185 YEARS AGO: Phoenix Factory Stock—At a meeting of the Trustees of the Phoenix Cotton Manufactory, held at the office Robert Campbell in the Village of Cooperstown on the tenth Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty-One, present Robert Campbell, Sherman Page, Eben B. Morehouse, Trustees: Resolved, that a call be made on the Stockholders of the Company of thirteen dollars and eighty cents on each share of Stock held by them…
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210 YEARS AGO: Captain Mamby of the British Navy has invented a machine with which a single individual may extinguish a conflagration. It is filled with a fluid composed of antiphlogistic ingredients. This fluid extinguishes, wherever it falls, the most ardent flames.…
110 YEARS AGO: The only Fair in Otsego County in the year 1916 came to an end Friday after five days of genuine enjoyment for all those who attended an attendance fully satisfactory to the management when the circumstances of attending such an exhibition during the present year are considered. The infantile paralysis quarantine regulation, forbidding the presence of children less than sixteen years of age prevented the attendance not only of the children themselves, but also of many parents…
135 YEARS AGO: The hop crop of Otsego County will this year amount to about 4,500,000 pounds. If an average profit of say four cents a pound can be realized, it will amount to about $180,000, which will not include interest on the land and buildings.…
160 YEARS AGO: Why was it closed? We heard a great many ask the question, “Why was Messrs. Mendel Brothers Store closed on Wednesday? The reason was, we suppose, that it was the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Our Hebrew brethren observe this day most rigidly by extreme fasting—neither food nor drink being partaken of.…
HISTORY—6 p.m. “Pomeroy Marker Unveiling.” Celebrating John Kidder, one of the commanders of “Upton’s Regulars.” Followed at 7 p.m. by “A Civil War Documentary: 121st New York Volunteer Regiment—Upton’s Regulars,” chronicling the story of the regiment recruited from Otsego and Herkimer counties. Starts at the Laurens Legion, 11 Main Street, Laurens. (607) 432-6314 or https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=38354868300793671&set=a.4960836983956899…
185 YEARS AGO: Notice—All persons having any claims against the estate of Horace Baldwin, late of the County of Otsego, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to Seth Doubleday and Calvin Graves, or either of them, at their residences in Cooperstown, on or before the twelfth day of February next. S. Doubleday, Calvin Graves.…
110 YEARS AGO: The automobile race against time in which the War Department is taking an active interest started from Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts today, Wednesday, and is to finish at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington on Saturday. If plans materialize, the last relay should reach its destination on Saturday. The time allowance for the race of 3,685.5 miles is 120 hours.…
185 YEARS AGO: Horse Stealing—A meeting of the owners of horses and those opposed to horse stealing in the Town of Otsego will be held at the house of Wm. Lewis in the Village of Cooperstown on Thursday the 16th of September at 1 o’clock p.m. for the purpose of forming a society for the prevention of horse stealing, and the detection of horse thieves. Sig. Many Horse Owners. September 13, 1841…
135 YEARS AGO: The McCammon piano factory is the scene of bustling activity this week. Already, seventeen carloads of machinery and material have arrived from Albany and the factory so long silent resounds with the sound of hammers and the step of workmen.…
