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Phoenixville Phriday: All Caused By A Cow
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Hoxsie was surprised to search through an online archive of California newspapers and find more than a few stories that originated in his newish hometown of Phoenixville, PA. Some were of tragedy, some were of no consequence at all, but all were printed a long way from where they happened. In this case, the…
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The Value of the Telephone (and of Miss Worth)
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Now that we live in a time when it appears that most people feel the need to be engaged in telephone conversations at all moments of the day – while driving a car, while conducting a transaction, while going to the bathroom – it’s perhaps hard for some to imagine that there was a…
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A look inside the offices of the Albany Morning Express
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In its 51 years or so, the Albany Morning Express saw some tremendous changes, which it chronicled in its 50th anniversary coverage. They noted that when they began publication in 1847, the city of Albany contained 45,000 inhabitants, making it the 10th largest city in the United States at the time. There was only…
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Wire Service, Mergenthaler Typesetters and a Lightning Press
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The Albany Morning Press lived through a time of a revolution in newspaper production, and quickly took advantage of the changing technologies, using the newly invented wire services, the Mergenthaler linotype typesetter, and Hoe’s latest presses, not to mention vacuum tubes for moving paper around the office. The telegraph was fairly new to Albany…
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More on the Albany Morning Express
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Continuing the story of the Albany Morning Express, once the city’s premiere newspaper, in circulation, at least. In marking its 50th anniversary in 1897, the paper recounted some interesting points of its own history. After its founding in 1847 by Alfred Stone and Edward Henly, the paper ran for five years with “varying success”…
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The Albany Morning Express
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Since we stumbled onto the topic of the Albany Morning Express and its various successors in interest, all the way down to the lamented Knickerbocker News, we thought we’d dig a little further into what was once Albany’s largest circulation daily. On May 4, 1897, the Express gave a bit of its own history…
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New Use for Old Papers
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From the Albany Morning Express of Jan. 23, 1892, a house ad for old papers: Old Papers (All Sizes) Suitable for Shelves, Putting Under Carpets, Packing Furniture, Etc. 10 Cents per Hundred, At this office. Probably used for insulation in a lot of old Albany homes, too.
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Unclaimed Letters and Merging Papers
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It used to be that undeliverable mail was held by the Post Office, and every week the local postmaster was required to advertise all such unclaimed letters. According to the United States Official Postal Guide for 1896, “The names should be arranged alphabetically and the names of ladies and gentlemen in separate lists .…
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The Little Village That Could
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Hoxsie is nothing but rail talk these days, and combine that with news about the old hometown and it’s not possible to skip this one. What is now the Village of Scotia is actually one of the oldest places in the area, with Alexander Lindsay building a home there in 1658, three years before…
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Not A Good Time To Be Named “Union Station”
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While there was a great hue and cry over the loss of Albany’s Union Station, the demise and demolition of Schenectady’s Union Station, happening at the same time for the same reasons, seems to have been met with more of a sense of resignation. On the eve of the old station’s closure, on Friday,…