Bound Volumes
October 23, 2025
185 YEARS AGO
Medical & Surgical—H.S. Harper, M.D. would inform his friends and the public, that he continues the practice of the medical profession in the Village of Cooperstown, and that he holds himself ready to attend to all those who may favor him with the treatment of their diseases. Having read his profession with the most eminent Surgeon of which Otsego County can boast, the late lamented Professor Delos White, M.D., of Cherry Valley, and having attended four full courses of lectures at the medical college, and attended to dissecting private and public, he feels a confidence in offering himself to the public as a Surgeon. Patients from a distance can obtain board in this village at as cheap a rate as they may wish. H.S. Harper, M.D.
October 26, 1840
135 YEARS AGO
Personal: Robert, second son of Mr. Alfred C. Clark, a lad of about 14 years of age, while at play last Saturday, had the misfortune to fracture a bone in one of his wrists. It received the needed attention of Dr. Lathrop, and on Monday Mrs. Clark took the boy to New York.
There is said to be a demand for dwellings on Leatherstocking Street—where most of the weddings take place; four within a few months, and the supply not yet exhausted.
You probably intend to vote at the next election as that is your duty as a good citizen; therefore, see to it that you are registered.
October 17, 1890
85 YEARS AGO
At Noon on October 29th Secretary of War Stinson will draw the first number in a nationwide lottery in which nearly 17 million young men hold tickets—800,000 of them good for a year’s service in the Army. Within three weeks after Secretary Stinson lifts the first blue number capsule from the big goldfish bowl, the initial contingent of 30,000 draftees will be on their way to training camps. By next June 15th, 800,000 men will be called to training in the order in which their numbers are drawn from the bowl, unless they volunteer without waiting to be called, or unless they are deferred from service.
October 23, 1940
60 YEARS AGO
October 20, 1965
20 YEARS AGO
Master Sergeant Michael J. Lambert of Fort Bragg, North Carolina has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge, 1st Award. Lambert, a son of Paul and Barbara Lambert of Cooperstown, and brother of James and John, has recently returned from a mission in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, where he led a Special Forces unit. The Bronze Star was awarded to Lambert for “exceptionally meritorious service while serving as a member of the Combined Joint Task Force 76 in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom and for Lambert’s tactical proficiency, selfless commitment to mission accomplishment in a combat zone, under extreme circumstances.”
October 21, 2005
