set up a program of historical research and publications.

February 12, 1964

20 YEARS AGO

The New York State Senate has confirmed Bassett Healthcare President and CEO Dr. William F. Streck as a member of the state’s Public Health Council. “The Public Health Council is the main oversight body for public health policy in New York,” Dr. Streck explained. “I’m obviously grateful to have been nominated to that committee and I think it is to the advantage of our broad region to have an individual on that committee.” Streck will join a working group of the council that is addressing the availability of specialty services and the organization and financing of health services in hospitals and nursing homes.

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Dispatch from Plattsburgh—A Spy Detected: At length, by redoubled vigilance, in spite of the defects of our own laws, the corruption of some of our citizens, and the arts and cunning of the enemy, one Spy, of the hundreds who roam at large over this frontier, has been detected, convicted, and sentenced to Death. He came from the enemy as a deserter, in the uniform of a British corps, had obtained a pass to go into the interior, visited this place, and was on his return to Canada, in citizens’ clothes, when a virtuous citizen, who had seen him as he came from Canada, recognized and made him prisoner—and notwithstanding arts of one of our citizens (a Peace officer) who advised him to let the fellow go, brought him to this place. He has acknowledged he was a sergeant in the 103rd regiment of British infantry, and calls his name William Baker. We understand he is to be executed this day at 1 o’clock p.m.
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