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Bound Volumes, Hometown History

September 12, 2024

110 YEARS AGO

The State Education Department has made public a list of students of the public schools of the state who have passed the examinations necessary for college entrance diplomas and who are eligible for state scholarships under the amended school law of 1913. Those eligible and their test averages from Oneonta are: Riley Crippen (90.38); Alice E. Kilkenny (83.8); Earnestine Ethlyn Morse (77.7); George Herbert Fletcher (77.57); and Stuart Grant (70.5).Headlines from WWI: War’s Greatest Battle Is Raging East of Paris; Hundreds of Thousands Fighting On Each Side Will Decide Fate of Paris; Germans Are Checked; Teutonic Forces Have Been Under Disadvantage of Marching Through Swamps of Petit Morin; Russo-Austrians In a Death Grip; Continuous Fighting in Poland—Scales Turning in Russia’s Favor; Austrian Troops Are Driven Out of Russia; Supplies and Many Prisoners in Russian Hands.

September 1914

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