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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated January 22, 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 22 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
1876 - Business Maxims
1. After the feast the giver shakes his head.
2. The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
3. Creditors have excellent memories.
4. Caution is the father of security.
5. He who pays beforehand is served behindhand.
6. If you would know the value of a dollar try to borrow one.
7. Great bargains have ruined many.
8. Be silent when a fool talks.
9. Give a foolish talker rope enough and he will hang himself.
10. Never speak boastingly of your business.
11. It is... Read MORE...
The Osage City Free Press - Osage City, Kansas - Sat., January 22, 1876
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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December 1898
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Sucre a la Crème
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September 1898
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
By Publishers Press Direct Wire.
Philadelphia, Jan. 22. - The building inspectors are blamed for the panic at St. Paul's African Baptist Church, at Eighth Street and Girard Avenue, in which eighteen negroes were crushed to death and over 60 injured yesterday.
Coroner Jerome will hold a thorough investigation and he will be aided in this by the police authorities.
Superintendent of Police Taylor and Captain Hamm made an examination of the heater and the flue from which the fire... Read MORE...
Trenton Times - Trenton, New Jersey - January 22, 1906
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1906 - BUILDING INSPECTORS BLAMED FOR PHILADELPHIA CHURCH HORROR. EIGHTEEN DEAD AND MORE THAN SIXTY INJURED IN PANIC FOLLOWING DISCOVERY OF FIRE IN CHURCH - DISASTER ACCOMPANIED BY MOST HORRIBLE SCENES.
By Publishers Press Direct Wire.
Philadelphia, Jan. 22. - The building inspectors are blamed for the panic at St. Paul's African Baptist Church, at Eighth Street and Girard Avenue, in which eighteen negroes were crushed to death and over 60 injured yesterday.
Coroner Jerome will hold a thorough investigation and he will be aided in this by the police authorities.
Superintendent of Police Taylor and Captain Hamm made an examination of the heater and the flue from which the fire... Read MORE...
Trenton Times - Trenton, New Jersey - January 22, 1906
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Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Omaha, Jan. 22. - There was a collision of trains on the Belt Line division of the Missouri Pacific, within the city limits.
WILLIAM BOYLE, a local Democratic politician, was killed instantly.
J. SCHWARICK, deputy county treasurer, was injured internally.
J. A. HARVEY, badly crushed, probably fatally.
__ VANDERVENTER, badly crushed, probably fatally.
S. FRABER, both legs broken.
FRANK CHURCH, both legs broken.
Two brothers named MITCLAFF, railroad shop boys, were seriously injured; one ... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - January 22, 1890
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1890 - COLLISION OF TRAINS. ONE MAN INSTANTLY KILLED AND OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Omaha, Jan. 22. - There was a collision of trains on the Belt Line division of the Missouri Pacific, within the city limits.
WILLIAM BOYLE, a local Democratic politician, was killed instantly.
J. SCHWARICK, deputy county treasurer, was injured internally.
J. A. HARVEY, badly crushed, probably fatally.
__ VANDERVENTER, badly crushed, probably fatally.
S. FRABER, both legs broken.
FRANK CHURCH, both legs broken.
Two brothers named MITCLAFF, railroad shop boys, were seriously injured; one ... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - January 22, 1890
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
Let your dress be conformable to the customs of the age you live in, and suitable to your condition: for it is not in our power to alter the general fashions at our pleasure; which, as they are produced, so they are swallowed up, by...Read MORE...
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St Paul, Minnesota, USA
St. Paul, Jan. 21. - At 7 o'clock this morning fire broke out in the coat room of the Grand Opera House. The place caught fire during the absence of the caretaker at breakfast. The Grand Opera House was situated in the business part of the city, and was surrounded by some of the best buildings in town. Back of it is the mammoth Globe Building, while on either side are large buildings. The entire Fire Department was called out and went to work with a will. The mercury was then about 14 degrees... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 22, 1889
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1889 - AN OPERA HOUSE BURNED. ST. PAUL LOSES ITS CHIEF PLACE OF AMUSEMENT - LOSS $200,000.
