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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated January 18, unearthing stories that resonate with genealogists and history enthusiasts alike.
From local happenings to global events, we'll uncover the stories that shaped the lives of our ancestors, providing valuable insights for those on a quest to discover their roots.
So, grab your magnifying glass and step into the past as we unravel the January 18 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
London, England
London Town (England) has many curious names incorporated in its streets and squares which embody strange incidents or are of peculiar origin. The derivations of the name of the city itself would fill a page but one authority gives the name as derived from the Celtic Luan-dun, City of the Moon, and tradition has it that there was once a temple of Diana where St. Paul's now stands. Similarly Greenwich is supposed to be derived from Gran-wick, also Celtic, meaning City of the Sun. London's also... Read MORE...
St Albans Daily Messenger - St Albans, Vermont - January 18, 1921
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1921 - Peculiar London Names
London Town (England) has many curious names incorporated in its streets and squares which embody strange incidents or are of peculiar origin. The derivations of the name of the city itself would fill a page but one authority gives the name as derived from the Celtic Luan-dun, City of the Moon, and tradition has it that there was once a temple of Diana where St. Paul's now stands. Similarly Greenwich is supposed to be derived from Gran-wick, also Celtic, meaning City of the Sun. London's also... Read MORE...
St Albans Daily Messenger - St Albans, Vermont - January 18, 1921
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The Parker Games
For Merry Winter Evenings
Parker-Brothers, Salem, Mass, USA
The Ladies' Home Journal
November 1898
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Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA
Mitchell Deluge Shot Down by a Man with Whom He Had Been Intimate since Boyhood - The Victim's Ante-Mortem Statement.
WOONSOCKET, Jan. 18. - The bells had scarcely ceased tolling the hour of midnight Saturday when three pistol shots rang in sharp succession on Clinton street. One man fell and a group of nearly 20 others scattered in every direction. The cry of murder and the noise of the shots awoke the people and brought one of the members of the police to the scene. Mitchel Deluge was... Read MORE...
The Day - New London, Connecticut - January 18, 1886
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1886 - Killed After A Dance - WOONSOCKET, R.I., HAS A SUNDAY MORNING MURDER.
Mitchell Deluge Shot Down by a Man with Whom He Had Been Intimate since Boyhood - The Victim's Ante-Mortem Statement.
WOONSOCKET, Jan. 18. - The bells had scarcely ceased tolling the hour of midnight Saturday when three pistol shots rang in sharp succession on Clinton street. One man fell and a group of nearly 20 others scattered in every direction. The cry of murder and the noise of the shots awoke the people and brought one of the members of the police to the scene. Mitchel Deluge was... Read MORE...
The Day - New London, Connecticut - January 18, 1886
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Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Detroit - (AP) - Three high school students were killed and 57 persons were injured, six critically, when an overloaded bus yesterday sideswiped an automobile and crashed into a tree on Ford Road in suburban Dearborn.
The dead:
ROBERT DRAKE, 17, who died at the scene.
BETTY KRAUSE, 17, who died at Eloise hospital.
WILMER FORD, 16, who died at Eloise hospital.
The Dearborn Coach company bus, with every available space crammed with students and war workers from Ford Motor Co. plants, was... Read MORE...
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin - January 18, 1944
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1944 - 3 STUDENTS ARE KILLED IN BUS ACCIDENT.
Detroit - (AP) - Three high school students were killed and 57 persons were injured, six critically, when an overloaded bus yesterday sideswiped an automobile and crashed into a tree on Ford Road in suburban Dearborn.
The dead:
ROBERT DRAKE, 17, who died at the scene.
BETTY KRAUSE, 17, who died at Eloise hospital.
WILMER FORD, 16, who died at Eloise hospital.
The Dearborn Coach company bus, with every available space crammed with students and war workers from Ford Motor Co. plants, was... Read MORE...
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin - January 18, 1944
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Cottage Pudding
Sift with one and a half cups of flour, one teaspoonful of saleratus and one-half teaspoonful of soda. Mix with this one cup of sweet milk, one cup of sugar and two eggs well beaten. Bake till done in a quick oven.
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The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, April 18, 1873
The Idea Food Cutter
The Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co.
Southington, Conn.
The Ladies' Home Journal
November 1898
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Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA (Valley Falls) (Ashton) (Cumberland Hill)
CUMBERLAND, R.I. (AP) - "When I got to the window, there was no wall left. It just blew me right through," said Norman Brule.
