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.…
Online home of The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta
Advertisement
Sharon Stuart - Page 8
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…
40 YEARS AGO: Enid Carter closed the door on 32 years of her life with the end of the school year at Oneonta high school. She has sold her mobile home in Oneonta and returned to Bovina Center to the house once owned by her grandparents.…
160 YEARS AGO A Short Run—Peterson, whose escape from jail was noticed last week, had but a short run. He was captured by Mr. Loveland, hotel keeper at Otego, on Thursday of last week, in that town. Peterson had procured a six-shooter, which he had loaded in order to meet emergencies, and which he attempted to draw on Mr. L. But that gentleman was a little too quick and strong for him, and took the pistol into his own possession.…
70 YEARS AGO: Hundreds of persons flocked to the Gas Avenue crossing of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad yesterday to see the results of a wreck that blocked both mainline tracks for six hours and 17 minutes. Three empty freight cars in the middle of an 11-car train went off the track at 8:50 a.m. One demolished the watchman’s cabin, ramming it into the millrace. Another tipped over onto the southbound main tracks and the third stopped upright against the…
185 YEARS AGO: Newspapers—The man who takes no newspaper cannot reasonably expect to occupy a very high station in society. How can he expect to know what is passing in the world, what mankind is about, and what he ought to occupy himself about, unless he has access to those chronicles of the times...…
70 YEARS AGO: Oneonta has passed the 120 mark in the Friendly Town campaign to give hearty summertime vacations to as many deserving underprivileged New York City Fresh Air children as possible. Chairman Jack Bresee called the appeal to date “heartwarming.”…
135 YEARS AGO: Illegal Fishing—Last week, suits were commenced by one of the Game Protectors of the State against about 40 persons living on or near Otsego Lake, who are charged with illegal fishing in its waters. Some of these parties emphatically deny the allegation, and say no evidence can be given against them that any court of law will regard. Against others the Game Protector claims to have conclusive evidence as he and several assistants spent some time on…
90 YEARS AGO: The final plea for the life of Mrs. Eva Coo, buxom keeper of Woodbine Inn on the Oneonta-Maryland road, awaiting execution in Sing Sing’s death house next week will be made to Governor Herbert H. Lehman today. Mrs. Coo, who observed her 43rd birthday Sunday in her death cell, was found guilty of plotting the death of Harry Wright, her handyman, by felling him with a mallet and then having an automobile run back and forth over…
