Greenerpasture Daily News - 1938 - October 30 – Orson Welles' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast, causing panic in various parts of the United States.

L'Acadie, Québec, Canada

1826 - Strange Robbery Attempt
The editor of the Montreal Herald, has received an account of an attempt to commit a robbery at L'Acadie, but does not know the person who sent it, and therefore cannot vouch for it. The story is, that on the evening of the 8th, two men, with a weighty bag, called at Mrs. Le Roy's house, and asked for lodging, but she could not accommodate them. They then asked permission to leave the bag until... Read MORE...

New-York Daily Advertiser -  New York -  October 31, 1826
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Rochester, New York, USA

1836  Greatest Flour Manufactory

Rochester, New York, is said to be the greatest flour manufactory in the world. There are 21 mills, which require 20,000 bushels of wheat daily to keep them in operation. They can manufacture and put up ready for market, 5000 barrels a day.

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New-Hampshire Patriot -  New Hampshire -  October 31, 1836
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Watertown, New York, USA

1868 - A Watertown, N. Y., dispatch, October 21st says:
An extensive fraud is being perpetrated throughout the country, and especially in the West, by negotiating forged drafts purporting to be drawn by the banking house of Howard & Baker, of Watertown, and signed by C. E. Helmer, Cashier. The drafts are neatly engraved and executed. These drafts, to the amount of several thousand dollars, have been sent here for collection. There has never been any... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  October 31, 1868
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Birmingham, Alabama, USA

1891  Mangled to Death.

BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 29. - At the State Fair grounds today S. E. Gambee jumped from a dummy before it stopped. He slipped and fell between the car and the platform and was mangled to death in the presence of hundreds of people.

The Macon Telegraph -  Macon, Georgia -  October 31, 1891
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Savannah, Georgia, USA

1891 Brick Works Burned.

SAVANNAH, Oct. 28.- The Liberty Manufacturing Company's brick works, forty-eight miles from here on the Savannah, Florida and Western railroad burned the day before yesterday. Loss $40,000; insurance $20,000.

The Macon Telegraph -  Macon, Georgia -  October 31, 1891
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New Milford, Connecticut, USA

1893  Fire

NEW-MILFORD, Conn., Oct. 30. - A large barn in Washington, owned by William Wadsworth of New York, was burned last night, with a ton of tobacco, farming tools, and hay. Loss, $3,000; building insured, contents uninsured.

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 31, 1893
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

1902 - BIG FIRE IN MINNEAPOLIS.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 30. - Fire to-night destroyed the six-story building occupied by the Minneapolis Paper Company and owned by J. C. Oswald & Co. The stock of the paper company, known also as Wright, Barrows & Stillwell, was consumed. The value of the contents is said to have exceeded $200,000. The total loss is $250,000.

Capt. George Smith of Engine Company No. 16 was leading a squad of men up ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 31, 1902
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1913 - October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.
MANY STATES TO DEDICATE HIGHWAY
New Route Across Continent Will Be Inaugurated With Many Celebrations in Towns Touched by It.
New York, Oct. 31. - Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the new direct roadway through 13 states from coast to coast, will be made by local celebrations in all towns and villages along the route tonight. The Highway has been completed and will open to all with no toll... Read MORE...

El Paso Herald -  El Paso, Texas -  October 31, 1913
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1938 - October 30 – Orson Welles' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast, causing panic in various parts of the United States.

War of the Worlds - 1938 Radio Broadcast - Newseum (www.youtube.com)

Martian Men Attack U.S.! Thousands Flee in Panic!! But Twas Only Wells and Welles

By Charles A. Grumich
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (AP) - A horrible fantasy of war waged on the United States by fearsome,... Read MORE...

The Delta Democrat-Times -  Greenville, Mississippi -  October 31, 1938
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1868  Hans Christian Andersen, the celebrated Danish poet, says he has never had an income of more than six hundred dollars a year.
So limited is the sale of books in Denmark that even the most successful works pay but little profit to their authors.

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Saint Joseph, Michigan

1892  October 31 – The first collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is published in London.

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1918  October 31 – The Hungarian government terminates the personal union with Austria, officially dissolving the Austro-Hungarian empire.

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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1886 - LIBERTY'S LIGHT. The Great Torch of the Goddess We Love. Imposing Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Bartholdi Statue on Liberty Island.

Cap-Rouge, Québec, Canada*

1822 - Woman Thief
Many robberies have lately been committed in the Parishes of St. Foy and Cap Rouge, in Canada, and one or two buildings have been burnt. These depreditions are attributed to a notorious woman named Marie Lapointe, who leads a gipsey life, depending upon theft, and sometimes upon begging for subsistence. She is a very short, dark and sharp featured woman, generally habited in man's clothes, with a ... Read MORE...

