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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated May 12, unearthing stories that resonate with genealogists and history enthusiasts alike.
From local happenings to global events, we'll uncover the stories that shaped the lives of our ancestors, providing valuable insights for those on a quest to discover their roots.
So, grab your magnifying glass and step into the past as we unravel the May 12 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Bakersfield, Vermont, USA
Mrs. Matlida Doane is visiting Willis Ross and George Giddings in East Bakersfield. It is a matter of great satisfaction to Mrs. Doane to be able to get around among her former friends again. She recently passed her 94th birthday anniversary which was celebrated by her friends sending her a shower of 248 post cards. These cards came from friends in six different states, from Maine to California, and also from Washington, D.C. Mrs. Doane has been a life long resident of Bakersfield coming here... Read MORE...
St Albans Messenger - St Albans, Vermont - May 12, 1910
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1910 - BAKERSFIELD. Mrs. Matilda Doane, Oldest Woman in Town, Very Active.
Mrs. Matlida Doane is visiting Willis Ross and George Giddings in East Bakersfield. It is a matter of great satisfaction to Mrs. Doane to be able to get around among her former friends again. She recently passed her 94th birthday anniversary which was celebrated by her friends sending her a shower of 248 post cards. These cards came from friends in six different states, from Maine to California, and also from Washington, D.C. Mrs. Doane has been a life long resident of Bakersfield coming here... Read MORE...
St Albans Messenger - St Albans, Vermont - May 12, 1910
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1936 - May 12 – The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
NEW SANTA FE DIESEL 'CHIEF' TO START RUN
Limited Begins 39-Hour Dash to Los Angeles From Chicago On Trip Tonight
Operating on a schedule of 39 hours and 45 minutes, the Santa Fe's new Super Chief, powered with the Diesel locomotive, will leave Chicago tonight on its first run to the coast, arriving in San Bernadino at 7:30 a.m. Thursday.
Effective Sunday, the Chief, drawn by steam locomotives, went on a 50 hour and 25 minute schedule for the Los Angeles to Chicago run.
The Chief,... Read MORE...
The San Bernadino County Sun - San Bernadino, California - May 12, 1936
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Johnny Cake - One cup sweet milk, one cup wheat flour, one and one-half cups corn meal, one tablespoonful sugar, one egg, butter half the size of an egg, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one-half a teaspoonful soda, a little salt. Bake in a tin...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., November 30, 1881
Amarillo, Texas, USA
(By The Associated Press.)
Amarillo, May 11. - Trapped by flames which destroyed the Tourist hotel here early today, five men were burned to death, or killed when they jumped to the pavement from third story windows. Three of the victims were burned to death and two killed when they leaped. At least a score were injured, three seriously.
The dead:
PETER KEARNS, Pine, Colo.
RAYMOND COZART, Detroit, Texas.
HOYT CROWE, Tulia, Texas.
J. P. PURDIAN, or PERDIAN, Amarillo.
An Unidentified... Read MORE...
Abilene Morning Reporter-News - Abilene, Texas - May 12, 1929
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1929 - FIVE DEAD IN AMARILLO FIRE. SCORE ARE HURT WHEN OLD HOTEL IS DESTROYED IN EARLY MORNING BLAZE. ALL AVENUES OF ESCAPE ARE CUT OFF AND MANY ARE FORCED TO LEAP FROM THIRD STORY WINDOWS.
(By The Associated Press.)
Amarillo, May 11. - Trapped by flames which destroyed the Tourist hotel here early today, five men were burned to death, or killed when they jumped to the pavement from third story windows. Three of the victims were burned to death and two killed when they leaped. At least a score were injured, three seriously.
The dead:
PETER KEARNS, Pine, Colo.
RAYMOND COZART, Detroit, Texas.
HOYT CROWE, Tulia, Texas.
J. P. PURDIAN, or PERDIAN, Amarillo.
An Unidentified... Read MORE...
Abilene Morning Reporter-News - Abilene, Texas - May 12, 1929
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Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Mr. Michael Morris's warehouse, Paterson, and adjacent buildings were burned on Monday. The warehouse owned by Mr. Morris was used as a waste house. - The flames communicated with the Murray Mill, a superb brick building on Mill street, owned by Messrs. John Ryle & Co., as a silk manufactory. Day & Co., silk weavers, also occupied a part of the building. The flames spread rapidly and communicated with the tenement houses on each side and in the rear, and thence to the Murray Mill. After a short ... Read MORE...
Daily State Gazette - Trenton, New Jersey - May 12, 1869
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1869 - Great Fire in Paterson.
Mr. Michael Morris's warehouse, Paterson, and adjacent buildings were burned on Monday. The warehouse owned by Mr. Morris was used as a waste house. - The flames communicated with the Murray Mill, a superb brick building on Mill street, owned by Messrs. John Ryle & Co., as a silk manufactory. Day & Co., silk weavers, also occupied a part of the building. The flames spread rapidly and communicated with the tenement houses on each side and in the rear, and thence to the Murray Mill. After a short ... Read MORE...
Daily State Gazette - Trenton, New Jersey - May 12, 1869
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Past is very much "past" with children. Let them begin every day as fresh as the morning itself, with no clouds lingering from the previous day. -...Read MORE...
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
Taunton, Massachusetts, USA (East Taunton)
Saturday afternoon, as we learn from the Gazette, at half past two o'clock, as the New Bedford and Taunton train was about one mile and a half below Taunton, the axletree of the tender gave out, causing a succession of serious mishaps. The tender was immediately thrown down an embankment of thirty feet. The baggage car, directly behind, was precipitated below, on the right of the track, and also the succeeding car, in which were twenty-five passengers. All three were completely demolished. As... Read MORE...
