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Oakland, California, USA

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Oakland Tribune -  Oakland, California -  June 30, 1875
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Bangor, Maine, USA

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Bangor Daily Whig and Courier -  Bangor, Maine -  June 30, 1892
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Sharon, Massachusetts, USA

1896 - FOUND WATERY GRAVES
Sharon, Mass., June 30. - What was intended to be a week’s enjoyable outing was brought to an abrupt and sad close at Lake Massapoag Monday afternoon. Assistant Pastor Rev. Joseph Maxwell, Choir Master Frederick Brackett, Clerk George R Keys and 16 choir boys of St John’s Episcopal church, Charlestown, came to Sharon by team to camp out at Lake Massapoag for a week. After dinner Mr. Brackett and... Read MORE...

Evening Bulletin -  Decatur, Illinois -  June 30, 1896
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Houston, Texas, USA

1896 - BOILER EXPLODES Disaster in a Texas Newspaper Office - Three Lives Lost
Houston, Tex., June 30 - Shortly after three o'clock Monday afternoon the boiler in the office of the Daily Age exploded, killing Engineer Henry Lyons, Miss Mattie Loeb, a stenographer in the office of W. G. Van Vleck, vice-president and general manager of the A. & T. system of the Southern Pacific railway; Edward R. Emory, telegraph operator in the same office, and seriously injuring Mr. Van... Read MORE...

Evening Bulletin -  Decatur, Illinois -  June 30, 1896
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Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

1896  An Aeronaut Killed

Grand Rapids, Mich., June 29. - Hiram Cole, twenty-six years old, a professional aeronaut, living in Big Rapids, Mich., fell thirty feet from his balloon while making an ascension at a surburban recort [sic] last evening and died shortly afterward.

Courier Journal -  Louisville, Kentucky -  June 30, 1896
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Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (St-Enfant-Jésus)

1912  Village Wiped Out by Fire

MONTREAL, June 29. - The village of Pointe Aux Trembles was almost wiped out by fire which broke out late yesterday, destroying fifty houses and stores. Two hundred persons are homeless. Pointe Aux Trembles adjoins the outlying district of the city of Montreal. The village is a small one, having a population of only a few hundred.

Philadelphia Inquirer -  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -  June 30, 1912
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Watertown, New York, USA

1918 - CHILD RESCUED FROM FIRE WITH MUCH DIFFICULTY - Fireman Goes Up Three Flights for Third Time to Save Baby.
Watertown, June 29. - A fire which broke out about 10:30 this evening among the boxes in the basement of the Cooperative store, a stock concern that occupies the ground floor of the Britton block in Arsenal street, caused damage to goods of many hundreds of dollars from smoke which the firemen pronounced about the worst they had ever had to combat. A child and several other dwellers in rooms on... Read MORE...

Syracuse Herald -  Syracuse, New York -  June 30, 1918
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Rensselaer, New York, USA

1949 - MOTHER AND CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
Rensselaer, N.Y. - (U.P.) - A young mother and her two-year old daughter were burned to death in a fire that swept their two-story home here early today.

Police identified the victims as JEANNINE LINACRE, 20, and her daughter, DIANE.

The LINACRES lived on the lower floor of the two-story home. Another family residing on the second floor escaped.

Police said MRS. LINACRE and her daughter... Read MORE...

Dunkirk Evening Observer -  Dunkirk, New York -  June 30, 1949
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1859  June 30 - Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope

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1886  June 30 - The second destructive hurricane in nine days hit the Apalachicola-Tallahassee area.

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1897  The Prescott Electric Company
expects to get their street lamps in position in time to turn the current on and test them on Monday evening.

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1942  June 30 - The temperature at Portland, OR, hit 102 degrees, an all-time record for that location.

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1972  June 30 - The entire state of Pennsylvania was declared a disaster area as a result of the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes, which claimed 48 lives, and caused 2.1 billion dollars damage.

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Rochester, New York, USA

1847 - VIOLENT THUNDER STORM - THREE PERSONS KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
This city was visited soon after midnight, Tuesday morning, with a thunder storm of unusual violence.

Several of the shocks were so heavy as to shake the houses like an earthquake. One bolt descended with fatal effect upon the house of MR. WM. MATHEWS, No. 28, Wilder Street, killing three persons, MR. MATHEWS, his wife and daughter.

The night being unusually warm, they had removed their bed ... Read MORE...

The Sandusky -  Clarion, Ohio -  June 29, 1847
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Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada (St-Hilaire)

1864 - June 29 - St-Hilaire Train Disaster
The St-Hilaire train disaster was a railroad disaster that occurred on June 29, 1864, near the present-day town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. The train, which had been carrying many German and Polish immigrants, failed to acknowledge a stop signal and fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River. Though uncertain, the widely accepted death toll is 99 persons. The disaster remains... Read MORE...

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1864  June 29, 1864 - The worst railway disaster in Canada's history killed 99 people and injured 100 more,

when a train, which had been carrying many German and Polish immigrants, failed to stop at an open bridge (the Beloeil Bridge) and plunged into the the Richelieu River near Quebec.

