110 Years Ago
The national debts of the world now aggregate 42 billion dollars, having increased 20 percent in the last decade and doubled in the last 40 years. The interest and other annual charges amounted in 1912 to $1,732 million dollars, or an average of slightly more than four percent. The largest national debt is that of France at 6,284 million; Russia 4,553 million; United Kingdom 3,456 million; Italy 2,707 million; Spain 1,815 million; British India 1,475 million; Japan, 1,242…
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Bound Volumes November 9, 2023 110 YEARS AGOLocal—Some mysterious individual seems to have a mania for traversing the streets at night, disturbing the inhabitants of the village by running up on the doorsteps and leaving handbills and tracts attacking the Roman Catholic Church in general and the pope in particular. If these reformers have anything important to say, we would suggest that they hire a hall, or come around in the daylight.Linn Pope of Toddsville has been feasting on Calarab…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History November 9, 2023 40 Years AgoHartwick College has received a collection of letters, some written by the Rev. John Christopher Hartwick, a Lutheran minister who bequeathed his estate for the formation of a religious seminary near Cooperstown, which was the forerunner of the college now located on Oyaron Hill in Oneonta. The letters were given to Hartwick College by Yale University. “We’re extremely pleased that Yale officials have given them to us so that they can…
160 YEARS AGO
The Republican Mass Meeting, advertised so extensively to come off at this place on Tuesday, was a rather slim affair. The fair grounds were not resorted to—Bowne Hall being found large enough to accommodate the “masses” in attendance, including the women and children who composed so large a proportion of the two petite processions which moved through the streets of the village, one of them occupying at least three minutes in passing a given point! Neither Dickinson nor…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History November 2, 2023 50 Years AgoFour Oneonta natives who are making a name for themselves in music circles throughout the northeast will begin a two-week engagement at the Oasis Motor Inn this week. It’s the first local stand for the quartet known as “The 69th Amendment” although the four members have performed as individuals in Oneonta on many occasions before. The group is composed of Ed Michelson, 24, on piano; Brian Kreger, 28, on drums; and…
70 Years Ago
All of Oneonta and the surrounding area have been invited today to attend the inauguration of Hartwick College’s fourth president, Dr. Miller A.F. Ritchie. Some 1,000 delegates and official guests, including leading educators from throughout the United States will participate. Special busloads have been chartered from Rochester and other cities. Today is also Founders Day at Hartwick. Oneonta’s Mayor, Roger Hughes, has proclaimed Saturday, October 24, “Inauguration Day” in Dr. Ritchie’s honor. Special programs are to be broadcast…
85 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…
185 YEARS AGO
An association of citizens for the improvement of Common Schools in this County was organized on the 14th of November last (1837) appropriating the title “Otsego County Education Society.” Its annual meeting is on Tuesday succeeding the third Monday in October each year at the Court House in Cooperstown. It will fall this year on Tuesday, the 16th of October. Of all enterprises claiming public attention, it is hoped there is none more interesting than that of making…
70 Years Ago
On the verge of welcoming Dr. Miller A.F. Ritchie as its new president, Hartwick College yesterday announced that it would take steps to help prevent further attacks in its student newspaper against former college officials. The editorial charged that Hartwick had, in the past few years, “slithered down the drain of incompetence,” and had developed “a sour student body, a lethargic Alumni Association and an overtired, overworked faculty.” Concerning Henry J. Arnold, the retiring college president, the editorial…
Bound Volumes October 12, 2023 135 YEARS AGOAs the result of numerous inquiries among businessmen in Wall Street and elsewhere, a reporter of the New York Times reaches the conclusion that businessmen are, as a rule, less bibulous than were their predecessors a quarter of a century ago, and that it has ceased to be good form for a man to rush off to a saloon and close each transaction with a drink. The character of the drink has also…