185 YEARS AGO: Phoenix Factory Stock—At a meeting of the Trustees of the Phoenix Cotton Manufactory, held at the office Robert Campbell in the Village of Cooperstown on the tenth Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty-One, present Robert Campbell, Sherman Page, Eben B. Morehouse, Trustees: Resolved, that a call be made on the Stockholders of the Company of thirteen dollars and eighty cents on each share of Stock held by them respectively, to be paid to the Agent of the said Company at their Factory Store in Middlefield, on or before the fifteenth day of November next, under the penalty of their forfeiting their said shares of Stock and all previous payments made thereon. Peleg H. Kent, Agent…

210 YEARS AGO: Captain Mamby of the British Navy has invented a machine with which a single individual may extinguish a conflagration. It is filled with a fluid composed of antiphlogistic ingredients. This fluid extinguishes, wherever it falls, the most ardent flames.…