St. Paul, Jan. 21. - At 7 o'clock this morning fire broke out in the coat room of the Grand Opera House. The place caught fire during the absence of the caretaker at breakfast. The Grand Opera House was situated in the business part of the city, and was surrounded by some of the best buildings in town. Back of it is the mammoth Globe Building, while on either side are large buildings. The entire Fire Department was called out and went to work with a will. The mercury was then about 14 degrees... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 22, 1889
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Greenfield, Saratoga, New York, USA
In the north part of Saratoga county, Greenfield, N. Y., and in the last part of the old year, there was a trio of weddings in one house at the same time, on which occasion and old lady and her two daughters were led to the alter. The mother was a widow; the first daughter was a widow of two months, and her husband a widow of four months; the other was a miss of sweet seventeen, and the espoused of a man of about thirty years, who had recently obtained a divorce from a former wife. The dominie... Read MORE...
Reading Times - Reading, Pennsylvania - January 22, 1869
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1869 - A Triple Wedding
In the north part of Saratoga county, Greenfield, N. Y., and in the last part of the old year, there was a trio of weddings in one house at the same time, on which occasion and old lady and her two daughters were led to the alter. The mother was a widow; the first daughter was a widow of two months, and her husband a widow of four months; the other was a miss of sweet seventeen, and the espoused of a man of about thirty years, who had recently obtained a divorce from a former wife. The dominie... Read MORE...
Reading Times - Reading, Pennsylvania - January 22, 1869
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New Britain, Connecticut, USA
NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 21. — An explosion in the basement of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church here at 12:30 to-night caused a fire which totally destroyed the interior of the structure. Fathers Harty and Leddy ran into the burning building and attempted to save the blessed sacrament.
The flames were so hot, however, that they did not succeed, and the priests were rescued with difficulty by the firemen. The church was built in 1888, and is one of the most beautiful in New England. It is... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New Haven, Connecticut - January 22, 1904
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1904 - Interior of Edifice Ruined and Two Priests Endangered.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 21. — An explosion in the basement of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church here at 12:30 to-night caused a fire which totally destroyed the interior of the structure. Fathers Harty and Leddy ran into the burning building and attempted to save the blessed sacrament.
The flames were so hot, however, that they did not succeed, and the priests were rescued with difficulty by the firemen. The church was built in 1888, and is one of the most beautiful in New England. It is... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New Haven, Connecticut - January 22, 1904
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Berea, Ohio, USA
Vehicle Demolished By Impact; Cries of Victims Add to Horror of Scene; Tragedy Fourth of Kind in State in Three Weeks.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan 22. (A.P.) - The worst railroad crossing accident in Ohio in a year today killed nine small children and the driver of the bus in which they were riding, at Sheldon road, near Berea, Ohio, 15 miles from Cleveland. One other child was seriously injured.
Rushing toward Chicago, 45 miles and hour, a New York Central mail train struck the bus squarely in... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - January 22, 1930
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1930 - Train Crashes Into School Bus; Nine Little Children, Driver Killed at Crossing. Three Others Are Injured Near Berea, Ohio; Two May Die; Bodies Hurled Along Tracks.
Vehicle Demolished By Impact; Cries of Victims Add to Horror of Scene; Tragedy Fourth of Kind in State in Three Weeks.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan 22. (A.P.) - The worst railroad crossing accident in Ohio in a year today killed nine small children and the driver of the bus in which they were riding, at Sheldon road, near Berea, Ohio, 15 miles from Cleveland. One other child was seriously injured.
Rushing toward Chicago, 45 miles and hour, a New York Central mail train struck the bus squarely in... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - January 22, 1930
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New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Westville)
TWO EXPLOSIONS ENSUE.
ONE WORKMAN KILLED INSTANTLY AND TWO SUBSEQUENTLY PERISH IN THE FIRE.
MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGE.
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 21. -- The building on Crown Street, opposite Orange, occupied by English & Mersick and two other firms, was destroyed by fire this morning, which started from an explosion.
Three lives were lost.
The killed:
JOSEPH C. HAUSER, machinist, aged 38.
J. T. TOOF, aged 40.
HARBONA STEVENS, aged 21.