City Gazette -  South Carolina -  October 30, 1822
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA

1869 - The recent earthquake at the East was very severe at Newburyport, Mass.,
shaking the doors and windows and many movable things in the houses. The people generally were awakened by the commotion. An old brick mansion, built seventy years ago, having the thick massive walls so common in those days, was shaken from the roof to the cellar, rattling the doors and windows and creating general alarm among its occupants. The people in their beds were very sensible of a... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  October 30, 1869
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Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

1874  New Railway

The new Sherbrooke (Canada), Eastern Townships and Kennebec railway shortens the distance from Quebec to Boston 39 miles, and from Quebec to New York, in comparison with the shortest existing line, 58 miles. The president of the new road is J. R. Robertson. The cost so far has been about $200,000 and the completed road will probably require an outlay of $1,906,500.

Lowell Daily Citizen and News -  Lowell, Massachusetts -  October 30, 1874
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New Hartford, Connecticut, USA

1885 - A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF THE VILLAGE DESTROYED.
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 29. - The village of New-Hartford, in Litchfield County, suffered severely from a fire which broke out in Patrick Myer's saloon at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. This building was totally and speedily destroyed, the fire then communicating with an adjoining wood structure occupied as a saloon and market with tenements overhead. The occupants lost substantially everything. The... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 30, 1885
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1886 - LIBERTY'S LIGHT. The Great Torch of the Goddess We Love. Imposing Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Bartholdi Statue on Liberty Island.
The Colossal Gift of a Sister Republic Gracefully Accepted by an Appreciative People.

The Metropolis of the Nation Overwhelmed by Throngs of Visitors.

A Mammoth Parade Reviewed by the President and His Cabinet and Our French Guests.

The Grand Naval Procession - Ceremonies at the Statue - Liberty Unveiled - Grand Pyrotechnic Display

NEW YORK, Oct. 28., - The rain, which fell almost... Read MORE...

The Herald-Dispatch -  Decatur, Illinois -  October 30, 1886
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Kansas City, Kansas, USA

1889 - A BIG FIRE IN KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 29. - A fire which threatened to destroy the mammoth packing houses of Armour & Co. in Kansas City, Kan., was discovered in the fertilizer at 3 o'clock this morning. The fertilizer was the last of the buildings to the north, and was separated from the refinery works by only a narrow alley.

The fire started in the south end of the building and spread with amazing rapidity ... Read MORE...

New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 30, 1889
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

1892 - ACRES WERE SWEPT OVER NOTHING SPARED IN THE PATH OF MILWAUKEE'S FIRE.
UPWARD OF THREE THOUSAND PERSONS HOMELESS AND THE PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT $6,000,000 - REMARKABLE SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THE FLAMES SPREAD.

By The Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 29. - In the great fire which swept over this city for ten hours last night forty-six acres of business and residence property, valued at $6,000,000, were burned, upward of 3,000 persons were made homeless,... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 30, 1892
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Burlington, Vermont, USA

1922 - NEWS OF STATE What Is Going On in and About Old Vermont FACTORY DAMAGED BY FIRE Estimated Loss Not Yet Known
The Burlington fire department responded Saturday morning to an alarm from box 56, at the junction of South Union and Howard st., sent in because of a blaze in the factory of Henry Johnson and Lord in the rear of 204 Howard st. Four lines of hose were used in extinguishing the fire and the Seagrave pump was brought into action to furnish water to the top floor of the building. Frank P. Lord,... Read MORE...

St. Albans Daily Messenger -  St. Albans, Vermont -  October 30, 1922
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1869  The total amount of sugar now consumed by all nations may be estimated at 2,500,000 tons. America consumes about 530,000 tons.


St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan

1869  To do the thing properly in New York at a wedding, the bride must have eight bridesmaids, and a hundred-dollar poodle beside the one she marries.


St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan

1869  A well-known physician who had an extensive practice in Gloucester, (Mass.,) some forty years since,
used to say that roast beef, serenity of mind, cold water bath, and an amiable and pretty wife would make almost any man healthy, wealthy and wise.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan

1869  In 1868 there were 2,208 books published in the United States.
107 of them imported in editions. Ninety-one of these were subscription books, and thirteen were books of American genealogy.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan

1869  Detroit is the residence of an enterprising boy of six years, who can hardly speak, but has run away eight or ten times during the present year.
Several times he has reached a distance of one hundred miles from home, and was sent back by conductors.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan

1869  It is said that 121 vessels were sunk or beached on the coat of new Brunswick and Nova Scotia by the recent tidal wave.


St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan

1893  October 30 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, closes.

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Greenerpasture Daily News - Peabody, Massachusetts, USA 1915 - 21 Children Die In School Fire

Fairhaven, Massachusetts, USA

1870  A lady in Fairhaven, Mass., in making a bed a few mornings since, after turning it over felt something move inside the ticking.

