Almost the whole last page of the Dec. 30th 1915 issue of The Honeoye Falls Times was a review of things that happened that year. These are some of the items that I selected from that list. Jan. 17 – President Wilson’s daughter, Mrs. Sayre, gave birth to a son in the White House. Jan. …
A couple of short articles related to Christmas traditions. THE HONEOYE FALLS TIMES Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1915 Mistletoe Superstitions What superstitions cluster, thick as it berries, round the mistletoe! In old times such were its magic powers that it was worn as an amulet, and potent love potions were brewed from it. It cured wounds, …
One of the referendums on the 1915 New York State election ballot was if women should be treated equally in the state. Maybe the timing wasn’t right but it was defeated at that time. US Congress proposed the Nineteenth Amendment on June 4, 1919. That prohibited state or federal sex-based restrictions on voting. The amendment …
My grandmother was a teacher from 1910 to 1962 with only a few years off when her children were young. That is her on the left in the picture. Up until the early 1950s she taught in two room schools, like this one that is dated about 1928 of the school in Gainesville, Wyoming County, …