70 YEARS AGO
Violet Marie Bradshaw’s long masquerade as a man exploded dramatically in a criminal court in Columbus, Ohio after a judge sentenced her to the penitentiary for embezzlement. Arrested last summer as Vernon Bradshaw, 35, of Kenova, West Virginia, on a charge of embezzling $2,000 from an ice cream company, Violet served three days in a county jail before release on $1,500 bond. After sentencing at her trial on February 10, a man who identified himself as Patrick Bradshaw,…
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110 YEARS AGO
Last week The Freeman’s Journal published an article which previously appeared in the Schenevus Monitor, stating that Billy Mills, a former well-known baseball player in this vicinity, was dying of consumption in the Alms House at Rome. Billy received a copy of the paper containing his death notice and he was very much pleased with the sympathy which was being wasted upon him. In a denial published in the Rome Sentinel he claims to be very much alive…
135 YEARS AGO
Local: Charlie Burch says it is his candid opinion from certain orders given at his jewelry store that marriage is not a failure—a good thing for the trade, certainly.
There are now 12 prisoners confined to the jail at this place, six of whom are under indictment.
John W. Shove of Mount Vision, now belongs to the “Old Guard” on the Journal subscription list, having this week made his 50th annual payment.
At the annual meeting of the Y.M.C.A. Ladies Auxiliary…
70 YEARS AGO
Leo P. Norton, 39, Colliers, faces an indefinite stay in jail following his conviction yesterday in City Court on a charge that he gave a teenager a drink. An all-day trial ended shortly before supper when a jury of four men and two women brought in a verdict of guilty after nearly one and one-half hours of deliberation. Judge John L. Van Woert deferred sentencing to await action of the State Parole Board. The conviction automatically becomes a…
135 YEARS AGO
Local—The wants of the excellent Fire Department of Cooperstown were the main cause of the erection of the handsome village public building on Chestnut Street, and in supplying this need a commodious Hall was also secured. It was first opened on Friday evening last, when upwards of 700 people gathered at the Concert and a majority remained at the dedication Ball—music by the Albany Lyceum Concert Co. and Gartland’s Tenth Regiment Orchestra—given under direction and management of the…
90 YEARS AGO
Habitual drunkards were not included in the list of persons who are to be sterilized by edict of the Hitler government in Germany. But, in Stuttgart, where it is said the citizens usually drink light wine and beer, enough individuals have been resorting to stronger liquors that the city authorities have committed seven “habitual drunkards” to “suitable institutions” for indefinite periods and have issued warnings that heavy drinking is bad for “race hygiene and national economy” and must…
85 YEARS AGO
Cooperstown winter sports fans enjoyed the first favorable weather conditions of the season and several hundred made use of the new ski tow on Drake Mountain. The new tow is sponsored by the Cooperstown Winter Sports Association. The site is about six miles from Cooperstown and about one mile north of the Pierstown Grange Hall. The tow has a pull up the side of the mountain about a quarter mile in length and is operated by a tractor.…
90 YEARS AGO
Prices at Terpening’s Grocery & Market—Phone 1250—Free Deliveries: Fresh killed chickens, 23 cents lb.; 2 lbs. liver, 25 cents; Homemade veal loaf, 25 cents lb.; Beef roast, 10 cents and 18 cents lb.; Veal chops, 15 cents lb.; Breast of veal, 8 cents lb.; 2 cans peas or succotash, 29 cents; 2 pounds confectionary sugar, 15 cents; 4 cans baked beans, 25 cents; Fresh coffee, 21 cents lb.; 3 bottles olives, 29 cents; 2 large cans peaches, 29…
135 YEARS AGO
Local—Mr. E.F. Beadle has been in town for a few days looking after the finishing of his new cottage. He has also purchased of J. H. Kelley the Coburn house and lot, and will have possession the first of April, when he will put mechanics at work enlarging and modernizing the building, to be on a par with his other cottages on Pine Street—a street that through the enterprise of Mr. Beadle has become one of the finest…
160 YEARS AGO
Standing on the threshold of a New Year, the mind naturally turns to a contemplation of the stirring events which marked the outgoing of the late Administration, and which have distinguished that of the present. The civil war which now devastates the land actually commenced in January 1861, when the rebels fired upon the vessel sent to provision and reinforce the little garrison in Fort Sumpter—now a heap of ruins. The early leaders in this wicked rebellion no…