BOUND VOLUMES, June 13, 2013

200 YEARS AGO
Books for Sale by H. & E. Phinney at their Book & Stationery Store, Cooperstown – “Halyburton’s Enquiry into the Principles of Modern Deists,” “Shakespeare’s Works – 8 Volumes,” “Winter in London – A Novel, 2 Volumes,” “Blair’s Lectures,” “Life of Rev. Cornelius Winter,” “Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, 5 Volumes,” “Camilla, A Novel,” “Buchan’s Domestic Medicine,” “Christ’s Second Appearing,” “Smith’s Essays on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species,” “Fleetwood, or The New Man of Feeling,” “Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted,” and “Bennett’s Letters to a Young Lady on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects.”
June 12, 1813

175 YEARS AGO
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. The Democratic Republican Young Men of the Town of Otsego, are requested to meet at the house of C.S. Butts, in the Village of Cooperstown, on Thursday, the 14th inst., at six o’clock p.m., for the purpose of choosing delegates to represent them in the Young Men’s County Convention to be holden on Wednesday, the 27th inst., and also for the purpose of effecting a political organization of the Young Men of the town. By order of the Committee,
June 11, 1838.

150 YEARS AGO
For the Ladies: Women of the East – A Harem Interior. Miss Rogers gives a very brief and life-like picture of the interior of a harem of Mahommed Bek Abdul, the Governor of Azzebeh, whither she was invited. “They pounced upon me as if I were a new toy for them. They kissed me, one after the other, and stroked my face. They had never seen a European, and told me that no daughter of the Franks had ever entered the town before. They said: ‘Be welcome, oh sister from a far country; this house is yours and we are your servants.’ The ladies wore full, long, trousers with short, tight jackets, made of cloth or velvet, embroidered with velvet, and flowers and jewels in their head dresses. The servants wore cotton suits and the slaves red cloth. They wondered to see my plain, long dark riding dress and hat.”
June 12, 1863

100 YEARS AGO
The talking pictures in the Star Theatre Monday evening were attended by a crowd rivaled in size only by the first appearance of “Deerslayer.” The regular pictures and the banjo act were very pleasing – of the “talkies” it can only be said that they are yet in a crude state and it will be some time before theatres will install them as a permanent feature. Those shown in Cooperstown Monday were as good as any shown in the cities, having just completed an eight-month run in Boston. They came here from Albany and went from here to Cortland. The talking picture is merely a combination of a moving picture and a phonograph operated in synchronism. The subjects are necessarily simple, because the pictures are limited to the length of a phonograph record.
June 11, 1913

50 YEARS AGO
The annual Cooperstown Central School Awards Assembly was held Friday in the high school auditorium. The Bausch and Lomb Science Award, in recognition of outstanding achievement and intellectual promise in the field of science went to Diane Hanson. The English IV Award for a student who shows competence and sensitivity in handling the English language was presented to Thomas H. Troeger. Patricia Gregory was honored for maintaining the highest average (96.2) in Bookkeeping throughout the year. Sarah Butler received the Otsego County Legal Secretaries Association Award of $10 for the student with the highest average (97.1) in Shorthand. Robert Chambers was recognized as the art student showing the most promise and ability in the Advanced Art class. Lynn E. Green, Jr. was recognized as the outstanding student in the field of history. National Honor Society Certificates of Merit were presented to Thomas H. Troeger, James E. Green and John R. Sill.
June 12, 1963

25 YEARS AGO
A celebration in honor of Independence Day will be held at The Farmers’ Museum July 4th. A full day of activities will be presented in the spirit of the 19th century. The program will feature a town ball game between the Leatherstocking Base Ball Club of Cooperstown and the Confusion Athletic Club of Schenectady. A reenactment of a 19th century Independence Day celebration will begin at 3 p.m. with a parade through the museum’s village crossroads to the church. After arriving at the church there will be a reading of the Declaration of Independence by Tom Heitz and a performance by the Susquehanna Singing School directed by Kathryn Boardman.
June 15, 1988

10 YEARS AGO
Beginning on Saturday, June 14, Cooperstown Dreams Park will open its gates for its eighth season expecting 38,000 to 45,000 visitors for the summer. The first 64 teams of 2003 from all over the United States and Canada will arrive to kick off the festivities this weekend.
June 13, 2003