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Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

1865 - EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION IN JERSEY CITY - SEVERAL MANUFACTORIES BURNED DOWN - LOSS ABOUT ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon, a fire broke out on the fourth floor of the American Drug Mills, located on the corner of Washington and Morgan streets, Jersey City. The flames spread rapidly, and in less than twenty minutes the entire building - a five-story brick structure - was enveloped in flames, and the fireman were unable to save the building. The workmen in the upper stories... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 29, 1865
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Freeport, Maine, USA

1871 - ACCIDENT ON MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Six Cars Thrown from the Track - Two Men Killed, Others Injured -Wonderful Escape. No Passengers Maimed.
About three o'clock Monday afternoon a despatch[sic] was received in this city that the inward bound express train with Pullman car attached on the Maine Central Railroad, had been thrown from the track near Freeport. A wrecking train was promptly made up by Superintendent Bailey at the depot ... Read MORE...

Weekly Eastern Argus -  Portland, Maine -  June 29, 1871
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Hallowell, Maine, USA

1871 - ANOTHER HORROR! Collision on Maine Central. TWO TRAINS WRECKED. One Man Killed and Several Injured. Engines Smashed, Cars Overturned, &c.
Our Special Reporter on the Train.
(Special Despatch(sic) by Western Union Line.)

GARDINER, June 27. Misfortunes come not singly, but in batialions [sic], it has been said. This seems to be the case in regard to the Maine Central Railroad. While sad the accident at Freeport Monday evening was fresh upon the lips comes an equally shocking disaster near Hallowell. Your reporter was upon the... Read MORE...

Weekly Eastern Argus -  Portland, Maine -  June 29, 1871
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Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

1872 - WONDERFUL ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 28, 1872. One of the most wonderful escapes from death ever recorded in the history of railroads occurred near the ill-fated New Hamburg drawbridge, on the Hudson River Railroad, at twenty minutes past ten o'clock last night. Just before that hour James Carter, who works for Mr. Faulkner in the brick yards near New Hamburg, was walking up the track toward that station,... Read MORE...

The New York Herald -  New York, New York -  June 29, 1872
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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

1877 - THE ST. JOHN DISASTER. CITY IMPROVEMENTS UNDER CONSIDERATION - WIDER STREETS AND FIRE-PROOF BUILDINGS - RELIEF FOR THE DESTITUTE.
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ST. JOHN, N. B., June 28. - Business is now proceeding as usual, and there is little to record except the constant receipt of money and provisions and the unsuccessful efforts to recover missing people. It is now known that 14 persons perished and that over 90 received injuries, some proving fatal. Gen. Warner, United States Consul, is working... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 29, 1877
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Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA

1895 - THE BRIDEGROOM CAME NOT, And the Bride To Have Been Is Now Ill With Grief and Chagrin. A Church Wedding Which Failed to Come Off at Bridgewater, Mass.
Bridgewater, Mass., June 29. - Many invitations had been issued to the Perkins-Bevan wedding at Trinity-Episcopal church this forenoon, but the young man failed to put in an appearance and the young lady is ill at her home, prostrated with grief at the sudden change in her plans.

She first learned of the true state of affairs late Friday night from James Perkins, father of Robert H. Perkins,... Read MORE...

Lewiston Sunday Journal -  Lewiston, Maine -  June 29, 1895
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1896 - NINETY MINERS DEAD. THE ROOF FELL UPON THE MEN WHILE PROPPING IT UP. MANY LEAVE FAMILIES.
ABOUT FORTY OF THE MEN WERE ENGLISH SPEAKING AND THE REST FOREIGNERS - MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF THE VICTIMS WERE MARRIED - THE WATER BOY TELLS A THRILLING TALE - THINKS THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION OF GAS - THE FALL SOUNDED LIKE THE REPORT OF CANNONS.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 28. - While ninety miners were at work in the Red Ash vein of the Twin Shaft at Pittston, about 3 o'clock this morning, the... Read MORE...

Titusville Herald -  Titusville, Pennsylvania -  June 29, 1896
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Danielson, Connecticut, USA

1897  FINED FOR SELLING IMPURE MOLASSES.

NEW LONDON, Conn., June 28. - A grocer in Danielson, Conn., has been arrested and fined $3 for selling adulterated molasses. The fine and costs amounted to about $30. The grocers are protesting stoutly against the adulterated food law. They say they hardly can afford to pay a chemist $2 for testing each cask of molasses they buy, but this seems the only thing to do.

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 29, 1897
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Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA

1900 - David Hambly’s Fate at Tiverton. HIS BOAT CAPSIZED.
Fall River, Mass., June 28.— News reached here today of a drowning accident which occurred in Tiverton last evening. David Hambly, a prominent citizen of that town, while sailing in his catboat, was precipitated into the water near the Tiverton bridge by the capsizing of his craft. Hambly struck out for the shore, but collapsed when a few feet from land. All efforts at resuscitation were of no... Read MORE...

