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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated January 8, 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 8 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
King of Malaria
Chill Tonic
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Feather Cake One cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, one egg, one cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of cream-tartar, one-half as much soda.
Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
suddenly found himself sinking in the quicksand to his knees, and with all his efforts he was unable to extricate himself. The well had been sunk to the depth of thirty feet, and Wing, being heavy, all efforts to hoist him out were unavailing, the work being carried on through the whole of the night, and much excitement prevailing on his account. Two professional miners were procured in Boston the next morning to try their skill, and his release was finally effected by the use of long-bitted... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - January 8, 1870
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1870 - A man by the name of Wing, at work in the bottom of a well at Cutter village, in Winchester, Mass.,
suddenly found himself sinking in the quicksand to his knees, and with all his efforts he was unable to extricate himself. The well had been sunk to the depth of thirty feet, and Wing, being heavy, all efforts to hoist him out were unavailing, the work being carried on through the whole of the night, and much excitement prevailing on his account. Two professional miners were procured in Boston the next morning to try their skill, and his release was finally effected by the use of long-bitted... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - January 8, 1870
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666 Malarial Preparation
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Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
A big smashup of freight cars occurred Saturday evening on the Pennsylvania Railroad at the Murray street crossing, Elizabeth, and was the indirect cause of the death of two men. The east bound trains were running close together. The head train was stopped by a signal at the point where the Central Road crosses. The heavy grade in the approach to this crossing was too great for the delayed train to climb, and the train behind was signaled to move forward and assist by pushing up the grade. As... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - January 8, 1892
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1892 - FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Two Freight Trains Crash Together at Elizabeth.
A big smashup of freight cars occurred Saturday evening on the Pennsylvania Railroad at the Murray street crossing, Elizabeth, and was the indirect cause of the death of two men. The east bound trains were running close together. The head train was stopped by a signal at the point where the Central Road crosses. The heavy grade in the approach to this crossing was too great for the delayed train to climb, and the train behind was signaled to move forward and assist by pushing up the grade. As... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - January 8, 1892
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
It is extremely indecent to spit, cough, and expectorate, (as it were,) in company, as some hearty fellows are apt to do; and more so, when you have blown your nose, to draw aside and examine the contents of your handkerchief; as if you expected pearls or rubies to distil from your brain.
Keene, New Hampshire, USA
While jointing some heavy two-inch planks upon the buzz planer at Nims, Whitney & Co.'s, Thursday morning, Oscar H. Fay let his left hand slip from the work which he was holding. The fingers struck upon the planer knife and in an instant were terribly cut and torn. The small finger was severed below the second joint, the next one between the joints, and the middle finger was split or planed off so that the first joint will be stiff. Mr. Fay was taken at once to the office of Dr. Gleason and his ... Read MORE...
New Hampshire Sentinel - Keene, New Hampshire - January 8, 1890
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1890 - Three Fingers Mangled.
While jointing some heavy two-inch planks upon the buzz planer at Nims, Whitney & Co.'s, Thursday morning, Oscar H. Fay let his left hand slip from the work which he was holding. The fingers struck upon the planer knife and in an instant were terribly cut and torn. The small finger was severed below the second joint, the next one between the joints, and the middle finger was split or planed off so that the first joint will be stiff. Mr. Fay was taken at once to the office of Dr. Gleason and his ... Read MORE...
New Hampshire Sentinel - Keene, New Hampshire - January 8, 1890
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Andover, Massachusetts, USA
Boston, Friday, Jan. 7.
Accounts from Andover this morning, state that General PIERCE and lady are now at the house of JOHN AIKEN at that place. They obtained some rest last night, and have not received much if any physical injury. The following is a correct list of the persons injured:
MR. NEWELL, of Cambridge, had his ribs broken, and is beyond recovery.
BENJ. KITRIDGE, of Pelham, N. H., one leg broken and otherwise seriously bruised.
The wife of JASON H. J. NEWELL, of Hillsboro, N. H., ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 8, 1853
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1853 - THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT - LATER PARTICULARS.
Boston, Friday, Jan. 7.
Accounts from Andover this morning, state that General PIERCE and lady are now at the house of JOHN AIKEN at that place. They obtained some rest last night, and have not received much if any physical injury. The following is a correct list of the persons injured:
MR. NEWELL, of Cambridge, had his ribs broken, and is beyond recovery.
