65 YEARS AGO: President-Elect Kennedy is reported to have assurances of support from U.S. Representative John J. Rooney of New York for the appointment to a high ambassadorial post of least one career diplomat instead of a wealthy political contributor. Rooney is Chairman of the House subcommittee on State Department appropriations...…
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160 YEARS AGO: The Lecture—There was a large gathering at Bowne Hall on Thursday evening of last week to listen to the popular poet Saxe as he discoursed wittily and learnedly of “Poets and Poetry.” There was a natural curiosity to hear a poet’s opinion of his own family—and his clever hits at a large class who imagine themselves at least fifth cousins.…
160 YEARS AGO: New York Freedman’s Relief Association—A few ladies in Cooperstown have done something through this organization for the relief of suffering in the South...…
135 YEARS AGO: Local News – Seldom, if ever, has the sanitary condition of Oneonta been more satisfactory than at present. Seldom too, has health been so good. There is said to be not a single case of typhoid or other contagious or infectious fever...…
185 YEARS AGO: Dr. Channing on Poetry—Poetry far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressed cares, and awakens the consciousness of its efficacy with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity; that is to spiritualize our nature. Poetry has a natural alliance with our best affections. Its great…
90 YEARS AGO: “The Grange stands four-square against the legalized liquor traffic and will fight to the last ditch this greatest of all destroyers,” Fred J. Freestone, master of the New York State Grange, declared in his address opening the business session of the 63rd annual convention of the organization at the State Armory here in Oneonta yesterday. “We should remember that while the nation has repealed prohibition, the Grange has not done so,” he said. Mr. Freestone further asserted…
110 YEARS AGO: The city council, at a special meeting held Tuesday evening passed a resolution directing the calling of an election for the purpose of voting on a proposition to appropriate the necessary funds for the purchase of a building and site for the Oneonta Public Library...…
110 YEARS AGO: Evangelist Charles F. Barrett is coming to Cooperstown. The great union evangelistic campaign in Cooperstown, for which preparations have been going on for the past three months, will begin next Sunday evening...…
135 YEARS AGO: The amount of bounty paid by the Town of Unadilla on woodchucks’ tails amounts to $257 and some odd. At 10 cents the tail, it accounts for 2,570 hapless chucks that lost their tails and their lives...…
110 YEARS AGO: In Our Town—The following are the church preferences of the 2,091 persons interviewed in the recent church census made by the laymen of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches: Baptist, 452; Episcopal, 443; Methodist, 347; Catholic, 331; Presbyterian, 326; Universalist, 107; other churches, 25; no preference, 60. The Baptist Missionary barrels for Ellis Island will be packed on Thursday. Donations for the barrels may be sent to the church any time. November 17, 1915…
