News Herald – July 25, 1924 – F.E. Bleezarde, Publisher
Coeymans:
- An interesting game of baseball is promised for Saturday afternoon at the Zeller field on Church Street when the Coeymans team and a team from Albany cross bats.
- The slump in prices and falling off in demand for brick in the New York market is given as the cause for a reduction in pay of 50 cents per day to workmen on the brickyards at this point, which went into effect last week.
- Owing to a breakdown in the steam engine at the Powell and Minnock brickyards on Monday, work ceased at the Powell and Minnock yard. Their output from this plant is 85,000 bricks per day. They are manufacturing brick at their open yard just the same.
- Mrs. Margaret Polverelli, aged 25 years, wife of Luciano Polverelli, died on Saturday from a hemorrhage. Her funeral was held from St. Patrick’s Church on Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock and was largely attended.
- Mrs. Seabridge Keller acted as chaperone to a party of young ladies who passed Wednesday on the beach near New Baltimore.
Ravena:
- An opportunity for any who desire to do so can secure a training class education locally by joining the Ravena Teachers Training Class, which is now in process of organization. The Training Class was not conducted in the local school last year, but efforts are being made to have one the coming term. Excellent facilities are now at the disposal of the class in the new high school building. Anyone interested should apply to Principal S.S. Rice. Textbooks are furnished free to all students enrolled in the training.
- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beck, who have been spending five weeks at Warner’s Lake, will return home tomorrow.
- Mr. and Mrs. Irven Bailey are rejoicing the birth of a 10-pound boy, John C., born Monday, July 21. Both mother and child are doing nicely.
- Misses Augusta Smith and Leola Bailey have returned from Saratoga where they were attending a Summer School of Religious Education. The attendance of the school was much larger this year than it was last.
- William Pebler, Jr., of the News-Herald mechanical force, is enjoying a well-earned vacation this week in the cultured city of Boston, Mass. “Bill” takes in a big city each year. Last year he did up the big city of New York.
Coeymans Herald – July 24, 1889 – S.H. & E.J. Sherman, Proprietors
- While removing molding sand from the Bronk farm Friday, Whitehead’s workmen came across a male skeleton in good preservation. The bones were less than five feet from the surface and there was not a trace of a coffin or box near the remains. The bones were again interred this time below the frost line.
- Mr. Warren H. Wolfe is an enthusiastic amateur in photography and grasps every opportunity to gratify his tastes for fine views.
- James McNamara has had his blacksmith shop on Main Street re-shingled and the front repainted.
