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 December 1, 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 December 1 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Elmira, New York, USA
WHAT THE ENGINEER SAYS.
HE WAS GETTING HIS DINNER PAIL OUT WHEN THE TRAIN PASSED OVER THE CROSSING - THE VICTIMS, RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY - ONE YOUNG MAN INJURED BUT WILL PROBABLY RECOVER.
Killed.
EDWARD BLANCHARD and wife;
MRS. MAGGIE PITTS;
MRS. WILLIAM CONKLIN.
Injured.
WILLIAM CONKLIN.
It was a horrible revelation that Baggageman Edward Hooker and Otis Breese unfolded to the engineer and other trainmen and passengers on Erie train No. 5 just after it had pulled into the depot in ... Read MORE...
Star Gazette - Elmira, New York - December 1, 1892
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1892 - TO ETERNITY ! FOUR PEOPLE KILLED INSTANTLY BY TRAIN NO. 5. A CROSSING HORROR. AN ACCIDENT THE ENGINEER DID NOT SEE. THREE CORPSES ON THE ENGINE PILOT. THE GHASTLY DISCOVERY MADE WHEN THE TRAIN REACHED THE DEPOT.
WHAT THE ENGINEER SAYS.
HE WAS GETTING HIS DINNER PAIL OUT WHEN THE TRAIN PASSED OVER THE CROSSING - THE VICTIMS, RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY - ONE YOUNG MAN INJURED BUT WILL PROBABLY RECOVER.
Killed.
EDWARD BLANCHARD and wife;
MRS. MAGGIE PITTS;
MRS. WILLIAM CONKLIN.
Injured.
WILLIAM CONKLIN.
It was a horrible revelation that Baggageman Edward Hooker and Otis Breese unfolded to the engineer and other trainmen and passengers on Erie train No. 5 just after it had pulled into the depot in ... Read MORE...
Star Gazette - Elmira, New York - December 1, 1892
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Sleighs.
For Speeding a Specialty;
For the Family;
For the Road;
Correct in style;
Half the regular price;
Harness, Horse Blankets, Sleigh Bells, Sleigh Robes, etc., etc.
E. N. Heney Co., Limited.
333-335 St. Paul Street, Montreal
Montreal Argus
December 31, 1904
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
A pottile py
Take as many pottates as you pleas and put them in boiling water let them boil till the skin becoming of them then take them out and peal them kept them whole according to the quantite of your pottates take as many appels and pare,...Read MORE...
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The St. James Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston, Massachusetts
January 30, 1890
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Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA
Oil City, Pa., Nov. 30. - An explosion of nitro-glycerine occurred in a suburb at two o'clock this afternoon in which two brothers, sons of a widow named FISHER -- JAMES, aged eighteen, and CHARLES, aged sixteen -- and ED HOFFMAN, aged twenty-six, were killed. Five tons of glycerine owned by the Torpedo Company was being unloaded from a boat and placed in the magazine. While the men were away the boys were seen to approach and it is supposed one of the party fell and caused the accident. The... Read MORE...
Burlington Hawk-Eye - Iowa - December 1, 1889
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1889 - A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. A NITRO-GLYCERINE MAGAZINE BLOWN UP - SEVERAL DEATHS.
Oil City, Pa., Nov. 30. - An explosion of nitro-glycerine occurred in a suburb at two o'clock this afternoon in which two brothers, sons of a widow named FISHER -- JAMES, aged eighteen, and CHARLES, aged sixteen -- and ED HOFFMAN, aged twenty-six, were killed. Five tons of glycerine owned by the Torpedo Company was being unloaded from a boat and placed in the magazine. While the men were away the boys were seen to approach and it is supposed one of the party fell and caused the accident. The... Read MORE...
Burlington Hawk-Eye - Iowa - December 1, 1889
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Portland, Oregon, USA
Portland, Oregon, Dec. 1. - Four men lost their lives in a fire today in the Ben Hur Hotel formerly known as the Oak Hotel in the business district here. None of the dead had been identified several hours after the fire. All the other guests were reported to have escaped, most of them in their night clothing. The building was destroyed.
The number of injured had not been determined at daybreak.
The fire broke out in the hotel furnace room. Taxicab drivers and police worked heroically to... Read MORE...
The Newark Advocate - Newark, Ohio - December 1, 1922
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1922 - FOUR ARE DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE.
Portland, Oregon, Dec. 1. - Four men lost their lives in a fire today in the Ben Hur Hotel formerly known as the Oak Hotel in the business district here. None of the dead had been identified several hours after the fire. All the other guests were reported to have escaped, most of them in their night clothing. The building was destroyed.
The number of injured had not been determined at daybreak.
The fire broke out in the hotel furnace room. Taxicab drivers and police worked heroically to... Read MORE...
The Newark Advocate - Newark, Ohio - December 1, 1922
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Denver, Colorado, USA
Denver, Col., Nov. 30. - Fire, tonight destroyed the Denver city hall, including, probably, a large amount of valuable records. The fire is supposed to have been caused by defective electric wiring. The building contained all the city offices except the police department, including the central fire station and city jail. It was built in 1880, at a cost of nearly $500,000. The insurance is $80,000.
