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Flashback Friday Archive 2019-20

2021-03-26 TWIR Image-Nyack
3.26.21:
Flashback Friday: Week of March 26
March 25, 1871 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal [Image: South Broadway between Main and Burd Streets, Nyack, 1872.  John Scott Collection of the Nyack Library via NY Heritage.]       To the Editor of the Journal:        Two articles have already appeared in your paper denouncing in severe terms that greatest of all social evils,...read more

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Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan
2.05.21:
Flashback Friday: Week of February 5
February 4, 1871 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal        A gentleman was trying to enjoy an evening with a young lady upon whom he called but found a serious obstacle in the person of a stern father, who at length ventured to say that the hour for retiring had arrived. “I think, you...read more

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2021-01-29 TWIR Image-Rockrest
1.29.21:
Flashback Friday: Week of January 29
January 28, 1871 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal A BURGLARY THAT DIDN’T PAY        As Mr. Chas. E. Harr on Broadway near Main Street in this village is becoming noted for repairing adjusting and regulating fine watches clocks and jewelry, some enterprising thief thought he would visit the establishment and divide the spoils between...read more

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2021-01-22 TWIR Image-Ferry Boats Nyack
1.22.21:
Flashback Friday: Week of January 22
January 21, 1871 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal THE BLAUVELT FAMILY        The Blauvelt family matters are progressing favorably, so far as the preliminaries are concerned, for the looking after the great estate of the Blauvelt Family, in Holland. The Holland consul at Washington, it appears, has written encouragingly of the prospect of recovering...read more

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2021-01-15 TWIR Image-Shadowcliff
1.15.21:
Flashback Friday: Week of January 15
January 14, 1871 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal USE KIND WORDS        There is a kind way of saying very severe things, and even a sharp rebuke may be given in gentle words. The children of the poor, who form the bulk of our Sunday scholars, are too much accustomed to harshness at home...read more

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2021-01-08 TWIR Image-Pearl River
1.08.21:
Flashback Friday: Week of January 8
January 7, 1871 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal A TAME FOWL PROCEEDING        Master Harry Granger, of this village, has some chickens of a generous growth, docile temper, and of the persuasion known as the “Brahma,” all of which, the writer of this article infers, from the fact that he has seen a well-grown...read more

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Image: Dec. 31, 1920, The Rockland News
1.01.21:
Flashback Friday: A New Year Greeting
December 31, 1870 – 150 YEARS AGO Excerpt from The Rockland County Journal Written for the Journal A NEW YEAR GREETING RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO MRS. F. M. HAESELBARTH A time honored greeting, dear Mary I send, To one who has notably earned title of friend, And tender the wish of a heart that’s sincere, To you and your loved...read more

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2020-12-25 TWIR Image - Electrical Auto Signal Device
12.25.20:
Flashback Friday: Week of December 25
December 24, 1870 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal CHRISTMAS CAROL by J. G. Holland There’s a song in the air! There’s a star in the sky! There’s a mother’s deep prayer And a baby’s low cry! And the star rains its fire while the Beautiful sing, For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King! There’s a tumult of joy O’er the...read more

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Sgt. David and Karen D'Auria
12.18.20:
Flashback Friday: Week of December 18
December 17, 1870 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal A RARE ENTERTAINMENT PROMISED        We learn that negotiations are now going on between parties in Nyack, and to New York, which, if concluded affirmatively will enable our citizens to listen to one of the greatest prodigies of the times. Oliver Goldsmith Jr. is a boy,...read more

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Henry Varnum Poor
12.11.20:
Flashback Friday: Week of December 11
December 10, 1870 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A NON-EXPLOSIVE FLUID — A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH AND THE OTHER INJURED        Our esteemed friend and occasional correspondent, “A.C.”, at Suffern, furnishes us with the following melancholy intelligence which we lay before our readers:        A terrible explosion from can of fluid occurred...read more

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2020-12-04 TWIR Image-Stag Hill
12.04.20:
Flashback Friday: Week of December 4
December 3, 1870 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal WESTERN’S LAUREL’S IN DANGER        We learned from an esteemed friend residing in the western part of our county that on the 28th inst. E. Davidson and R. Canning of Ramapo performed the feat of walking from that village to Ramsey’s station on the Erie railroad,...read more

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Dan deNoyelles, Journal News, 1970
11.27.20:
Flashback Friday: Week of November 27
November 26, 1870 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal THE WEALTH OF THE BLAUVELT FAMILY        The committee appointed by the Blauvelt family in New Jersey, to go to Holland to inquire about the great estate alleged to have been left without a will in that country, have written back that there is actually such...read more

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