200 Years Ago
- The commissioners appointed to survey a route for a canal from Boston to the Connecticut River arrived at Greenfield on Monday of last week and proceeded from thence to the westward. We learn that they are now examining the route from Springfield to Boston.
- The weather was excessively hot throughout the northern states from the 10th to the 24th of July. It is said that so long and uninterrupted a continuance of intense heat has never been known in this climate. Men, horses, fish, and birds have become its victims.
100 Years Ago
- Calvin Coolidge started in today on his third year as President, seemingly satisfied with his administration’s record and quietly perfecting plans for legislation and executive action during the remainder of his term.
- The summer opening and showing of the new 1926 model sedan at the Northampton Buick on Saturday was attended by several hundred people from Northampton and vicinity who viewed the new cars and heard explanations of the entire new line being featured.
50 Years Ago
- Susan Herndon, a Northampton native, told the Gazette in a telephone interview Friday night that her family was safe but that her house received moderate damage in a series of earthquakes yesterday in Oroville, Calif. Mrs. Herndon, whose parents Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Baye reside at 30 Williams St., said that she was grocery shopping in Oroville when the worst earthquake struck.
- Mary E. Cahillane of 2 Franklin Court completed a program of specialized training in the education of the deaf and hearing impaired at the Smith College-Clarke School 14th annual summer institute held at the Clarke School campus.