Looking Backward
The north
10 years ago
March 19, 2000:Voicing angry frustration and calls for unity, about 100 dairy farmers from Northern New York, Vermont and Pennsylvania met in Pamelia to consider means to raise critically low prices for their milk and keep family farms in business.
25 years ago
March 19, 1985:More than 40 store owners and managers agreed to form a new business association to promote the downtown shopping area, which will face increased competition from a suburban mall and more shopping plazas. Called the Downtown Business Association, the organization would promote shopping by making the downtown area more accessible with plenty of free parking.
50 years ago
March 19, 1960:The Hardiman-Woolworth Co. Inc., 147-149 Court St., oldest retail furniture establishment in the city, is to be sold to Joseph E. Powers, operator of the Hardiman appliance business for a number of years.
75 years ago
March 19, 1935:The Limerick post office will be discontinued April 30, Postmaster Luke E. Wells has been notified. Mr. Wells has been postmaster there for 22 years. It will be combined with the Dexter office. Already residents of the village and the outlying territory are aroused and prepared to fight the discontinuance.
100 years ago
March 19, 1910:The Black River Traction Co. is to spring a surprise on an unsuspecting public. The caboose-like trolley cars that have been the one best joke in Watertown for many a day are going to have a coat of paint and a little striping in gold leaf. The first one to appear thus decorated will be out tomorrow, car 19, running between this city and the Dexter terminal.
125 years ago
March 19, 1885:Sarah Hammond, Carthage, has a relic in the form of an old family Bible, printed in Holland in 1786. It is 4 inches thick and weighs 17 pounds. Large sums of money have been offered for it, but Mrs. Hammond will not part with it.
The world
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Friday, March 19,the 78th day of 2010. There are 287 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On March 19, 1860, lawyer, congressman, three-time Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan was born in Salem, Ill.
Thought for Today:"No one is such a liar as the indignant man." — Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900).