BENJ. KITRIDGE, of Pelham, N. H., one leg broken and otherwise seriously bruised.
The wife of JASON H. J. NEWELL, of Hillsboro, N. H., ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 8, 1853
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Tiffin, Ohio, USA
TIFFIN, O., January 4. - The fast train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at an early hours this morning, collided with an East-bound freight near this city, wrecking both trains. Nineteen bodies have been taken from the wreck; more are injured. Three coaches are burned. Physicians have gone to the scene from here. The weather is very cold, the thermometer about 10 degrees below zero.
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.
The fast train on the Baltimore & Ohio, which left New York about 9 o'clock... Read MORE...
The Rolla New Era - Rolla, Missouri - January 8, 1887
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1887 - TERRIBLE SMASH-UP ON THE BALTIMORE & OHIO ROAD.
TIFFIN, O., January 4. - The fast train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at an early hours this morning, collided with an East-bound freight near this city, wrecking both trains. Nineteen bodies have been taken from the wreck; more are injured. Three coaches are burned. Physicians have gone to the scene from here. The weather is very cold, the thermometer about 10 degrees below zero.
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.
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The Rolla New Era - Rolla, Missouri - January 8, 1887
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Augusta, Maine, USA
Two Blocks in Trade Centre of the City Burned Over.
AUGUSTA, Me., Jan. 7. - Two large brick blocks in the trade centre of the city and occupied by the First National Bank and several stores were burned here to-day. The loss is estimated at $200,000.
The flames were first noticed near the furnace in the basement of Whitman & Adam's store and spread rapidly. Soon the aspect of the fire was so threatening that the combined fire forces of Waterville, Gardiner, and Hallowell fought for five... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 8, 1904
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1904 - $200,000 FIRE IN AUGUSTA, ME.
Two Blocks in Trade Centre of the City Burned Over.
AUGUSTA, Me., Jan. 7. - Two large brick blocks in the trade centre of the city and occupied by the First National Bank and several stores were burned here to-day. The loss is estimated at $200,000.
The flames were first noticed near the furnace in the basement of Whitman & Adam's store and spread rapidly. Soon the aspect of the fire was so threatening that the combined fire forces of Waterville, Gardiner, and Hallowell fought for five... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 8, 1904
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Brooklyn, New York, USA (Flatlands) (Flatbush) (Coney Island)
Three Fatalities and Many Injured in Brooklyn Collision.
Electric Train, Crowded with Passengers, Crashes Into Rear End of Stalled Locomotive and Cars.
Three were killed and many injured in a rear-end collision on the Kings County Eelevated [sic] Railroad in Brooklyn yesterday morning. The colliding cars caught fire, and others were hurt in the panic which ensued.
A four-car train of the Fulton Street Division drawn by a steam locomotive pulled out of the East New York yard at Alabama... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 8, 1904
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1904 - DEATH IN ELEVATED WRECK
Three Fatalities and Many Injured in Brooklyn Collision.
Electric Train, Crowded with Passengers, Crashes Into Rear End of Stalled Locomotive and Cars.
Three were killed and many injured in a rear-end collision on the Kings County Eelevated [sic] Railroad in Brooklyn yesterday morning. The colliding cars caught fire, and others were hurt in the panic which ensued.
A four-car train of the Fulton Street Division drawn by a steam locomotive pulled out of the East New York yard at Alabama... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 8, 1904
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Webster, Massachusetts, USA
Last Survivor of Nipunk Tribe Sets Her House on Fire and Dies Rather then Go to the Poorhouse.
WEBSTER, Mass., Jan. 7. Investigation of the causes which led to the burning to death last night of Lucy Boston Johnson, aged 105, the last of the Nipunk Indians, makes it evident that she committed suicide to escape being taken to the Town Farm. It was first thought that she was the victim of an incendiary fire.
It is now said the woman threw a lighted candle into a bundle of rags which lay in... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 8, 1900
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1900 - SUICIDE WAS 105 YEARS OLD.
Last Survivor of Nipunk Tribe Sets Her House on Fire and Dies Rather then Go to the Poorhouse.
WEBSTER, Mass., Jan. 7. Investigation of the causes which led to the burning to death last night of Lucy Boston Johnson, aged 105, the last of the Nipunk Indians, makes it evident that she committed suicide to escape being taken to the Town Farm. It was first thought that she was the victim of an incendiary fire.