She called for help, and found a large adder about two feet in length and an inch in diameter coiled away in it. The snake probably crawled into the house in the day time, and had been in the bed the previous night with the occupant.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  October 29, 1870
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Cobleskill, New York, USA

1892 - NARROW ESCAPE OF A TRAIN. COACHES SCRAPE ALONG A WRECK NEAR COBLESKILL STATION.
BINGHAMTON, Oct. 28 - The Delaware and Hudson train No. 3, which leaves Albany at 4:25 P.M., narrowly escaped a wreck this afternoon near the Cobleskill Station. Engineer Whitaker had just pulled out of the station on time as a mixed freight and coal train bound east was drawing in. The freight, however, had broken in three sections. The middle section had been stopped half a mile west of the... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 29, 1892
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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

1908 - CAR CLIMBS BUILDING NINE PERSONS NEAR DEATH JUMPS TRACK AND CRASHES INTO DRUG STORE, TERRIFYING PASSENGERS AND WAKING EVERY ONE IN NEIGHBORHOOD.
Nine persons escaped death in a manner little short of miraculous at 11 00 o’clock last night, when Garfield car No. 438 left the tracks at Lincoln lane and East street and crashed into the building occupied by John G. Pantzer’s drug store and Dr. M.O. DeVaney’s office. The entire front of the building was wrecked and the car was turned over on its side. Not one of the passengers or the crew of... Read MORE...

The Indianapolis Star -  Indianapolis, Indiana -  October 29, 1908
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Sioux City, Iowa, USA

1912 - FATAL STREET CAR WRECK.
SIOUX CITY, Ia., Oct. 28. - Charles Kemp, a street car conductor, was killed and 15 passengers injured tonight at Fourth and Division streets when a Burlington engine struck the car in the center. It turned over on its side and Kemp, who was standing on the rear platform, was caught and his neck broken.

R. W. Henderson, a Morningside college student, was seriously injured, a deep cut being... Read MORE...

The Idaho Daily Statesman -  Boise, Idaho -  October 29, 1912
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Peabody, Massachusetts, USA

1915 - 21 Children Die In School Fire
Flames Sweep Through Peabody, Mass., Building, Turning Fire Drill Into Panic.
Pupils Heaped At Door
Little Cripple Trips and Comrades Fall Over Her-nearly All the Victims Are Girls.
Heroic Work By Sisters
Drop Their Charges Into Life Nets-Nearly 600 Saved-No Fire Escapes on Building.

Peabody, Mass., Oct. 28. Twenty-one children, most of them girls, ranging in age from 7 to 17 years, lost... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 29, 1915
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Manhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam)

1929 - October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).

1929 : The Great Crash.
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In the 1920s, the stock market was rapidly growing. Many investors hoped to quickly get rich.

The Great Crash affected everyone, even those who had not bought stocks. People ran to their banks to get their... Read MORE...

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October 29, 1929
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1945  October 29 - At Gimbels Department Store in New York City, the first ballpoint pens go on sale at $12.50 each.

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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1894 - MANY BURNED IN A HOTEL. NEARLY A SCORE OF DEAD IN THE RUINS AT SEATTLE

Eastport, Maine, USA

1864  Disastrous Fire at Eastport, Me.

A fire broke out at half past 1, Sunday morning, on Union wharf, Eastport, Me., and continued until 8, consuming all the business part of the town. About fifty places of business were destroyed, including the best stores. The building containing the Frontier bank and telegraph office, &c., was burned. Loss estimated at $500,000.

The Vermont Phoenix -  Brattleboro, Vermont -  October 28, 1864
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Butte County, California, USA

1875  The Butte (Cal.) Mercury tells of a band of sheep being brought down from the mountains and turned into a wheat field.

Over one hundred head died in one night from eating wheat and drinking water. The wheat swelled to such an extent that the stomach was completely torn apart.

Fayetteville Observer -  Fayetteville, Tennessee -  October 28, 1875
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Bristol, Connecticut, USA

1887 - A FATAL EXPLOSION
Three Men Killed, Two Wounded, and a Building Set on Fire.

E. C. WILSDON left his japan oven, at SESSIONS & SONS foundry, Bristol, Conn., in the room where a dozen men and boys were at work, to go to his dinner. He had but just gone out when the oven exploded with fearful violence, instantly killing one man and two boys, lacerating two others and setting the building on fire. It was some time... Read MORE...

The Cranbury Press -  New Jersey -  October 28, 1887
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Great Falls, Montana, USA

1891 - FOUR KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Oct. 27. - A party who arrived in town from the end of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern brought the news of an accident there, the result of which is appalling. Four men are dead and two maimed for life by an explosion twenty-two miles west of the summit.

The men were killed last Wednesday in a rock cut on some work under Sub-contractor O'Brien. The hole in the... Read MORE...

The Daily Inter Ocean -  Chicago, Illinois -  October 28, 1891
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Seattle, Washington, USA

1894 - MANY BURNED IN A HOTEL. NEARLY A SCORE OF DEAD IN THE RUINS AT SEATTLE.
Most of the Bodies So Charred as to be Unrecognizable-Thrilling Scenes as Guests, Awakened Shortly After Midnight, Leaped from the Windows -Pathetic Groups of Dead - List of Transient Guests, Some of Whom Perished.

SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 27. - A fire which resulted in the death of at least sixteen persons and the injury of three more started in the West Street House, at Columbia and West... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 28, 1894
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Newark, New Jersey, USA

1905 - FIVE WOMEN BADLY BURNED. TWO OF THEM MAY DIE FROM THEIR INJURIES.
Newark, N.J., Oct. 28. - Five women were badly burned, two of them probably fatally, in a fire which destroyed the hardware factory of M. Gould Sons & Co. at night.

