70 YEARS AGO: The new barracks for troopers of the Oneonta Sub-station will be ready for occupancy about August 15, Samuel J. Monser, owner of the property said. The new structure, located at Emmons, is a two-story frame building and will replace the barracks at the eastern entrance to Oneonta which has been used by State Police since 1943.…
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110 YEARS AGO: Dedication of Wilber Park—If there had ever been question as to the gratitude which Oneontans feel to George I. Wilber for the gift of a public park, it was set at rest Tuesday afternoon and evening. Despite threatening weather before and during the program, three thousand residents of the City of Oneonta, with a considerable number of friends from other places, gathered a little before seven o’clock on the plateau adjacent to the Pines to witness the…
135 YEARS AGO: At the request of the officers of the Oneonta Fish and Game Association, the water company has decided to post the Ackley and Wilber Lake reservoirs and streams leading out of them, so far as they are owned by the company. The association and water company taken these steps because the bass put in only a month ago are already being taken by anglers.…
160 YEARS AGO: Advertisement: It is a matter of fact that trade is working up town. If you don’t believe it, just call at Bundy & McDonald’s, and see the throng of customers that crowd that establishment from morning till night.…
135 YEARS AGO: Two very convenient shortcuts from Dietz Street have recently been closed up—one to Chestnut Street via the Windsor Hotel and the other to Reynolds Avenue across the lands of John Amsden.…
90 YEARS AGO: Cornell University’s New York State veterinary college today announced the death of “R-1149” a hen which lived eight years and three months and laid 1,515 eggs. The hen’s life answered two questioned posed by scientists. 1. How long would a hen live if it were not for chicken dinners?…
70 YEARS AGO: The first phase of a four-part survey to determine the economic need of establishing a commercial airport in this area will begin today (Tuesday, May 29, 1956). More than 1,500 questionnaires to determine the extent of use an airport would receive by students and faculty of the two local colleges will be distributed to the schools this afternoon, according to Dr. Leroy S. House, chairman of the city committee on establishing an airport in this area.…
135 YEARS AGO: What mothers are made for—A home is what a woman makes it. A daughter is, in nine cases out of every ten, the reflection of her mother. The training of the girl of fifteen is shown in the woman of fifty.…
110 YEARS AGO: Roscoe C. Briggs is now driving a Cadillac eight, he having exchanged his old car with J.A. Dewar for a 1915 touring car, the latter recently taken in exchange from George N. White of Cooperstown for a new model 1916 Cadillac eight, which was built on a longer wheel base for Mr. White.…
160 YEARS AGO: A condemnation of the revealing nature of the fashionable tilting hoop skirt as observed in New York City – “The hoop skirts now worn by fashionable females are a burning shame to society, and the wearers ought to be indicted by the civil authorities for willfully and knowingly exposing their persons..."…