Boston Journal -  Boston, Massachusetts -  June 29, 1900
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Bakersfield, California, USA

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The Bakersfield Californian -  Bakersfield, California -  June 29, 1908
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Glens Falls, New York, USA

1909 - LAKE GEORGE LOSES HOTEL. THE FORT WILLIAM HENRY, THE LARGEST RESORT IN ADIRONDACK REGION, TOTALLY DESTROYED.
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Glens Falls, N. Y., June 24. - The Fort William Henry Hotel, the largest resort on Lake George and the Adirondack region, was destroyed by fire early this morning, with a loss of half a million dollars. The great structure was entirely consumed one hour after the blaze was discovered at 4 a.m. Manager WILSON, with 15 servants who were getting the house ready for tomorrow's... Read MORE...

The Evening Observer -  Dunkirk, New York -  June 29, 1909
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Annapolis, Maryland, USA

1910 - FIND SAILBOAT DRIFTING. Believed Midshipman and Two Others Are Drowned.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 28 - Mrs. Nellie E. Bower, widow of Joseph Bower and daughter-in-law of John M. Bower, superintendent of the naval academy, and Midshipman Grisble Thomas of Union Point, Ga., and Sherman M. Nason of Newport, R. I., left the naval academy about 11 o'clock this morning in a sailboat which was found drifting on the Severn river this afternoon. In it were portions of the clothing ... Read MORE...

The Nebraska State Journal -  Lincoln, Nebraska -  June 29, 1910
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Santa Barbara, California, USA

1925 - QUAKE LEVELS BIG COAST CITY. BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED IN SANTA BARBARA AND TOWN FLOODED WHEN BIG DAM AND WATER MAINS BREAK; HOTEL SPLITS AND COLLAPSES.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED IN FAMOUS WINTER RESORT; LARGE BUSINESS BLOCKS DESTROYED BY TEMBLORS THAT ROCK ALL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SHOCKS SWAY EDIFICES IN LOS ANGELES.

TEN MILLION LOSS.
Santa Barbara, June 29. - (AP) - Ten million dollars damage and twelve known dead and virtual destruction of most of the business buildings on State street resulted from the earthquake. Associated Press... Read MORE...

The Bismarck Tribune -  Bismarck, North Dakota -  June 29, 1925
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Laredo, Texas, USA

1954  June 29 - Hurricane Alice dumped as much as 27 inches of rain on the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

The Rio Grande River at Laredo reached a level 12.6 feet above its previous highest mark, and the roadway of the U.S. 90 bridge was thirty feet below the high water.

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June 29, 1954
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1863  June 29 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa

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1868  The city of Burlington, Vermont, has about doubled its population in eight years, and is now claimed to be the third lumber market in the United States.

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1928  June 29 - The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.

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Lachine, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (Sts-Anges-de-Lachine)

1825 - 700 Irish Arrive
Montreal, June 18. - On Thursday the Lady Sherbrook and Quebec steam boats brought from Quebec about 700 Irish emigrants, sent out by Government. Without being permitted to enter the town the proceeded immediately to Lachine, to be conveyed by water to their destination in Upper Canada. So large a body of emigrants may easily be supposed to have presented a very motly appearance, but it is matter ... Read MORE...

Alexandria Gazette -  Alexandria, Virginia -  June 28, 1825
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Dunstable, Massachusetts, USA

1869  Strict Laws

At Dunstable, Mass., in 1651, dancing at weddings was forbidden, and in 1660 William Walker was imprisoned for a month for courting a maid without the leave of her parents. In 1675 the wearing of long hair and ribbons to tie it were prohibited by severe penalties.

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Cincinnati Daily Gazette -  Cincinnati, Ohio -  June 28, 1869
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Decatur, Michigan, USA

1893 - THEIR GREAT MATRIMONIAL SCORE.
Lysander Morse and Phoebe Macomber, of Decatur, Michigan, were married sixty-five years ago. It was a love match that won the envy of all their neighbors by its promise of happiness. The couple lived together for only a year, when, in a violent quarrel over some trivial incident, they separated and were finally divorce. Morse promptly married again from a spirit of pique, and his erstwhile bride... Read MORE...

The Allentown Democrat -  Allentown, Pennsylvania -  June 28, 1893
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1893 - COWS MILKED BY FISH
A New Hope, Bucks county, dispatch says: The discovery that a German carp drinks milk, has averted what threatened to be wholesale suits for theft. Michael Tiernan for several months, or ever since the weather grew warm, has noticed that his blooded cows return from their luxuriant pastures with full stomachs and empty udders. There was a suspicion that the cows had been milked by families who... Read MORE...

The Allentown Democrat -  Allentown, Pennsylvania -  June 28, 1893
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Louisville, Kentucky, USA

1894 - AN ELECTRIC STORM
Does a Large Amount of Damage at Louisville.
MANY HOUSES UNROOFED AND RAZED.
Electricity Causes a Panic Among Two Hundred Sewing Girls – Men Shocked and Burned by Falling Electric Wires, Etc.

