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...…
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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...…
185 YEARS AGO: ONE CENT REWARD—Ran away, or rather walked away (being too lazy to run) from the Subscriber on Sunday, the 9th inst., an indentured Apprentice Boy named William Henry Baird. This is to forbid all persons harboring or trusting said Boy on my account, as I shall pay no debts of his contracting after this date. The above reward will be paid to any person who will return said boy, but no charges paid, and but few thanks…
135 YEARS AGO: Excerpts from a letter responding to quote taken from the New York Tribune: “The hop crop has left New York millions of dollars worse off; that hop culture has been the means of causing several counties of the state to pass twice over through bankruptcy; that farms prostituted to this delusive product have already been, on the average, twice under the hammer, or are mortgaged so deeply that they will take their second leap very soon. So,…
