Welcome to our blog, where we embark on a captivating journey through time, exploring the rich tapestry of history and genealogy.
In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated November 10, unearthing stories that resonate with genealogists and history enthusiasts alike.
From local happenings to global events, we'll uncover the stories that shaped the lives of our ancestors, providing valuable insights for those on a quest to discover their roots.
So, grab your magnifying glass and step into the past as we unravel the November 10 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)
Despite the Dictum the Shops Open.
Police Guard Factory Where Windows Were Broken.
One Concern Retains 700 Men Who Wo't Quit.
First Disturbance Created in Fiskdale by a Lockout.
SOUTHBRIDGE. Nov 10 - Notwithstanding the threat of the optical manufacturers of this town to clos their factories if their employes held to their detremination to remain in a union, the shops were open today, but less than half of the regular force of 1900 men reported for work, and several factories were ... Read MORE...
The Boston Globe - Boston, Massachusetts - Tues, November 10, 1903
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1903 - LATEST 6:30 O'Clock - Half a Force - Optical Plants Crippled at Southbridge - Employers Grapple With Union - Membership Bars From Work
Despite the Dictum the Shops Open.
Police Guard Factory Where Windows Were Broken.
One Concern Retains 700 Men Who Wo't Quit.
First Disturbance Created in Fiskdale by a Lockout.
SOUTHBRIDGE. Nov 10 - Notwithstanding the threat of the optical manufacturers of this town to clos their factories if their employes held to their detremination to remain in a union, the shops were open today, but less than half of the regular force of 1900 men reported for work, and several factories were ... Read MORE...
The Boston Globe - Boston, Massachusetts - Tues, November 10, 1903
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Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
The Cordasville Manufactory, near Worcester, Massachusetts, was burned on the 1st inst. There were between eighty and one hundred operatives in the Factory, and so rapid was the flames, that all egress was cut off, and the only alternative was to jump from the windows or be burnt to death.
All the operatives in the third and fourth stories were obliged to jump from the windows. A few in the first and second stories escaped by the stair-way, but most of those in the second, jumped from the... Read MORE...
The Weekly Portage Sentinel - Ravenna, Ohio - November 10, 1855
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1855 - CATASTROPHE BY FIRE.
The Cordasville Manufactory, near Worcester, Massachusetts, was burned on the 1st inst. There were between eighty and one hundred operatives in the Factory, and so rapid was the flames, that all egress was cut off, and the only alternative was to jump from the windows or be burnt to death.
All the operatives in the third and fourth stories were obliged to jump from the windows. A few in the first and second stories escaped by the stair-way, but most of those in the second, jumped from the... Read MORE...
The Weekly Portage Sentinel - Ravenna, Ohio - November 10, 1855
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Spiced Beef - For ten or twelve pounds of beef take one tablespoonful of allspice, six cloves, a piece of mace, pound in a mortar; add a large spoonful brown sugar; rub well into the beef; then rub with saltpeter and salt; turn and rub daily...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., March 16, 1881
Queens, New York, USA
Pumping Station on Shore Road in Queens Destroyed.
Trees Broken Off - Windows Shattered Half a Mile Away - Steel Plates Had Been Worn Thin - Story of an Eye Witness.
Two men were killed and one of the pumping stations of the city's water supply system on the Shore Road in Queens Borough totally destroyed by an explosion yesterday morning. One of the two big boilers which furnished the power for the pumps blew up. Windows were shattered in buildings half a mile away. Fortunately there was... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 10, 1902
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1902 - BOILER EXPLOSION KILLS TWO MEN
Pumping Station on Shore Road in Queens Destroyed.
Trees Broken Off - Windows Shattered Half a Mile Away - Steel Plates Had Been Worn Thin - Story of an Eye Witness.
Two men were killed and one of the pumping stations of the city's water supply system on the Shore Road in Queens Borough totally destroyed by an explosion yesterday morning. One of the two big boilers which furnished the power for the pumps blew up. Windows were shattered in buildings half a mile away. Fortunately there was... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 10, 1902
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Duluth, Minnesota, USA
DULUTH, Min., Nov. 9.- Fire which started in the Great Northern elevator, at Superior, Wis., about 9 o'clock last night, was brought under control early today, after having destroyed the elevator, three flour mills, forty homes and 700,000 bushels of grain. Two scows, a derrick and two tugs were also destroyed.
The total loss is figured at $2,268,000, including about three-quarters of a million in wheat. All firms except Whitney Brothers, marine contractors, have insurance covering a large... Read MORE...
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - November 10, 1907
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1907 - BIG FIRE AT DULUTH. Damage Figured at $2,268,000 and One Life Believed Lost
DULUTH, Min., Nov. 9.- Fire which started in the Great Northern elevator, at Superior, Wis., about 9 o'clock last night, was brought under control early today, after having destroyed the elevator, three flour mills, forty homes and 700,000 bushels of grain. Two scows, a derrick and two tugs were also destroyed.
The total loss is figured at $2,268,000, including about three-quarters of a million in wheat. All firms except Whitney Brothers, marine contractors, have insurance covering a large... Read MORE...
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - November 10, 1907
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
One man was injured so badly that the died within an hour at the St. Joseph's hospital and another was painfully hurt at 10 o'clock this morning when the upper thirty feet of the 156-foot construction tower, being used in the erection of the new storage warehouse at the Fort Wayne Electric works' plant, in Broadway, suddenly collapsed.
The Victims.
Frank Farrell, 1805 Wall street, aged 25 years. Died at St. Joseph's hospital at 11:10 o'clock.
Charles. M. Helwig, of Hammond, painfully,... Read MORE...