It is now said the woman threw a lighted candle into a bundle of rags which lay in... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 8, 1900
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Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
A Melancholy Accident occurred at Sorel, Canada on the 24th ult., by which a mother was deprived of life by the agency of her child of about three years of age. It appears that the child had been allowed to make a plaything of a pistol, which belonged to its father, John Callagher, who had on the day previous, loaded it, and put it away, as the thought, in a place of safety. The child, however, got hold of it, and, in its sport, drew the trigger, and the contents lodged in the mother's head,... Read MORE...
New-Hampshire Gazette - New Hampshire - January 8, 1839
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1839 - Melancholy Accident
A Melancholy Accident occurred at Sorel, Canada on the 24th ult., by which a mother was deprived of life by the agency of her child of about three years of age. It appears that the child had been allowed to make a plaything of a pistol, which belonged to its father, John Callagher, who had on the day previous, loaded it, and put it away, as the thought, in a place of safety. The child, however, got hold of it, and, in its sport, drew the trigger, and the contents lodged in the mother's head,... Read MORE...
New-Hampshire Gazette - New Hampshire - January 8, 1839
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1902 January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and led to the banning of Steam locomotives in the state.
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1863 January 8 - Ground is broken in Sacramento, California, on the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.
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1870 In the new Lutheran church at Hagerstown, Md., a large hand is painted on the wall in the vestibule, pointing down to a spittoon with the inscription, "Please leave your tobacco there."
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1863 January 8 - Ground is broken in Sacramento, California, on the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.
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1870 In the new Lutheran church at Hagerstown, Md., a large hand is painted on the wall in the vestibule, pointing down to a spittoon with the inscription, "Please leave your tobacco there."
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1870 A tradesman of Portsmouth, N. H., has advertised in every issue of a paper of that city for the last twenty-two years.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1870 Some of the women school teachers of Randolph, Mass., are selling books to their scholars for twenty per cent more than the regular price,
alleging that their salary is too small to support them without this traffic.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1870 A man in Stockbridge, Mass., got a prescription for rheumatism the other day, and, with a sublime indifference to all directions, swallowed the whole at a dose. He died.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1870 Some of the women school teachers of Randolph, Mass., are selling books to their scholars for twenty per cent more than the regular price,
alleging that their salary is too small to support them without this traffic.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1870 A man in Stockbridge, Mass., got a prescription for rheumatism the other day, and, with a sublime indifference to all directions, swallowed the whole at a dose. He died.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1870 A man gave himself into the custody of the Philadelphia police the other evening, representing that he had, on the 20th of November, killed his mother by a blow at Canandaigua, N.Y.
He was searched, as is usual, and put into a cell, and subsequently it was discovered that he had a razor, and was in the act of cutting his throat. On the day following the sister of the prisoner waited upon Detective Gordon and said that her mother was alive and well.
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1896 The Hotel Baltzel Burned
LYONS, N Y, Jan. 8 The Hotel Baltzel, the largest hotel in Wayne county, was partially destroyed by fire. During the fire Josie Fitzgerald of Port Byron, the cook and Lillian Dippy of this place, a dining room girl, jumped from the third story window to the ground, a distance of 40 feet. Miss Fitzgerald sustained a broken leg, injuries to the chest and head and was also internally hurt. Miss Dippy was also injured internally, and it is feared both will die.
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He was searched, as is usual, and put into a cell, and subsequently it was discovered that he had a razor, and was in the act of cutting his throat. On the day following the sister of the prisoner waited upon Detective Gordon and said that her mother was alive and well.
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1896 The Hotel Baltzel Burned
LYONS, N Y, Jan. 8 The Hotel Baltzel, the largest hotel in Wayne county, was partially destroyed by fire. During the fire Josie Fitzgerald of Port Byron, the cook and Lillian Dippy of this place, a dining room girl, jumped from the third story window to the ground, a distance of 40 feet. Miss Fitzgerald sustained a broken leg, injuries to the chest and head and was also internally hurt. Miss Dippy was also injured internally, and it is feared both will die.
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America - Did you know?
January 1, 1892 - Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station of the U.S.
Quebec - Did you know?
In Quebec, it is regarded unlucky to present a gift of 13 flowers. Avoid giving chrysanthemums and white lilies as they are used during funerals.
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