Brule was one of at least 27 persons working in the Peterson-Puritan Aerosol spray plant when an explosion ripped through the building Saturday, tossing chunks of cement 20 feet from the one-story building.
Twenty workers were injured, seven critically, authorities said.
Much of the interior of the building was demolished and two outside walls were knocked flat. ... Read MORE...
Idaho State Journal - Pocatello, Idaho - January 18, 1976
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1976 - Blast Destroys Aerosol Plant
CUMBERLAND, R.I. (AP) - "When I got to the window, there was no wall left. It just blew me right through," said Norman Brule.
Brule was one of at least 27 persons working in the Peterson-Puritan Aerosol spray plant when an explosion ripped through the building Saturday, tossing chunks of cement 20 feet from the one-story building.
Twenty workers were injured, seven critically, authorities said.
Much of the interior of the building was demolished and two outside walls were knocked flat. ... Read MORE...
Idaho State Journal - Pocatello, Idaho - January 18, 1976
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
"...Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop detailed instances of unidentified flying objects in the heavens above seventeenth-century Boston in the first recorded UFO sightings in America.
On March 1, 1639, John Winthrop opened his diary in which he recorded the trials and triumphs of his fellow Puritans as they made a new life in a new land. As the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony put pen to paper, he began to recount a most unusual event that had recently caused a stir... Read MORE...
http://www.history.com/news/americas-first-ufo-sighting
January 18, 1644
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1644 - January 18 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
"...Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop detailed instances of unidentified flying objects in the heavens above seventeenth-century Boston in the first recorded UFO sightings in America.
On March 1, 1639, John Winthrop opened his diary in which he recorded the trials and triumphs of his fellow Puritans as they made a new life in a new land. As the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony put pen to paper, he began to recount a most unusual event that had recently caused a stir... Read MORE...
http://www.history.com/news/americas-first-ufo-sighting
January 18, 1644
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Rome, New York, USA
Rome, N.Y. - Investigation of yesterday's B-17 plane crash at Mohawk Acres at the northeastern edge of the city is being carried on today by an investigation board composed of officers from Griffiss Air Force Base.
They visited the scene yesterday afternoon and the investigation was being continued today. At the time of the crash it was raining and freezing and it was thought possible ice on the wings might have caused the plane to lose altitude. Witnesses said that just before the plane... Read MORE...
Syracuse Herald Journal - Syracuse, New York - January 18, 1952
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1952 - ICE ON WINGS SEEN AS POSSIBLE CAUSE OF FATAL BOMBER CRASH AT ROME FIELD. 2 KILLED, 5 INJURED IN LANDING. AIR FORCE STARTS INVESTIGATION.
Rome, N.Y. - Investigation of yesterday's B-17 plane crash at Mohawk Acres at the northeastern edge of the city is being carried on today by an investigation board composed of officers from Griffiss Air Force Base.
They visited the scene yesterday afternoon and the investigation was being continued today. At the time of the crash it was raining and freezing and it was thought possible ice on the wings might have caused the plane to lose altitude. Witnesses said that just before the plane... Read MORE...
Syracuse Herald Journal - Syracuse, New York - January 18, 1952
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Dressing with Two Hundred Dollars Per Year
Gulfport, Mississippi, USA
Is Awakened by Smoke About 12:30 o’clock This Morning, but is Unaware of Danger and Turns Over for Second Nap-Jury Saves Records.
Biloxi, January 18. Members of the jury in the case of Ben Collins, charged with murder, who were locked down in the jury rooms of the courthouse during the fire, consider themselves fortunate in having escaped death in the conflagration that destroyed Harrison County’s courthouse. On the jury from a special venue were seven men from Biloxi and vicinity, these... Read MORE...
The Daily Herald - Gulfport, Mississippi - January 18, 1916
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1916 - Narrow Escape In Courthouse Fire For Jury Members. Biloxians on Collins Murder Jury Tell of Narrow Escape at Gulf Port This Morning. Judge Gleason Loses Coat At Courthouse.
Is Awakened by Smoke About 12:30 o’clock This Morning, but is Unaware of Danger and Turns Over for Second Nap-Jury Saves Records.
Biloxi, January 18. Members of the jury in the case of Ben Collins, charged with murder, who were locked down in the jury rooms of the courthouse during the fire, consider themselves fortunate in having escaped death in the conflagration that destroyed Harrison County’s courthouse. On the jury from a special venue were seven men from Biloxi and vicinity, these... Read MORE...