LOUISVILLE, KY., June 27. – Louisville was visited yesterday afternoon by a severe wind and electrical storm, which last half an hour. Many houses were unroofed and razed and the occupants had narrow... Read MORE...

Decatur Weekly Republican -  Decatur, Illinois -  June 28, 1894
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Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation de Champlain)

1897  Steamship on the Rocks

Champlain, Que., June 27 - The steamship Turret Bay, Montreal for Sydney, C. B. is ashore at Point Aux Roches, near here. The vessel is in a dangerous position, resting on a rocky bottom. Attempts made by the vessel to pull herself off have been so far unavailing.

Boston Journal -  Boston, Massachusetts -  June 28, 1897
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Franklin, Massachusetts, USA

1900  CHURCH BURNED.

Franklin, Mass., June 27 - St. Mary's Catholic Church, one of the largest structures in town, was totally burned early last evening the vestments and service books alone being saved. The loss is estimated at $30,000, partially insured. The fire started in the front of the building near the door, but its origin is not known. The church has been closed since last February.

Pawtucket Times -  Pawtucket, Rhode Island -  June 28, 1900
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1904 - June 28 - U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal
February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone...

June 28 - A small U.S. workforce arrives in Panama to survey, plan, and continue the excavation begun by the French. They are led by Chief Engineer John Findley Wallace.

Chief Medical Officer Colonel William C. Gorgas arrives in Panama with a team of seven men. He immediately focuses on the staggering ... Read MORE...

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June 28, 1904
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1919 - June 28 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, blaming Germany for World War I and creating a League of Nations
World War I (1914-1918) was finally over. This first global conflict had claimed from 9 million to 13 million lives and caused unprecedented damage. Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the... Read MORE...

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June 28, 1919
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

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The Bridgeport Telegram -  Bridgeport, Connecticut -  June 28, 1922
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Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

1936 - Hurricane Hits Coastline Near Corpus Christi - Refinery Is Badly Damaged At Ingleside
70-Mile Wind Blows
Surprise Storm Causes No Loss of Life

Corpus Christi, June 27 (AP) - A small but intense tropical disturbance struck the south Texas coast without warning Saturday, moving inland a short distance north of Corpus Christi around noon and doing considerable damage over a small area.

A survey of the coast line as far north as Rockport, 30 miles northeast of here, showed that ... Read MORE...

Port Arthur News -  Port Arthur, Texas -  June 28, 1936
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1770  June 28 - Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia

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1832 June 28, 1832: Cholera epidemic began in N.Y.C.

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1924  June 28 – A tornado touches down in Lorain, Ohio and kills 78 people.

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1983  June 28 - Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3

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Topsfield, Massachusetts, USA

1868 - Interesting Marriage
The Salem (Mass.) Gazette says: "On Tuesday of last week Mr. Wm. Blodgett, a resident of Topsfield, who severed creditably in the army in the late war, and is looking for a pension for support, called in at the public house of Mr. Parkinson, where a woman was staying who had been soliciting charity form the inhabitants. Blodgett said to her, in substance, 'I am going West. I have lost my wife,... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 27, 1868
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Bolton, Massachusetts, USA

1885  The fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Samuel Brown Hayes and Miss Rebecca Hosmer was celebrated at their residence in Bolton, Mass.,

lately, where they have lived fifty years. Mrs. Hayes was the fourth daughter of the late Nathan David Hosmer, of Acton, and is the fourth child in the family who has celebrated a golden wedding.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 27, 1885
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1889 - FRIGHTFUL WRECKS. Two Freight Trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad Reduced to Debris. A Large Number of Train-Hands and Passengers Killed and Wounded.
PITTSBURGH, PA., June 26. - At 2:20 a.m. today west-bound freight No. 1313 telescoped the extra west-bound freight No. 308 at Monastery Coke-works, near Latrobe station on the Pennsylvania railroad. Just as this collision occurred an east-bound freight train was passing on the other track. The wreck of the west-bound trains caught the last two cars of the east-bound train wrecking them. In all... Read MORE...

Daily Republican -  Decatur, Illinois -  June 27, 1889
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Spooner, Wisconsin, USA

1908  FIRE AT SPOONER, WIS. Loss of Fifteen Thousand Dollars by Early Morning Blaze.

SPOONER, Wis., June 26. - Fire broke out in Tnen & Idean's saloon at 2 o'clock this morning, consuming the building and entire contents, as well as two adjoining buildings occupied by Charles Yep as a laundry and Thomas Cairns asa [sic] repair shop. The origin of the fire is unknown. Loss, $15,000, partly covered by insurance.

The Duluth News-Tribune -  Duluth, Minnesota -  June 27, 1908
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Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

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The Bridgeport Telegram -  Bridgeport, Connecticut -  June 27, 1918
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1833  June 27 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn

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1901  June 27 - There was a rain of fish from the sky at Tiller's Ferry, SC. Hundreds of fish were swimming between cotton rows after a heavy shower.

