135 YEARS AGO: The Local News—“What a fine-looking body of men!” was the general remark last Friday when the McCammon hose company, participating in the annual parade of the fire department, passed along Main Street. It was the first opportunity most of our people have had to see the workmen at the piano factory and there was instant recognition and acknowledgement of the fact that the new industry had brought to Oneonta a very desirable class of citizens.…
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50 YEARS AGO: Gary J. Sparaco, a resident of Oneonta, has been appointed Operations Analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Sparaco is the son of Florence Sparaco, 1 Hill Place, and Anthony Sparaco, restaurant owner, now deceased.…
90 YEARS AGO: Pledges totaling $3,374.50 were reported when workers in the financial campaign of the Neighborhood Association met at the Hotel Oneonta for breakfast yesterday. This is considered a very gratifying figure since only about 125 individuals were represented.…
110 YEARS AGO: The only Fair in Otsego County in the year 1916 came to an end Friday after five days of genuine enjoyment for all those who attended an attendance fully satisfactory to the management when the circumstances of attending such an exhibition during the present year are considered. The infantile paralysis quarantine regulation, forbidding the presence of children less than sixteen years of age prevented the attendance not only of the children themselves, but also of many parents…
160 YEARS AGO: Why was it closed? We heard a great many ask the question, “Why was Messrs. Mendel Brothers Store closed on Wednesday? The reason was, we suppose, that it was the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Our Hebrew brethren observe this day most rigidly by extreme fasting—neither food nor drink being partaken of.…
110 YEARS AGO: The automobile race against time in which the War Department is taking an active interest started from Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts today, Wednesday, and is to finish at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington on Saturday. If plans materialize, the last relay should reach its destination on Saturday. The time allowance for the race of 3,685.5 miles is 120 hours.…
135 YEARS AGO: The McCammon piano factory is the scene of bustling activity this week. Already, seventeen carloads of machinery and material have arrived from Albany and the factory so long silent resounds with the sound of hammers and the step of workmen.…
160 YEARS AGO: Matrimonial Awakening—Young men and bachelors cannot you inaugurate a matrimonial revival? Are you to allow the balmy evenings, with their soft and gentle moonlight, to waste away in unprofitable silence? Are you ever dreaming of dollars, and watching crops and gold fluctuations? Will you never tire of those four old black walls that seem to hold every thought and impulse?…
The citizens of Oneonta and vicinity are requested to meet at the High School room on Friday evening, August 24, for the purpose of organizing a Society to procure funds to erect a monument to the memory of soldiers from this town, who died while in the service or were killed during the late rebellion…
160 YEARS AGO: Military Encampment—We see by orders posted about our streets that the 39th Regiment commanded by Colonel Hubbard, and the 41st Regiment commanded by Colonel Dunbar, will encamp in this village on land owned by E.R. Ford, Esq. for drill &c., commencing Monday September 17 and will remain until Saturday, September 22.…
