THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 6, 2023 FRONT PAGE Go Hawks! Say ‘Cheese!’ Vols Sought for Earth Day Task 354 Main Street, Otego: ‘More Than Just a Store’ Inside The Paper Randy Johnson Opens Fenimore Art Museum Photography Exhibition Iron String Press Welcomes New Staff Writer Fallen Middlefield Soldier Featured in ‘Faces of Margraten’ Book News Briefs: April 6, 2023 Perspectives Editorial The Results Are In Columns Noteworthy: Continuing Ed Yields Measurable Results for Shelter…
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04-06-23
Hometown History April 6, 2023 135 Years AgoHiram F. McMullen, a car inspector on the N.Y.O. & W.R.R. was run over and killed at Sidney on Tuesday. The cars were unprotected by flags, and as McMullen was in the act of crawling under to reach the other side of the track, a train in charge of conductor Allen, backed in upon the cars, catching his left hand just as he placed it upon the rail, severing it at the wrist…