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July 4, 2024

110 YEARS AGO

A suffrage meeting was organized last week by Miss Anna Constable of New York who is the guest of Mrs. Walter Watson Stokes at the Crooked Cottage. Miss Constable, who is prominent in New York as a member of the Woman’s Political Union is an ardent suffragist and has secured many faithful followers through her plausible reasons in regard to the question of the ballot as a means of freedom, advancement and political purity to the country. Through the courtesy of Garrett J. Benson, the Hotel Fenimore piazza as well as the street was filled with interested listeners. Miss Constable spoke of the responsibility man owed to the mind of a woman in giving her the vote, as well as the responsibility in which he acknowledged her as his equal in the Church.

July 1, 1914

85 YEARS AGO

A baseball used in the first game on record where gate money was demanded and received from spectators has just been added to the collection of mementos of the national game at the National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame. The date of this game was July 20, 1858, when New York defeated Brooklyn 22 to 18. A companion ball used in a game between the same teams in the same series on September 10, 1858, was also donated. New York also won that game 28 to 19.

July 5, 1939

60 YEARS AGO

July 1, 1964

35 YEARS AGO

In 1817, George Hyde Clarke began constructing an English manor house known as Hyde Hall overlooking Otsego Lake near what is now known as Glimmerglass State Park. Designed by Philip Hooker, a leading Albany architect of the day, the 50-room, 200-foot-long “country home” was completed in 1833 and it is considered one of the finest examples of pre-Civil War houses in America. The Friends of Hyde Hall organization, formed in 1964 to save the building, continues the work of restoration. “What really sets Hyde Hall apart is its quadrangular plan,” says Douglas Kent, executive vice-president of the friends group.

July 5, 1989

20 YEARS AGO

The Episcopal Diocese of Albany, which oversees all of the Episcopal congregations in the area, recently joined the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes, a conservative network formed in response to the consecration of an openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in New Hampshire last year. Opinions are mixed as to what the final significance of the newly formed network will be. Robinson was consecrated in the fall of last year at a ceremony in New Hampshire, making him the world’s first openly gay Episcopalian bishop. The appointment upset many of the 70 million Anglicans worldwide.

July 2, 2004