Notes on the origin of Trip-Hammer (sic) Falls; notes on Ithaca Fire Department; notes of the founding of Cornell University; genealogy of Simeon DeWitt; list of theses on Ithaca and vicinity. Also, mention of B. S. Monroe, the Bloodgood property, census data on Ithaca, and two patents for Moses Cass. Includes a pamphlet concerning the Reconstruction Home, a facility for the care of persons with poliomyelitis.