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HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 8, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News – The new printing press being constructed at Miller’s machine shops has one feature at least that works like a charm – it takes off a finger or a thumb or a thumb nail with all the readiness of an old-style machine. The inventor tested it himself. A Normal School building, a chair factory, a knitting mill, a new church, and very many of houses, all in course of…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 15, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News – In noting last week some of the greater improvements to be made in Oneonta this year, we said nothing of one of the most noteworthy among them all – the increase in the water supply in the village. Not many of our people, we opine, have an adequate conception of the extent of the work now being done, nor of the great advantage its consummation will be to…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 22, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News – On Sunday evening there was a large turnout at the Metropolitan Theatre to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the organization in Oneonta of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Secretary Swift read an historical sketch of the association, and Rev. Mssrs. Wilson and Coates made appropriate addresses. The association was organized June 13, 1877, with thirteen active members, five of whom are in the association today which now has…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 29, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News – There is no part of a locomotive that cannot be made at the Oneonta railroad shops. If required, an entirely new locomotive could be built there, and indeed, some of the old engines which have been through the shops for repair are so nearly new when they come out that there is little left by which to recognize them. The railroad company, at the suggestion of the Board…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 6, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News – A beautiful sight was witnessed at the residence of Lester Eaton, Fairview Street on Monday evening – the blossoming of a night-blooming cereus. Seven buds gradually opened during the evening, filling the room with fragrance and bringing exclamations of delight from all who were privileged to watch the flowers as they unfolded. The weather this past week has been the hottest known in years. For several days the…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 13, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News – The China woman with the troupe exhibiting in Oneonta last Thursday evening had feet less than three inches long – smaller than her 17-month-old child’s. Her pedal extremities are so dwarfed that she cannot go up or down stairs without assistance, and after hobbling along the street the distance of a block, she is exhausted. The small feet of the women of China have been so much written…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 27, 2012 125 Years Ago Since January 1st the officers of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company have been well aware that goods were being stolen from freight trains running to and from Oneonta. The losses grew in frequency as the thieves became bolder, until of late every few days something would turn up missing – now a barrel of flour, then some cheese, or a package of this, that or the other of the multitudinous variety…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 3, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News: Some wag placed a sign at the center of the great mud hole in front of the Herald building a few days ago which attracted no little attention. One side was lettered “Private Fishing Grounds,” and the reverse “No Fishing Allowed.” Unsightly places are these perennial Main Street mud holes. It would take but little work to do away entirely with the most of them. George Hungerford, who lives…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 10, 2012 125 Years Ago The ball game at the fair grounds on Saturday between the Oneonta and Laurens clubs ended in a row. Members of the Oneonta club objected to the rulings of umpire Pixley, and protested so vehemently that the Laurens boys, justly enough, refused to play any longer. It would appear that the Oneonta ball nine is neglectful in extending to visiting clubs the courtesy to which visitors should be entitled. We regret to…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 17, 2012 125 Years Ago Affliction indeed has laid a heavy hand upon Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Slade of this village. In October last a little casket containing all that was mortal of their boy Louie, ten years old, and of their baby girl, two years old – both of whom died of diphtheria within a few days of each other – was taken to Franklin and placed in the cemetery there. The day that Louie died,…