110 YEARS AGO: In Our Town—The Otesaga Hotel closes on Friday morning after breakfast, having had the most prosperous season of its existence. The plan of keeping the house open through the entire month of September has been more than satisfactory to Manager Knott, the patronage having been far above his anticipations. The house was filled to its capacity over the weekend. September 29, 1915…
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110 YEARS AGO: Paper ballots and not voting machines must be used for submitting the proposed new state constitution to the voters at the election on November 2. The decision was rendered as an opinion by Attorney General Woodbury in response to inquiries by Secretary of State Hugo. However, the voting machines may be used for voting upon the two constitutional amendments authorized by the legislature, including referendum or woman suffrage and a $27,000,000 bond issue to complete the barge…
110 YEARS AGO: Doctors and Drugs: A large number of physicians are themselves addicted to morphine. This is no wonder, considering the strenuous life they lead, and the fact that they are continually handling the drug. Conscientious physicians have for some time...…
110 YEARS AGO: Murderous Assault—Awakened from a sound sleep by the slash of a razor across her face and her infuriated husband standing over the bed making further attempts to carry out his fiendish motives was the experience of Mrs. Mary Bovenzi at the home at 63 Main Street, a 5:30 o’clock Tuesday morning...…
135 YEARS AGO: If your hay crop is large and you wish to feed it out on the farm, call at Dr. James’ when you come to the Fair, and have your horse’s teeth put in order. Chris Post says that his horses eat three times the amount they did before he had their teeth floated...…
110 YEARS AGO: The new processing creamery plant of the Sheffield Farms Slawson Decker company at Oneonta Plains is now practically completed. Though not as large as some of their many stations scattered throughout the rich farming sections of the state, none is more complete in detail or embodies more of...…
110 YEARS AGO: Infant mortality statistics for July made public show a decrease of 15 points from the rate of July 1914. The month of July this year recorded 844 deaths under one year as compared with 946 in July 1914...…
90 YEARS AGO: Thomas Jefferson said: “A free press has its evils, but a controlled debate is intolerable.” Democratic majority leader Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas says “The filibuster has disgusted the Senate and the country..."…
185 YEARS AGO: Married: In this Village on the 1st Instant, by the Rev. Mr. Potter, Mr. William H. Brainard of Exeter, to Miss Caroline Wilson, daughter of Mr. William Wilson of Cooperstown. In Middlefield on the 3rd instant, by the Rev. Mr. Raymond, Mr. Jeremiah Blend, to Miss Marsha Maxwell...…
135 YEARS AGO: Base Ball—After the game of Tuesday afternoon, lost by the home team to the Trojans by a score of 10 to 7, the Oneonta State League Base Ball team disbanded. The history of the club from its inception to the close of its checkered career has been marked by many vicissitudes of fortune...…
