150 YEARS AGO: Are lead pipes poisonous? The question of lead poisoning is attracting considerable attention at the present time. There has been a large and influential gathering of scientific gentlemen and representatives of the Water Boards of New York and Brooklyn, and delegates from the Board of Education of the former city at the Manhattan Lead Works, to witness tests and inquire into the merits of the lead encased block-tin pipe.…
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185 YEARS AGO: Advertisement—Carriage builders—The Subscriber is now receiving a very general assortment of materials for building and trimming carriages in the most fashionable style. He believes that builders will not be under the necessity of going to Utica or Albany to obtain materials for building a carriage.…
185 YEARS AGO: Complaints have been made to us from the post offices in New Berlin, Columbus, Sherburne and elsewhere, of delays in receiving this newspaper through the mail; in answer we have to say, that the packages for those places are timely made up by us and deposited in this post office for transmission to their destinations – so that the fault of delay is not with us, but must rest upon Mr. Granger’s subordinates...…
160 YEARS AGO: Good Luck to Him—We are pleased to chronicle from time to time the doings of our Oneonta boys who have taken up their abode in the west. And, it gives us pleasure at the time to publish the following from the Anamosa “Eureka” newspaper.…
160 YEARS AGO: Concert—A concert of vocal and instrumental music will be given by Les Brimmer’s band of Minstrels at Bowne Hall, on Saturday evening next. Those who like good music and would “laugh and grow fat,” will of course be on hand. The leader is known as the great Banjo player of the country; his company comprises five performers.…
90 YEARS AGO: Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the Townsend Old Age Pension plan, assailed the Roosevelt administration’s “crazy orgy of spending” and told the second annual Townsend Plan convention that his movement has the support of other groups who seek a new era of “social justice.”…
135 YEARS AGO: The Fourth of July in Cooperstown was a very quiet day, pleasantly broken at noon by the out-door concert given by the Military Band. Even the usual ardor of the small boys was dampened by the frequent and copious showers of rain which fell. At noon, the band escorted Nelson Hose Co. to the steamer Gem, on their way to the entertainment they provided at Three-Mile Point.…
70 YEARS AGO: The new barracks for troopers of the Oneonta Sub-station will be ready for occupancy about August 15, Samuel J. Monser, owner of the property said. The new structure, located at Emmons, is a two-story frame building and will replace the barracks at the eastern entrance to Oneonta which has been used by State Police since 1943.…
210 YEARS AGO: From New Orleans—A gentleman who left New Orleans on the 13th ult. and arrived at Boston in the brig Jane, states that the crevasse in the levee had not been stopped. Commodore Patterson had proceeded to the spot with his hulks for the purpose of sinking in the crevasse, but nothing had been affected when the Jane sailed.…
110 YEARS AGO: Dedication of Wilber Park—If there had ever been question as to the gratitude which Oneontans feel to George I. Wilber for the gift of a public park, it was set at rest Tuesday afternoon and evening. Despite threatening weather before and during the program, three thousand residents of the City of Oneonta, with a considerable number of friends from other places, gathered a little before seven o’clock on the plateau adjacent to the Pines to witness the…
