60 YEARS AGO: Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller has arranged to speak here next Tuesday morning to the Fifth Annual Executive Conference of the New York State Broadcasters Association which opens Monday at the Otesaga Hotel. Tentative plans call for the Governor to arrive here by helicopter shortly before 11 a.m. to address the convention.…
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135 YEARS AGO: At the request of the officers of the Oneonta Fish and Game Association, the water company has decided to post the Ackley and Wilber Lake reservoirs and streams leading out of them, so far as they are owned by the company. The association and water company taken these steps because the bass put in only a month ago are already being taken by anglers.…
185 YEARS AGO: A correspondent writes us that active preparations are in progress for a general celebration by the citizens of Otsego, Montgomery and Schoharie counties, of the ensuing anniversary of our National Independence, at Sharon Springs, Schoharie County, the fifth of July next.…
160 YEARS AGO: Advertisement: It is a matter of fact that trade is working up town. If you don’t believe it, just call at Bundy & McDonald’s, and see the throng of customers that crowd that establishment from morning till night.…
135 YEARS AGO: Children’s Day—An interesting service, consisting of vocal and instrumental music, will be held in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning next, in place of the usual church service, by and under the auspices of the Sunday School.…
135 YEARS AGO: Two very convenient shortcuts from Dietz Street have recently been closed up—one to Chestnut Street via the Windsor Hotel and the other to Reynolds Avenue across the lands of John Amsden.…
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...…
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.…
