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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated November 5, 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 November 5 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
El Paso, Texas, USA
Miss Jessie Margaret Corn and Stanley Duncan Cobb were married at noon at the home of Mrs. J. A. Corn on North Santa Fe street. When Cobb went to the clerk of records office to get the marriage license the clerk refused to issue it thinking it was a practical joke. It was not until the bride's mother insisted that the Corn-Cobb wedding was on the level that the license was issued. Cobb shelled out for the license and said he expected to be shelling out for Mrs. Cobb and the little nubbins the... Read MORE...
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth Texas - November 5, 1915
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1915 - Miss Corn Weds Mr. Cobb
Miss Jessie Margaret Corn and Stanley Duncan Cobb were married at noon at the home of Mrs. J. A. Corn on North Santa Fe street. When Cobb went to the clerk of records office to get the marriage license the clerk refused to issue it thinking it was a practical joke. It was not until the bride's mother insisted that the Corn-Cobb wedding was on the level that the license was issued. Cobb shelled out for the license and said he expected to be shelling out for Mrs. Cobb and the little nubbins the... Read MORE...
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth Texas - November 5, 1915
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What Tooth Brush? The Prophylactic of Course
Florence Manufacturing Company
110 Pine Street, Florence, Mass.
The Ladies' Home Journal
January 1898
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1935 - November 5 – Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly in the United States.
Monopoly has a fascinating history. The game was actually created several years earlier, in 1903, by a woman named Elizabeth Magie. She called her game "The Landlord's Game" and designed it to demonstrate the economic consequences of land monopolism.
Over time, the game evolved, and Charles Darrow, an unemployed heating engineer, developed a version of it in the early 1930s. He eventually sold the game to Parker Brothers, who released it in 1935. The game quickly became a sensation,... Read MORE...
November 5, 1935
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Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE BURNED IN ESCAPING BUT IT IS BELIEVED NONE OF THE INJURIES WILL PROVE FATAL.
Brandon, Man., Nov. 5. - In the piercing cold of a chilly November night 600 patients of the asylum for the insane are huddled together in sheds and barns as the result of a fire which destroyed the asylum. The asylum was a mile and a half northeast of town and, despite the fact that an early alarm was given, it was an hour before the fire department had reached the scene and by that time the... Read MORE...
The Evening Telegram - Elyria, Ohio - November 5, 1910
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1910 - ASYLUM BURNS, INMATES SHIVER. INSANE PATIENTS FORCED TO FIND SHELTER IN BARNS AND SHEDS. BUILDING REDUCED TO MASS OF ASHES.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE BURNED IN ESCAPING BUT IT IS BELIEVED NONE OF THE INJURIES WILL PROVE FATAL.
Brandon, Man., Nov. 5. - In the piercing cold of a chilly November night 600 patients of the asylum for the insane are huddled together in sheds and barns as the result of a fire which destroyed the asylum. The asylum was a mile and a half northeast of town and, despite the fact that an early alarm was given, it was an hour before the fire department had reached the scene and by that time the... Read MORE...
The Evening Telegram - Elyria, Ohio - November 5, 1910
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Bird's Nest Pudding
Pare and halve tart mellow apples, scoop out the cores, put a little flour in the hollow of the apples, and wet it so as to form a thick paste, stick a blade or two of mace and three or four Zante currants, in each one of the...Read MORE...
The New England Cook Book, 1836
A Good Cheap Desk
The Fred Macey Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Ladies' Home Journal
January 1898
The Macey Furniture Co. was founded by Fred Macey, who served as its first chairman along with his brother Frank, who also served as treasurer. In 1892 Fred began a mail-order business selling office desks made by other manufacturers, which were advertised in popular magazine as “the best $25 roll-top office desk in the world.” His hefty advertising budget made the company a quick success, and other pieces of office and library furniture were soon added to the mail-order line. But as his mail-order sales began to cut into the traditional sales through retailers, Michigan retailers pressured area furniture manufacturers to prevent them from producing finished goods for Macey. To get around this obstacle, Fred Macey invested his mail-order profits in the construction of his own factory. He also expanded his mail-order business, with a national system of warehouses for distribution.
