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HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 3, 2013 125 Years Ago C.M. French announces his readiness to receive visitors and patrons at his portrait and art studios, rooms Nos. 12 and 13, Ford Block, opposite the post office. In addition to his portrait work, Mr. French will open a school for the study of industrial and fine art in room 13, which will be fitted up with the necessary studies, antique casts, etc., for a thorough course of study in drawing and painting.…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 17, 2013 125 Years Ago Just below the Plains Crossing, near this village, early in the week, the body of a black cat was found upon the track, cut in twain by the cars. “I wouldn’t be in the engineer’s place what run over that cat for all the money the company’s got,” said a railroad employee. “It doesn’t often happen that a cat gets caught, but to run over a black cat means death every time.”…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 24, 2013 125 Years Ago The Local News – An order for steel rails for the Oneonta Street Railway Company has been placed with the Johnston Steel Rail Co. of Johnstown, PA. The rails are expected here in about three weeks. The capital stock of the street railroad company is $20,000, not $15,000, as stated last week. Reuben Reynolds and Fred Wilcox are among the largest stockholders. The Guy Table Company has changed its name to the…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 7, 2013 125 Years Ago An ingenious contrivance for recording the time of employees is being tested at the railroad blacksmith shop. It is an invention of Mr. Bundy of Auburn, brother of postmaster H.E. Bundy of Oneonta, and is in the form of a clock. Each employee is provided with a numbered key and when going to work must step up to the clock-like arrangement and insert the key and give it a turn. If this…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 21, 2013 100 Years Ago Local News – Frank Pierce of Otego has purchased of Arthur M. Butts the local agent, a new Cadillac touring car. Mr. Pierce will never have reason to regret his selection. While there are many good cars being made these days there are none better at the price than these same Cadillacs. One of the largest regular passenger trains lately over the D. & H. through this city was No. 303 Wednesday…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 12, 2013 125 Years Ago Following are excerpts from the so-called Alderman “Weidman’s Code,” a village ordinance governing the conduct of policemen patrolling in the Main Street and Market Street area of Oneonta: “…it shall be his duty to walk or patrol the entire length of said territory and keep a careful lookout to maintain order and preserve quietness and gentlemanly conduct from all, refraining from conversing with or holding extended conversations with anyone, except so far…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 26, 2013 125 Years Ago Two thousand Italians in New York are absolutely destitute and dependent wholly upon charity for the continuance of existence. So at least says Signor R. Marzo, general manager of the Italian Society of Emigration, and he is probably a good authority. And there are many more who, being without employ, would also be starving but for their having some small savings upon which they live in the most economical fashion. When their…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 2, 2013 125 Years Ago Woman’s Work: What we need in literature are pens radiant with idealism. We need preachers who will behold the invisible glory of their Creator and bring it back to us. We need artists who will see the divine light in nature and so depict it upon the canvas that we shall perceive its beauty. We need, too, women who will be proud of woman’s place and woman’s work. It is the function…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 30, 2013 125 Years Ago The managers of the Central New York Fair, which opens at Oneonta on the 19th of September and continues for four days, are extremely fortunate in securing an engagement with the great aeronauts, Prof. Oscar Hunt and Prof. J.W. Price of Illinois. They will not only give an ascension on the second and third days of the fair in their monster hot air balloon, the largest in the world, but will perform…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, September 13, 2013 125 Years Ago Most of the stores owned by our Hebrew merchants were closed last Thursday night and they and their families observed the inception of the Jewish New Year. Thursday was the first day of Fishri, the first day of the year 5649, according to the reckoning of the Jewish calendar, and from then until after the tenth day of Fishri ensues the most solemn period of the year. Rosh Hashohah, day of remembrance,…