The Farmers' Cabinet - Amherst, New Hampshire - May 12, 1853
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1853 - ANOTHER FRIGHTFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Saturday afternoon, as we learn from the Gazette, at half past two o'clock, as the New Bedford and Taunton train was about one mile and a half below Taunton, the axletree of the tender gave out, causing a succession of serious mishaps. The tender was immediately thrown down an embankment of thirty feet. The baggage car, directly behind, was precipitated below, on the right of the track, and also the succeeding car, in which were twenty-five passengers. All three were completely demolished. As... Read MORE...
The Farmers' Cabinet - Amherst, New Hampshire - May 12, 1853
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1780 May 12 - British capture Charleston, SC
May 12, 1780
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1922 May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
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May 12, 1922
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1888 Chatham, Mass., May 10. - A heavy forest fire is raging in South Brewster and oding much damage to valuable wood land, also threatening small settlements lying in its track.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 12, 1888
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May 12, 1780
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1922 May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
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May 12, 1922
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1888 Chatham, Mass., May 10. - A heavy forest fire is raging in South Brewster and oding much damage to valuable wood land, also threatening small settlements lying in its track.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 12, 1888
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1905 LIGHTNING STRUCK CIRCUS. One Man Killed and a Hundred Spectators Were Stunned.
Special to the Washington Post Wheeling, W. Va., May 11 - In the midst of the performance of WALLACE'S circus at Marietta, Ohio this afternoon, lightning struck the main pole of the side show tent, killing WILLIAM TULLINS, of Lowell, seriously injuring four others, and stunning more than a hundred spectators.
The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
May 12, 1905
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1853 Fire at Wilton.
We learn from the Lowell News that on the 3d inst., a fire broke out in a building belonging to Dea. Fiske, and used for a cider mill and storage purposes. The building was entirely destroyed, together with a large quantity of lumber designed for the erection of a new house by Mr. Fiske. No insurance.
The Farmers' Cabinet
Amherst, New Hampshire
May 12, 1853
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1853 Awful Railroad Accident. FIFTY PERSONS KILLED!
NORWALK (CT) May 6. The 8 o'clock train for New York, ran off the draw-bridge into the river, near this place. One car was completely submerged and two others completely demolished. There has been a terrible loss of life. The excitement is so great that it is impossible to get a list of the killed or injured. The engine went through first, followed by two passengers cars. The 4th passenger car split in two, one half of which was thrown into the river, and the other half caught on the...
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The Farmers' Cabinet
Amherst, New Hampshire
May 12, 1853
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Special to the Washington Post Wheeling, W. Va., May 11 - In the midst of the performance of WALLACE'S circus at Marietta, Ohio this afternoon, lightning struck the main pole of the side show tent, killing WILLIAM TULLINS, of Lowell, seriously injuring four others, and stunning more than a hundred spectators.
The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
May 12, 1905
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1853 Fire at Wilton.
We learn from the Lowell News that on the 3d inst., a fire broke out in a building belonging to Dea. Fiske, and used for a cider mill and storage purposes. The building was entirely destroyed, together with a large quantity of lumber designed for the erection of a new house by Mr. Fiske. No insurance.
The Farmers' Cabinet
Amherst, New Hampshire
May 12, 1853
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1853 Awful Railroad Accident. FIFTY PERSONS KILLED!
NORWALK (CT) May 6. The 8 o'clock train for New York, ran off the draw-bridge into the river, near this place. One car was completely submerged and two others completely demolished. There has been a terrible loss of life. The excitement is so great that it is impossible to get a list of the killed or injured. The engine went through first, followed by two passengers cars. The 4th passenger car split in two, one half of which was thrown into the river, and the other half caught on the...
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The Farmers' Cabinet
Amherst, New Hampshire
May 12, 1853
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1858 Fatal Freak of a Boy
In Middlesex, New York, on Wednesday afternoon, John R. Francisco, aged about fifteen years, went into a shed attached to his father's barn and suspended himself by the neck with a rope. He told some little children who were with him to run into the house as he was going to hang himself, and from this it is supposed that he did not intend to really commit suicide, but expected some one would come and release him. The father was nearly frantic with grief on finding his son dead.
Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
May 12, 1858
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In Middlesex, New York, on Wednesday afternoon, John R. Francisco, aged about fifteen years, went into a shed attached to his father's barn and suspended himself by the neck with a rope. He told some little children who were with him to run into the house as he was going to hang himself, and from this it is supposed that he did not intend to really commit suicide, but expected some one would come and release him. The father was nearly frantic with grief on finding his son dead.
Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
May 12, 1858
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America - Did you know?
January 12, 1932 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husband.
Quebec - Did you know?
The Headless Ghost of Mary GallagherBack in June 1879, two Montreal prostitutes, Susan Kennedy and Mary Gallagher, were drinking in a Griffintown bar with a john named Michael Flanagan. Despite the three spending the night together, Susan...Read MORE...
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Coleman & Remington
Photographie Studio
25 Westminster St.
Providence, R.I.
Founded by William Coleman and O. M. Remington, 1868
Coleman never married or had children, and he lived in various boarding houses throughout his life. He worked for other photographers until 1868 when he partnered with Orville M. Remington and established a professional studio called “Coleman and Remington” located at 25 Westminster Street in Providence. This ended in 1876 when Remington gave up the photography profession.
Coleman died in 1908 from pneumonia. He’s buried with his parents and siblings in their family lot at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island. edgarallenpoeri.com
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