In 1905, when the Wernicke Furniture Co. merged with the Fred Macey Co., Otto H.L. Wernicke became an officer of the company. In 1906 the Globe – Wernicke Co. of Cincinnati sued Macey for continuing to produce furniture using Wernicke’s patents. After years of litigation, Macey won, then counter-sued to recover its court costs. Following Fred Macey’s death from typhoid pneumonia in 1909, Otto Wernicke became company president, a position he held until his retirement from active involvement at Macey in 1916... furniturecityhistory.org
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Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Williamstown, Nov. 5. - Damage estimated at close to $50,000 was done to Jessup hall, one of the Williams college buildings, by a fire today that is supposed to be due to defective wiring. The buildings has been in use as officers' quarters for the college S.A.T.C. unit. The third floor was gutted and the lower floors were heavily damaged by smoke and water. The student body did good service as fire fighters. The health board's quarantine on the town was hastily removed to allow the entrance of ... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - November 5, 1918
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1918 - WILLIAMS COLLEGE HAS $50,000 FIRE.
Williamstown, Nov. 5. - Damage estimated at close to $50,000 was done to Jessup hall, one of the Williams college buildings, by a fire today that is supposed to be due to defective wiring. The buildings has been in use as officers' quarters for the college S.A.T.C. unit. The third floor was gutted and the lower floors were heavily damaged by smoke and water. The student body did good service as fire fighters. The health board's quarantine on the town was hastily removed to allow the entrance of ... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - November 5, 1918
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Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 5. - Fire broke out in the building occupied by the Louisville branch of the Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing company, at 552 Fourth Avenue, and before the flames could be extinguished did about $50,000 worth of damage. Just as the firemen had the fire under control the rear wall of the Singer building fell and five firemen were caught under it and badly hurt. Two of them, VALENTINE RIEHL and JAMES MANNIX, may die.
The injured are:
VALENTINE RIEHL, captain No. 2... Read MORE...
Logansport Pharos - Logansport, Indiana - November 5, 1894
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1894 - FIVE FIREMEN BADLY HURT. SERIOUS CASUALTY AT THE BURNING OF A BUILDING AT LOUISVILLE.
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 5. - Fire broke out in the building occupied by the Louisville branch of the Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing company, at 552 Fourth Avenue, and before the flames could be extinguished did about $50,000 worth of damage. Just as the firemen had the fire under control the rear wall of the Singer building fell and five firemen were caught under it and badly hurt. Two of them, VALENTINE RIEHL and JAMES MANNIX, may die.
The injured are:
VALENTINE RIEHL, captain No. 2... Read MORE...
Logansport Pharos - Logansport, Indiana - November 5, 1894
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
A second marriage in the woman is more gross than in the man, argues greater deficiency in that delicacy, that innate modesty, which, after all, is the great charm, the charm of charms, in the female sex. We do not like to hear a man talk of his...Read MORE...
The Young Husband’s Book, 1837
1870 A farmer at Scipio, N. Y., has a turkey that has laid one hundred eggs in one hundred days, never missing a day on account of sickness or a circus in town, or anything.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
November 5, 1870
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1889 ANOTHER FURNACE HORROR. EIGHT MEN CAUGHT IN A RUSH OF MOLTEN METAL.
Lebanon, Pa., Nov. 5. - By the breaking out of molten iron in the stack of the Colebrook Furnace No. 1 yesterday HARVEY BOHER, HENRY FARTIG, ISAAC SIEGRIST, WILLIAM SNYDER and HARVEY BECK were killed, and JOHN BOHER, BENJAMIN ECK and ENOCH EISENHAUER were severely burned. The men, all of whom were laborers, were overwhelmed by the rush of molten metal while at work, and some of them were burned almost beyond recognition. The hoisting shaft of the furnace was destroyed.
Logansport Pharos Tribune
Logansport, Indiana
November 5, 1889
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1860 FIRE IN NEW-MILFORD, CONN.
Danbury, Conn., Saturday, Nov. 3. There was a large fire in New-Milford last night. It is reported that ten buildings were destroyed, including the Bank, Housatonic House, six stores and two dwellings. The loss is heavy. The fire is still burning. Danbury, CT., Saturday, Nov. 3. At the fire in New-Milford, fifteen buildings were destroyed, including the Litchfield County Bank and the Housatonic House. Loss, about $35,000, insurance, about $15,000, in the Hartford and New-Haven offices.
New York Times
New York, New York
November 5, 1860
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St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
November 5, 1870
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1889 ANOTHER FURNACE HORROR. EIGHT MEN CAUGHT IN A RUSH OF MOLTEN METAL.
