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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated August 18, 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 August 18 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
American Girl is Queen - 1910
New York, Aug. 18 - 'If Venus de Milo should appear on earth today, she couldn't hold a candle to our American girls!'
So exclaimed George Clinton Batcheller, corset maker, after studying professionally and innocently, the forms of foreign women in his annual tour.
'The American girl is tall, and yet not too tall; slender, and yet well-developed. She has beautifully sloping shoulders and a long waist. She has hips, though she is trying to conceal them at present. She has beautifully long, ... Read MORE...
Saginaw News - Saginaw, Michigan - August 18, 1910
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
On August 18, 1735, the Evening Post began publishing in Boston, Massachusetts, marking a significant development in the history of American journalism. As one of the earliest newspapers in the American colonies, the Evening Post played a crucial role in disseminating news and information to the local population. At the time of its founding, Boston was a bustling colonial town, and the Evening Post provided a platform for residents to stay informed about local events, politics, and important... Read MORE...
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August 18, 1735
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1735 - August 18 - Evening Post begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
On August 18, 1735, the Evening Post began publishing in Boston, Massachusetts, marking a significant development in the history of American journalism. As one of the earliest newspapers in the American colonies, the Evening Post played a crucial role in disseminating news and information to the local population. At the time of its founding, Boston was a bustling colonial town, and the Evening Post provided a platform for residents to stay informed about local events, politics, and important... Read MORE...
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August 18, 1735
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Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)
From the Travel Magazine.
The Canadian country on the north shore of the St. Lawrence is very hilly indeed in some places. The country "gets a move on" occasionally, if the people do not. We can readily believe it to be an earthquake region, so jumbled up did the hills appear. We were told that the first church of Les Eboulements, our well-named village, slid into the St. Lawrence, and that is why the second was built on the top of a mountain a couple of miles back from the shore. Our farm... Read MORE...
The Washington Post - Washington, D.C. - August 18, 1907
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1907 - Where the Horse Is Considered.
From the Travel Magazine.
The Canadian country on the north shore of the St. Lawrence is very hilly indeed in some places. The country "gets a move on" occasionally, if the people do not. We can readily believe it to be an earthquake region, so jumbled up did the hills appear. We were told that the first church of Les Eboulements, our well-named village, slid into the St. Lawrence, and that is why the second was built on the top of a mountain a couple of miles back from the shore. Our farm... Read MORE...
The Washington Post - Washington, D.C. - August 18, 1907
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Woodstock, Connecticut, USA
"He (the saloon keeper) sits supreme in the National Congress and makes laws in the country's capital.
He governs courts of justice and makes ministers of the law and legislatures his lackeys.
He silences the preacher in his pulpit and muzzles the editor at his desk."
This is a serious indictment. We call for specifications. This campaign is to be carried out by cold facts, not by fiery rhetoric. We have great respect for General Fisk, but we are afraid he has set a bad example to the... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - August 18, 1888
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1888 - Specifications Called For. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, the Prohibition nominee for President is accredited with the following three sentences in his Fourth of July address at Woodstock, Conn.:
"He (the saloon keeper) sits supreme in the National Congress and makes laws in the country's capital.
He governs courts of justice and makes ministers of the law and legislatures his lackeys.
He silences the preacher in his pulpit and muzzles the editor at his desk."
This is a serious indictment. We call for specifications. This campaign is to be carried out by cold facts, not by fiery rhetoric. We have great respect for General Fisk, but we are afraid he has set a bad example to the... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - August 18, 1888
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
California Cake
One pint of flour, one pint of Indian meal, one pint of milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two spoonfuls of cream of tartar, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, small piece of butter. Mix the eggs and milk together, add sugar and...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, August 18, 1880
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 17. - The business portion of Atlantic City narrowly escaped destruction by fire at an early hour today. The fire destroyed $75,000 worth of property. One life is supposed to have been lost. The fire started before daylight in the wooden Grand Opera House. All the fire engines in the city worked in vain to keep the flames from spreading from the playhouse.
Hundreds of volunteer firemen helped the uniformed force in a fight to save the City Hall from destruction,... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 18, 1893
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1893 - BIG FIRE IN ATLANTIC CITY. THE CITY HALL, OPERA HOUSE, AND OTHER PROPERTY BURNED.
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 17. - The business portion of Atlantic City narrowly escaped destruction by fire at an early hour today. The fire destroyed $75,000 worth of property. One life is supposed to have been lost. The fire started before daylight in the wooden Grand Opera House. All the fire engines in the city worked in vain to keep the flames from spreading from the playhouse.
Hundreds of volunteer firemen helped the uniformed force in a fight to save the City Hall from destruction,... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 18, 1893
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Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
BEVERLY, Mass., Aug. 17. - At 5:40 this afternoon Passenger Train No. 112, Rockport to Boston, met an extra freight at Paradise Crossing, on the Boston and Maine, Railroad at Beverly and a collision ensued. The passenger train was going thirty miles an hour and the freight twelve miles. Both engines were totally demolished, and with their coal and water tanks were piled in one heap.
