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“Former German Army Officer And Champion In Pleasantdale Swim” (1927)

TWO additional swimming stars have entered in the 1,000 yard open-to-all professionals at Pleasantdale, at Troy, tomorrow afternoon. The race at 2 o’clock will be to determine the 1,000 yard Adirondack Association amateur championship in which the leading stars of… Continue Reading →

Lansingburgh & the Troy Deaf-Mute Literary Society (1888)

TROY, N. Y., — It would seem to those abroad very much as if this city had been in ruins, like the once famous city of the same name, for the reason that nothing has been heard of it since… Continue Reading →

Pleasantdale summer artists’ colony (1923)

VAUDEVILLE ARTISTS. — Leading Entertainers—Delight Audience at Pleasantdale. Some of vaudeville’s leading entertainers Saturday evening held an impromptu entertainment at the stage which they recently erected at Pleasantdale for this purpose. The actors and actresses, most of whom belong to… Continue Reading →

“Pic Nic-iana: The Fashionable Summer Amusement” (1865)

PIC NIC-IANA. — The Fashionable Summer Amusement—Pic Nics Considered Socially, Topographically, Gaily and Festively—A Glance at the Greensward—An Afternoon out of doors among the Dancers and Danceresses. Reader, dost thou pic nic it? Not such pics nor such nics as… Continue Reading →

Lansingburgh advocate of woman suffrage (1885)

MRS. Caroline G. Rogers of Lansingburgh, was one of the advocates of woman suffrage, who spoke before the Assembly Committee on Grievances yesterday. The following is a portion of her appeal, and we submit it to the judgment of any… Continue Reading →

“Größer Troy” (1900)

Größer Troy. — Das größere Troy ist zur Thatsache geworden. Gouverneur Roosevelt hat die Vorlage am Mittwoch unterzeichnet und dadurch zum Gesetz erhoben, nach dem er den Bürgern jede Gelegenheit gegeben sich auszusprechen und die dafür und dagegen vorgebrachten Argumente… Continue Reading →

“Parade and Excursion of the Batestown Guards” (1868)

GRAND CELEBRATION At Batestown ON THE FOURTH Parade and Excursion of the BATESTOWN GUARDS. Dinner at Wier’s.—The Toasts.—Letters from Distinguished Men, &c., &c., &c. The Batestown Guards will have a high old Celebration on the Fourth. Ten bushels of pea-nuts… Continue Reading →

“Card from Captain Dink” of Batestown (1868)

Card from Captain Dink. DRILL ROOM OF THE GUARDS. Batestown, July 8, ’68. To the Editor of Lansingburgh Gazette: The officers and men of my command desire me to return you thanks for the faithful accounts you have given in… Continue Reading →

“An Act to prevent the killing of Muskrats” (1820)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4th, 1820. […] The petition of Aaron Noble & Son, and others, of the town of Lansingburgh, and the cities of Troy and Albany, manufacturers of hats, praying for the passage of an act to prohibit the killing… Continue Reading →

“An Old Safe Removed” (1907)

An Old Safe Removed. An old safe which for more than a quarter of a century had stoof in the corner of a room in the upper floor of fire headquarters on Fifteenth Street [115th Street] was removed to-day by… Continue Reading →

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