The injured are:
MINNIE GARRITY, aged fifteen.
CARRIE RUMMER, aged sixteen.
SADIE SCHAFER, aged eighteen.
MARY SCHWENCH, aged eighteen.
ANNA GLAZER, aged fifteen.

The fire started just as the factory was about to close,... Read MORE...

Daily Telegram -  Eau Claire, Wisconsin -  October 28, 1905
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Lexington, Kentucky, USA

1905 - TWELVE PERSONS ARE INJURED. RAILROAD TRAIN HURLED FROM A BRIDGE INTO A CREEK.
Lexington, Ky., Oct. 28 - Passengers on the Louisville Southern train No. 9, due here at 7 p.m., had a narrow escape when the train was hurled from a bridge seven miles from here into a creek forty feet below. Twelve persons were injured, but none was killed.
The seriously injured are:
W. L. HERNDON, mail clerk.
JOSEPH THOMPSON, express messenger.
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, conductor.
J. W. HUGHES, ... Read MORE...

Daily Telegram -  Eau Claire, Wisconsin -  October 28, 1905
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1919 - October 28 – Prohibition in the United States is authorized:

Roots of PROHIBITION The Time is Now (Ken Burns) (www.youtube.com)

The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. (Wikipedia)

The President's message again makes clear his desire that Congress repeal "war-time" prohibition, but ... Read MORE...

The Cincinnati Enquirer -  Cincinnati, Ohio -  October 28, 1919
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1858  October 28 – Macy's department store, founded by R.H. Macy, opens for business in New York.

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1868  October 28 – Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1861 October 26 – The Pony Express announces its closure

1825 - October 26 - Erie Canal completed

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The work completed. - This is the day, and 10 o'clock the hour, when the first boat from Lake Erie enters the Grand Canal and proceeded to the city of New York; a distance of 500 miles. - All doubts, the New-York Advocate confesses, are at ... Read MORE...

The Evening Post -  New York, New York -  October 26, 1825
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Burlington, Vermont, USA

1852  Fire at Burlington, Vt.

BURLINGTON, Monday, Oct. 25. A fire broke out here at 12 o'clock last night, destroying Weaver's clothing store, Barrow's dry goods store, Stephens & Durkee's drug store, and S. M. Weed's dwelling. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 26, 1852
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Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA (Esmond) (Georgiaville) (Greenville)

1853 - Steam-Boiler Explosion - Two Lives Lost, Several Wounded.
Special Correspondence of the N. Y. Daily Times.

PROVIDENCE, Tuesday, Oct. 25.- The steam-boiler in SCHROEDER'S Print Works, in Smithfield, burst about 8 o'clock this morning, with a terrible explosion, instantly killing two operatives, and wounding the engineer and several other persons, probably fatally. The boiler and engine house were shivered to pieces and entirely destroyed. One half the ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 26, 1853
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1861  October 26 – The Pony Express announces its closure.

ATCHISON - Oct. 19. - Orders have to-day been issued by the President of the Pike's Peak Express Company at this place to stop the running of the Pony Express as soon as the California line is completed, which will probably be early next week. It is, therefore, probably that not more than one pony will run.

Daily Nashville Patriot -  Nashville, Tennesee -  October 26, 1861
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Milford, New Hampshire, USA

1865  Drowning

Mr. Ephraim Crosby, a son of Rufus Crosby of Milford, was drowned last week. He was subject to fits, and having gone out for chestnuts, stopped at a brook, and probably in a fit fell in and was drowned. His age was twenty-five years. - Farmer's Cabinet Newspaper

New-Hampshire Sentinel -  Keene, New Hampshire -  October 26, 1865
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1888  September 4 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.

Wannamaker's Philadelphia, Friday, October 26, 1888. The Kodak Camera is the latest photographic novelty; 100 pictures without a stop. Anybody can do it. To-morrow (Saturday) from 2 to 5 P.M. we shall show how easy it is for a novice to take photographs. Bring your friends. Ask at Optical Goods counter. Juniper street entrance.

The Times -  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -  October 26, 1888
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Farnham, Québec, Canada

1916 - HOSPITAL FIRE FATAL TO ELEVEN. ST. ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL AT FARNHAM, QUEBEC, DESTROYED. FIRE ESCAPES INADEQUATE.
INVESTIGATION WILL START IMMEDIATELY TO DETERMINE RESPONSIBILITY - TWENTY-FIVE CHILDREN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN LEAPING FROM THE BUILDING.

Farnham, Quebec, Oct., 26. - (AP) - Six adults and five children, at least, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the St. Elizabeth's hospital here today. This forenoon the ruins still were blazing and it was impossible to approach them to search for from ... Read MORE...

Sheboygan Journal -  Sheboygan, Wisconsin -  October 26, 1916
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1881  October 26 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurs in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.

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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1905 - Providence, RI - PIRATE DRUGGED HIM. Arrested Shipmate Tells Strange Story of Sloop Dorado.

Adams, Massachusetts, USA

1839 - Flourishing
A letter from a manufacturer in Adams, Mass., to a gentleman in this city, says that the business men of that very flourishing place (second only to Lowell) now go to Pittsfield, and thence to West Stockbridge, where they take the railroad to Hudson, and so go to New York. That there is but 14 miles land carriage for freight, and that they can go in one day and night to New York. - Albany Daily... Read MORE...

