BOUND VOLUMES, October 24, 2013
200 YEARS AGO
Dr. J. Jackson presents his warmest thanks to the inhabitants of the town of Westford and its vicinity, for the truly liberal patronage they have bestowed upon him, in his practice of Physic & Surgery. He would, however, remind his more negligent employers, that to carry on a successful contest with the numerous diseases incident to the human frame, it is necessary that he should be provided with the “sinews of war,” and to that end a more general payment of his demands is absolutely necessary, and will ere long be rigidly enforced, unless timely prevented. He still holds himself in readiness to attend to all calls in his profession, and no exertions will be wanting to give satisfaction to all those who may please to bestow on him their patronage. Wheat, Rye, Corn and Oats will be taken in payment.
October 23, 1813
175 YEARS AGO
The Hoco Poco, alias Federal Whig Party, held a convention at the Court House, 57 delegates being present, and on the first ballot for a candidate for Congress, William H. Averell received 35 votes, Horace Lathrop 11 votes, James Brackett 7 votes, and David M. Hard, 4 votes. Mr. Averell was accordingly nominated and is the Federal candidate for Congress. Their Assembly Ticket is composed of Willard Trull of Cherry Valley, James Steere of Hartwick and a Mr. Day of Decatur.
October 22, 1838
150 YEARS AGO
Mr. Barker, the so-called “Union Democrat” who spoke in this village on Tuesday evening last, said: “I do not want the Union as it was – but as it should be.” Mr. B. spoke the true sentiment of the party in whose service he is now laboring. We give him credit for being in that respect at least an honest servant. The Radicals do not favor the prosecution of the war for the restoration of “the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is” – they wish to see it prosecuted for the abolition of slavery – and when the rebel armies shall be dispersed, they will with one voice proclaim their policy, as frankly as Mr. Barker now declares it. It turns out, as we expected, that this Mr. Barker is a wool-dyed Abolitionist from the State of Maine, sent here for the purpose of infusing New England abolitionism among the voters of Otsego County.
October 23, 1863
125 YEARS AGO
Personal: Mr. Dorr Russell, who has been in California for the past six years, was called home by the intelligence of his wife’s dangerous illness, and is at the Hotel Fenimore.
Alfred K. Robbins, the Miller at the Pioneer Mills, had the misfortune to catch his hand in a wheat crusher at the mills last Thursday. Three fingers of his right hand were badly crushed, but will probably be saved. Dr. Bassett is in charge.
Miss Mary Taber, formerly of this village, has just graduated with honor from St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was the first child received at the Orphanage and does honor to the institution.
October 26, 1888
100 YEARS AGO
The Fashions – New York Hats and Gowns: Only the fact that the average well-dressed woman is corseted saves her from a hopelessly, slouchy look, in the loose, baggy, Zuave type of costume that has taken the fashionable world by storm this season. Waist lines are located anywhere from just below the shoulder to the curve of the hip while seemingly every effort is made to increase the girth at the waist in order to keep the straight line of the figure which makes for slenderness of effect. Blouses are loosely fitted and pulled out at the belt into still greater bulk, and skirts are almost all more or less full at the waist, increasingly full from thence to the knee, where the draperies are tightly drawn to narrowness at the ankle that makes slashes and panels a necessity for ordinary walking.
October 22, 1913
75 YEARS AGO
Major League Base Ball clubs appear most favorably disposed toward playing exhibition games on historic Doubleday Field in connection with the Centennial Celebration of the National Game. Eight of the sixteen clubs of the National and American Leagues have expressed themselves. Recently, Lester G. Bursey, local program chairman, addressed invitations to the managements of all the clubs, to participate in the celebration by playing here. Replies have been received from the Cincinnati Reds, the Boston Bees, the New York Yankees, the Athletics and Phillies or Philadelphia, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the St. Louis Browns and the Chicago White Sox.
October 26, 1938
25 YEARS AGO
Cooperstown Mayor Harold H. Hollis was one of only five weather observers selected from more than 12,000 volunteers throughout the country to receive the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest accolade given to observers. Four representatives of the National Weather Service met last Friday at the Hollis home on Walnut Street to present the award. Hollis began recording weather observations in 1950 for the U.S. Weather Bureau as it was then known. Hollis and the other 12,000 observers, working daily, record minimum and maximum temperatures, rainfall, snowfall, and snow depth. Weather watchers like Hollis are a dying breed,” said Roland Guy Loffredo, area manager and meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Albany.
October 26, 1988
10 YEARS AGO
Barbara Harper, a world-renowned expert and author on natural and non-invasive birthing techniques, including water births, will present a public lecture in Clark Auditorium at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital on October 27. Harper is the author of “Gentle Birth Choices.” “I want to bring a message of gentle, non-violent birth. The lecture will look at the current state of maternal care in New York State and will offer information to empower women to make choices,” Harper said. The lecture will discuss using a Dula, midwives, and giving birth in water. Harper said that midwives at Bassett sought her out to come and lecture. Harper has been a nurse since 1973 and has supported water birth since 1983.
October 24, 2003