Charles Stoll, an employe of the city engineer's office, while trying to save some of the... Read MORE...
Davenport Daily Republican - Davenport, Iowa - December 1, 1901
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1901 - DENVER CITY HALL BURNS. Large Number of Valuable Records Supposed to Have Been Consumed.
Denver, Col., Nov. 30. - Fire, tonight destroyed the Denver city hall, including, probably, a large amount of valuable records. The fire is supposed to have been caused by defective electric wiring. The building contained all the city offices except the police department, including the central fire station and city jail. It was built in 1880, at a cost of nearly $500,000. The insurance is $80,000.
Charles Stoll, an employe of the city engineer's office, while trying to save some of the... Read MORE...
Davenport Daily Republican - Davenport, Iowa - December 1, 1901
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
The constant care of children is a serious tax upon our time, our nerves, and our temper; yet we ourselves owe very much to the little beings who steal our thoughts away from ourselves and our grown-up anxieties with the hopeful charm of their young ...Read MORE...
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
DIE IN BLAZING WRECK
Montreal Express, on Boston and Maine, Hits Local Train.
Of the Dead a Dozen Were Passengers in Two Rear Cars of the Local Train -- Heavy Weather Hid Lights of the Standing Train
Quick Rescue by Survivors -- Only Few of Dead Identified.
Lincoln, Mass. - Sixteen persons were killed, twenty-five were badly injured, and probably a score of others received minor hurts in a railroad wreck which occurred at 3:15 o'clock at night at Baker's Bridge Station, a mile and a... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - December 1, 1905
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1905 - COLLISION DUE TO THICK FOG
DIE IN BLAZING WRECK
Montreal Express, on Boston and Maine, Hits Local Train.
Of the Dead a Dozen Were Passengers in Two Rear Cars of the Local Train -- Heavy Weather Hid Lights of the Standing Train
Quick Rescue by Survivors -- Only Few of Dead Identified.
Lincoln, Mass. - Sixteen persons were killed, twenty-five were badly injured, and probably a score of others received minor hurts in a railroad wreck which occurred at 3:15 o'clock at night at Baker's Bridge Station, a mile and a... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - December 1, 1905
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1888 President of Switzerland Dead.
BERNE, Nov. 28. - M. Hertenstein, President of Switzerland, who underwent the amputation of his right leg last week because of disease of the arteries, is dead.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1888 Jewet Dargenton, proprietor of a boarding house at Amesbury, Mass., shot his wife on the 27th and then killed himself. Jealousy prompted the act.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1888 The wire works of Morse & Whyte at Brookline, Mass., burned on the 24th. Loss $50,000; covered by insurance.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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BERNE, Nov. 28. - M. Hertenstein, President of Switzerland, who underwent the amputation of his right leg last week because of disease of the arteries, is dead.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1888 Jewet Dargenton, proprietor of a boarding house at Amesbury, Mass., shot his wife on the 27th and then killed himself. Jealousy prompted the act.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1888 The wire works of Morse & Whyte at Brookline, Mass., burned on the 24th. Loss $50,000; covered by insurance.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1888 On the 24th John Roche and Patrick Cavanaugh, while at work on the chimney of the new Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass., fell 120 feet with the elevator. Neither was killed but both are seriously injured.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1909 December 1 - 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
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1875 A Fast Train Accident.
A remarkable accident occurred to a passenger on the fast train from Boston on Monday. The Springfield Union says that soon after the train passed Charlton, he attempted to go from one car to another, and the terrible wind actually blew him from the platform. The horrified brakeman who saw the man go overboard like a leaf in the gale, immediately pulled the signal cord and the train was stopped, after running about an eighth of a mile. The brakeman sprang from the rear car and ran down the...
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Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
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St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1909 December 1 - 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
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1875 A Fast Train Accident.
A remarkable accident occurred to a passenger on the fast train from Boston on Monday. The Springfield Union says that soon after the train passed Charlton, he attempted to go from one car to another, and the terrible wind actually blew him from the platform. The horrified brakeman who saw the man go overboard like a leaf in the gale, immediately pulled the signal cord and the train was stopped, after running about an eighth of a mile. The brakeman sprang from the rear car and ran down the...
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Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
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1883 105 Year-old Wrestler?
Beaumont, Quebec, has an athlete 105 years old, who wants to engage in a wrestling match. Old Time will soon give him a tussle. - [New Bedford Mercury]
St. Albans Daily Messenger
St. Albans, Vermont
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Beaumont, Quebec, has an athlete 105 years old, who wants to engage in a wrestling match. Old Time will soon give him a tussle. - [New Bedford Mercury]
St. Albans Daily Messenger
St. Albans, Vermont
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America - Did you know?
1831 - Nat Turner, an enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history. He and his band of about 80 followers launch a bloody, day-long rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. The militia quells...Read MORE...www.infoplease.com
Quebec - Did you know?
In the mid 1600s, pro-birth measures were put in place to encourage population growth in New France. Allowances were granted to familes with ten or more children. Bonuses were provided to men who married before age 20 and to women who married before ...Read MORE...History of Quebec for Dummies by Eric Bedard, published by John Wiley & Sons, Canada, Ltd.
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