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Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA (Valley Falls) (Ashton) (Cumberland Hill)

1842 - COPPER MINE IN RHODE ISLAND
A rich Copper Mine has been opened at Cumberland, R. I. - Within the last week fifteen tons of ore have been shipped for Boston, from the mine, commenced this season, and worked by four men only. The ore was sent to Liverpool to be sold at the monthly mart of ore at Swansea. There is not a single furnace for copper in North America. The ore, from Chili, the grey oxide, which is the richest in the ... Read MORE...

The Evening Post -  New York, New York -  October 25, 1842
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Elmira, New York, USA

1884 - Mr. P. Sexton, of Elmira, N.Y., will soon have a new eyelid.
Mr. Sexton, as will be remembered, was the engineer of the train that rain through a sea of burning oil near Bradford, Pa., last January. He was severely burned. Parts of his nose and ears are gone, while both lower eye-lids are burned away, leaving no protection to the eyes. A prominent physician of Elmira volunteered to repair the engineer's mutilated face, and recently preformed a plastic... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  October 25, 1884
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Pepperell, Massachusetts, USA

1890 - EAST PEPPERELLS BIG FIRE. A SHOE FACTORY AND A NUMBER OF SMALLER BUILDINGS BURNED.
EAST PEPPERELL, Mass., Oct.24. - A big fire was discovered this morning at 2 o'clock in the shoe factory of Leighton Brothers, and soon the whole building was ablaze. A high wind was blowing and the flames spread rapidly to a row of wooden houses. Help was called from the surrounding towns, the old apparatus of this place being insufficient. Nashua was called upon and responded with some of her... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 25, 1890
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Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA

1895 - RAILROAD WRECKS. FOUR MEN WERE KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
The Engineer Responsible For the N. Y. N. H. and H. Road Accident - A Broken Axle Causes the Wreck on the Pennsylvania Road.

Hyde Park, Mass., Oct. 25 - A rear end collision occurred here on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, in which one man - G. M. AUSTIN, a brakeman -- was killed, a woman fatally injured, and 12 other passengers, including Congressman ELIJAH A MORSE, were more... Read MORE...

Ticonderoga Sentinel  -  New York -  October 25, 1895
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Westport Island, Maine, USA (Westport) (Jeremysquam)

A reporter visits Westport in 1900 investigating the Jessie Cobb murder
Westport lies between Bath and Boothbay Harbor, and is the
first stopping place out of the former city. When the little
steamboat drew up to the wharf there was no human being, and
only two houses in sight.

A legal friend had given the newspaper man a letter of
introduction to Capt. Jewett of Westport, but on inquiry it
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Lewiston Evening Journal -  Lewiston, Maine -  October 25, 1900
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Providence, Rhode Island, USA

1905 - PIRATE DRUGGED HIM. Arrested Shipmate Tells Strange Story of Sloop Dorado.
Special to The New York Times.

NEWPORT, Oct. 24. - The arrest of Otto Steifel in Providence to-day proved of great importance in clearing up the mystery about the sloop Dorado and the plunder found on the two pirate boats held here. Steifel confessed to the Providence police that he had been with H. A. Jackson since Sept. 6, and was part owner of the sloop. He was identified by Deputy Sheriff... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 25, 1905
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Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

1906 - SEVEN DEAD, TWO INJURED. EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE OF CAMBRIA STEEL CO. MANAGEMENT BELIEVES GAS WAS FIRED BY THE SETTING OFF OF A BLAST.
Johnstown, Pa., Oct. 25. - An explosion occurred in the Cambria Steel Co.'s coal mine here, in which seven men were killed and two severely injured.

The management of the company says in an official statement:

"By an explosion in the rolling mill mine of the Cambria Steel Co. seven men are dead and two are painfully but not fatally injured. Up to this time only one of the dead has been... Read MORE...

Daily Free Press -  Carbondale, Illinois -  October 25, 1906
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Châteauguay, Québec, Canada

1913 - French-Canadians, At Chateauguay, "Spanked" Americans, Centry Ago
(From "The Scrap Book for Today.")

Chateauguay - to the people of the Dominion that name stands for the valor and patriotism of French-Canadians, for the triumph of the principle of "One people, one flag". On the memorable field of Chateauguay, just a century ago, all doubt as to the devotion of Canadian Frenchmen to the land of their birth was swept away on the tide of victory. To the... Read MORE...

Trenton Evening Times -  Trenton, New Jersey -  October 25, 1913
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1868  Kerosene Explosion
Mary Cannon and a daughter of John Eagan, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, were burned to death on the 15th by the explosion of kerosene.

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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1913 - 1,600 PUPILS ESCAPE FIRE.

Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

1866 - A Canadian Duel
A Montreal paper gives an account of a duel that recently took place between a lieutenant in a Montreal militia corps and a clerk residing at St. Hyacinthe. It appears that the clerk and some of his friends had determined to hoax the lieutenant and invited him to play a game of cards. He consented, and the result was that $200 or $300 in Confederate money, which was passed off upon him as Federal ... Read MORE...