The Daily Herald - Gulfport, Mississippi - January 18, 1916
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Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA (Tiverton, Massachusetts)
Some time, in December last, a young female named Sarah M. Cornell, was found dead, hanging by the neck by means of a small cord fastened to a stake in a fence enclosing a stock of hay, in Tiverton, Rhode Island. She belonged to Woodstock, Conn. and she had resided in Bristol a short time. The Rev. E. K. Avery, of Bristol, had been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer, and was undergoing an examination at Bristol. Very strong circumstantial evidence had been adduced against him, and not... Read MORE...
The North-Carolina Star - Raleigh, North Carolina - January 18, 1833
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1833 - Horrid Outrage and Murder
Some time, in December last, a young female named Sarah M. Cornell, was found dead, hanging by the neck by means of a small cord fastened to a stake in a fence enclosing a stock of hay, in Tiverton, Rhode Island. She belonged to Woodstock, Conn. and she had resided in Bristol a short time. The Rev. E. K. Avery, of Bristol, had been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer, and was undergoing an examination at Bristol. Very strong circumstantial evidence had been adduced against him, and not... Read MORE...
The North-Carolina Star - Raleigh, North Carolina - January 18, 1833
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Stratford, Connecticut, USA (Putney)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 18. - The Washington express, going east, at 2 o'clock this morning, met with an accident while passing through West Stratford. The axle of one set of drivers broke and the large wheel rolled down an embankment to a pond below, carrying some of the framework of the engine with it. The engine did not leave the track. The east track was blocked until 9 o'clock this morning, when the wrecking train, which was sent from New Haven, removed the disabled engine. All trains had... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 18, 1888
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1888 - Train Accident
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 18. - The Washington express, going east, at 2 o'clock this morning, met with an accident while passing through West Stratford. The axle of one set of drivers broke and the large wheel rolled down an embankment to a pond below, carrying some of the framework of the engine with it. The engine did not leave the track. The east track was blocked until 9 o'clock this morning, when the wrecking train, which was sent from New Haven, removed the disabled engine. All trains had... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 18, 1888
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA (Lackawanna)
Several Of The Victims Leaped From The Windows.
FEARFUL JAM ON A FIRE ESCAPE.
The Flames Gutted the Interior of the Knitting Mill in Which the Girls Were at Work - Many Rescues By the Firemen.
By Associated Press.
Scranton, January 17 - Four girls were killed, ten seriously injured, and a score or more slightly hurt at a fire in the Imperial Knitting company's mill in Dix court, in the central part of the city this morning. Eighty-five girls were at work on the third floor when a fire... Read MORE...
Daily Gazette and Bulletin - Williamsport, Pennsylvania - January 18, 1908
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1908 - SCRANTON FACTORY FILLED WITH GIRLS A PREY TO FLAMES. FOUR KILLED AND MANY MEET SERIOUS HURTS
Several Of The Victims Leaped From The Windows.
FEARFUL JAM ON A FIRE ESCAPE.
The Flames Gutted the Interior of the Knitting Mill in Which the Girls Were at Work - Many Rescues By the Firemen.
By Associated Press.
Scranton, January 17 - Four girls were killed, ten seriously injured, and a score or more slightly hurt at a fire in the Imperial Knitting company's mill in Dix court, in the central part of the city this morning. Eighty-five girls were at work on the third floor when a fire... Read MORE...
Daily Gazette and Bulletin - Williamsport, Pennsylvania - January 18, 1908
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Cheshire, Connecticut, USA
CHESHIRE, Conn. - (UP) - An Eastern airlines plane caught fire in flight Friday and crashed in flames in a wooded patch near the state reformatory killing its 13 passengers and crew of three.
The plane was enroute from New York to Boston when the crash occurred. There were no survivors state police reported.
The bodies of three women were found among the victims. An identification disc bearing the name 'F. W. Bassett Pan-American Airway,' was found at the wreckage.
Eyewitnesses... Read MORE...
Waukesha Daily Freeman - Waukesha, Wisconsin - January 18, 1946
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1946 - 16 Persons Die Friday Morning in Plane Crash
CHESHIRE, Conn. - (UP) - An Eastern airlines plane caught fire in flight Friday and crashed in flames in a wooded patch near the state reformatory killing its 13 passengers and crew of three.
The plane was enroute from New York to Boston when the crash occurred. There were no survivors state police reported.
The bodies of three women were found among the victims. An identification disc bearing the name 'F. W. Bassett Pan-American Airway,' was found at the wreckage.
Eyewitnesses... Read MORE...
Waukesha Daily Freeman - Waukesha, Wisconsin - January 18, 1946
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1857 January 18, 1857 - A great cold storm swept across the Atlantic Seaboard.
