We think of “carjacking” as a fairly new crime but it’s been around since cars have. 

Sept. 5, 1918: A 1917 model Ford touring car, the property of Frank Nemier of Lacona, was stolen from its parking place in front of the Flower Library in Washington Street this morning. The theft was reported to Chief Singleton, but the fact that Nemier was unable to give the number of his machine makes it difficult to effect a capture of the thief or thieves. Nemier said that he left his registration card under the front seat and did not know the number. However he gave Chief Singleton the best description possible and the police communicated with neighboring towns, instructing them to stop all Ford cars and examine them.

Handwritten letters may be a thing of the past, but this Looking Back entry explores how meaningful they can be when a young girl offers sympathy and gets a personal response in return. Christina and Kelly discuss this chapter of local history and end up discussing communication today and what we think of how social media influences discord.

It was wartime across the world, and people in the north country were doing their part on the home front to boost the moral of the troops — mailing as much tobacco as they could to those serving overseas. Join us as we discuss why cigarettes were so important to service members during World War II and how that compares to today.

A teenage girl is on the verge of death and the only thing that can save her is a rare drug that's never been used locally and isn't available. Meanwhile, doctors struggle to get her treatment in time.

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We take a Second Look at the local history of the north country region of New York in our weekly podcast, by mining the pages of the 150-year-plus newspaper, the Watertown Daily Times in Watertown, N.Y.

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Intro music by Lithics, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.

We take a Second Look at the local history of the north country region of New York in our weekly podcast, by mining the pages of the 150-year-plus newspaper, the Watertown Daily Times in Watertown, N.Y.

Second Look is produced weekly by the Watertown Daily Times with hosts Kelly and Christina.

Contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

Online: www.watertowndailytimes.com

Intro music by Lithics, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/