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110 YEARS AGO: About four o’clock Wednesday afternoon the large and modern barns of E.O. Rogers, located north of and near the trolley crossing at the station in Hartwick, were discovered to be on fire. The flames had gained such headway before the firemen had water upon the buildings that they were destroyed with much of the contents, although all the livestock and the wagons and harness were gotten out.…

185 YEARS AGO: Phoenix Factory Stock—At a meeting of the Trustees of the Phoenix Cotton Manufactory, held at the office Robert Campbell in the Village of Cooperstown on the tenth Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty-One, present Robert Campbell, Sherman Page, Eben B. Morehouse, Trustees: Resolved, that a call be made on the Stockholders of the Company of thirteen dollars and eighty cents on each share of Stock held by them…

210 YEARS AGO: Captain Mamby of the British Navy has invented a machine with which a single individual may extinguish a conflagration. It is filled with a fluid composed of antiphlogistic ingredients. This fluid extinguishes, wherever it falls, the most ardent flames.…

135 YEARS AGO: The hop crop of Otsego County will this year amount to about 4,500,000 pounds. If an average profit of say four cents a pound can be realized, it will amount to about $180,000, which will not include interest on the land and buildings.…

185 YEARS AGO: Horse Stealing—A meeting of the owners of horses and those opposed to horse stealing in the Town of Otsego will be held at the house of Wm. Lewis in the Village of Cooperstown on Thursday the 16th of September at 1 o’clock p.m. for the purpose of forming a society for the prevention of horse stealing, and the detection of horse thieves. Sig. Many Horse Owners. September 13, 1841…

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.…

The Swanswick Ball—Mr. Shaw (Editor of The Freeman’s Journal): It is an easy matter to sum up the ball given at Swanswick-on-the-Lake last Thursday night. Every one of the 130 departing guests gave voice to the simple truth when...…

190 YEARS AGO: The party opposed to the Democracy, having failed of success under every cognomen they assumed, such as Federalists, National Republicans, Peoples-men, No-Party-Party, Tariff-men, Anti-masons, and last of all Whigs, have resorted to a new expedient to get up an interest favorable to the design of elevating themselves to power.…

160 YEARS AGO: The Freeman’s Journal is now about the oldest country newspaper in the State, and one of the oldest papers in the Union, having been established by the late Col. J.H. Prentiss in 1808.…