Engineer Jones of the freight engine, with Acting Conductor Fred Macomber and six other trainmen were injured, ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 18, 1892
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1892 - RAILROAD WRECK AT BEVERLY. A PASSENGER CRASHES INTO A FREIGHT - SEVERAL HURT.
BEVERLY, Mass., Aug. 17. - At 5:40 this afternoon Passenger Train No. 112, Rockport to Boston, met an extra freight at Paradise Crossing, on the Boston and Maine, Railroad at Beverly and a collision ensued. The passenger train was going thirty miles an hour and the freight twelve miles. Both engines were totally demolished, and with their coal and water tanks were piled in one heap.
Engineer Jones of the freight engine, with Acting Conductor Fred Macomber and six other trainmen were injured, ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 18, 1892
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Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Norfolk, Va., Aug 18 - So far only twelve known dead have been taken from the wreck of the Atlantic Coast Line railway's Kingston and Greenville, N. C., excursion train which went through an open draw yesterday, though there are some eighty of the colored excursionists yet missing and the probabilities are that the bodies of many of those will be found in the bottom of the river after all dragging has been completed.
A wrecking company raised the two submerged cars but as they did so the... Read MORE...
The Fort Wayne Sentinel - Fort Wayne, Indiana - August 18, 1905
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1905 - NUMBER OF DEAD MAY BE NEAR A HUNDRED. Twelve Bodies Recovered and 75 or 80 Persons Missing in Virginia Wreck.
Norfolk, Va., Aug 18 - So far only twelve known dead have been taken from the wreck of the Atlantic Coast Line railway's Kingston and Greenville, N. C., excursion train which went through an open draw yesterday, though there are some eighty of the colored excursionists yet missing and the probabilities are that the bodies of many of those will be found in the bottom of the river after all dragging has been completed.
A wrecking company raised the two submerged cars but as they did so the... Read MORE...
The Fort Wayne Sentinel - Fort Wayne, Indiana - August 18, 1905
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Stamford, Connecticut, USA (Springdale)
WHILE INMATES SLEEP SOUNDLY
Guests and Servants Unconscious of All Danger While the Electric Fluid
Was Ripping Things Up--Damage Amounts to [ineligible].
Stamford, Aug. 18. - Lightning struck H. L. Camman's handsome mansion in Palmer's Hill early yesterday morning causing considerable damage. The bolt struck the house in the height of a heavy thunder storm. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Melten and Mr. and Mrs. Ayres of New York and several servant girls were in the house at the time. They were... Read MORE...
New Haven Evening Register - New Haven, Connecticut - August 18, 1900
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1900 - LIGHTNING IN A MANSION Bolt Tears Two Great Holes In Roof of the Edifice
WHILE INMATES SLEEP SOUNDLY
Guests and Servants Unconscious of All Danger While the Electric Fluid
Was Ripping Things Up--Damage Amounts to [ineligible].
Stamford, Aug. 18. - Lightning struck H. L. Camman's handsome mansion in Palmer's Hill early yesterday morning causing considerable damage. The bolt struck the house in the height of a heavy thunder storm. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Melten and Mr. and Mrs. Ayres of New York and several servant girls were in the house at the time. They were... Read MORE...
New Haven Evening Register - New Haven, Connecticut - August 18, 1900
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
True love has ten thousand griefs, impatiences, and resentments, that render a man unamiable in the eyes of the person whose affection he solicits; besides that, it sinks his figure, gives him fears, apprehensions, and poorness of spirit, and often...Read MORE...
The Young Husband’s Book, 1837
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
PAWTUCKET, R. I. Aug. 16. - The Dunnell Print Works were destroyed by fire to-day. The loss is roughly estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000, and is fully covered by insurance in Manufacturer's Mutual companies. The companies, with the amounts of the policies and the names of the commission houses owning the goods, are as follows:
Attawaugan Company, loss small; Enterprise,$10,000; American,$10,000; Sotokett Mills, loss small; Enterprise,$10,000; American, $10,000; Austin, Bates & Wellington, ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 18, 1890
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1890 - LARGE PRINT WORKS BURNED. THE DUNNELL ESTABLISHMENT AT PAWTUCKET DESTROYED BY FIRE.
PAWTUCKET, R. I. Aug. 16. - The Dunnell Print Works were destroyed by fire to-day. The loss is roughly estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000, and is fully covered by insurance in Manufacturer's Mutual companies. The companies, with the amounts of the policies and the names of the commission houses owning the goods, are as follows:
Attawaugan Company, loss small; Enterprise,$10,000; American,$10,000; Sotokett Mills, loss small; Enterprise,$10,000; American, $10,000; Austin, Bates & Wellington, ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 18, 1890
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La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)
The Journal de Quebec states that a poor farmer of St. Anne de la Pocatiere, who had heard that a relative of this father in Europe had died, leaving a large fortune, and who had sent papers to claim his share of the inheritance, received the other day from Frankfort a draft on the British North American Bank for $109,500 as a first installment. Elated with joy, he had promised to pay off the debt of the Parish Church and to build a convent at his own expense. He came to Quebec with the Notary... Read MORE...
