HISTORY—6:30 p.m. “Stories Behind the Stars: Otsego County’s World War II Fallen.” Presented by the Otsego County Historical Association. Free. Refreshments to follow. Kinney Memorial Library, 3140 County Highway 11, Hartwick. (607) 293-7950 or https://www.facebook.com/OtsegoCountyHistorical/…
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160 YEARS AGO: Wives and Husbands—With a wife comes a certain loss of freedom, which is irksome to willful natures. This, a man, who is a very short-sighted creature, never thinks of until after the subject of his love is his. Waking thoroughly to the consciousness that he is a married man, he finds in his house a person who has an absolute claim on his attention, his time, his affection and his services. He is surrounded by new conditions.…
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…
185 YEARS AGO: Otsego County Medical Society—At the annual meeting of the Otsego County Medical Society, held at the Eagle Tavern, in Cooperstown, on the 20th July, 1840, the following officers were duly elected for the ensuing year—Dr. Drake of Westford, President; Dr. Hannay of Cooperstown, Vice-President; Dr. Gorton of Gilbertsville, Secretary; Dr. Curtiss of Cooperstown, Treasurer and Librarian; Marks, Harper, Boyce, Secor, Metcalf, Censors; Curtiss, Spafard, Peake, Trustees of the Library. July 27, 1840…
110 YEARS AGO: Miss Lou Rogers, a talented cartoonist and one of the very best of her sex so engaged, visited Oneonta yesterday and last evening she gave a public exhibition of her work in front of the Windsor Hotel following the band concert. Miss Rogers was introduced by Professor W.H. Lynch, who complimented her upon the enviable reputation she has won. Miss Rogers made some clever drawings calculated to arouse interest in Equal Suffrage and to arouse interest in…
135 YEARS AGO: When it was last week announced that Dr. John G. Wight had tendered his resignation as Principal of Cooperstown Union School and Academy, to accept the Principal’s position at the noted high school in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a salary of $3,000 a year, it was received with mingled feelings of regret and pride—regret that we must part with so useful and valued a citizen, but pride in his deserved promotion. As a leading and successful educator, Dr.…
90 YEARS AGO: A threat to legislate Jews out of Germany was the loudest gun fired today in the Nazis’ big drive against “reactionaries.” Julius Streicher, husky, bald Nazi boss of Franconia, who is considered the soul of Nazism’s hatred of Jews, voiced the threat in an address he delivered at Bernau, suburb of Berlin. He emphatically predicted anti-Semitic laws in the near future to put “Jews in their places” – the first time any high official had said anti-Semitism…
160 YEARS AGO: Summary of News—The Post Office at Cooperstown is among the offices designated as those on which orders may be drawn or paid, under the postal money order system just put in force in this country.…
135 YEARS AGO: Lawn tennis is becoming a fashionable out-of-door sport in Oneonta this summer. Already, several courts have been laid out, Dietz, Elm, Maple and Ford Avenue each having one court or more. Saturday afternoon of last week the Maple Street and Ford Avenue clubs met for the first time. The double was won by Messrs. Lauren and Giles by a score of 6 to 2. The first single was won by J. Lauren, 6 to 3; and the…
135 YEARS AGO: Will Retaliate: The Chinese Minister for the United States arrived at New York on the 7th inst. He said: “Unless the United States government repeals the law which excluded my countrymen from this country we shall treat Americans to a dose of their own medicine. I mean that we shall exclude citizens of the United States from the Chinese empire.” He said that the Chinese government has lived up to its treaties, and the United States government…