About 10:30 o'clock this morning FRANK P.... Read MORE...
San Francisco Call - San Francisco, California - January 22, 1896
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1896 - LIVES LOST IN RAGING FLAMES. THREE MEN SACRIFICED BY A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT WITH GAS.
TWO EXPLOSIONS ENSUE.
ONE WORKMAN KILLED INSTANTLY AND TWO SUBSEQUENTLY PERISH IN THE FIRE.
MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGE.
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 21. -- The building on Crown Street, opposite Orange, occupied by English & Mersick and two other firms, was destroyed by fire this morning, which started from an explosion.
Three lives were lost.
The killed:
JOSEPH C. HAUSER, machinist, aged 38.
J. T. TOOF, aged 40.
HARBONA STEVENS, aged 21.
About 10:30 o'clock this morning FRANK P.... Read MORE...
San Francisco Call - San Francisco, California - January 22, 1896
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1901 January 22 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies at age 81, after more than 63 years on the throne, and her son the Prince of Wales formally succeeds her as King Edward VII.
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1943 January 22, 1943 - Chinook winds during the early morning hours caused the temperature at Spearfish SD to rise from 4 below zero to 45 above in just two minutes, the most dramatic temperature rise in world weather records.
An hour and a half later the mercury plunged from 54 above to 4 below zero in twenty-seven minutes.
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Madeleine Korbel Albright was nominated to be the first woman Secretary of State by President William Jefferson Clinton on December 5, 1996, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 22, 1997, and sworn in the next day. She served in the position for four years and ended her service on January 20, 2001.
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1901 January 22 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies at age 81, after more than 63 years on the throne, and her son the Prince of Wales formally succeeds her as King Edward VII.
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1943 January 22, 1943 - Chinook winds during the early morning hours caused the temperature at Spearfish SD to rise from 4 below zero to 45 above in just two minutes, the most dramatic temperature rise in world weather records.
An hour and a half later the mercury plunged from 54 above to 4 below zero in twenty-seven minutes.
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1870 A Hudson, N.Y., paper holds out an inducement to the young men of that town to enlist in the temperance ranks as follows:
The handsomest girl in the village belongs to the Sons of Temperance. As she intends to have a member of the Order for a husband, and she has not yet made her choice, here is a fine opportunity for all the young men in the city to join this Order, and yet how sad it is that so many young men will seek the sting of the serpent rather than the smiles of a lovely woman.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1673 January 22 - Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
"In 1673, Governor Francis Lovelace of New York set up a monthly post between New York and Boston. The service was short-lived, but the post rider’s trail became known as the Old Boston Post Road, part of today’s U.S. Route 1..."
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1904 STUDENTS ESCAPE FLAMES.
Greensboro, N. C., Jan. 22. - Three hundred and fifty young women students were forced to flee in their night clothing as a result of a fire which destroyed the main dining room, dormitory, and laundry of the State Normal college. Only one-third of the students saved their personal effects.
The Cedar Rapids Evening
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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The handsomest girl in the village belongs to the Sons of Temperance. As she intends to have a member of the Order for a husband, and she has not yet made her choice, here is a fine opportunity for all the young men in the city to join this Order, and yet how sad it is that so many young men will seek the sting of the serpent rather than the smiles of a lovely woman.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1673 January 22 - Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
"In 1673, Governor Francis Lovelace of New York set up a monthly post between New York and Boston. The service was short-lived, but the post rider’s trail became known as the Old Boston Post Road, part of today’s U.S. Route 1..."
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1904 STUDENTS ESCAPE FLAMES.
Greensboro, N. C., Jan. 22. - Three hundred and fifty young women students were forced to flee in their night clothing as a result of a fire which destroyed the main dining room, dormitory, and laundry of the State Normal college. Only one-third of the students saved their personal effects.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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America - Did you know?
1870 - Christmas became a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
Quebec - Did you know?
Tobacco was used freely in New France. Nearly every farmer planted tobacco near his home. Men and boys around age 12 or above often smoked pipes. The women were smokers, too, but more commonly they used tobacco in the form of snuff.
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October 1898
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