I
often use a terrific website for genealogy work. If you want to find out more
about your New York state relatives, go to fultonhistory.com where one man has
scanned in over 26,108,000 Old New York State Historical
Newspaper Pages. Here are only a very few of the snippets I have tripped over:
Cortland
Democrat, November 1898: “Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Burt entertained the eighth
annual Borthwick reunion at their
home, Tuesday Nov. 1. A very pleasant and enjoyable day was spent by 34 members
of the family. Those present from out of town were …. Mrs. L. Baker (Nancy Borthwick) and daughter Florence and
son, Byron Baker and children of
Center Lisle (Ethel, Adin, Ruth and
Lillian).
Batavia Daily
News, May 2nd, 1899: In one of the back pages, in amidst ads
for Carter’s Little Liver Pills and ‘Wanted—100 Used Bicycles’ was this
headline—‘Half a Tree Splintered’. The story followed: “West Bethany—A most
thunder and rain storm passed over this place on Sunday morning, accompanied by
the most blinding lightning and in some places with falls of hail stones nearly
as large as hickory nuts. A large tree on William
Carson’s farm was struck, half of it being torn into splinters. The rain,
however, is most acceptable to farmers, doing much needed good to wheat.”
William and Jane Carson's farm
Batavia
Times January 6th, 1910-- ‘Lloyd Taylor has gone to Albany to
attend the New York Central Y.M.C.A. school of telegraph.’
Batavia
Daily Times, July 14th, 1911—While most of the page
is taken over by an advertisement for ‘Season’s End Sale’ for Oliver &
Milne (women’s hosiery 19 cents and women’s summer coats reduced to $4.98),
under Oakfield news comes this bit of information: ‘Miss Ethel Baker of Lisle, Broome County, a graduate of Cortland normal
school, has been engaged as teacher of the seventh and eighth grades for next
year.’
The
Batavia Daily News, January 4th, 1914—To
the left of a drawing of a battleship and the blackened headline of ‘English
Vessel Sunk By Germans’ was a smaller headline about the Oakfield, NY Grange.
‘About 109 attended the grange meeting at Odd Fellows Hall of Saturday….Open
installation of officers was conducted by Past Master Bryant W. Taylor….There were vocal selections by the Woodlawn
quartet, Messrs. B.W., Leon, Floyd and
Lloyd Taylor.
Batavia Daily
News, September 1918—
In ‘News This End of the State’:
Lockport
has a case of Spanish influenza
Geneseo
reports that war conditions have hit nurserymen very hard
Phelps
women have forsaken tea parties to labor in the harvest fields
There
are reported over 200 unlicensed dogs in good barking condition on Medina
streets
‘Oakfield
Thimble Party’
Presbyterians to
Be Entertained By Mrs. Lloyd Taylor
Oakfield,
Sept. 24—The Presbyterian aid society will be entertained at the thimble party
and pipe-organ fund tea at Mrs. Lloyd Taylor’s on Thursday afternoon.
Exactly what WAS
a ‘thimble party’? I am not sure, as I have read different ideas, but I think
it was closest to this party from 1900 Lawrence Kansas:--“The girls would bring
their needlework to the thimble parties. Embroidering, crocheting lace,
hemstitching, and monogramming, were popular. This work would be put on tea
napkins, towels, pillow cases and lunch cloths.”
Binghamton
Press, December 20th, 1953:
Huge
Headline across the entire page:
‘Knocked
Down for $1000
Old
Center Lisle School Sold at Auction;
Six
Bucks for Bell’
‘Art
Wilbur Buys School He Attended’
Auctioneer
Clarence Gem pronounced the last rites yesterday afternoon at the 85-year-old
Center Lisle School. “OK, I’ve got a clock over there and it runs. Who’ll give
me two? Who’ll give me two? OK. I’ve got two and who’ll give me three?”
….Auctioneer
Gem sold a stove, which smoked a little, for $20. He sold three school desks to
Mrs. Lillian Howland for 90 cents.
She runs the Center Lisle General Store and said she would try to sell,
although to whom or for what purpose she did not know.
And,
in the Geneva Daily Times, March 9th,
1944:
First Aid Essay
Contest
Prizes Awarded
Today in Local High School
Geneva
High School’s First Prize awarded to Lucille
Taylor. Her essay starts: ‘The value of first aid goes back as far as 1877,
for that is when it began…..It was not used extensively in World War 1, but
today, in this second World War, there is not a person in the United States
that does not know some simple bit of it.’
Already dreaming
of her career in nursing?
8 comments:
Great Guns! There is no end to what you can find! Isn't this spot a GEM?
Thimble party? Never heard of it but what fun! Mom was always there at the forefront of church service. And I see Aunt Florence got in the picture at the grange! She was the pianist when Clara was elsewhere. This is a real trip back, Pat, thanks. Never knew what school Daddy went to to learn Morse code.
Awesome, Pat!
Thank you for the new website to haunt too.
I love history stuff!
Family history is the best!
Thanks for this blog site that is so fun to visit and enjoy.
I love you lots and lots!!
Another super resource, Pat. I enjoyed the articles and especially the picture of your mom. What a beautiful nurse!
Pat, how long has it taken you to pour through all that material and how much more do you have to go through? Can you do any type of word search or do you have to review each page of material one at a time.
Very interesting articles.
Thanks Mom and Evelyn!
I love finding these little nuggets of gold in our family history. Just yesterday found a news article that talks of my great great grandmother on Dad's side as a 'cancer doctor', something which is family lore but never proven.
And yes, I do love this picture of Mom!
Love,
Pat,
What a wonderful post!
Thank you for giving us all another source of information.
I really enjoyed the articles.
I wonder what my Grandmother did with those desks?
Your Mom must have been a wonderful nurse, she is so caring.
Thanks for all the work you do on this blog site.
I really appreciate it!
Lots of love!
Kathryn and Tim,
Thank you!! Your comments were caught in the spam filter and I just saw them.
Tim--you can filter by name so if a name is NOT Taylor or Baker--like Herdeg--you can find lots right away. With Taylor and Baker, just throw in the town and hopefully you get lucky.
Kathryn, love the stories I find in these old newspapers so I put them up on this blog where others can read them also.
Love,
The articles were wonderful to read, thanks for sharing your internet expertise!! Love ya!
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