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Linda Robertson

Finger Lakes Times

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GENEVA IN 1900: President McKinley, tariffs, and economic growth

26.01.2025 4

Finger Lakes Times

Linda Robertson

GENEVA IN 1899: Christmas in Geneva, 1899

The Geneva Daily Times offered little local coverage of Christmas celebrations in 1899. At the beginning of that year, the Times expanded from four...

29.12.2024 4

Finger Lakes Times

Linda Robertson

GENEVA IN 1899: The local election of 1899, Part 2

The Geneva Daily Times, then as now, framed the 1899 local election as a horse race. “More wagers have been placed on the result in this city than...

30.11.2024 3

Finger Lakes Times

Linda Robertson

GENEVA IN 1899: Local elections in 1899

05.10.2024 2

Finger Lakes Times

Linda Robertson

GENEVA IN 1899: “Lynch him” was the cry

The July 5, 1899, edition of the Geneva Daily Times carried the alarming report of a fight involving three white men and “Thomas Jefferson, a...

03.09.2024 3

Finger Lakes Times

Linda Robertson

GENEVA IN 1899: On not going back

The journalism of the turn of the last century laid the foundation for what is standard today. As noted in previous columns, in 1899 the Geneva...

27.07.2024 4

Finger Lakes Times

Linda Robertson