Week of January 24

January 23, 1875 – 150 YEARS AGO

Rockland County Journal

 AROUND HOME

[Image: Undated carte de visite photograph of William Voorhis. On reverse of photograph is written Hon. Com. William Voorhis, with the abbreviations meaning "Honorary Commander." Courtesy of Brian Duddy, via FindAGrave.com.]

 ☞  Rev. D. D. Mansfield has, we learn, secured a building, double the size of the Rockland Institute, one hour from Chicago, in which he will soon open a young ladies school.

 ☞  The verdict of the jury on the dead infant found in a water closet vault was that the child “was born alive, and that its death was caused by strangulation, from some cause unknown to the jury.”

 ☞  While Com. Voorhis, in his yacht Tidal Wave, was off the island of Sombrero, he picked up two sailors in a boat, blown out to sea. After furnishing them with clothing, he turned them over to the British Consul, at St. Thomas.

 ☞  The young folk of Nanuet will give a Grand Entertainment at the Nanuet Baptist Church on the evening of the 27th inst. Dialogues, Charades, Tableaux, Recitations, Music &c., will constitute the programme. Tickets 25 cents.

 ☞  On Tuesday Yudela Moeller, was arrested on the complaint of A. D. Morford, for threatening violence to himself and members of his family. Y. M. has been a domestic in his house for three months, is 28 years old, a native of Denmark, and is evidently laboring under an attack of insanity. Justice Sleeker committed her, after examination, to New City jail, until a commission could pronounce as to her state of mind.

January 22, 1925 – 100 YEARS AGO

Pearl River News

RESIDENTS ANNOYED BY APPEARANCE OF ROADSIDES

       During the past month a number of property owners have taken the opportunity of stopping at the News office and speaking to the editor relative to the disposing of garbage. They have requested the use of a small space in the paper to publish an article asking people to refrain from throwing their garbage and tin cans along the roadside. There is no question about this fact being true, for any observer may note this very thing along our streets where there may be a distance of a few hundred feet between houses. This is a very unpleasant sight for a visitor, property owner or resident of town.

       This can be avoided, we all know, but the hardest part is to overcome the condition which does exist. There ought to be and should be some means of disposing of refuse. Without a doubt there are seventy-five percent of the people in town that dispose of their refuse without annoyance to their neighbors. Why not make it a hundred percent?

January 23, 1975 – 50 YEARS AGO

The Journal News

TATTOO YOUR PUPPY

       POMONA—Fred Healy, licensed tattooer from the Hi-Tor Animal Care Center, Inc., will hold a dog and puppy tattoo clinic Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the animal shelter off Pomona Road and Route 45.

       Registration fee is $15 and all dogs and puppies must be leashed. Owners should bring their Social Security numbers with them.

       According to Hi-Tor president Marcella Beigel, tattooing of dogs with the owner’s Social Security number protects pet against dognappers, illegal sale to laboratories and prevents false claims of ownership. Part of the clinic’s proceeds will benefit the shelter, a nonprofit organization.

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