185 YEARS AGO: Adultery—Charles H. Newton has been sentenced to the state prison two years for adultery. For a year he had maintained gross criminal intercourse with a woman named Wentworth, a most abandoned creature, in the bosom of his own family; and, in order to gratify her, his lawful wife had been dethroned from her station in the family, and driven into the garret to sleep with her children, while he and his paramour occupied the best room in…
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160 YEARS AGO: Fatal Accident on the A. & S. R. R.—Ira Race, a brakeman, while attempting to get on the train at Schenevus, was thrown under the wheels and was so terribly injured that his bowels were torn out. He died soon after of his injuries.…
210 YEARS AGO: Foreign News Summary—Accounts from Naples announce a new eruption of Vesuvius in August. Two dreadful and distinct torrents of lava issued from the crater and poured down the sides of the mountain.…
135 Years Ago: Mirthful Mention: A stingy man can be relied upon to keep everything but his promise. The man who gets his desserts in this world usually has no pudding. A man’s sins are his creditors, and like them, they are sure to find him out.…
110 YEARS AGO: Do You Want Peace With Wilson or War With Hughes? There is only one choice as against peace, and that is war. Some of the supporters of that party (the Republican Party), a very great body of the supporters of that party, outspokenly declare that they want war; so that the certain prospect of the success of the Republican Party is that we shall be drawn in one form or other into the embroilments of the European…
135 YEARS AGO: The Local News—“What a fine-looking body of men!” was the general remark last Friday when the McCammon hose company, participating in the annual parade of the fire department, passed along Main Street. It was the first opportunity most of our people have had to see the workmen at the piano factory and there was instant recognition and acknowledgement of the fact that the new industry had brought to Oneonta a very desirable class of citizens.…
110 YEARS AGO: In Our Town—Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Ellsworth will open their home this Saturday evening for a public social under the auspices of the Social Club of the Universalist Church. Card games, abundant entertainment and refreshments will be the order of the evening—all for the nominal sum of ten cents.…
50 YEARS AGO: Gary J. Sparaco, a resident of Oneonta, has been appointed Operations Analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Sparaco is the son of Florence Sparaco, 1 Hill Place, and Anthony Sparaco, restaurant owner, now deceased.…
110 YEARS AGO: About four o’clock Wednesday afternoon the large and modern barns of E.O. Rogers, located north of and near the trolley crossing at the station in Hartwick, were discovered to be on fire. The flames had gained such headway before the firemen had water upon the buildings that they were destroyed with much of the contents, although all the livestock and the wagons and harness were gotten out.…
90 YEARS AGO: Pledges totaling $3,374.50 were reported when workers in the financial campaign of the Neighborhood Association met at the Hotel Oneonta for breakfast yesterday. This is considered a very gratifying figure since only about 125 individuals were represented.…
