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Post by stoney on Feb 10, 2010 11:48:08 GMT -5
I wasn't aware that someone threatened to quit over threads gone astray. I am sometimes annoyed by it and more often guilty of it, but after all this is the Internet. Ditto. It happens on all boards, usually by the 6th post. But let's think a minute: It happens in real life conversations, too. People start talking about one thing & it segues into something else. And I didn't mean to insult anyone by calling them wussies. It was in fun, but again without hearing me say it no one would know that. Sorry!
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Post by Clipper on Feb 10, 2010 12:32:48 GMT -5
That is fine Stoney. It did come across a little harsh and easily taken out of context. I guess people need realize how outspoken, opinionated and brutally honest some of us tend to be, haha.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 10, 2010 12:45:33 GMT -5
I guess if I am to take a position on the issue, it would be this. The OGH, and Olbiston threads, along with the 60's bands and music thread are more or less "sacred" and that would be mostly due to the work that certain individuals put into researching and making them interesting.
As for the Old News and some of the other threads, I am not going to spend my entire days moderating and editing to make them pleasing to the few. If there is a problem, and it can be straightened out with some minor work, fine. As far as my beginning to censor what people are allowed to say and where on the forum they may say it, I cannot and will not restrict our membership to that point. I can clean up the thread if it becomes offensive, but as has been said, the threads will wander. It is the nature of the beast. In the case in question, it simply went from reminiscing to the usual suspects, Bobbbiez and Stoney, busting on me, and me bantering back and forth with them. No harm, no foul.
Bottom line is this. If ya have a problem, send myself, Ralph or Kim a PM and we will address it on a case by case basis. Hopefully it will not be a problem of any consequence.
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Post by stoney on Feb 10, 2010 14:11:07 GMT -5
You are ever the diplomat, Clip.
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 5, 2010 10:56:37 GMT -5
Bleeker's Plum"Bleeker's Yellow (Bleeker's Yellow Gage; Bleeker's Gage; German Gage) Fruit, medium sized; roundish oval, suture obscure. Skin, yellow, with numerous imbedded white specks, and covered with thin white bloom. Stalk, downy, an inch and a quarter long, and attached without depression. Flesh, yellow, rich, sweet and luscious, separating from the stone. A delicious dessert plum; ripe in the middle of September. The young shoots are downy, and the tree is hardy, and an excellent bearer. It was raised about the year 1805 by Mrs. Bleeker, of Albany, U.S., from a stone of a German prune which had been imported from Germany. Bleeker's Yellow Gage. See Bleeker's Yellow. Bleu de Belgique. See Belgian Purple." chestofbooks.com/gardening-horticulture/Robert-Hogg/The-Fruit-Manual-Great-Britain/Plums-Synopsis-Of-Plums-Part-4.htmlAlbany may have been where it was popularized in the press. Or did the Bleeckers come from Albany? The 1805 date is interesting.
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Post by fiona on Apr 5, 2010 15:35:32 GMT -5
I looked up the exact bit of info this morning. Yes, the Bleeckers were originally from Albany, and Mrs Bleecker grew the tree from a prune pit. I have read where the whole extended family was involved in horticulture and gardening and they all traded off plants. Blandina Miller said that the "trees were famous". (You have a lot of land Dave, why not try to grow one? )Morris Miller, father of Rutger B. Miller came to Utica -Old fort Schuyler -to manage the families land holdings, which were immense and then I believe he married into the family. There was a lot of cousin - Bleecker, Miller, Seymour, inter marriage. I tried to track it once, but it was quite confusing.
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Post by dave on Nov 27, 2012 9:03:40 GMT -5
Lost somewhere in the past are newspaper commentaries printed below their flag or masthead. Here's an example from the Utica's Weekly Herald in 1891. Editors and reporters collected each others quick comments on one issue or another being debated around town. Not in this example, but some editors used the device to trade insults, either with another newspaper or with politicians representing a view opposite the newspaper's. CLick to enlarge and read.www.windsweptpress.com/TEMP/herald commentary.jpg[/img]
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Post by dave on Nov 27, 2012 9:14:22 GMT -5
Back in 1907, bad check charges were taken seriously. It's no wonder it was considered the same as stealing. Which it is. And was especially so in a society where once the perpetrator left with the goods or money there was no way to trace him or her, as there would be today. So James Martin, after passing a bad check for $6 was fined $50. And when he couldn't pay it, he spent the next ten days in jail. www.windsweptpress.com/TEMP/bad check.jpg[/img]
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Post by dave on Nov 27, 2012 10:49:40 GMT -5
All the gritty detail of death and dismemberment was evidently what newspaper readers felt they were paying for in the old day.CLick to enlarge and read. www.windsweptpress.com/TEMP/old news 4.jpg[/img]
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Post by dave on Nov 28, 2012 9:26:16 GMT -5
I wonder how this would go today. From the Observer Dispatch, 1968. Click once or twice to enlarge and read.
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Post by dave on Dec 9, 2012 10:33:51 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Dec 9, 2012 11:43:40 GMT -5
Gee, are you saying back in those days the Nelliston cop was allowed to carry more than one bullet?
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Post by clarencebunsen on Dec 9, 2012 16:44:43 GMT -5
He did return to town while the tire was being changed so his supply could have been replenished.
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Post by Clipper on Dec 9, 2012 18:18:59 GMT -5
LOL!
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Post by dave on Dec 9, 2012 18:57:13 GMT -5
I've come across a lot of references to cops (and citizens) allowed to shoot at the tires of speeding cars. Or at least the law looked the other way. I posted this somewhere on this forum about the folks in Washington Mills. I love this story, mainly because of how the people and local politicians banded together and traveled down to Utica to ensure justice would be done. In my mind's eye, I can see Bobbbiez at the front of the crowd. Here's the graphic of the story. It's barely readable, even enlarged, so I included the best transcription I could do. Click once or twice to enlarge.
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