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1967  June 27 - Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)

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St Joseph, Missouri, USA

1869  At St. Joseph, Missouri, the other day, a young man employed in a saw mill had helped pt a log on the carriage while the circular saws were yet in motion,

when he was caught by the log, thrown against the saws and instantly killed. His body was cut completely in two, the pieces falling on different sides of the saws.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 26, 1869
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Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA

1877 - DESTRUCTION BY FIRE. MARBLEHEAD, MASS., DEVASTATED.
TEN ACRES OF BUSINESS AND DWELLING HOUSES SWEPT AWAY IN A FEW HOURS -ALL BUT THREE OF THE SHOE FACTORIES OF THE TOWN, THE PUBLIC HALL AND ARMORY, A CHURCH, AND OVER 70 SHOPS AND DWELLINGS DESTROYED - OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS LOSS, WITH HALF OF IT INSURED.

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The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 26, 1877
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Stonington, Connecticut, USA

1880  Huge Estate

The estate of the late Charles P. Williams, of Stonington, Conn., is appraised at $2,250,000, probably as large a sum as has ever been presented for probate in that State.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 26, 1880
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Clinton, Massachusetts, USA

1886  Gingham was first manufactured in the United States by Erastus Bigelow, at Clinton, Mass., in 1846.

It was the first attempt to manufacture the fabric mentioned by machinery, and enabled the American manufacturers to compete successfully with those of England.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 26, 1886
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1888  June 26 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave.

Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of that year, which buried the city under nearly two feet of snow.

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Springfield, Illinois, USA

1896 - ACCIDENT AT A SOCIETY CIRCUS.
Springfield, Ill., June 25. - At a society circus, given last evening on the lawn of JAMES T. JONES, a section of the seats gave way and their occupants were thrown to the ground. MRS. J. L. HUDSON, suffered a broken leg, JAMES BRAINARD'S spine was injured, and MRS. BRAINARD had an arm badly lacerated. Ex-Adjt. Gen. ALFRED ORENDORFF and Postmaster R. M. RIDGELY each had a foot crushed. MISS... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 26, 1896
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North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

1899 - VACATION AT AN END. The President and Party Leave Adams, Mass., for the Nation's Capitol.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass., June 26. - The President [McKinley] was met at 2:30 o'clock on Church street, by Sanford Post G. A. R. and a band, and was taken to a reviewing stand in Monument square, and from which he saw a pretty parade of 2000 school children and citizens of the city. After the parade had passed by, Mayor H. Torrey Cady made an address of welcome to the President.

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Lewiston Evening Journal -  Lewiston, Maine -  June 26, 1899
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Rapid City, South Dakota, USA

1907 - FIVE DROWNED IN BLACK HILLS
Rapid City, June 25. - Five people are known to have been drowned in the terrible flood in the Black Hills last week, and it is greatly feared that others will be found when some of the ranches within a radius of thirty or forty miles of Rapid are visited. Word was received here Sunday that Clint Davis and his family have not been seen since the flood, and as the house has been carried down and... Read MORE...

Aberdeen Daily American -  Aberdeen, South Dakota -  June 26, 1907
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

1907 - TORNADO STRIKES PARK
Kills Man and Three Valuable Race Horses.

Kalamazoo, Mich., June 25. - Three valuable race horses and a man were killed in a tornado which struck Recreation park early today. William Wiedmayer, aged 39, was found dead two hours after the storm had passed. He was killed by coming in contact with a telephone wire. The tornado came up without an instant's warning and lifted a long row of stalls... Read MORE...

Aberdeen Daily American -  Aberdeen, South Dakota -  June 26, 1907
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Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

1913 - EIGHT DEAD IN WRECK
Spreading Rails Sends Two Immigrant Cars Into Ottawa River

OTTAWA, June 25, - Eight persons were killed and more than twenty injured this aternoon in a wreck of the westound Winnipeg Express on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Two colonist cars, crowded with Scotch immigrants newly arrived from Glasgow and en route for the West, skidded down the embankment and plunged into the Ottawa River. In... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 26, 1913
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

1922 - Killed By Exploding Still.
Alexander Rutstein Victim In Boston-Fire Wrecks Building.

Cambridge, Mass., June 25. - Alexander Rutstein of the Dorchester District, Boston, died at a hospital today as a result of burns sustained when a still exploded in a factory building in East Cambridge on Friday, resulting in fire which ruined the building. Two other men are still in the hospital suffering from severe burns.

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The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 26, 1922
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Kansas City, Missouri, USA

1925 - EXPLOSION AND FIRE WRECK KANSAS CITY PLAY HOUSE; NUMBER OF DEAD UNKNOWN. HUNDRED PEOPLE IN THEATER AT TIME OF DISASTER, BUT DEATH LIST CANNOT BE DETERMINED UNTIL SEARCH OF RUINS IS MADE; EXPLOSION BELIEVED DUE TO GAS LEAKAGE.
Kansas City, Mo. - (AP) - Firemen and an army of workers from the street department Friday began searching the smoldering ruins of the Gillis theater for bodies of persons believed to have lost their lives when a fire and an explosion wrecked the theater and more than a dozen stores here late Thursday night.