Snowfall totals of 12 inches were common, whole gales caused shipwrecks and damage property on islands, and temperatures near zero prevailed from Virginia northward. Great drifts of snow blocked transportation. Richmond VA was cut off from Washington DC for a week.
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1868 Water is sold at fifteen cents a barrel to the housekeepers of Olean, N. Y.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1868 There are over 1,500,000 old maids in England and Wales.
Sad to say, one third of the number cannot hope to marry, as there are note enough men to go round. Of every 100 women in England, 58 are wives, 39 are spinsters, and 3 are widows. The old maids are more numerous in high life than in low.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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Snowfall totals of 12 inches were common, whole gales caused shipwrecks and damage property on islands, and temperatures near zero prevailed from Virginia northward. Great drifts of snow blocked transportation. Richmond VA was cut off from Washington DC for a week.
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1868 Water is sold at fifteen cents a barrel to the housekeepers of Olean, N. Y.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1868 There are over 1,500,000 old maids in England and Wales.
Sad to say, one third of the number cannot hope to marry, as there are note enough men to go round. Of every 100 women in England, 58 are wives, 39 are spinsters, and 3 are widows. The old maids are more numerous in high life than in low.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1873 French Count
The French Count that married the belle of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who nursed him through the small-pox, has quite recovered, and will soon be strong enough to wave the napkin, strop the razor and cry "Next."
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
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1889 Two Men Blown to Atoms
By Associated Press. SHERBROOKE, Que., Jan. 18. - Dennis Conture and Joseph Noel were endeavoring to thaw a stick of dynamite this morning at the mines of the Albert copper company at Capeton, when it exploded, blowing them to atoms.
Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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1886 A WOMAN ROASTED TO DEATH.
NEW-HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 17.- Mrs. John Condon, of Wallingford, was burned to death last night. She was 55 years old and very feeble. Early in the evening her husband went to the village store to buy some provisions. It is supposed Mrs. Condon left her bed to light her pipe, and in some way set fire to the bed clothing. When found by the neighbors she had been roasted to death. The town fire company was called out and saved the house.
The New York Times
New York, New York
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The French Count that married the belle of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who nursed him through the small-pox, has quite recovered, and will soon be strong enough to wave the napkin, strop the razor and cry "Next."
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
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1889 Two Men Blown to Atoms
By Associated Press. SHERBROOKE, Que., Jan. 18. - Dennis Conture and Joseph Noel were endeavoring to thaw a stick of dynamite this morning at the mines of the Albert copper company at Capeton, when it exploded, blowing them to atoms.
Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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1886 A WOMAN ROASTED TO DEATH.
NEW-HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 17.- Mrs. John Condon, of Wallingford, was burned to death last night. She was 55 years old and very feeble. Early in the evening her husband went to the village store to buy some provisions. It is supposed Mrs. Condon left her bed to light her pipe, and in some way set fire to the bed clothing. When found by the neighbors she had been roasted to death. The town fire company was called out and saved the house.
The New York Times
New York, New York
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1886 Many Silver Dollars
It is said that in the small town of Bristol, Rhode Island, for several years before the war a young man named Cole was in the habit of throwing every silver dollar that came into his possession into a cistern at the side of his house. After coin get scarce and at a high premium he took the silver out and found that he had accumulated over $5,000 which he was able to sell at a a large premium. We would not recommend that others do likewise, for a cistern is not the safest place for making...
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Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
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It is said that in the small town of Bristol, Rhode Island, for several years before the war a young man named Cole was in the habit of throwing every silver dollar that came into his possession into a cistern at the side of his house. After coin get scarce and at a high premium he took the silver out and found that he had accumulated over $5,000 which he was able to sell at a a large premium. We would not recommend that others do likewise, for a cistern is not the safest place for making...
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Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
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America - Did you know?
1971 - No Pig Greasing in ContestsSince 1971, in Minnesota, it has been considered a misdemeanor to operate, run, or participate in any activity where a pig is oiled up and released with the object of being recaptured—and the same goes for...Read MORE...
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Quebec - Did you know?
The most famous dish from Quebec is Poutine. Poutine is a mix of fries with white chewy cheese and plenty of sauce. The dish was invented in the 1960s and is a real fast food meal. Another typical Quebec dish is butter pie.
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The New Game
Conette
Sold Everywhere
Two Styles 25 & 50 Cts.
Milton Bradley Co., Springfield, Mass.
The Ladies' Home Journal
November 1898
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