A Look Back, Sept. 14

200 Years Ago

■Died, at Westhampton, on Thursday last, widow Eunice King, in the 90th year of her age. She had been confined to her bed about 40 years, and a corrosive cancer, which began upon her lip, had gradually extended over her face, presenting a shocking sight.

■An egg-plum from a tree of Dr. Rodney Starkweather of Chesterfield, measuring seven inches in circumference and weighting three ounces, is now in our office.

100 Years Ago

■Amid the hustle and bustle of preparing to become an Amherst College freshman, John Coolidge, son of the President, who arrived in Northampton early this morning on the “Montrealer,” from Washington, talked with a Gazette representative today of various topics of the day, chief among which was the beginning of his college career on next Thursday.

■Northampton’s civic and military organizations will parade this evening in celebration of National Defense Day and the occasion will be one of the biggest held in this city for many a day. The parade will begin at 8 o’clock and after the march up Elm Street to Prospect Street and back to West Street, there will be a program of speaking and singing in front of Forbes Library and a block dance on West Street, near the Plymouth Inn.

50 Years Ago

■A new 150-boat marina is being planned for the Oxbow. Marina owner Mitch Duda wants to construct the new facility on the island in the Oxbow across the channel from his present 150-boat OxBow Marina on Old Springfield Road.

■The Northampton Zoning Board of Appeals has turned down a request for a variance to permit construction of a summer sports camp on Bridge Road. The ZBA turned down the request of Sports Farm Inc. to run the camp primarily because the firm had failed to establish that any hardship would be worked upon them if the variance was not granted.