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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated February 9, 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 February 9 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Hot Cross Buns - Take two cups of milk, three of sugar, two eggs, half teaspoonful soda, half a cup of yeast, a little nutmeg and flour to make stiff enough to roll; let it stand over night; in the morning roll out small, set them close...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., August 25, 1880
1889 - DISASTER IN BELGIUM.
A Railway Accident in Which Fourteen Person Were Killed and Fifty Others Injured.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 4. - A railway train from Brussels to Namur was thrown from the track while running at a high rate of speed near Groenendael Sunday. Fourteen persons were killed and fifty injured. The bodies of all the persons killed by the railroad accident have been brought here. Fifteen persons, all mortally injured, lie at Hoeviaert near the scene of the disaster. Among them are several children. The... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - February 9, 1889
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Buffalo, New York, USA
Forty Buildings, Including Two Hotels Burned - A Fireman Killed by Falling Walls - Seventeen Other Persons Hurt.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 4 - The great fire Saturday morning did the most disastrous work in Buffalo since the embryo city was swept in flames in the war with the British and Indians in 1813 and only one house was left standing. A blaze in the heart of the manufacturing portion of the city was fanned by a high wind loaded with snow and destroyed more property than fire ever destroyed... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - February 9, 1889
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1889 - BUFFALO'S CALAMITY. The Heart of the City Swept by Fire, and a Loss of $2,500,000 Incurred -
Forty Buildings, Including Two Hotels Burned - A Fireman Killed by Falling Walls - Seventeen Other Persons Hurt.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 4 - The great fire Saturday morning did the most disastrous work in Buffalo since the embryo city was swept in flames in the war with the British and Indians in 1813 and only one house was left standing. A blaze in the heart of the manufacturing portion of the city was fanned by a high wind loaded with snow and destroyed more property than fire ever destroyed... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - February 9, 1889
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
The person should be accurately clean; the teeth,
hands, and nails, should be particularly so: a dirty mouth has real ill consequences to the owner ; for it infallibly causes the decay, as well as the intolerable pain, of the teeth; and is very...Read MORE...
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
Beaumont, Texas, USA
Beaumont Jefferson Co., Tex., Feb. 8. - A severe storm visited this place about 5 o'clock this morning. The wind attained terrific velocity, but of short duration. The Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City roundhouse was wrecked. Damage between $900 and $1,000. Two cottages in course of erection in the Calder addition were demolished, besides numerous shanties, trees and fences were blown down. Two box cars in the Southern Pacific yards were turned over in the ditch and three flats near by were blown... Read MORE...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas, Texas - February 9, 1894
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1894 - TERRIFIC WIND STORM. Roundhouse Wrecked, Cars Turned Over and Damaged to Other Property.
Beaumont Jefferson Co., Tex., Feb. 8. - A severe storm visited this place about 5 o'clock this morning. The wind attained terrific velocity, but of short duration. The Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City roundhouse was wrecked. Damage between $900 and $1,000. Two cottages in course of erection in the Calder addition were demolished, besides numerous shanties, trees and fences were blown down. Two box cars in the Southern Pacific yards were turned over in the ditch and three flats near by were blown... Read MORE...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas, Texas - February 9, 1894
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Memphis, Tennessee, USA
MEMPHIS, Feb. 9. - A most disastrous conflagration broke out in the building No. 230 Main street, occupied by the Druz-Berne Hat company, at 9:30. The building, which was of six stories, was doomed, and all efforts were concentrated in an endeavor to save adjoining property. At 10:15 the Druz-Berne building fell in with a crash, and a few minutes later the building of the Langstaff Hardware company, which adjoined it at the south, fell into the space formerly occupied by the hat building. The... Read MORE...
Lincoln Evening News - Lincoln, Nebraska - February 9, 1892
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1892 - MEMPHIS' CONFLAGRATION. Several Buildings Destroyed, Entailing Losses of Over a Million.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 9. - A most disastrous conflagration broke out in the building No. 230 Main street, occupied by the Druz-Berne Hat company, at 9:30. The building, which was of six stories, was doomed, and all efforts were concentrated in an endeavor to save adjoining property. At 10:15 the Druz-Berne building fell in with a crash, and a few minutes later the building of the Langstaff Hardware company, which adjoined it at the south, fell into the space formerly occupied by the hat building. The... Read MORE...
Lincoln Evening News - Lincoln, Nebraska - February 9, 1892
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Skowhegan, Maine, USA (Bloomfield)
LEWISTON, Me., Saturday, Feb. 8. - In Skowhegan, last night, a fire destroyed the building known as the Excelsior Factory, occupied as follows:
ALMA ABBOTT, planing mills, loss $3,000
L. MILLS, slate grinding mills, loss $3,000
L. C. HOUGHTON & Co., millwrights, loss $1,500
J. F. TURNER, bedsted manufactory, loss $1,000
C. F. DOUGLAS, architect and builder, loss $700
BROWN & BARBER, carving-knife manufacturers, loss $500
The building was entirely destroyed. It was owned by M. WILLIS, ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - February 9, 1868
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1868 - Destructive Fire in Maine - Loss $30,000.
