70 YEARS AGO: Oneonta High School’s football team shattered Mohawk High’s 21-game unbeaten football record Saturday, powering its way to a 26 to 6 victory over the Mohicans. The victory was accomplished on some fine passing by Bill Whittaker, great running by Sam Lamonica and Joe Pidgeon as well as brilliant offensive and defensive play by a rugged line...…
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110 YEARS AGO: Paper ballots and not voting machines must be used for submitting the proposed new state constitution to the voters at the election on November 2. The decision was rendered as an opinion by Attorney General Woodbury in response to inquiries by Secretary of State Hugo. However, the voting machines may be used for voting upon the two constitutional amendments authorized by the legislature, including referendum or woman suffrage and a $27,000,000 bond issue to complete the barge…
110 YEARS AGO: Murderous Assault—Awakened from a sound sleep by the slash of a razor across her face and her infuriated husband standing over the bed making further attempts to carry out his fiendish motives was the experience of Mrs. Mary Bovenzi at the home at 63 Main Street, a 5:30 o’clock Tuesday morning...…
110 YEARS AGO: The new processing creamery plant of the Sheffield Farms Slawson Decker company at Oneonta Plains is now practically completed. Though not as large as some of their many stations scattered throughout the rich farming sections of the state, none is more complete in detail or embodies more of...…
90 YEARS AGO: Thomas Jefferson said: “A free press has its evils, but a controlled debate is intolerable.” Democratic majority leader Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas says “The filibuster has disgusted the Senate and the country..."…
135 YEARS AGO: Base Ball—After the game of Tuesday afternoon, lost by the home team to the Trojans by a score of 10 to 7, the Oneonta State League Base Ball team disbanded. The history of the club from its inception to the close of its checkered career has been marked by many vicissitudes of fortune...…
135 YEARS AGO: Excerpts from a letter responding to quote taken from the New York Tribune: “The hop crop has left New York millions of dollars worse off; that hop culture has been the means of causing several counties of the state to pass twice over through bankruptcy; that farms prostituted to this delusive product have already been, on the average, twice under the hammer, or are mortgaged so deeply that they will take their second leap very soon. So,…
90 YEARS AGO: A big army bomber flew itself over a triangular course today. Only at the take-off and landing did the pilot put his hands on the controls. Army Air Corps officers hailed the feat as “successful automatic radio navigation.” But, the engineers emphasized there is no thought of sending huge bombing planes, crewless, to rain death upon an enemy in any future war, even though England’s little “Queen Bee” planes have demonstrated that unmanned aircraft can be flown…
110 YEARS AGO: Decline in Passenger Traffic—The number of travelers over the Delaware & Hudson lines is far below normal and the decrease is felt all over the system. Through-travel between Albany and Rouses Point, as reported on the June statement, shows a deplorable loss of 31 percent as compared with last year. The group of trains running between Albany and Rutland earned 23 percent less than they did last June. Between Albany and Binghamton, earnings are 15 percent off,…
90 YEARS AGO: Political satire has a way of flourishing in spite of governmental opposition, and in Germany no edict of Adolf Hitler seems powerful enough to check the “underground” manufacture of pointed jibes at the ruler of the Reich. The story goes that Hitler went to see a movie incognito by himself and took his seat unobtrusively in the rear of the house. When the newsreel came around and Hitler’s picture was flashed on the screen, everyone stood up…
