A gentleman at Lansingburg, N. Y. has discovered that tobacco can be so cultivated there as to be equal to the best cultivated in Cuba for segars, simply by pulling off the leaves when only partly grown. The Genius of… Continue Reading →
For the Lansingburgh Democrat. GUILTLESS POVERTY NO DISGRACE. Ponder it well O ye, who blessed with store, Regard with score the abject, suffering poor; In tattered garb what though thy brother be, No shame to him pertains, but rather thee;… Continue Reading →
MONUMENT UNVEILED — FIFTEENTH WARD’S TRIBUTE TO SERVICE MEN. — Two Thousand Attend Impressive Exercises in Lansingburgh—Tablet on Granite Base in Front of Unitarian Church—Memorials for Families of Dead Heroes—Speech of Secretary of State—Letters From Generals Pershing and O’Ryan. The… Continue Reading →
LANSINGBURGH. — Flag With Eleven Stars Dedicated at First Methodist Church—Addresses by Former Pastor and District Attorney—Other News of the Section. The First Methodist Church at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon contained a large audience at the service flag presentation, which… Continue Reading →
Emeline Smith Hicks (1816-1903) Oakwood Cemetery section F lot 142 grave 2 MARRIED, In Ghent, Columbia County, on the 1st instant, by the Rev. Mr. Lester, Mr. Martin W. Hicks, of Troy, to Miss Emeline Smith, of the former place…. Continue Reading →
If circumstances were wanted to furnish proof of the littleness of Troy, it can be found in the fact that its citizens got a law passed by the last legislature allowing them to tax the county to raise their Recorder’s… Continue Reading →
Today being Halloween, a horror anthology film comes to mind in connection with the below news items. In Grim Prarie Tales (1990), James Earl Jones and Brad Dourif chew the scenery in the anthology’s wraparound segment as two men in… Continue Reading →
LANSINGBURGH. — […] Halloween Parties […] —A masquerade will be held at Powers’ Opera House to-morrow evening by members of the N. E. H. Club. The affair is in charge of the Misses Willard, Brady, Lettrick and Hayner. […] —A… Continue Reading →
The Ransom Steam Street Car, invented as an alternative to horsecar street cars – trolleys – had received an early trial in Lansingburgh. Lansingburgh was also the home of the Vice President of the Ransom Steam Car Company, Elias F…. Continue Reading →
Caroline Gilkey Rogers was a suffragist who lived in Lansingburgh; for some more information about her beyond the below, see “A New Historical Marker for Lansingburgh!” The Courier. March 2017. 4. https://lansingburghhistoricalsocietyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LHS-courier-March-2017.pdf A SPINSTER FOR GOVERNOR. — LINDA GILBERT NOMINATED… Continue Reading →
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