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Don Wemple (October 14, 1917 – June 23, 1943 [1]) was an American football player. He played one season in the National Football League for the Brooklyn Dodgers.. After playing college football at Colgate (where he was a team captain in 1937) and in the 1939 Chicago College All-Star Game (despite missing much of the game with a leg injury, Wemple elected not to pursue a professional career ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Joseph Edward Persico was born in Gloversville, New York on July 19, 1930, to Thomas Persico and Bianca Perrone. [2] In 1952 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Political Science from the New York State College for Teachers (now the University at Albany).
Critics including Gloversville Mayor Dayton King said the article overestimated the number of Klan members in the area, made multiple factual errors, and resembled a "recruiting effort" for the KKK. [2] In 2021, the paper's owner The Nutting Company, which is a owned by Ogden Newspapers, sold it to The Daily Gazette Co. [3]
John William Hopkins was born on June 3, 1953, in Johnstown, New York, with 2 brothers Jimmy and Donny along with a sister Nancy.Little is known about his childhood, but at some point during his adolescence, he expressed a desire to join the state police, but eventually gave up on the idea. [1]
Weiss, Harry B. A Graphic Summary of the Growth of Newspapers in New York and Other States, 1704–1810. New York: New York Public Library, 1948; Brigham, Clarence S. "Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820 Part VII: New York (A–L)." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 27(1): 177–274. 1917
1902 Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad) collision, New York City; 15 killed plus 30+ injured. Led to the construction of the current Grand Central Terminal and electrification of all rail lines in New York City [48] [49] [50] 1902 Mountain Lake (New York) railroad wreck, Gloversville, New York; 14 killed.
Russo was teaching in the English department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale when his first novel, Mohawk, was published, in 1986.Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, drawing on his life from his upbringing in upstate New York to his time teaching literature at Colby College, where he retired from in 1996 to pursue writing full-time.