Semi-Weekly Wisconsin -  Milwaukee, Wisconsin -  October 24, 1866
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Milton, Vermont, USA

1867  VERMONT. Fatal Railroad Accident Near Milton.

BURLINGTON, Vt., Wednesday, Oct. 23. Last evening CHARLES WOLCOTT, Jr., of this city, was instantly killed, near Milton, Vt., by falling from the mail train of the Vermont Central Railroad.

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 24, 1867
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Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

1877  President Hayes Endorsed

President Hayes was endorsed at Holyoke, Massachusetts, on Thursday evening, by an immense assembly of citizens, and in the exercises leading republicans equally shared. The soul of the great pacificator goes marching on. - Pittsburh Telegraph, rep.

The Atlanta Constitution -  Atlanta, Georgia -  October 24, 1877
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Waterville, Maine, USA

1889  EXPLOSION. Gas Works Destroyed in Maine. A FATAL EXPLOSION. A Gashouse Explodes at Waterville, Maine, This Morning.

WATERVILLE (Me.), Oct. 24. - At 7 o'clock this morning the gashouse of the Lockwood Cotton Mills exploded lifting the roof from the building, which took fire. Henry E. Washburn, aged 30 years, a workman in charge, perished in the flames.

The Evening News -  San Jose, California -  October 24, 1889
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Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

1904  Town Stricken With Diphtheria

Southbridge, Mass., Oct. 24. - An epidemic of diphtheria prevails in Southbridge to an extent that alarms the members of the board of health, who will appeal to the state board for help in stamping out the disease. A total of ninety cases and nine deaths is reported.

Pittston Gazette -  Pittston, Pennsylvania -  October 24, 1904
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Manchester, Connecticut, USA

1913  1,600 PUPILS ESCAPE FIRE.

Manchester, Conn. - Sixteen hundred school children were endangered when fire broke out in the Pine district grammer school here. The pupils were marshalled in fire drill and got out of the building within a few moments. None was injured.

The Syracuse Herald -  Syracuse, New York -  October 24, 1913
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Waterville, Maine, USA

1917 - SPECTACULAR FIRE THREATENS WHOLE NORTH END WATERVILLE
900 Canoes and Two Large Ice Houses Burn Two Dwellings Damaged by Flames Two Alarms Sounded and Firemen Have Hard Fight

Waterville, Me., Oct 23. – Fire which was discovered at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon completely destroyed two large ice houses on Hillside avenue owned by Robert L. Ervin and Roscoe L. Knight, burned 900 canoes, the property of the Kennebec Boat and Canoe Company, which were stored ... Read MORE...

Daily Kennebec Journal -  Augusta, Maine -  October 24, 1917
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1836  October 24 – The earliest United States patent for a phosphorus friction match is granted to Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts.

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1901  October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.

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1931  October 24 – The George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River in the United States is dedicated; it opens to traffic the following day. At 3,500 feet (1,100 m), it nearly doubles the previous record for the longest main span in the world.

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1938  October 24 - The minimum wage is established by law in the United States.

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1939  October 24 – Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1892 - PROVED A DEADLY SALUTE. SIX PERSONS WERE KILLED BY THE LOS ANGELES EXPLOSION.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)
One of the greatest commodities in the United States today is a greyish powder commonly sold in 50-pound bags for about 10 cents a pound.

Modern Portland cement has a rather short but fabulous history. Back in 1824 an English mason named Joseph Aspdin mixed a compound composed of lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide. The result was a grayish substance which reminded him of the stone quarried... Read MORE...

The Times -  Hammond, Indiana -  October 23, 1957
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Keene, New Hampshire, USA

1865 - Destructive Fire at Keene, N. H.
KEENE, N. H., Oct. 21. - About twelve o'clock on Thursday night fire was discovered in the rear of Richards' block, which was soon communicated to two blocks north of this, and owned by Colony Brothers. As soon as it was discovered that these three buildings could not be saved, a wooden building owned by Hon. T. M. Edwards, and occupied by the Post Office, was torn down, to prevent the flames... Read MORE...

The Philadelphia Inquirer -  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -  October 23, 1865
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St Louis, Missouri, USA

1866 - MISSOURI - DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO AT ST. LOUIS. BUILDINGS UNROOFED AND DEMOLISHED - MANY PERSONS INJURED - DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT $100,000.
St. Louis, Monday, Oct. 22.
The most terrific wind storm that ever visited this section of the country swept over this city at 4:30 yesterday afternoon, (doing an incredible amount of damage,) from the south, bearing a little eastward. It seemed to twist like a screw; lasted from ten to fifteen minutes; was about a quarter of a mile wide when it first struck, but grew narrower as it proceeded... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 23, 1866
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Annapolis, Maryland, USA

1883 - A LARGE FIRE AT ANNAPOLIS. TEN HOUSES BURNED, TWO LIVES LOST, AND SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 22. - By the bursting of a lighted coal-oil lamp in the store of Louis S. Clayton, on Market-space here, about 4 o'clock this morning, a fire was started which caused the destruction of over $60,000 worth of property, the loss of two lives, and the injury of several other persons. Three loud explosions, which shook the houses for two squares on either side of Clayton's... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 23, 1883
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Norwich, New York, USA (White Store)

