160 YEARS AGO: The number of emigrant passengers arrived in the United States during the week: 10,498. We learn through the Vice Consul of the of the United States at Hamburg that 150,000 emigrants of the United States have already engaged passage at that port alone...…
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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?…
185 YEARS AGO: The “Law Reforms,” about which the Legal Gentlemen talk so much as “taking the bread from the mouth of labor,” seem to have but little effect upon the rush to the Bar, for the New York papers give the names of 45 persons admitted as Counsellors, and 81 as Attorneys, during the present term of the Supreme Court.…
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.…
210 YEARS AGO: Advertisement—Barbarities of the Enemy, exposed in a report of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, appointed to enquire into the spirit and manner in which the war has been waged by the Enemy and the documents accompanying said report—Just received by H. & E. Phinney, Price 50 cents.…
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.…
185 YEARS AGO: (Advertisement) Circus & Caravan—Splendid and Combined Attraction of Equestrian and Gymnastic Performances with a beautiful collection of Living Wild Animals, comprising the stupendous Giraffe, the Elephant, and every variety of Wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles. Sig: June, Titus, Angevine & Co., Proprietors of the Bowery Amphitheater, New York. R. Sands, Equestrian Manager.…
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.…
185 YEARS AGO: Steamboat Accident—The steamboat Henry Eckford, Captain Tice, was preparing to tow some Canal boats into the river at the foot of Cedar Street, New York when her boiler exploded. The deck of the vessel was completely ripped up, and the fragments thrown in every direction.…
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..."…
