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.…
Online home of The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta
Advertisement
hometown history
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..."…
135 YEARS AGO: Geo. B. Shearer, Oneonta’s enterprising dealer in musical instruments, last week purchased the stock, machinery, materials and good will of the famous McCammon piano factory of Albany.…
110 YEARS AGO: Monday was opening day at the new offices of the Oneonta Light & Power Co. The company has for several weeks been busy in remodeling and redecorating the store at 172 Main Street. From ceiling to floor, the room has been refinished, the artistic new iron ceiling painted a flat white, the side walls finished in a delicate shade of oatmeal paper, and the wainscoting in Lincrusta.…
90 YEARS AGO: President Roosevelt proposed shorter working hours and suggestion limiting jobs to men and women between the ages of 18 and 65 in an address tonight calling the nation to a period of “social pioneering” against unemployment.…
90 YEARS AGO: The consolidation of Wagner College with Hartwick College is a matter that may come up for discussion at the spring convention of the Eastern Conference, United Lutheran synod of New York next week.…