Macon Telegraph - Macon, Georgia - August 18, 1866
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1866 - Bad Check
The Journal de Quebec states that a poor farmer of St. Anne de la Pocatiere, who had heard that a relative of this father in Europe had died, leaving a large fortune, and who had sent papers to claim his share of the inheritance, received the other day from Frankfort a draft on the British North American Bank for $109,500 as a first installment. Elated with joy, he had promised to pay off the debt of the Parish Church and to build a convent at his own expense. He came to Quebec with the Notary... Read MORE...
Macon Telegraph - Macon, Georgia - August 18, 1866
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Albany, New York, USA (Fort Orange)
Fire, though a good servant, is indeed a fearful master! And fearfully did this mad element rage yesterday! Our city is desolate! The ruin is appalling! The spirit sinks and the heart sickens, in contemplating such frightful losses – such side-spread ruin. Painful, most painful, is the task of gathering up the afflicting details.
Most of the commercial portion of the city, with fifteen or twenty densely populated squares, is a black and smouldering (sic) ruin. From Herkimer st., where the... Read MORE...
Albany Evening Journal - Albany, New York - August 18, 1848
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1848 - APPALLING CONFLAGRATION! 500 BUILDINGS BURNED!! $3,000,000 Property Lost!!
Fire, though a good servant, is indeed a fearful master! And fearfully did this mad element rage yesterday! Our city is desolate! The ruin is appalling! The spirit sinks and the heart sickens, in contemplating such frightful losses – such side-spread ruin. Painful, most painful, is the task of gathering up the afflicting details.
Most of the commercial portion of the city, with fifteen or twenty densely populated squares, is a black and smouldering (sic) ruin. From Herkimer st., where the... Read MORE...
Albany Evening Journal - Albany, New York - August 18, 1848
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Bethlehem, Connecticut, USA (Bethlem)
Bethlehem, Ct., Aug. 18. - Cornelius C. Parmelee, who is dead at the age of 80, was a staunch supporter of of John C. Fremont for president back in '56.
At that time Cornelius was a handsome young man, with a smooth, whiskerless complexion. He made a solemn vow that if Fremont wasn't elected he would never shave again. Fremont lost and Parmelee threw away his razor. The result was that he took to the grave with him one of the flowingest crop of whiskers in the state.
However, Connecticut... Read MORE...
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Saginaw News - Saginaw, Michigan - August 18, 1910
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1910 - He Voted Wrong in '56; Has Never Shaved Again
Bethlehem, Ct., Aug. 18. - Cornelius C. Parmelee, who is dead at the age of 80, was a staunch supporter of of John C. Fremont for president back in '56.
At that time Cornelius was a handsome young man, with a smooth, whiskerless complexion. He made a solemn vow that if Fremont wasn't elected he would never shave again. Fremont lost and Parmelee threw away his razor. The result was that he took to the grave with him one of the flowingest crop of whiskers in the state.
However, Connecticut... Read MORE...
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Saginaw News - Saginaw, Michigan - August 18, 1910
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 18, 1904
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1848 SAD ACCIDENT
As the passengers by the noon train were about landing from the Boston on the bridge at the foot of Maiden lane, it gave way, by which several persons were more or less injured. GEORGE EUGAN, a hand on board of the Boston was seriously if not dangerously injured. The accident was caused by the crowding of the bridge by runners and hackmen, by which the timbers through which the chain passed, were broken off, which cause the bridge to full to the water's edge.
Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
August 18, 1848
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1879 Strange Wedding
The New England girl certainly carries off the palm for originality. A young woman of Wallingford, Conn., was married the other evening, and while the festivities that followed the ceremony were at their height the bride eloped with one of her old admirers who was amongst the guests.
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Wheeling Register
Wheeling, West Virginia
August 18, 1879
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 18, 1904
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1848 SAD ACCIDENT
As the passengers by the noon train were about landing from the Boston on the bridge at the foot of Maiden lane, it gave way, by which several persons were more or less injured. GEORGE EUGAN, a hand on board of the Boston was seriously if not dangerously injured. The accident was caused by the crowding of the bridge by runners and hackmen, by which the timbers through which the chain passed, were broken off, which cause the bridge to full to the water's edge.
Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
August 18, 1848
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1879 Strange Wedding
The New England girl certainly carries off the palm for originality. A young woman of Wallingford, Conn., was married the other evening, and while the festivities that followed the ceremony were at their height the bride eloped with one of her old admirers who was amongst the guests.
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Wheeling Register
Wheeling, West Virginia
August 18, 1879
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America - Did you know?
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Christmas Eve with its atmosphere of wonder offers infinite possibilities to people’s imagination. It was believed, for example, that during this magical night, sand on seashores, rocks on mountains, the oceans and valleys opened up in the light of...Read MORE...www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca
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