1886 - FARM ANIMALS. Thorough Feeding the Most Economical Policy That Can Be Pursued.
During the recent meeting of the New York Dairymen's Association, Mr. Terry, of Norwich, N.Y., made an elaborate address on the subject of farm animals, which will be read with interest by dairymen and farmers everywhere. We have space only for the following leading points:

During the first cold storms in the fall many a mortgage is put upon our choicest cows. All stock should be sheltered... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  October 23, 1886
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Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA

1892 - FROZE ON THE PLAINS. JOHN PIERCE AND SON OF WYOMING DIED IN THE BLIZZARD.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct. 22. - [Special to Tribune] - The first report on the loss of life during the great blizzard of ten days ago came in this evening. JOHN PIERCE, a horse raiser, and his son, a lad of 7, perished on the prairie about fifty miles from this city. PIERCE with the boy undertook a trip of ten miles on the 13th. They stopped at a ranch and rested for an hour, and then struck into the... Read MORE...

Salt Lake Tribune -  Salt Lake City, Utah -  October 23, 1892
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Los Angeles, California, USA

1892 - PROVED A DEADLY SALUTE. SIX PERSONS WERE KILLED BY THE LOS ANGELES EXPLOSION.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 22. - The "Discovery Day" celebration here ended last night with a display of fireworks. Henry Wilson, who was in charge of the display, had arranged to fire what he called a salute of bombs for the last part. The bombs consisted of short lengths of cast iron pipe in which cartridges were exploded, the noise of the explosions resembling that of cannon. Two went off... Read MORE...

Salt Lake Tribune -  Salt Lake City, Utah -  October 23, 1892
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Yonkers, New York, USA

1905 - WEIGHTED BOAT SINKS; FIVE DROWN IN HUDSON. PERSONS ON YONKERS SHORE SEE PARTY GO DOWN IN MIDSTREAM. EFFORTS AT RESCUE IN VAIN.
NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY WITH FATHER AND FRIENDS ON FISHING TRIP - MOTHER NEARLY CRAZED.

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Yonkers, Oct. 22 - A boat in which were four men and a boy suddenly sank in midstream in the Hudson River off Fernbrook Street this morning, and all five occupants were drowned. The accident was witnessed by persons on the Yonkers shore, but before a boat could reach the spot the... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 23, 1905
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Boise, Idaho, USA

1934 - Girl Killed By Her Pony
Boise, Idaho Oct 23 – AP – Helen Louise BECK, eleven years old, was kicked to death at noon yesterday at Mayfield school east of here by the saddle pony which had carried her from her farm home to the little country school for many years.

The girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Beck of Mayfield, left her classes at the lunch hour to find the horse fighting at the hitching rack behind the... Read MORE...

Reno Evening Gazette -  Reno, Nevada -  October 23, 1934
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1869  The lock-up in the village of Charlotte, N. Y., was burned on the 13th and two sailors, Alexander Fisher and Michael McLane, of Elyria, Ohio,
belonging to the schooner Cascade, of Green Bay, who were prisoners in the lock-up, were burned to death.

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Saint Joseph, Michigan

1869  The employes of the Erie Railroad work shops in Buffalo and Port Jervis were on a strike on the 18th.


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Saint Joseph, Michigan

1871  An orchard at Santa Clara, Cal, has 3,000 fruit trees and any quantity of rhubarb plants and berry vines. The proprietor does business altogether in dried fruits. Not a pound of fruit is allowed to waste.
That which is partly decayed is converted into excellent vinegar. - Hearth and Home

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Saint Joseph, Michigan

1941  October 23 – Walt Disney's animated film Dumbo is released

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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1844 - Failed prediction of Second Coming of Jesus leads to the Great Disappointment

1844 - October 22 – This second date, predicted by the Millerites for the Second Coming of Jesus, leads to the Great Disappointment.

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William Miller is perhaps the most famous false prophet in history. In the 1840s he began to preach about the world's end, saying Jesus Christ would return for the long-awaited Second Coming and that Earth would be engulfed in... Read MORE...

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North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

1882 - DEATH ON THE RAIL. RAILROAD WORKMEN KILLED AND INJURED IN MASSACHUSETTS.
North Adams, Mass., Oct. 21. - A terrible accident to a caboose containing working men belonging to the North Adams freight yard occurred this morning in which 27 men were injured, several of them fatally. About 6:30 o'clock this morning Engineer CHARLES WELLS and Fireman JOSEPH BOSLEY left the North Adams depot on the engine Deerfield, of the State Road, pushing a caboose loaded with 25 men, who ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 22, 1882
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1870  Halifax, Mass., seems not to be a thriving place. It is eighteen years since the last new house was built.


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Saint Joseph, Michigan

1870  Many fields of tobacco up the Cayuga Valley, N. Y., it is reported, will yield a handsome second crop.


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Saint Joseph, Michigan

1870  Coal mines are now being worked in seven counties of Kansas.


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Saint Joseph, Michigan

1870  In the case of Miss Barston, the school teacher stoned to death by four of her pupils, at Canton, Mass., the Coroner's jury have rendered a verdict of death from disease, accelerated by the assault made upon her.


