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September 3, 2026

210 YEARS AGO

The Lottery—In the last class of the Medical Science Lottery, the number 12,129 drew a prize of 25,000 dollars, and was sold in eights. Seven eights were soon claimed and proceeds received by the respective owners. But to the surprise of the office which sold it, the remaining eighth had never been claimed. On Saturday evening last, a poor man, a school master (whose name is concealed at his own request) came to Allen’s office to purchase some shares in the next class and brought with him one-half of a torn ticket in the former lottery, to examine for his satisfaction what had been its fate. This half, which contained the number of the ticket his wife found after a diligent search among some old rubbish, but the other half had been destroyed by the children to whom it had been given. It turned out to be the remaining eighth of the high prize. His joy was extravagant. He said that this prize, together with his business, would render him independent for life, to complete satisfaction.

September 5, 1816

135 YEARS AGO

Local—It is estimated that there are now upwards of 8,000 persons at work in the hop fields of this county. Hop City is the scene of great activity just now, and is visited by many people from other cities. Mr. Clark has a small army of hop pickers at work and he is harvesting a large and a fine crop.

September 3, 1891

110 YEARS AGO

Knocked down by dogs—Mrs. Roy Campbell Smith is a patient at Thanksgiving Hospital recovering from cerebral concussion and a fractured collar bone, the result of a most unusual accident occurring on Main Street last Thursday morning. Mrs. Smith was walking uptown from the Olmstead cottage on Fair Street, where she and her daughter Marjorie have been spending the summer. When nearly opposite the Murdock store a couple of dogs ran into Mrs. Smith, throwing her from her feet, her head striking heavily upon the cement sidewalk. Passersby came to her assistance, removing her to her home and giving such attention as they could until the arrival of Drs. Dewar and Cruttenden. Later, the ambulance was called and Mrs. Smith was taken to Thanksgiving Hospital.

September 6, 1916

60 YEARS AGO

More than 155,000 persons, an average of better than 5,000 a day, visited Cooperstown’s six museums during the month of August. Five of the six museums set all-time one month attendance records. One of these, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, surpassed its record total for a single year shortly after it opened for business on September 1. The Hall of Fame entertained a whopping 721,595 fans last month to break its old one-month record of 61,334 set in August 1963, by 10,261. The Farmers’ Museum registered 41,053 visitors in August to better its old one-month record total of 37,163 in August 1964 by 3,890. Fenimore House had 20,173 visitors last month, 1,653 more than its old record of 18,520 set in August 1963. Monthly attendance records were also set at the Woodland Museum (19,603) and the Carriage & Harness Museum (907). The Cooperstown Indian Museum attracted 4,187 visitors, only 170 short of its all-time one-month record of 4,357.

September 7, 1966

35 YEARS AGO

A $202,397 grant has been awarded to the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital Research Institute from the National Center for Research Resources to improve the Institute’s research facilities. The research buildings which will be renovated include the facilities originally used by Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who won the Nobel Prize last year for pioneering bone marrow research at Bassett in the 1950s.

September 4, 1991