Several hours after the search of the debris started no bodies had been recovered. The ... Read MORE...

LaCrosse Tribune -  La Crosse, Wisconsin -  June 26, 1925
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Staten Island, New York, USA

1946 - 2 DEAD IN FIRE ON STATEN ISLE, LOSS 2 MILLION. 34 PERSONS HURT, ST. GEORGE FERRY HOUSE DESTROYED.
New York, (AP) - Two persons burned to death and 34 were overcome or injured yesterday in a nine-alarm, $2,000,000 blaze which engulfed Staten Island's St. George ferry terminal shortly after it had been emptied of 500 passengers.

The dead were MRS. CORNELIUS WHITE, a ticket agent, and Fireman HAROLD CLENDENING, 59. Both lived on Staten Island.

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The Post-Standard -  Syracuse, New York -  June 26, 1946
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1870  June 26, 1870: The first boardwalk in the world was completed at the resort town of Atlantic City, NJ

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1886  A young man in Sacramento went into a saloon, sat down, read a paper a few minutes, and fell to the floor totally blind,
It was found that the blindness resulted from inflammation of a near leading to the eye, superinduced by impure blood. - San Francisco Chronicle.

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1907  June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing forty people.

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1945 June 26, 1945: United Nations charter signed, San Francisco, CA

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San Antonio, Texas, USA

1870  The postmaster at San Antonio, Texas, was not long since puzzled by the receipt of a letter from New Orleans,

directed to "My Mammy, living in the City of San Antonio." One day, however, a small, fierce looking old woman appeared at the post office window, saying, "Mister, have you got any letters there from my Johnny?" The letter addressed to "My Mammy" was at once given her at a venture, and the suspicion that it was intended for her proved correct.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 25, 1870
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Washington, DC, USA

1870  4th of July, Christmas, New Year's and Thanksgiving Federal Holidays

WASHINGTON, June 24. - SENATE. - The bill making the 4th of July, Christmas, New Year's and Thanksgiving Days legal holidays in the District of Columbia passed, and goes to the President for his approval.

The Times-Picayune -  New Orleans, Louisiana -  June 25, 1870
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New London, Connecticut, USA

1872 - ANOTHER STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION. FEARFUL DISASTER AT NEW LONDON, CONN.
A GOVERNMENT LIGHTER BLOWN UP.

THREE MEN KILLED AND THE OFFICERS ALL INJURED.

New London, Conn., June 24, 1872.
A fearful catastrophe occurred here today, which shades every other calamity at this place since the burning of the steamer City of New London. Terrible as the latter disaster was in most respects, there was at least an opportunity afforded for escape to a number of persons on... Read MORE...

New York Herald -  New York, New York -  June 25, 1872
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1876  June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn:

300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

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Mobile, Alabama, USA

1885 - FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
Mobile, Ala., June 24. - There was a terrific explosion of the boiler of Mountain & Son's grist mill, on St. Louis, near Water street, this afternoon, caused by defective iron and over pressure. The boiler house was torn to pieces, the brick walls were knocked down, and buried three persons in the ruins.

Fortunately no fire broke out, and the victims were rescued except a fireman of the... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 25, 1885
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Laconia, New Hampshire, USA

1900  GUTTED BY FIRE.

Laconia, N. H., June 24. - The Central block on Main street, occupied by a number of firms, was gutted by fire tonight, causing a loss fully $56,000. The insurance on building and contents is about $33,000. The fire caught in a drug store, probably from spontaneous combustion.

Portsmouth Herald -  Portsmouth, New Hampshire -  June 25, 1900
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Red Bank, New Jersey, USA

1905 - BOSTON IDEALS BURNED OUT. COMPANY LOSES COSTUMES AND PROPERTIES IN RED BANK THEATRE.
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Red Bank, N. J., June 24. - The Red Bank Opera House was destroyed by fire early this morning. Two hours after the alarm was given nothing was left of the structure but a pile of twisted iron and bricks.
Adjoining the Opera House to the east is the Central House, in which were forty members of the Boston Ideal Opera Company. Those in the hotel knew nothing of the... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 25, 1905
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Windsor Locks, Connecticut, USA

1907 - Patrick Cooney Killed by Train.
WINDSOR LOCKS.

Patrick K. Cooney, 34, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cooney of Spring street, was killed early Sunday morning on the railroad track south of the passenger depot, and the body was badly mutilated. Nobody seems to know how the accident occurred, of what business the unfortunate man had on the track so early in the morning. It is presumed that he tried to cross the track just after the... Read MORE...