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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1865 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania - TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. NINE PERSONS INSTANTLY KILLED !!

1803 - October 20 - Louisiana Purchase - The United States doubled its size by purchasing this territory from Spain.
Senate Ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty

In the 1800s, in the United States, pioneers and homesteaders eagerly moved west to start a new life in the plains, hills and mountains west of the Mississippi River. This movement could not have happened without the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, approved by the Senate on October 20, 1803, by a vote of 24-to-7. The agreement, which provided for the... Read MORE...

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October 20, 1803
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Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA

1841  Supposed Murder

The body of a young woman, named Mary Austin, was found in the woods in Shaftsbury, Vermont, a week or two since, and suspicions having since arisen that she was murdered, four individuals have been arrested for examination in regard to their knowledge of the matter.

The Weekly Standard -  Raleigh, North Carolina -  October 20, 1841
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

1865 - TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. NINE PERSONS INSTANTLY KILLED !!
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
One of the most horrible railroad accidents that occurred during the present year, happened on Saturday afternoon, on the Pennsylvania railroad, three miles this side of Lancaster, as the Day Express train reached that point, en route for Philadelphia.

The train consisted of seven cars. The front axle of the third car breaking, that end of the car at once fell... Read MORE...

Village Record -  Pennsylvania -  October 20, 1865
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Enfield, Massachusetts, USA*

1896  EXTENSIVE FIRE IN ENFIELD, MASS.

Athol, Mass., Oct. 19. - The town of Enfield was visited to-day by a fire which wiped out the whole business part. The fire started in a bakery, presumably from an overheated oven.

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New York Herald-Tribune -  New York, New York -  October 20, 1896
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Westport Island, Maine, USA (Westport) (Jeremysquam)

1900 - Statement of James F. Williams in regard to Jessie Cobb murder
“I was born in the town of Westport in 1870. When I was two years old my folks removed to Boothbay where my father was interested in the livery business. Here I grew up, and of course became acquainted with every one in that vicinity. “It was only eight miles from Boothbay back to my old home in Westport, and I used to go over there frequently to dances and other amusements.

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Lewiston Saturday Journal -  Lewiston, Maine -  October 20, 1900
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Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA

1906 - BIG FIRE AT ALTOONA. FURNITURE STORE AND THEATRE DESTROYED - OTHER BUILDINGS DAMAGED.
Altoona, Pa., Oct. 20. - One of the most serious fires that has ever occurred in Altoona started in the new five-story furniture building of OLIVER ROTHERT, and before it was brought under control property to the amount of near $500,000 was destroyed. The ROTHERT building and the new theatre of I. C. MISHLER were entirely destroyed, and the new building of the Order of Elks, which had not yet... Read MORE...

The News -  Frederick, Maryland -  October 20, 1906
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1960  October 20 - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI

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Greenerpasture Daily News - 1892 - Sturbridge, Massachusetts - Suicide Instead of a Wedding

1781 - October 19 - The British Surrender at Yorktown
America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another five years to win freedom from the British. That day came on October 19, 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia.

General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York. The British ships never arrived. That was... Read MORE...

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October 19, 1781
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Belfast, Maine, USA

1865 - Fire
BELFAST, Me., Oct. 13. A fire last night consumed nearly the entire business portion of this city below Washington and Cross streets. Over 100 buildings were destroyed, and the loss at least is $300,000. The principal losers are S. S. Lewis, Edward Johnson & Co., the heirs of A. J. Morrison, Stevens & Co., and L. S. Smith. The fire was caused by an incendiary. A strong wind favored the flames,... Read MORE...

The Farmers' Cabinet -  Amherst, New Hampshire -  October 19, 1865
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Sturbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Fiskdale)

1892 - Suicide Instead of a Wedding
WORCESTER, Mass., October 19 - H. M. Asselin of West Warren, a young Frenchman, was found dead in the road in Sturbridge late Monday afternoon. He had apparently shot himself while driving, and had fallen from the wagon, dragging a blanket with him. He was to marry yesterday a French girl named Cacher. At the time of his death the girl was waiting in the Catholic church in Southbridge for Asselin ... Read MORE...

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle -  Brooklyn, New York -  October 19, 1892
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1897 - THE RAGING FOREST FIRES - Part of Cayuga County, N.Y., All Ablaze.
Many Farm Houses, Barns, Hay Stacks and Animals Have Been Burned - The Farmers Fighting the Flames Night and Day - There has Been No Rain in the Vicinity Since July.

AUBURN, N.Y., Oct. 18. - The northern part of Cayuga county is ablaze with forest fires which have been raging for the past two days, and nearly all the timber in the vicinity of Red Creek, Lowville, Sterling and North Victory has ... Read MORE...

The Scranton Republican -  Scranton, Pennsylvania -  October 19, 1897
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1844  October 19 - The famous "Lower Great Lakes Storm" occurred. Southwesterly winds were at hurricane force for five hours, driving lake waters into downtown Buffalo NY. The storm drowned 200 persons.

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