Decatur, Michigan, USA
Decatur, Michigan, presents a combination. Its population is 1500. The president of the council is a woman. The leading doctor is a woman. Mrs. Rev. Gregg preaches at the Advent church and Mrs. Barnett is janitress. The restaurant is owned by a woman. A Mrs. Owns the biggest store in the place and Mrs. Nicholson is postmistress. The town also boasts of female shoe, furniture and harness makers, a female florist and a feminine carriage painter. This town is a dead easy cinch for men who do not... Read MORE...
The Daily Herald - Delphos, Ohio - March 7, 1896
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1896 - Dead Cinch for Men.
Decatur, Michigan, presents a combination. Its population is 1500. The president of the council is a woman. The leading doctor is a woman. Mrs. Rev. Gregg preaches at the Advent church and Mrs. Barnett is janitress. The restaurant is owned by a woman. A Mrs. Owns the biggest store in the place and Mrs. Nicholson is postmistress. The town also boasts of female shoe, furniture and harness makers, a female florist and a feminine carriage painter. This town is a dead easy cinch for men who do not... Read MORE...
The Daily Herald - Delphos, Ohio - March 7, 1896
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Cream of Spinach Soup - This is one of the very palatable and slightly green soups. Pick the leaves from two quarts of spinach; wash; throw them into a hot kettle, and shake and toss for five minutes. Drain them, saving the very small amount...Read MORE...
The Ladies' Home Journal, June 1898
El Paso, Texas, USA
(By Associated Press)
El Paso, Texas, March 7. - Although the death list remains at eighteen in the jail explosion here last night, several more prisoners are expected to die. The explosion occurred in the disinfecting room where there were fifty prisoners. A lighted match ignited vapors arising from the bath, which was a mixture of gasoline, kerosene and vinegar.
An inquest and city investigation of the accident were ordered for today.
While the investigation is proceeding on this side of ... Read MORE...
Brownsville Herald - Brownsville, Texas - March 7, 1916
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1916 - GASOLINE EXPLOSION IN EL PASO JAIL IS CAUSE OF 18 DEATHS. SEVERAL MORE TO DIE AS RESULT OF INJURIES. LIGHTED MATCH TO VAPORS IS THE CAUSE.
(By Associated Press)
El Paso, Texas, March 7. - Although the death list remains at eighteen in the jail explosion here last night, several more prisoners are expected to die. The explosion occurred in the disinfecting room where there were fifty prisoners. A lighted match ignited vapors arising from the bath, which was a mixture of gasoline, kerosene and vinegar.
An inquest and city investigation of the accident were ordered for today.
While the investigation is proceeding on this side of ... Read MORE...
Brownsville Herald - Brownsville, Texas - March 7, 1916
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The American Agricultural Chemical Company, Rutland, Vermont Office, 1907
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Binghamton, New York, USA
From the Binghamton Republican, March 5.
At between 11 and 12 o'clock last night, a fire caught in the rear of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, and in three quarters of an hour the entire rear building - directly connected with the main building, but not part of it - was wholly destroyed. By almost superhuman exertion the fire was kept from the main edifice, and that now stands substantially uninjured. The burned part, which covered a space of not far from 200 feet square, though a portion ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - March 7, 1870
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1870 - THE INEBRIATE ASYLUM FIRE. THE REAR BUILDING BURNED - THE MAIN EDIFICE UNINJURED - LOSS $75,000 - SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
From the Binghamton Republican, March 5.
At between 11 and 12 o'clock last night, a fire caught in the rear of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, and in three quarters of an hour the entire rear building - directly connected with the main building, but not part of it - was wholly destroyed. By almost superhuman exertion the fire was kept from the main edifice, and that now stands substantially uninjured. The burned part, which covered a space of not far from 200 feet square, though a portion ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - March 7, 1870
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Stuart, Florida, USA (Potsdam)
Stuart, Fla., March 7. - (AP) - A wide stretch of the tide-swept St. Lucie River was being searched by army men today for the bodies of seven military fliers who plunged to their death in a storm-tossed army transport plane.
Soldiers from Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, kept civilians out of the area. A spokesman said there was no question that anyone aboard survived the crash. No bodies have been recovered. The plane ran into a tropical squall early Thursday night. A wing was torn loose,... Read MORE...
The Bee - Danville, Virginia - March 7, 1942
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1942 - 7 ARMY FLIERS LOSE LIVES IN PLANE CRASH. RIVER SEARCHED FOR BODIES OF VICTIMS OF CRAFT WRECKED DURING STORM.
Stuart, Fla., March 7. - (AP) - A wide stretch of the tide-swept St. Lucie River was being searched by army men today for the bodies of seven military fliers who plunged to their death in a storm-tossed army transport plane.
Soldiers from Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, kept civilians out of the area. A spokesman said there was no question that anyone aboard survived the crash. No bodies have been recovered. The plane ran into a tropical squall early Thursday night. A wing was torn loose,... Read MORE...
The Bee - Danville, Virginia - March 7, 1942
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1932 March 7 – Four people are killed when police fire upon 3,000 unemployed autoworkers marching outside the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
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1868 Hiram Smith, and eccentric old bachelor at Chester, Mass., is having his sepulcher hewn in a large rock in that town.
He pays a man $700 to do the work, and by the stipulation the cave is to be seven feet long, four wide, and four deep, and after his coffin is put in, the aperture will be sealed up with a marble slab and cement. Smith says he doesn't want mud to get around his bones; he means to have a good dry place for them. The scheme is an old fancy of his, but nobody has supposed till lately that he would attempt to carry it out.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 7, 1868
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1908 March 7 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
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1868 Hiram Smith, and eccentric old bachelor at Chester, Mass., is having his sepulcher hewn in a large rock in that town.
He pays a man $700 to do the work, and by the stipulation the cave is to be seven feet long, four wide, and four deep, and after his coffin is put in, the aperture will be sealed up with a marble slab and cement. Smith says he doesn't want mud to get around his bones; he means to have a good dry place for them. The scheme is an old fancy of his, but nobody has supposed till lately that he would attempt to carry it out.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 7, 1868
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1908 March 7 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
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1917 March 7 - 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
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1883 27 pounds of wool mittens
Avis Porter, a Friend, residing in Greenfield, N. Y., who is now in her ninety-fourth year, has, during the present year, purchased twenty-seven pounds of wool, had it carded, and not only has spun it herself but has knitted it all into mittens.
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Columbus, Nebraska
March 7, 1883
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1883 27 pounds of wool mittens
Avis Porter, a Friend, residing in Greenfield, N. Y., who is now in her ninety-fourth year, has, during the present year, purchased twenty-seven pounds of wool, had it carded, and not only has spun it herself but has knitted it all into mittens.
The Columbus Journal
Columbus, Nebraska
March 7, 1883
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America - Did you know?
1870 - Christmas became a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
Quebec - Did you know?
A typical French-Canadian building is the farmhouse. It is based on structures in the French provinces of Normandy, Maine, and Anjou, where most of the French settlers in the St Lawrence valley originated. The typical house was made of wood and had...Read MORE...Mutlicultural Canada: Quebec to 1800 (www.multiculturalcanada.ca)
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Thornbury Castle is a castle in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England. It was begun in 1511 as a home for Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham. It is not a true castle (designed to serve as a fortress), but rather an early example of a Tudor country house, with minimal defensive attributes.
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