Springfield Republican -  Springfield, Massachusetts -  June 25, 1907
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North Attleborough, Massachusetts, USA (North Attleboro)

1907 - EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. ONE KILLED AND NINE INJURED. Two Trollies Crash in Collision at North Attleboro
One person was fatally and nine others more or less seriously injured at North Attleboro yesterday in a collision between two large open cars, one of them filled with passengers on the Interstate Consolidated street railway company’s lines. The most severely injured was Motorman James Harding, who was taken to the Rhode Island hospital at Providence, suffering from internal injuries and fractures ... Read MORE...

Springfield Republican -  Springfield, Massachusetts -  June 25, 1907
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Randolph, Vermont, USA

1908 - Master Henry Baldwin Suffers Injuries.
The following news item will be of interest to St. Albans people as Henry Baldwin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Baldwin, of Mexico City, who formerly resided here: “Master Henry Baldwin, who is with his mother at their summer place in Randolph, is recovering from injuries received from falling while at play in a neighbor’s barn about a week ago. He was unconscious for some time after the fall... Read MORE...

St. Albans Daily Messenger -  St. Albans, Vermont -  June 25, 1908
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St Albans, Vermont, USA

1908  Badly Scalded by Steam.

C. R. Smith, of Messenger st., who is employed by the Central Vermont railway as an engineer, was badly scalded about the head and face Friday. While working under the engine, at Randolph, he opened the cylinder cock which allowed the steam to escape upon him. He was brought to his home, in this city and it is expected that he will soon recover from the effects of the accident.

St. Albans Daily Messenger -  St. Albans, Vermont -  June 25, 1908
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Lake George, New York, USA (Caldwell)

1909 - LAKE GEORGE RESORT BURNS. Fort William Henry Hotel Is Destroyed with $250,000 Loss.
LAKE GEORGE, N. Y., June 24. - The main building of the Fort William Henry Hotel at Lake George, owned by the Delaware and Hudson Company, was destroyed by fire early this morning, entailing a loss estimated at $250,000, and covered by about $150,000 insurance. Fortunately, there were no guests in the hotel, which was to be opened for the season June 27. The surrounding structures were saved, the ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 25, 1909
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Norton, Kansas, USA

1909 - 8 Tornadoes
Norton, Kas., June 25 - Northwestern Norton county was devastated Thursday afternoon by eight tornadoes, which destroyed farm buildings, injured men working in the fields, killed and carried away live stock, and mowed down trees like grass.

Six tornadoes formed at 4 o'clock, following a sultry day. The nearest one was ten miles from here. The funnel-shaped formation disappeared before the... Read MORE...

The Chillicothe Constitution -  Chillicothe, Missouri -  June 25, 1909
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Michigan City, Indiana, USA

1910 - BOAT HITS BRIDGE. LAKE STEAMER'S UPPER WORKS ARE BADLY DAMAGED. UNITED STATES OF MICHIGAN CITY IN AN ACCIDENT THERE YESTERDAY.
Michigan City, June 25. - The big excursion steamer United States with 1,000 persons, mostly women and children, aboard, crashed into the bascule bridge over the river here yesterday just as the return trip to Chicago had been began.

The bridge collapsed and badly demolished the upper works of the steamer.

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The News-Palladium -  Benton Harbor, Michigan -  June 25, 1910
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1915 - HAVOC WROUGHT IN MISSOURI AND KANSAS BY HIGH WINDS AND LIGHTNING. Heavy Fall of Rain Turns Many Streams Into Raging Torrents - Homes Demolished and Bridges Washed Out.
Kansas City, Mo. - Nineteen deaths and many persons injured was the result of the terrific windstorm in Missouri and Kansas on Friday.

A list of deaths from the storm follows:

Richmond, Mo. - MRS. ARTHUR COVEY and small child, killed when their home was demolished by a tornado; MRS. MARY BELL, 60 years old, struck by lightning.

Westmoreland, Kan. - CHARLES MORRIS, his son and JOHN... Read MORE...

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Stockton, California, USA

1935  WAREHOUSE BURNS.

Stockton, Calif., June 25. - Damages estimated in excess of $400,000 was done when flames destroyed the TAYLOR Milling Company plant at Stockton. Portions of the walls fell during the height of the blaze, injuring one fireman by falling bricks. The plant was declared a total loss.

The Modesto Bee And News - Herald -  Modesto, California -  June 25, 1935
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1950  June 25 - Korean War begins when North Korean forces invade South Korea

Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years.

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1672  June 25 - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass

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1749  June 25 - A general fast was called on account of drought in Massachusetts. It was the year of the famous dry spring in which fields and villages burned.

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1866  A Bridgeport (Ct.) man has invented a horse-car for hot weather, in which the seats run crosswise, and which has doors at the sides. It will carry sixty passengers.

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1870  Nellie Grant, the President's daughter, is attending school at Farmington, Conn.


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1899  June 25 – Three Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story (later proved to be a fabrication) that the Chinese government under the Guangxu Emperor is going to demolish the Great Wall of China.

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1925  June 25 - The mercury hit 101 degrees at Portland, OR, their earliest 100 degree reading of record.