LEWISTON, Me., Saturday, Feb. 8. - In Skowhegan, last night, a fire destroyed the building known as the Excelsior Factory, occupied as follows:
ALMA ABBOTT, planing mills, loss $3,000
L. MILLS, slate grinding mills, loss $3,000
L. C. HOUGHTON & Co., millwrights, loss $1,500
J. F. TURNER, bedsted manufactory, loss $1,000
C. F. DOUGLAS, architect and builder, loss $700
BROWN & BARBER, carving-knife manufacturers, loss $500
The building was entirely destroyed. It was owned by M. WILLIS, ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - February 9, 1868
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Winnipeg, Man., Feb. 9. - The Manitoba Hotel and the Northern Pacific offices were completely destroyed by fire last night. Loss, $400,000.
The hotel was seven stories high, accommodating 400 guests, and was the finest Canadian hotel west of Montreal. It was built in 1891 by the Northern Pacific, and cost over $300,000. The company carried its own insurance, so the loss is total.
The fire brigade worked heroically under the disadvantages of a bitter north wind and the mercury 43 below.... Read MORE...
The Daily Gazette - Janesville, Wisconsin - February 9, 1899
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1899 - $400,000 FIRE AT WINNIPEG. MANITOBA HOTEL AND NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD OFFICES DESTROYED.
Winnipeg, Man., Feb. 9. - The Manitoba Hotel and the Northern Pacific offices were completely destroyed by fire last night. Loss, $400,000.
The hotel was seven stories high, accommodating 400 guests, and was the finest Canadian hotel west of Montreal. It was built in 1891 by the Northern Pacific, and cost over $300,000. The company carried its own insurance, so the loss is total.
The fire brigade worked heroically under the disadvantages of a bitter north wind and the mercury 43 below.... Read MORE...
The Daily Gazette - Janesville, Wisconsin - February 9, 1899
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Whitestown, New York, USA (Whitesboro)
Every Car Blown From the Rails – Two Railroad Men Killed and Several Passengers Injured.
One of the strangest wrecks in the history of railroading in this section occurred at Whitesboro, three miles west of Utica, at an early hour Saturday morning. Train 23, the western express, was drawn by an engine known as one of the Pacific type. As this engine was passing train 30, the Buffalo special, eastbound, the westbound engine exploded. The full force of the explosion was felt in the second car... Read MORE...
Lowville Journal & Republican - Lowville, New York - February 9, 1905
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1905 - WRECK ON THE CENTRAL. ENGINE EXPLODED JUST AS ANOTHER TRAIN WAS PASSING.
Every Car Blown From the Rails – Two Railroad Men Killed and Several Passengers Injured.
One of the strangest wrecks in the history of railroading in this section occurred at Whitesboro, three miles west of Utica, at an early hour Saturday morning. Train 23, the western express, was drawn by an engine known as one of the Pacific type. As this engine was passing train 30, the Buffalo special, eastbound, the westbound engine exploded. The full force of the explosion was felt in the second car... Read MORE...
Lowville Journal & Republican - Lowville, New York - February 9, 1905
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1861 February 9 - THE MAIL TO BE STOPPED.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, by a vote of 131 to 26, adopted a bill authorizing the postmaster General to withhold the mails from the seceded States.
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1950 February 9 – Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.
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1902 February 9 – Fire levels 26 city blocks of Jersey City. (New Jersey)
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday, by a vote of 131 to 26, adopted a bill authorizing the postmaster General to withhold the mails from the seceded States.
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1950 February 9 – Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.
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1902 February 9 – Fire levels 26 city blocks of Jersey City. (New Jersey)
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1895 February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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1934 February 9, 1934 - The temperature at Stillwater plunged to 52 degrees below zero to establish a record for the state of New York.
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1934 February 9, 1934 - The mercury dipped to 51 degrees below zero at Vanderbilt to establish a record for the state of Michigan.
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1934 February 9, 1934 - The temperature at Stillwater plunged to 52 degrees below zero to establish a record for the state of New York.
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1934 February 9, 1934 - The mercury dipped to 51 degrees below zero at Vanderbilt to establish a record for the state of Michigan.
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1889 A Chinaman named Yet Sing established a wash house over a boiling spring at Cheyenne, W. T.
The slumbering geyser burst forth on the 2d, spouting water over a hundred feet, and the tent in which the Chinamen were sleeping at the time was blown to pieces and the four celestials were killed.
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1889 John Olsen, his wife and three children were drowned on the 2d near Bismarck, D. T., while trying to cross the Missouri river on ice.
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1889 The malt-house attached to the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis was burned on the 3d, causing a loss of $200,000.