The Fort Wayne News - Fort Wayne, Indiana - November 10, 1915
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1915 - ONE MAN IS KILLED. When Upper Section of Construction Tower Collapses This Morning
One man was injured so badly that the died within an hour at the St. Joseph's hospital and another was painfully hurt at 10 o'clock this morning when the upper thirty feet of the 156-foot construction tower, being used in the erection of the new storage warehouse at the Fort Wayne Electric works' plant, in Broadway, suddenly collapsed.
The Victims.
Frank Farrell, 1805 Wall street, aged 25 years. Died at St. Joseph's hospital at 11:10 o'clock.
Charles. M. Helwig, of Hammond, painfully,... Read MORE...
The Fort Wayne News - Fort Wayne, Indiana - November 10, 1915
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
It is considered as the height of ill-manners to in
terrupt any person while speaking, by speaking yourself, or calling off the attention of the com
pany to any new subject. This, however, every child...Read MORE...
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 9. - The negro section of the Georgia Insane Asylum burned today. There were within the walls at the time the fire broke out inmates and all over 700 persons, but the efficiency of administration was such that no lives were lost.
The group of buildings constituting the section covered about four acres. The fire started in the attic above one of the wards on the east side, and was discovered by DR. OETALL, who was attending one of the patients. The fire walls of the... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 10, 1897
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1897 - GEORGIA ASYLUM ON FIRE. NEGRO SECTION OF THE MILLEDGEVILLE INSTITUTION DESTROYED - NO LIVES LOST OWING TO EXCELLENT DISCIPLINE.
Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 9. - The negro section of the Georgia Insane Asylum burned today. There were within the walls at the time the fire broke out inmates and all over 700 persons, but the efficiency of administration was such that no lives were lost.
The group of buildings constituting the section covered about four acres. The fire started in the attic above one of the wards on the east side, and was discovered by DR. OETALL, who was attending one of the patients. The fire walls of the... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 10, 1897
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West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
WEST BROOKFIELD, Mass., Nov. 9. - The Southwestern Express, No. 46, on the Boston & Albany Division of the New York Central Railroad, bound for Boston, collided head-on with a freight train near this station at 10:40 A. M. to-day. Charles Hyde of Boston, a brakeman on the express, was killed, and four other members of the express train crew and one passenger on the express were severely injured.
They are E. Patrick, conductor, of Boston, internally injured, probably fatally hurt; T. H.... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 10, 1907
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1907 - 1 DEAD, 5 INJURED IN WRECK. Passenger Express and Freight Trains in Head-On Collision
WEST BROOKFIELD, Mass., Nov. 9. - The Southwestern Express, No. 46, on the Boston & Albany Division of the New York Central Railroad, bound for Boston, collided head-on with a freight train near this station at 10:40 A. M. to-day. Charles Hyde of Boston, a brakeman on the express, was killed, and four other members of the express train crew and one passenger on the express were severely injured.
They are E. Patrick, conductor, of Boston, internally injured, probably fatally hurt; T. H.... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 10, 1907
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1938 November 10 - On the eve of Armistice Day, Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time on her weekly radio show.
November 10, 1938
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1888 George H. Vanderbilt, of New York, purchased one thousand acres of mountain lands near Asheville, N.C.,
where it was said on the 2d he would build a large industrial institute for the free education of poor white children, who would be taught how to work in wood and metals and thus become skilled mechanics.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
November 10, 1888
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1888 At Montreux, on the lake of Geneva, in Switzerland, a reservoir used to work and electric railway burst on the 6th, destroying numerous houses and drowning many persons.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
November 10, 1888
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November 10, 1938
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1888 George H. Vanderbilt, of New York, purchased one thousand acres of mountain lands near Asheville, N.C.,
where it was said on the 2d he would build a large industrial institute for the free education of poor white children, who would be taught how to work in wood and metals and thus become skilled mechanics.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
November 10, 1888
Visit Asheville, North Carolina, USA!
1888 At Montreux, on the lake of Geneva, in Switzerland, a reservoir used to work and electric railway burst on the 6th, destroying numerous houses and drowning many persons.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
November 10, 1888
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1898 November 10 - Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
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November 10, 1898
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1832 Cholera
Oct. 26 - We learn that within the last ten days, nine persons have died of cholera at the parish of Pointe aux Trembles, about twenty miles above Quebec, on the road to Montreal; of that number four died in one house and four in two other houses.
Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
November 10, 1832
Visit Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (L'Enfant-Jésus-de-la-Pointe-aux-Trembles)!
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November 10, 1898
Visit Wilmington, North Carolina, USA!
1832 Cholera
Oct. 26 - We learn that within the last ten days, nine persons have died of cholera at the parish of Pointe aux Trembles, about twenty miles above Quebec, on the road to Montreal; of that number four died in one house and four in two other houses.
Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
November 10, 1832
Visit Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (L'Enfant-Jésus-de-la-Pointe-aux-Trembles)!
America - Did you know?
December 2, 1899 - U.S. acquires American Samoa by treaty with Great Britain and Germany.
Quebec - Did you know?
Within the typical habitant dwelling-house there were usually two, and never more than three, rooms on the ground floor. The doorway opened into the great room of the house, parlor, dining-room, and kitchen combined. A "living" room it surely was!...Read MORE...Daily Life in New France (www.chroniclesofamerica.com/ french/ daily_life_in_new_france.htm)
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Beaman & Marvell Co., Leverett, Mass.
"Recognized in the National Registry of Historic buildings, the LCA building is situated at the center of a quaint Historic district. The building was constructed in 1903 as the Beaman-Marvel Box Shop; it replaced an earlier building built in 1875 that had burned the previous year. Wooden locked corner boxes were made here, an addition was added, it was an example of thriving industry in a small rural town. The invention of cardboard changed things dramatically, and the Box Shop closed in 1943..." leverettcrafts.org
