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Flashback Friday Archive 2021-22

2022-06-24 TWIR Image-Boys
6.24.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of June 24
June 22, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME      ☞ We are told that several of the parties who found temporary lodgment in our lock-up were strongly suspected of being New York thieves.      ☞ Wanted—a good supply of the “seven-years itch” for some of our young men serenaders who make night...read more

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2022-06-17 TWIR Image-Valley Cottage
6.17.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of June 17
June 15, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME      ☞ The season has not fairly commenced yet and Nyack is filled overflowing with summer boarders.      ☞ E. D. Hesdra is making valuable and substantial improvements on his property, near the M. E. Church.      ☞ The brickyard of Johnson & Stryker at...read more

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2022-06-10 TWIR Image-Lukens Award
6.10.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of June 10
June 8, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal BIRD LAW        Boys and others who take pleasure in robbing birds’ nests and killing the old birds, should remember that there is a law punishing such work with a heavy penalty. The law reads as follows: “No person shall at any time kill, trap or...read more

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2022-06-03 TWIR Image-Orangeburg Fair
6.03.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of June 3
June 1, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal THE NEW POST-OFFICE AT SPARKILL        The most perfect bijou of an office in the County, and we think we can safely say in many Counties roundabout, is that at Sparkill. It is worth more than the mere trouble of stepping off the cars at Sparkill...read more

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2022-05-27 TWIR Image-Nyack PO
5.27.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of May 27
May 25, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME [Nyack]      ☞ How a man can afford to be idle when a dose of strychnine only costs six cents, is more than we can understand.      ☞ The size of loaves is being reduced in New York. Should our bakers follow suit, a...read more

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2022-05-20 TWIR Image-Buttermilk Falls
5.20.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of May 20
May 18, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME [NYACK]      ☞ The Messenger says that in Haverstraw “pigs wander about the streets unmolested.” Wonder if it means two-legged ones?      ☞ Ringwood, in our extreme western boundary, is said to contain the finest residence in Rockland; it is valued at $150,000.    ...read more

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2022-05-13 TWIR Image-Bernard
5.13.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of May 13
May 11, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME [NYACK]      ☞ Our lock-up has accommodated, during the week, five individuals whose indistinct recollection prevented them from finding their homes.      ☞ On the 7th inst., the ladies of Tappan will give an entertainment consisting of music, tableaux and charades, in the German...read more

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2022-05-06 TWIR Image-Game Warden
5.06.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of May 6
May 4, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal TO THE BOYS        The President of the Northern Railroad has issued an order to the agents at the different stations along the line, commanding them not to allow boys to lounge and idle away their time about the stations; and should it be necessary, to...read more

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2022-04-29 TWIR Image-Ramapo Market Day
4.29.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of April 29
April 27, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal LANE’S ENTERTAINMENT        Lane’s Panorama of the Messiah was exhibited on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at the Smithsonian Hall, and we must say it was one of the finest scenic displays that has ever visited our village. Knowing something of the reputation of the...read more

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2022-04-22 TWIR Image-St Peter Havesrtraw
4.22.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of April 22
April 20, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal HITS AND HINTS – “A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest men.” —The girls of our county are noted as follows: Piermont, the handsomest; Clarkstown, the most superficial; Spring Valley, the fastest, and most dressy; Haverstraw, the most graceful and musical; Suffern, the...read more

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2022-04-15 TWIR Image-Haverstraw HS
4.15.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of April 15
April 13, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME [Nyack]        BE VIGILANT — It is very far from our intention or wish to create unnecessary alarm in the minds of our citizens, but we would be criminal did we not warn our people to be aware of the small-pox which, just now,...read more

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Betty Friedan
4.01.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of April 1
March 30, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME        The first cargo of bricks from Haverstraw for the new Post Office, arrived in New York on Saturday. A GREAT WANT        While the majority of our real estate owners are busily engaged in covering their property with buildings worth from six to fifteen thousand dollars...read more

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