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1953  June 25 - The temperature at Anchorage soared to 86 degrees, their hottest reading of record.

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Passaic, New Jersey, USA

1873 - Destructive Conflagration In Passaic-Loss, $6,000-Two Men Burned To Death.
The most disastrous conflagration that has ever occurred in Passaic, N.J., began just before midnight Saturday. At 11:10 p.m. flames were first seen issuing from the roof of Henry Yearance’s livery stable, situated a short distance north of the Erie Railway depot, and neat the center of a block of frame buildings, bounded on the west by Jefferson St., south by Railroad Ave., and east by... Read MORE...

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Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

1883 - Bound to Get Away
BOSTON, June 22. - J. P. Olds was arrested at Southbridge to-day on a charge of stealing large quantities of gold from the American Optical Company. Olds had been a respected citizen, and has had change of the valuable stock of the company. When arrested he was place in an upper room of the factory in charge of an employe. He jumped forty feet through a window, swam a river, and made his escape... Read MORE...

Dunkirk Evening Observer -  Dunkirk, New York -  June 23, 1883
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1900  June 23 - Couch Bath.

The latest combination in furniture is the couch bath. On the top of the couch being removed, which can be done very easily, a regulation bathtub is disclosed, with a water tap at the pillow end of the couch.

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North Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA

1907 - TWO DAVIS BOYS DROWNED.
Arthur and Wilbur, Aged 11 and 15, Lose Lives in North Brookfield.

Two sons of Noah Davis were drowned in the ice pond of J. D. Merrill at Waite Corner in North Brookfield yesterday afternoon at 1:30. The younger, Arthur Lytton, 11, and the older, Wilbur Phillips, 15, in company with Alfred Phreschner, a boarder in the family, started to go swimming at 12:30, after eating a hearty dinner. They ... Read MORE...

Springfield Republican -  Springfield, Massachusetts -  June 23, 1907
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Montague, Massachusetts, USA (Millers Falls) (Turners Falls)

1907 - TOURING CAR WAS UPSET. Man and Three Women Pinned in Wreckage at Montague - One woman Has Arm Broken.
A touring party passing through Montague had quite a serious accident yesterday. While climbing the Mill river hill there was not sufficient power, and the machine began to slip back. The driver lost control and the car ran backward and capsized. The occupants, a man and three women, were locked in their seats and buried under the automobile. The woman who was driving had her arm broken in... Read MORE...

Springfield Republican -  Springfield, Massachusetts -  June 23, 1907
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New Britain, Connecticut, USA

1907 - NEW BRITAIN TROLLIES CRASH. Many Seriously Injured But No Fatalities.
A bad head-on trolly{sic} accident, which probably will result fatally, occurred last night on a grade near White Oak park, a summer resort between New Britain, Ct., and Plainville. Nearly a dozen persons were injured. Both cars were crowded with pleasure seekers and were wrecked, and the passengers had practically no time in which to jump and make their escape. Several of those hurt were taken... Read MORE...

Springfield Republican -  Springfield, Massachusetts -  June 23, 1907
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North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

1907 - PANIC IN THEATER AUDIENCE - EXPLOSION AT NORTH ADAMS.
Many Rush for the Doors at Empire Theater When Picture Machine Takes Fire - One Woman Trampled on and Others Hysterical - Fire Quickly Put Out.

The moving picture machine in the balcony of the Empire theater at North Adams exploded shortly after 9 o'clock last night, while an audience of some 400 was witnessing the moving picture entertainment then in progress. There was considerable... Read MORE...

Springfield Republican -  Springfield, Massachusetts -  June 23, 1907
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Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Trois Rivieres) (Three Rivers)

1908 - FIRE RAKES A CANADIAN TOWN - Million Dollars' Damage Done In Three Rivers, Quebec.
OTHER CITIES AIDED

But Flames Are Not Stayed Before the Whole Business Section Has Been Paralyzed.

THREE RIVERS, Que., June 23. - Fanned by a high wind a fire which broke out shortly before noon Monday in a stable did not pause in its work of destruction until the greater part of the lower town containing the business section of the city, had been consumed. Then with the assistance of... Read MORE...

Warren Evening Mirror -  Warren, Pennsylvania -  June 23, 1908
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Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, USA

1910 - ENGINE KILLS TWO IN AUTO. Men on Rear Seat of Machine Escape Injury in Crossing Crash.
New Brunswick, N. J., June 22. - Two automobiles were killed today when a locomotive struck their automobile near Woodbridge, N. J. They were Thomas Gilfeather, and automobile salesman, of Cincinnati, and A. Morris, a chauffeur, of New York.

There were four men in the automobile. The locomotive struck the front end of the machine and the two men who were riding in the rear seat were not... Read MORE...

The Washington Post -  Washington, DC -  June 23, 1910
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1880  Torrential Rains
BERLIN, June 22 - In the district of Lauban near Breslau, Prussia, torrential rains have killed 56 persons and destroyed 105 houses.
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1887  June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

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