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The slumbering geyser burst forth on the 2d, spouting water over a hundred feet, and the tent in which the Chinamen were sleeping at the time was blown to pieces and the four celestials were killed.
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1889 John Olsen, his wife and three children were drowned on the 2d near Bismarck, D. T., while trying to cross the Missouri river on ice.
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1889 The malt-house attached to the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis was burned on the 3d, causing a loss of $200,000.
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1889 By an accident on the 2d on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad near Springfield, Mo., three men were instantly killed and five injured, four of them fatally.
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1889 Walter Ives, aged ten years, fell from the top of a nine-story building at Denver, Col., on the 2d, struck the telephone wires, and then rebounded to a horse's back and was not fatally injured.
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1889 All over Nebraska a heavy gale prevailed on the 4th, and considerable damage was done in the western part of the State, building being unroofed and trees blown down.
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1889 Walter Ives, aged ten years, fell from the top of a nine-story building at Denver, Col., on the 2d, struck the telephone wires, and then rebounded to a horse's back and was not fatally injured.
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1889 All over Nebraska a heavy gale prevailed on the 4th, and considerable damage was done in the western part of the State, building being unroofed and trees blown down.
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1889 The doors of the bank of J. N. Knapp at Marquette, Mich., were closed on the 4th. The liabilities were estimated at $30,000 to $50,000.
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1889 Near Calgary, N. W. T., a freight train was precipitated down a mountain side on the 1st, and seven men were killed.
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1889 Mrs. May, of Reading, Pa., received word on the 6th that she was to inherit $300,000 from an uncle who died recently in California.
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1889 Near Calgary, N. W. T., a freight train was precipitated down a mountain side on the 1st, and seven men were killed.
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1889 Mrs. May, of Reading, Pa., received word on the 6th that she was to inherit $300,000 from an uncle who died recently in California.
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1889 At Johnstown, N.Y., the Union Academy building was burned on the 1st, causing a loss of $45,000. George Thompson, chief of the fire department, was instantly killed, and Teddy Smith was fatally hurt by the falling walls.
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1878 Twenty-three milk dealers in Lawrence, Mass., have petitioned for the appointment of a milk inspector.
They have found themselves undersold by rival dealers, and say it cannot be done with profit unless the milk is watered.
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1861 February 1 - Texas seceded from the Union
TEXAS GONE OUT. - The Texas State Convention adopted the Ordinance of Secession on the 1st inst. by a vote of 166 to 7. The action of the Convention is to be submitted to a vote of the people on the 22nd of February, and, if ratified, it will go into effect on the 2nd of March.
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1878 Twenty-three milk dealers in Lawrence, Mass., have petitioned for the appointment of a milk inspector.
They have found themselves undersold by rival dealers, and say it cannot be done with profit unless the milk is watered.
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1861 February 1 - Texas seceded from the Union
TEXAS GONE OUT. - The Texas State Convention adopted the Ordinance of Secession on the 1st inst. by a vote of 166 to 7. The action of the Convention is to be submitted to a vote of the people on the 22nd of February, and, if ratified, it will go into effect on the 2nd of March.
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1886 February 9 - Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
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1895 Blizzard - THE STORM STILL HOVERS OVER THE UNITED STATES. IT IS SEVEREST IN THE EAST. TRAFFIC ALMOST ENTIRELY AT A STANDSTILL -- RAILROAD TRAINS BLOCKADED -- BUSINESS PARALYZED -- PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH AT SEVERAL PLACES...
...Railroads Blockaded. Watertown, N. Y., Feb. 9. - The severe cold wave which has prevailed over this section for the past two days has been succeeded by one of the worst blizzards this year. The snow is heavy and packs hard. The railroads are all blockaded. About a foot of snow has fallen and the storm is still raging...
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1895 Blizzard - THE STORM STILL HOVERS OVER THE UNITED STATES. IT IS SEVEREST IN THE EAST. TRAFFIC ALMOST ENTIRELY AT A STANDSTILL -- RAILROAD TRAINS BLOCKADED -- BUSINESS PARALYZED -- PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH AT SEVERAL PLACES...
...Railroads Blockaded. Watertown, N. Y., Feb. 9. - The severe cold wave which has prevailed over this section for the past two days has been succeeded by one of the worst blizzards this year. The snow is heavy and packs hard. The railroads are all blockaded. About a foot of snow has fallen and the storm is still raging...
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America - Did you know?
Los Angeles is not as “tall” as other large cities and sprawls for miles. One reason is that before 1957, there was a law against any building having more than 13 stories. They were afraid of earthquakes. City Hall, built in 1927, was the lone...Read MORE...legendsofamerica.com
Quebec - Did you know?
Some gestures have different meanings in Quebec. For example, "thumbs down" is considered offensive in Quebec, as is slapping an open palm over a closed fist. Like the rest of their countrymen and women, French-Canadians use the "thumbs up" sign to...Read MORE...ediplomat.com
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