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March 26, 2024 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1874 We notice the Jeffersonville Record this week makes the announcement that they have begun to observe the Sabbath in that place. There is some hope of them yet. A few … more
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March 19, 2024 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1874 Hay pressing has become quite an important feature among our home industries. Quite a number of men are pressing the article in this neighborhood and shipping the … more
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March 12, 2024 Edition
130 Years Ago - 1894 John Mootz and the team have been assisting George Weyrauch in drawing logs which are intended for a new house. Young America is endeavoring to organize a sporting … more
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March 5, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 The Wayne County Independent comes to us very much improved and enlarged. It is now a nine column paper and very newsy. Why use a gritting, muddy disagreeable article … more
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The difference a century makes: One hundred twenty years ago, a machine like the one above was installed at the Sullivan County Record offices to upgrade the newspaper’s typesetting capabilities. In describing the typesetter, it was said, “The Simplex is small and compact, weighing about 1100 pounds and occupying no more floor space than an ordinary coal stove... the typesetter uses the same kind of type as is set by hand... It does the work perfectly, and while it is apparently simple, it would be impossible to explain the matter intelligently.” Two persons could work on the machine at one time, one at the keyboard and the other spacing the assembled type. Today we marvel at what we might still be working with to distribute the news, if not for the invention of the personal computer.
Feb. 27, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 A current report that Messrs. E.A. Clark & Company intend to purchase the bark, owned by Wales of Pike Pond. If this could be effected, our tannery will hold out for the … more
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Feb. 20, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 Last Thursday the rapidly rising stream created quite some excitement in Jeffersonville. The abutment of John Beck’s footbridge was knocked down by the ice, leaving it … more
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Feb. 13, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 All hands are at Court this week. C.A. Heinley of Narrowsburg made his usual trip through this village last Thursday. Joseph Seibert Jr., who has been in New … more
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Feb. 6, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 Eggs are 40 cents a dozen at North Branch. G. Barkmeyer of North Branch purchased a cow of William Huff for $40. Last Monday evening our “Band Boys” … more
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Jan. 30, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 Where is our January thaw? The Jeffersonville Brass and String Band has four engagements this week. Callicoon Depot, reported last week as being without a pool … more
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Jan. 23, 2024 Edition
140 years ago - 1884 Icemen begin to think that this season is almost a total failure for them. John Cooper of Bethel was engaged in plowing on his farm on Monday. There was no frost in the … more
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Mind the chickens: This postcard brings to mind the popular song by Young, Lewis & Donaldson, “How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm,” one line of which queries, “How you gonna keep them off of Broadway?” The song was written about U.S. soldiers deployed to foreign countries during military service in World War I, suggesting that their exposure to cities like Paris might make it difficult for them to return to normal life “down on the farm.” This postcard from the early 1900s shows a novel fence construction barring half a dozen hens from the “Broadway” in North Branch. It might have been designed to keep the farm’s poultry from predatory gas-powered conveyances.
Jan. 16, 2024 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1874 On January 8, in the Town of Fremont, John Weber, son of Andreas Weber, died of consumption at the age of 24. At Sackett Pond, in the Town of Thompson, December 29th, … more
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151 Years Ago... The Sullivan County Record was “born” in 1873 (see inset), a mere 151 years ago. The newspaper began in Youngsville in 1868 with the title Callicoon Local Record, later moving to Jeffersonville. Editor-publisher William T. Morgans was then a young man in his 20s, growing his family just down the road from Inderlied’s tannery. The bustling hamlet of Youngsville also featured slate sidewalks at one time, which can be seen in this photo, postmarked 1909.
Jan. 9, 2024 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1874 The Sullivan County Record was six years old in 1874. (Editor’s Note: The Sullivan County Democrat obtained the rights to print this popular column upon the demise … more
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