160 YEARS AGO: Ladies at the County Fair—Our attention was first directed to the Domestic Manufactures. The Ladies deserve much praise, for their department has become an attractive feature of the Exhibition. There was a good display of quilts. There were 12 entries. A beautiful silk patchwork quilt, containing 3,000 pieces, by Mrs. James F. Smith of Richfield Springs, was much admired as a work which had required no little time and skill to complete; another by Miss Amanda Belknap…
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110 YEARS AGO: The village of Cooperstown is to be honored next Tuesday by a visit from Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of the United States. Colonel Roosevelt will arrive during the mid-afternoon and will address a meeting in the Village Hall at 4 o’clock, coming here from Cobleskill and going thence to Oneonta, where he speaks in the evening. He is accompanied on the trip by ex-Senator Frederick M. Davenport, the Bull Moose candidate for Governor who will also speak. These…
50 YEARS AGO: Oneonta’s police force may be getting its first women officers soon. City personnel technician John Insetta said yesterday that six women are among 73 applicants for positions at the police department. Civil Service examinations will be administered on November 9. There are presently two vacancies on the force. This is the largest group of applicants that the city has ever had for a vacancy in the department, Insetta said. Insetta attributes the increase to pay raises the…
160 YEARS AGO: Excerpts from an address by A.A. Brown to a meeting of the Cooperstown McClellan for President Club: “We have entered upon a campaign, the results of which are perhaps to decide our national existence; and it behooves each one of us to use all the means in our power to bring it to a successful issue; but at the same time that we carry on the contest with the most determined energy, let us avoid all appeals…
70 YEARS AGO: Dickie, a two-month-old blue parakeet, flew through an open door about 3 p.m. yesterday to explore the big world outside the Donald Holcomb home, 44 Church Street. Thereafter, the bird cut a trail of high adventure. In a tree at 36 Cherry Street, Dickie was espied by David Rittinger, 8, who captured him. Thinking there might be a reward for the bird, David took Dickie to the home of Police Sgt. James Fawcett, 44 Clinton Street,…
185 YEARS AGO: On Friday, the 13th instant, a committee of five persons, (Messrs, Prentiss, Foote, Starkweather, Bowne and Pease) repaired to Fort Plain in two Barouches, and waited upon the President of the United States (Martin Van Buren) at that place. At nine o’clock the next morning, he took a seat in a handsome barouche drawn by four elegant cream-colored horses, and, accompanied by several other carriages he proceeded on the route to Springfield Corners, where they arrived at…
135 YEARS AGO: The new perfecting press of the Eckerson Printing Press Company was tested last week at the manufactory at Cohoes, and worked like a charm. To see a press print on both sides of paper at one time from flat beds of type at the rate of several thousand impressions per hour, is a novelty which will doubtless attract the attention of printers, there being, no other press like it. The press is for job work, and also…
210 YEARS AGO
Gallant Exploit—During the last week, Col. Mitchel, at Sacket’s Harbor, dispatched a small boat with four men in it to reconnoiter the Canada shore. After landing and traveling a few miles into the country, they met his majesty’s mail carrier, on his way from Kingston to the head of the lake. After taking from him the mail, they dismissed him, with directions to return and bring them another. We understand that its contents generally, are of such importance…
110 YEARS AGO
Formal notice was given to the world today by President Wilson that the United States at this time cannot pass judgment upon or take any part in controversies between the warring European nations over alleged violations of the rules of civilian warfare and humanity. He said settlement of these questions would have to wait until the end of the war, which he prayed might be very soon. A resume of the findings of the Belgian Commission of Inquiry…
210 YEARS AGO: Song—I asked my fair one happy day—What should I call her in my lay? By what sweet name from Rome or Greece? Iphigenia, Clelia, Chloris, Laura, Lesbia, Delia, Doris, Dorimene or Lucrece? Ah! Replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air? Take thou whate’er suits the line, Clelia, Iphigenia, Chloris, Laura, Lesbia, Delia, Doris, But don’t forget to call me thine.
September 14, 1814…