Bound Volumes, Hometown History September 7, 2023 40 Years AgoLeo Wickoff began working for the Delaware & Hudson Railway on January 27, 1942. Wickoff’s memory of the D&H yard is one of a bustling, busy place, with as many as 25 switch engines working during a single 24-hour work day. Wickoff considered himself to be lucky. “Some of the men went as long as 20 years before getting a regular job,” he said. “I was pretty fortunate. I had a…
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40 YEARS AGO Tap water in Oneonta is distasteful and smells foul because engineers are pumping from the Susquehanna River to conserve precious water supplies in city reservoirs. The musty flavor is from leaf mold in the Mill Race, along the Susquehanna River, from which the city is drawing the river water, according to city engineer Richard C. Olton. “The resulting mold on the gathering leaves imparts the off-flavor,” Olton explained. Olton said chlorinating the river water and running it…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History August 17, 2023 50 Years AgoThe long-run viability of our dairy industry is threatened by a succession of events according to 27th District Congressman Howard W. Robinson who released a statement while attending the Delaware County Fair. “The price freeze has had an unanticipated adverse effect on the New York dairy industry. The after effects of Tropical Storm Agnes that resulted in shortages of feed grain and roughage and poor crop conditions this spring along with…
110 YEARS AGO For the previous ten days a number of Oneonta gentlemen have been actively engaged in a movement for the organization of the Oneonta Country Club. At a meeting Thursday evening in the parlors of the City Club, at which were about 25 men perhaps most interested, initial steps were taken for the formation of such a club. August 1913…
70 YEARS AGO Paris Fashion—A whole collection of lifted skirts was shown by Maggy Rouff today. She raised some hemlines sharply. But none reached the top of the calf, the high water mark set by Christian Dior. The show was dominated by widened shoulders and straight, tight skirts—some so tight they had to be slit for walking – and the graceful princess of redingote line, popular everywhere in the new fashions. A redingote silhouette nips in sharply at the waist,…
135 Years Ago Two thousand Italians in New York are absolutely destitute and dependent wholly upon charity for the continuance of existence. So at least says Signor R. Marzo, general manager of the Italian Society of Emigration, and he is probably a good authority. And there are many more who, being without employ, would also be starving but for their having some small savings upon which they live in the most economical fashion. When their means are gone, unless there…
125 Years Ago The Local News—From the annual report of the state factory inspectors it is seen that Otsego County has twenty factories, employing over 900 hands. Fourteen are located in Oneonta, three in Unadilla and two at Schenevus. In the county there are nine cigar factories, employing some 200 hands, three-fourths of whom are engaged in factories in Oneonta. No man takes more pride in the neatness of the exterior surroundings of his residence than C.E. Ford. From the…
135 YEARS AGO Following are excerpts from the so-called Alderman “Weidman’s Code,” a village ordinance governing the conduct of policemen patrolling in the Main Street and Market Street area of Oneonta: “…it shall be his duty to walk or patrol the entire length of said territory and keep a careful lookout to maintain order and preserve quietness and gentlemanly conduct from all, refraining from conversing with or holding extended conversations with anyone, except so far as is necessary to discharge…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History July 6, 2023 135 YEARS AGOFew places excel Oneonta in facilities for obtaining an education. About 20 years ago a union school was established with a building which most of the inhabitants thought extravagantly large; but three extensions have since been added, each in size almost equaling the original structure, besides a two-story building in the western part of the village. The entire system is now under direction and management of Prof. N.N. Bull, who has…
135 YEARS AGO: Over the hill to the poor house – Mrs. Adelia Tobey, widow of the late Zacheus Tobey, formerly of Morris, aged 65 years, was on Saturday taken to the poor house by overseer Beach. She was formerly in good circumstances having, to use her own words, “everything that heart could wish.”…
