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August 8, 2024

210 YEARS AGO

Advertisement—Just Received and for sale at H. & E. Phinney’s Bookstore, “The Justices’ Directory Improved or Points on Certiorari: Being a Digest of the Cases Reported by Caines & Johnson” by a Gentleman of the Bar—Price 37.5 cents. New Fee Bill: Or an Act Regulating the Fees of the Several Officers and Ministers of Justice within the State of New York—Passed April 9, 1813—Price 25 cents. New Road Act: Being a Revised Law of the State of New York, entitled “An Act to Regulate Highways”—Passed March 19, 1813—With a copious index, to enable any person at first sight to turn to any article in the Law—Price 25 cents.

August 11, 1814

110 YEARS AGO

Professor Kennington L. Thompson of Jersey City, the son of Mrs. Charles P. Thompson of this village, and a former Cooperstown boy, has been arrested near Munich, Germany, as a spy and is being held in prison at that city. The dispatch does not disclose the whereabouts of Mrs. Thompson. Professor Thompson and wife left for Europe early in July and intended to take a course of lectures in Munich. He carried a camera and this may have led to the supposition that he was a spy in the employ of the English or French governments. Friends of Professor Kennington L. Thompson, principal of Public School No. 11, Jersey City, received a cable message from London stating that he had been arrested by German soldiers as a spy while trying to leave Munich with Mrs. Thompson. The cable stated that because Professor Thompson was considered a military man he was placed in prison and accused of being a spy. Professor, for many years, had been an officer of the National Guard of New Jersey and always had been interested in military affairs.

August 12, 1914

85 YEARS AGO

This seems to be a banner year for the Cooperstown Art Association whose annual exhibition opens Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at the Knox School. Not only the number of entries has been greater than heretofore, but exhibitors include such well known people as Charles R. Knight, who is at present living in Cooperstown. He studied under George DeForest Brush, Willard Metcalf, and Frank V. DuMond. He is famous for his animal paintings in The American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the Field Museum of Chicago and Washington, D.C. Mr. Knight has in the exhibition a number of his animal paintings and sketches. One which should be of great interest is his original sketch of Su-Lin, the Giant Panda.

August 9, 1939

35 YEARS AGO

The Susquehanna S.P.C.A. has scheduled its fourth annual dog show for Sunday, August 13, at Lakefront Park. Among 17 categories of dogs competing will be the “Whatzit? Class.” Dogs in this group should, with a little imagination, resemble something other than a dog such as a meatball, a mop, or a paint roller. Bring your “Whatzit?” and let the audience try to guess. Judging the competition will be Gwen Ermlich, Hope Hartenbach and Susan Pierro.

August 9, 1989

20 YEARS AGO

For the last 52 Wednesdays, a group of Quakers and activists have gathered on the sidewalk in front of the U.S. Post Office on Main Street to express their opinions on current international events, specifically military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Until we are a nation of peace, until our primary thrust is to settle the disputes we have by peaceful means, until we support the lives of other people and their way of living, I’ll be out here,” said Ann Geiger of Fly Creek. Cooperstown resident Hilda Wilcox said the protests are her way of expressing her voice in national politics.

August 6, 2004