BOUND VOLUMES, March 13, 2014 200 YEARS AGO “Geographic & Military Museum” We have received the first number of a paper published in Albany, by Samuel R. Brown, under this title. We would recommend it to the attention of the public as worthy of patronage. In the meantime, we give our readers his very eccentric Dedication. “To the brave and patriotic, who are willing to expend blood or treasure in defence of the Republic; no matter in what state or…
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BOUND VOLUMES, March 20, 2014 200 YEARS AGO On Thursday morning last, between the hours of 3 and 4 o’clock, our citizens were aroused from their slumbers by the alarming cry of fire, which proved to be in the building occupied by Taylor and Graves as a Tailor’s and Barber’s shop, and had made such progress before the alarm became general, that it was impossible to save the building. The end of Messrs. Cook and Craft’s store, which stood about…
BOUND VOLUMES, March 27, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Taylor & Graves have again commenced business in the white building south of the Bookstore of H. & E. Phinney, where they hope their friends and the public generally will please to call, in order that they may be enabled to forget the loss which they have so recently sustained by fire. They are constantly receiving the newest fashions from Albany and New York, and trust they shall be able to cut…
BOUND VOLUMES, April 3, 2014 200 YEARS AGO The bill to incorporate the Bank of Otsego has been lost in the Assembly – 46 to 39. Mr. Crafts, agreeably to leave, has introduced a bill to incorporate the “Bank of Cooperstown,” which has been passed to a second reading. This is probably some new modification of the rejected bill; but from the hostile attitude of the senate with regard to Banks generally, little hopes can be entertained of its ultimate…
IN MEMORIAM: Fred J. Lewis, 91; WWII Veteran Was President of D&H Union ONEONTA – Fred J. Lewis, 91, a 40 year veteran of the D&H railroad and president of the local chapter of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, passed away Aug. 2, 2014, at Fox Hospital after a brief illness. He was born on Nov. 12, 1922, in Athens, the son of Henry M. and Ethel Johnson Lewis. Fred attended Oneonta schools and was a member of the Oneonta…
BOUND VOLUMES, April 10, 2014 200 YEARS AGO 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…
BOUND VOLUMES, April 17, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – School Money – The proportion of School Money for the County of Otsego, has been received from the Superintendent of Common Schools. The several towns in the County can have the same for the year 1813, by applying for it. An order signed by all the Commissioners, will be necessary, which may be drawn payable to any one of them, or any other person. It will also be necessary that…
BOUND VOLUMES, April 24, 2014 200 YEARS AGO The Armistice – From all information we have obtained on this subject, the following are the particulars, we believe, so far as they have progressed in this important affair. As we understand, a proposition has been received from Sir George Prevost, governor of Lower Canada, by our government, for a suspension of hostilities between the forces of the United States and those of Great Britain under his command in the two Canadas,…
BOUND VOLUMES, May 1, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Fire! Last Thursday, about one o’clock p.m. our citizens were again alarmed by the cry of fire, which proved to be in the shop occupied by Messrs. Benjamin & Barnard, cabinet-makers. The shop, together with tools, and a quantity of stuff were consumed; but a number of articles of furniture, of considerable value, were preserved, and by the usual activity of the citizens the further progress of the flames, which threatened destruction…
BOUND VOLUMES, May 8, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Married – on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. John Smith, Samuel Starkweather, Esq., Attorney at Law, to Miss Marcia Averill, daughter of James Averill, Jun. Esq., all of this village. Village Law – Resolved, That no person shall remove any of the fire hooks, ropes or ladders belonging to the Trustees of this village, from the place where they are deposited, without the consent of the President of the village, under…