Lebanon, Pa., Nov. 5. - By the breaking out of molten iron in the stack of the Colebrook Furnace No. 1 yesterday HARVEY BOHER, HENRY FARTIG, ISAAC SIEGRIST, WILLIAM SNYDER and HARVEY BECK were killed, and JOHN BOHER, BENJAMIN ECK and ENOCH EISENHAUER were severely burned. The men, all of whom were laborers, were overwhelmed by the rush of molten metal while at work, and some of them were burned almost beyond recognition. The hoisting shaft of the furnace was destroyed.
Logansport Pharos Tribune
Logansport, Indiana
November 5, 1889
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1860 FIRE IN NEW-MILFORD, CONN.
Danbury, Conn., Saturday, Nov. 3. There was a large fire in New-Milford last night. It is reported that ten buildings were destroyed, including the Bank, Housatonic House, six stores and two dwellings. The loss is heavy. The fire is still burning. Danbury, CT., Saturday, Nov. 3. At the fire in New-Milford, fifteen buildings were destroyed, including the Litchfield County Bank and the Housatonic House. Loss, about $35,000, insurance, about $15,000, in the Hartford and New-Haven offices.
New York Times
New York, New York
November 5, 1860
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1897 $150,000 FIRE LOSS.
Marlboro, Mass., Nov. 5. - Fire broke out at 1:30 a.m. Thursday in the three-story wooden block occupied by the Central Hotel and spread to the Corey block adjoining, which it completely destroyed, causing a total loss of nearly $150,000. There were about 40 guests in the Central Hotel, all of whom escaped.
Massillon Item
Ohio
November 5, 1897
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1860 The Late Boiler Explosion - Body Recovered - Serious Affray.
New-Haven, Saturday, Nov. 3 The boy, HENRY RICE, who was killed by the steam-boiler explosion at DANN & BROTHERS' coach factory, yesterday, was found under the ruins last night; nearly all his bones crushed. The boy JOHN KANE lives, but with no hope of his life. G. G. BALDWIN and GEORGE DE WOLF are very low. JOSEPH VAN RIPER was badly scalded, but may live. The cause of the accident was poor boiler iron. The loss of property is about $5,000.
New York Times
New York, New York
November 5, 1860
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1868 Five thousand dollars insurance was paid last week by a Hartford Company on a single sheep, which died in Middlebury, Vermont.
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio
November 5, 1868
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Marlboro, Mass., Nov. 5. - Fire broke out at 1:30 a.m. Thursday in the three-story wooden block occupied by the Central Hotel and spread to the Corey block adjoining, which it completely destroyed, causing a total loss of nearly $150,000. There were about 40 guests in the Central Hotel, all of whom escaped.
Massillon Item
Ohio
November 5, 1897
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1860 The Late Boiler Explosion - Body Recovered - Serious Affray.
New-Haven, Saturday, Nov. 3 The boy, HENRY RICE, who was killed by the steam-boiler explosion at DANN & BROTHERS' coach factory, yesterday, was found under the ruins last night; nearly all his bones crushed. The boy JOHN KANE lives, but with no hope of his life. G. G. BALDWIN and GEORGE DE WOLF are very low. JOSEPH VAN RIPER was badly scalded, but may live. The cause of the accident was poor boiler iron. The loss of property is about $5,000.
New York Times
New York, New York
November 5, 1860
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1868 Five thousand dollars insurance was paid last week by a Hartford Company on a single sheep, which died in Middlebury, Vermont.
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio
November 5, 1868
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1831 Fell from Steeple
Ronald Hapgood, being at work on the steeple of a new meeting house in Grafton, Mass. fell from a staging 70 feet from the ground, struck upon the roof, and was thrown thence 36 feet to the ground, with no other injury than a dislocation of the right shoulder.
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Brattleboro Messenger
Brattleboro, Vermont
November 5, 1831
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Ronald Hapgood, being at work on the steeple of a new meeting house in Grafton, Mass. fell from a staging 70 feet from the ground, struck upon the roof, and was thrown thence 36 feet to the ground, with no other injury than a dislocation of the right shoulder.
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Brattleboro Messenger
Brattleboro, Vermont
November 5, 1831
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America - Did you know?
Although Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., it is technically 47th because Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit it to the Union until 1953.
Quebec - Did you know?
The Canadian horse was introduced to New France in July of 1665. The first load of twelve horses was sent by King Louis XIV... From 1665 to 1793, the horse population in New France grew from 12 to 14,000 animals... For almost one hundred years, the...Read MORE...The Story of the Canadian Horse (www.lechevalcanadien.ca/ breed.htm)
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Gresco
There is nothing in Corset-dom to compare with it
Michigan Corset Co., Jackson, Mich.
The Ladies' Home Journal
February 1898
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