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May 14, 2026
185 YEARS AGO
(Advertisement) Circus & Caravan—Splendid and Combined Attraction of Equestrian and Gymnastic Performances with a beautiful collection of Living Wild Animals, comprising the stupendous Giraffe, the Elephant, and every variety of Wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles. Sig: June, Titus, Angevine & Co., Proprietors of the Bowery Amphitheater, New York. R. Sands, Equestrian Manager. The proprietors of the above-mentioned establishment have the honor to announce to the citizens of Cooperstown and vicinity, that their unequalled troupe of Equestrians, and splendid Caravan of Wild Animals, will be exhibited at Cooperstown, on Friday, May 14, 1841, for one day only. The Manager pledges himself that his exhibition shall be of a strictly moral character, and free from many objections frequently made to entertainments of this description.
May 10, 1841
160 YEARS AGO
Change of Time—The new time table on the Susquehanna R.R. took effect on Monday. Trains now leave Albany as follows: 7:30 a.m.—Passenger and Mail arrives at Unadilla; Passenger and Mail, arrives at Unadilla 12:15 p.m.; 1:10 p.m. Passenger arrives at Unadilla 5:55 p.m.; 5:30 p.m.—Freight and Passenger arrives at Unadilla 12:10 a.m. Leaves Unadilla 3:00 a.m.; Freight and Passenger arrives at Albany 9:30 a.m.; 10 a.m. Passenger arrives at Albany 2:45 p.m.; Passenger arrives at Albany 7:30 p.m. To connect with these trains, stages now leave Cooperstown at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.
May 11, 1866
85 YEARS AGO
Ralph W. Ellsworth, senior partner in the firm of Ellsworth & Sill general dry goods business at 79 Main Street for the past 21 years will retire after 37 years in the mercantile field. The business will be continued under the same firm name by G. Reed Sill, junior partner. In January 1920, Mr. Sill purchased a half-interest in the business of Taylor & Ellsworth, dry goods merchants, which had been held by the late Nettie Taylor Ellsworth after the death of her brother, the late Arthur J. Taylor in 1898. Mr. Ellsworth became connected with the firm in December 1904.
May 14, 1941
60 YEARS AGO
The four candidates on the Student Choice ticket scored a clean sweep in the annual Cooperstown Central School Student Council election last Friday. Michael Phillips was elected president over James Peters; James Callahan was named vice-president over David Rath; Deborah Leonard, secretary over Carol Bullock; and Mark Armstrong, treasurer over James Austin. Michael Phillips will succeed David Gallagher as head of the council beginning in September. Voting machines, loaned by the Town of Otsego, were used in the balloting. Nearly 600 ballots were cast.
May 11, 1966
35 YEARS AGO
National Pastime owner Doug Walker didn’t want to keep all his bread in one basket, so the owner of one of Cooperstown’s first baseball memorabilia shops paired up with Rick Bird and opened Danny’s Main Street Market this spring. Now, Doug is selling bread and baseballs. Restaurateurs Kevin Grady and Tom Stevens, owners of the Pepper Mill restaurant on the village’s edge, will join the Main Street mainstream when their Doubleday Café opens this week. “We’re plugged into Cooperstown,” Stevens and Grady agreed. “We may as well make the most of it.” Steve Kaich, owner of the Bold Dragoon, has his eye on the Route 28 corridor in Hyde Park. In June, he and partner Kristi Swatling will open a barbecue ribs and chicken restaurant there.
May 15, 1991
