110 YEARS AGO: Mayor Joseph Lunn and 46 former Oneonta boys gathered last Friday evening in New York City and sat down to a tempting dinner, smoked some fine Doyle & Smith cigars from the old home town and then proceeded to have a rousingly good time talking over the old days spent on their native heath. Four hours of chumship and friendship reigned as of old and everybody had a real enjoyable time. The occasion was the second annual…
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110 YEARS AGO: John Paddock, aged about 54 years, a carpenter by trade, living at 63 Gilbert Street, where he conducted a lodging house for railroad men, took his own life about 7 o’clock Tuesday morning by shooting himself twice in the head with a .32 caliber revolver. Paddock was alone in the house at the time. When Paddock’s wife, accompanied by Mrs. Edward Aylsworth, a neighbor, entered after hearing the shots, he was found lying on the floor of…
70 YEARS AGO: It hasn’t been announced yet, but the Army engineers will burrow under Greenland’s mighty icecap this summer and, if successful, run subway trains beneath the packed snow and ice just as subways run under New York City. This spectacular project, known as Operation Ice Cube, is awaiting final approval by Danish authorities who govern Greenland. A volunteer construction crew of six officers and 172 men commanded by Lt. Col. Elmer Clark is standing by to begin the…
70 YEARS AGO: A new physical therapy department, a new basal metabolism and electro-cardiograph room and a new three-bed patients’ room in the enlarged and improved Fox Hospital will be made possible by a memorial gift of $43,200 received from Mrs. Beatrice W. Blanding, president and principal owner of the Oneonta Sales Co., Inc. One of the rooms selected by Mrs. Blanding will stand as a memorial to her father Riley J. Warren, who in 1912 founded the company which…
135 YEARS AGO: The Local News: The Kniskern boy, sentenced to the Rochester Industrial School for theft, escaped from the custody of officer Butts while on his way to that place. The lad jumped from a train running at the rate of forty miles an hour. No clue yet to his whereabouts. Many of the pupils of the Normal School are boarding themselves on the club plan. Rooms are hired, usually for four, and arrangements made with the landlady to…
110 YEARS AGO: About fifty girls were present at the Woman’s Club Saturday afternoon for the organization of a “Little Mothers League” for instruction in the duties of mothers designed to make them helpful to their mothers and capable when older grown. The organization of the League was undertaken by the Girls’ Welfare Committee of the club of which Mrs. Edson J. Farley is chairman. The class selected Miss Mildred Thurston as President and Miss Mabel Phelps as Secretary. The…
110 YEARS AGO: Commandments of the Road for Automobilists: The National Council of Industrial Safety asks all automobilists to obey to the letter these ten commandments of the road: Don’t run fast into or across main highways. Don’t take blind curves too fast. Don’t run on the wrong side of the road. Don’t pass street cars when passengers are boarding or leaving. Don’t fail to sound your horn before passing other vehicles. Don’t forget that a car or a person…
110 YEARS AGO: The Wilber National Bank has, some weeks since, installed and has been operating one of the latest and most improved Burroughs statement machines – a device that approaches as near to a mechanical book keeper as is easily conceived, and is a marvel to all who have witnessed its operations. With it the bank has daily a statement sheet of each active account, posting and adding all deposits made and subtracting all checks paid by the bank…
135 YEARS AGO: One curious effect of the mild weather of the past three months has been to “obliterate,” in the minds of many, the idea of winter. People are often heard speaking of “last fall,” when further inquiry develops the fact that January is meant. So, too, events of February are referred to as spring. There has been no true Boreal weather and the mind unconsciously has adapted itself to the fact. What the next few weeks may bring…
110 YEARS AGO: It has been rumored about the village for several days that Allen Gallup was running for Village President. It was a mistake—he was galloping. When the votes were counted on Tuesday, it was found that Mr. Gallup has been elected by a majority of 142 over W. Dean Burditt, who was running for the third time. In 1913, Mr. Burditt’s majority was 202 and in 1914 it was 114. This tremendous turning of the tide is proof…
