Certain Volumes

September 15, 2022

185 YEARS AGO
Objects – A course of has been found in Germany by which white crystallized sugar is made in 12 hours from beet root.
The deaths in New Orleans from Yellow Fever are stated to be 100 day by day. Greater than 40,000 individuals have been down with Yellow Fever at Sierra Leone.
The harm of the late hurricane at Barbadoes is estimated at $500,000. About 1,000 lives have been misplaced within the late disasters within the West India Islands. There was one other horrible gale at Charleston, S.C. Injury not in depth.

September 18, 1837

135 YEARS AGO
Miss Emily Nelson, of Bridgeport, CT., has lengthy been a distinguished educator of younger women. We keep in mind her when she was a little bit lady residing in Hyde Park, the place she and her brother afterwards saved a boarding faculty. Not too long ago, Miss Nelson obtained a gift from Merida, Yucatan, within the form of an informed, jeweled bug. It has a harness of gold and is jeweled with treasured stones, and is the present of Signora Fuentes, of Merida, Yucatan, whose daughter, Senorita Evelie y Fuentes, has handed the final three years as a pupil at Miss Nelson’s seminary on Golden Hill. Her bestowal of the dwell, educated, jeweled bug as a present is taken into account in Yucatan as a excessive distinction. The bugs are extraordinarily tough to teach and are regarded upon by the decrease lessons as the actual property of royalty. Miss Nelson may be very proud and justly very glad over her bug, and wears it always, whereas out driving or purchasing. The insect is in regards to the dimension of an abnormal black beetle. The coloring of the shell is a superb, glowing Nile inexperienced, edged off with black.

September 23, 1887

60 YEARS AGO
Clyde B. Olson, curator of the Cooperstown Indian Museum, addressed the September 12 assembly of the Cooperstown Girl’s Membership on the subject “Indians of Our Locality.” He talked about that in New York State, the Indians have been largely Iroquois, nice hunters and pottery makers. Many fascinating articles, which have been excavated by Mr. Olson and associates, have been handed among the many membership members — pipes, factors, sinker stones, arrowheads, drills, scrapers, stone gouge, beads, early pottery, and so forth. It was fascinating to be taught that Indians launched tobacco to the white man.

September 19, 1962

35 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Central College Board of Training met Wednesday evening and accomplished the primary studying of the seat-belt set up and utilization coverage. A choice was made by the board to undertake Possibility A, which states the usage of seat security belts won’t be required by the district. Their use can be as much as the discretion of and encouragement by mother and father.

September 23, 1987

20 YEARS AGO
Bassett Healthcare staff gathered Monday to look at building crews elevate the primary beam of Bassett’s enlargement plan into place atop the inpatient facility. The creation of a brand new fifth ground will home an enlargement of the hospital’s essential care complicated. The Bassett Healthcare Initiative, which brings cardiac surgical procedure and angioplasty to the area, begins in early 2003. Within the new facility, hospital affected person rooms can be bigger and there can be extra non-public rooms.

September 21, 2002