BOUND VOLUMES, August 14, 2012
200 YEARS AGO
Advertisement – For Sale, Twenty-six and three fourths of an acre of Land, lying about equally divided on both sides of the Great Western Turnpike Road, seven miles west of Cooperstown, in the Town of Otsego, being part of Lot No. 33, in Croghan’s Patent, formerly occupied by Samuel S. Munro, deceased. On the premises are a Log House, and a new Barn, 26 by 36 feet, with a thriving Orchard of 75 Apple Trees, and a number of Plumb Trees – 15 acres are cleared and under good improvement. It would be an excellent stand for a Mechanic. For further particulars, apply to the Subscriber on the premises. Betsey Munro.
August 18, 1814
175 YEARS AGO
The Independent Federal Treasury – What it is: It is a measure strictly constitutional and democratic. It contemplates a reduction of the revenue to the actual wants of government. Its tendency will be to prevent an accumulation of a surplus in the Treasury; for if the moneys are not permitted to be used, it will be the interest of all to prevent an accumulation. This is a cardinal principle in the measure. It will separate the moneyed from the political power of the country. It will disconnect the moneys of the National Treasury from the business of individuals, and preserve them for the public use. It will prevent the public moneys being used in such a manner as to stimulate to “over action” in trade; thereby tending to prevent panics and revulsions, which affect all classes of citizens. It will place the revenue of the country under the control of the agents and representatives of the people. It will diminish Executive power and patronage, by dissolving all connection between the President and the banks – rendering it impossible for him to be controlled by them, or exercise control over them by offering, as a bribe, the use of public money. It will benefit the banks by destroying every motive of partisan hostility against them.
August 12, 1839
150 YEARS AGO
It is not generally known that the best Havana segars are made from tobacco dipped into a solution of opium. Natural leaf tobacco never has that peculiar effect as will be noticed upon smoking the best clean leaf in a pipe. It is the opium in a first rate segar and not the tobacco which smokers get enslaved with and cannot do without. In some of the Havana establishments, $20 thousand worth of opium per year is used.
August 12, 1864
100 YEARS AGO
In Our Town: A cablegram received by Mrs. Chas. P. Thompson Thursday morning from her son, Professor Kennington L. Thompson sets at rest all fears for the safety of the Professor and his wife who had been held in Munich Germany for spying. They are now sailing for home from Liverpool for New York on The Baltic, one of the ocean liners in the White Star line. Their friends are greatly relieved by the news of their departure from Europe for a land where a man with a camera is not arrested as a spy.
The post office of Cooperstown has received notice from the department that the postal authorities of Austria have ceased to issue money orders payable in the United States. Money orders drawn in this country and payable in Austria are canceled by the Washington authorities.
August 19, 1914
75 YEARS AGO
George Tillapaugh, partner in the Funeral Home of Brown & Tillapaugh on Pioneer Street, will reside there henceforth with his family and assume active management of the business. John W. Brown, partner in the firm, is retiring for health reasons, but will retain an active interest in the business while moving with his wife to 63 Elm Street where he has purchased the residence of Mrs. George V. Conklin. George Tillapaugh has been associated with the business for the past seven years and has been located in Cooperstown during the illness of Mr. Brown for the past twelve months. He is a graduate of Hartwick College and of the Simmons School of Embalming at Syracuse. He has also taken advanced work in the National Funeral Service Institute in Chicago. He is a member of the Cooperstown Rotary Club and a young man of sterling character and pleasing personality.
August 16, 1939
50 YEARS AGO
Former Mayor Howard C. Talbot, Jr. was appointed administrator of the village zoning code at a meeting of the Village Trustees. He fills the vacancy caused by the death of Ross J. Young, also a former Mayor. It carries no salary. Mr. Talbot was Mayor of Cooperstown until last March and was in office during the final stages of the development of the Cooperstown Area Master Plan from which the new zoning code grew. Prior to that Talbot served for seven years as a member of the Board of Trustees.
August 12, 1964
25 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown planning board granted conceptual and final site approval for a proposed addition and renovation work at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. A public hearing will be scheduled. Joseph Middleton, vice-president of facilities at Bassett, presented plans for the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) unit. The one-story addition will include renovation of 1,500 square feet in the old stone hospital building, with 2,300 square feet of new construction which will house a 16,000-pound magnet. Entry to the facility will be from Beaver and Fair streets.
August 16, 1989
10 YEARS AGO
Local officials estimated that 15,000 visitors came to the village for a sold-out concert on Doubleday Field featuring Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan. About 3,000 never made it inside the field for the show. Some sat in their cars nearby to enjoy the music. Cooperstown police officers reported making only two arrests. Trustee Stuart Taugher, who had expressed reservations about the conduct of the event beforehand, sat outside Doubleday Field Friday afternoon to greet the crowd. “Everything’s been great,” Taugher said then. “Everybody’s been very nice. JAM Productions has been such a great organization to work with.”
August 13, 2004