200 Years Ago
- Fire Wardens Notice — Those persons who have taken the liberty to remove the ladders and axes belonging to the fire companies from the place of their deposit are requested to return them with as little delay as may be, and in future to observe that they are on no occasion to be used except for the purposes for which they were provided by the town. — I. C. Bates, Northampton.
- S. Stoddard, Jr., still owns and offers for sale, sundry lots of land, containing about 160 acres each, situated in Northampton, county of Portage, and state of Ohio. The land in this township is of an excellent quality and is too well known to require a particular description. The town has been settled many years, and is accommodated with valuable grist and sawmills.
100 Years Ago
- John Roderique, 60-year-old barber of this city, has entered the Old-time Fiddlers’ Contest being held at the Calvin Theatre and will appear tomorrow night in the second preliminary competition for the cash awards.
- The employees of the Norwood Engineering company of Florence will be the guests of the Y.M.C.A. Friday night. The entire building will be turned over to them for basketball, bowling, pool, and stunts and group games in the gymnasium.
50 Years Ago
- The City council by a vote of 7 to 2 last night approved a provision banning smoking during public meetings in the council chambers. Councilors Edward E. Keefe and Mario L. Mazza, two of the council’s heavier smokers — Mazza smokes cigars and Keefe chain-smokes cigarettes — voted against the ban.
- A group of Northampton residents, some of them unemployed, called upon the City Council last night to help them set up a “soup kitchen” and emergency shelter to aid needy city residents. The group of about ten, mostly young adults, asked the City Council for space in a city-owned building to set up the soup kitchen and shelter and funds to purchase food and utilities.