185 YEARS AGO: ONE CENT REWARD—Ran away, or rather walked away (being too lazy to run) from the Subscriber on Sunday, the 9th inst., an indentured Apprentice Boy named William Henry Baird. This is to forbid all persons harboring or trusting said Boy on my account, as I shall pay no debts of his contracting after this date. The above reward will be paid to any person who will return said boy, but no charges paid, and but few thanks…
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135 YEARS AGO: Excerpts from a letter responding to quote taken from the New York Tribune: “The hop crop has left New York millions of dollars worse off; that hop culture has been the means of causing several counties of the state to pass twice over through bankruptcy; that farms prostituted to this delusive product have already been, on the average, twice under the hammer, or are mortgaged so deeply that they will take their second leap very soon. So,…
135 YEARS AGO: Local: A “Reception of College Men,” to which about 300 invitations were issued, is being held at the rooms of the Y.M.C.A. this Wednesday evening. It promises to be one of the most pleasant local social events of the season. Among recent college graduates and present students in and near this village, and who will probably be present, are: Cornell, Charles I. Thayer and Charles H. Parshall; Hamilton, John B. Hooker, Jr.; Hobart, Horace C. Hooker; Princeton,…
90 YEARS AGO: A big army bomber flew itself over a triangular course today. Only at the take-off and landing did the pilot put his hands on the controls. Army Air Corps officers hailed the feat as “successful automatic radio navigation.” But, the engineers emphasized there is no thought of sending huge bombing planes, crewless, to rain death upon an enemy in any future war, even though England’s little “Queen Bee” planes have demonstrated that unmanned aircraft can be flown…
135 YEARS AGO: (Ed. Note: The following passage describes a Minstrel show performed in blackface by members of the Cooperstown baseball team) A large and appreciative audience greeted the young men who gave the Concert and Entertainment on Tuesday evening in the Village Hall for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Almost every number of the program called for an encore, the many topical songs being especially appreciated. The boys composing the Charleston Blues, by their brilliant performance elicited a…
110 YEARS AGO: Decline in Passenger Traffic—The number of travelers over the Delaware & Hudson lines is far below normal and the decrease is felt all over the system. Through-travel between Albany and Rouses Point, as reported on the June statement, shows a deplorable loss of 31 percent as compared with last year. The group of trains running between Albany and Rutland earned 23 percent less than they did last June. Between Albany and Binghamton, earnings are 15 percent off,…
160 YEARS AGO: Wives and Husbands—With a wife comes a certain loss of freedom, which is irksome to willful natures. This, a man, who is a very short-sighted creature, never thinks of until after the subject of his love is his. Waking thoroughly to the consciousness that he is a married man, he finds in his house a person who has an absolute claim on his attention, his time, his affection and his services. He is surrounded by new conditions.…
90 YEARS AGO: Political satire has a way of flourishing in spite of governmental opposition, and in Germany no edict of Adolf Hitler seems powerful enough to check the “underground” manufacture of pointed jibes at the ruler of the Reich. The story goes that Hitler went to see a movie incognito by himself and took his seat unobtrusively in the rear of the house. When the newsreel came around and Hitler’s picture was flashed on the screen, everyone stood up…
185 YEARS AGO: Otsego County Medical Society—At the annual meeting of the Otsego County Medical Society, held at the Eagle Tavern, in Cooperstown, on the 20th July, 1840, the following officers were duly elected for the ensuing year—Dr. Drake of Westford, President; Dr. Hannay of Cooperstown, Vice-President; Dr. Gorton of Gilbertsville, Secretary; Dr. Curtiss of Cooperstown, Treasurer and Librarian; Marks, Harper, Boyce, Secor, Metcalf, Censors; Curtiss, Spafard, Peake, Trustees of the Library. July 27, 1840…
110 YEARS AGO: Miss Lou Rogers, a talented cartoonist and one of the very best of her sex so engaged, visited Oneonta yesterday and last evening she gave a public exhibition of her work in front of the Windsor Hotel following the band concert. Miss Rogers was introduced by Professor W.H. Lynch, who complimented her upon the enviable reputation she has won. Miss Rogers made some clever drawings calculated to arouse interest in Equal Suffrage and to arouse interest in…
