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 March 20, 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 March 20 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Bristol, New Hampshire, USA
(By Associated Press)
Bristol, March 20--All indications and reports point to the fact that Bristol was the center of the earthquake disturbance which occurred Tuesday evening about 7:15 o'clock. The shock was not felt in Concord, and only slightly in Laconia and Franklin.
In Bristol, it was the most severe shock for several years, and some assert it to be the heaviest they had ever experienced. It started with a heavy thud, followed by rumblings and tremors which moved in a northerly... Read MORE...
Portsmouth Herald - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - March 20, 1930
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1930 - BRISTOL CENTER OF EARTHQUAKE
(By Associated Press)
Bristol, March 20--All indications and reports point to the fact that Bristol was the center of the earthquake disturbance which occurred Tuesday evening about 7:15 o'clock. The shock was not felt in Concord, and only slightly in Laconia and Franklin.
In Bristol, it was the most severe shock for several years, and some assert it to be the heaviest they had ever experienced. It started with a heavy thud, followed by rumblings and tremors which moved in a northerly... Read MORE...
Portsmouth Herald - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - March 20, 1930
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James M. Young,
Groceries & Provisions
Meats and Grain.
4 to 10 Main Street, Preston, Conn.
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1918 - March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31).
Getting Used to the "Daylight Saving" Time.
"Daylight saving" is now a law, if not a fact, and as both the government and railroads are to adopt the new system, and most factories, the public will generally follow suit. This is not a mandatory law, but advisory, but a law of Congress was desired in this case for the same reason that it is desired in the case of prohibition. To avoid confusion and conflicting systems "daylight saving" must be national in scope.
In some localities the new... Read MORE...
The Topeka Daily Capital - Topeka, Kansas - March 20, 1918
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Crullers
Two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, three eggs three cupsful of flour, one cupful sweet milk, a small teaspoonful cream of tartar in the flour, a small half teaspoonful of soda in the milk; one tablespoonful cinnamon and nutmeg;...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, October 27, 1880
1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon ; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel ;
therefore pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are ...Read MORE...
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Newark, N.J., March 20. - Ten passengers were severely injured last night in a rear end trolley car collision, but at a late hour no fatalities had resulted. The accident happened on Belleville avenue at a point where there is a slight down grade. Car. No. 708, in charge of Motorman WILLIAM McLANE, crashed into car No. 278, in charge of Motorman BERNARD McDERMOTT. Car No. 278 had stopped to take on passengers, and McLANE could not stop his car in time to prevent the collision. He shut off the... Read MORE...
Trenton Times - Trenton, New Jersey - March 20, 1900
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1900 - TROLLEY CARS COLLIDE. TEN PERSONS INJURED AT NEWARK, N.J., IN ACCIDENT.
Newark, N.J., March 20. - Ten passengers were severely injured last night in a rear end trolley car collision, but at a late hour no fatalities had resulted. The accident happened on Belleville avenue at a point where there is a slight down grade. Car. No. 708, in charge of Motorman WILLIAM McLANE, crashed into car No. 278, in charge of Motorman BERNARD McDERMOTT. Car No. 278 had stopped to take on passengers, and McLANE could not stop his car in time to prevent the collision. He shut off the... Read MORE...
Trenton Times - Trenton, New Jersey - March 20, 1900
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1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)
In 1827 the first friction match was invented in England by John Walker. Walker's matches were sticks tipped with a mixture of chemicals that burst into flame when scratched against a rough surface.
Walker found that when the mixture dried, he could ignite the stick by drawing the head through a piece of sandpaper. Other people began making such matches, but they presented many problems. They were hard to ignite, they didn't always light properly, and the heads often came off.
In 1830 the ... Read MORE...
Alton Evening Telegraph - Alton, Illinois - March 20, 1972
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New Milford, Connecticut, USA
Train Breaks and Causes Rear End Collision - One Man Killed.
NEW MILFORD, Conn., March 20. - The midnight freight from New Haven to Pittsfield, which goes through here at 1 o'clock was badly wrecked by a rear end collision, caused by the train breaking in two parts a short distance below the station here.
Joshlin Hogan Camp, the head brakeman, whose home is at 685 Chapel street, New Haven, was killed. Two cars were badly smashed a number of others derailed and the engine was derailed but... Read MORE...
Naugatuck Daily News - Naugatuck, Connecticut - March 20, 1902
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1902 - WRECK AT NEW MILFORD.
Train Breaks and Causes Rear End Collision - One Man Killed.
NEW MILFORD, Conn., March 20. - The midnight freight from New Haven to Pittsfield, which goes through here at 1 o'clock was badly wrecked by a rear end collision, caused by the train breaking in two parts a short distance below the station here.
Joshlin Hogan Camp, the head brakeman, whose home is at 685 Chapel street, New Haven, was killed. Two cars were badly smashed a number of others derailed and the engine was derailed but... Read MORE...
Naugatuck Daily News - Naugatuck, Connecticut - March 20, 1902
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Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
The Montreal papers come filled with details of the terrible scenes connected with the partial destruction of the St. James Hotel, in that city, by fire, on Monday night. The hotel was a five story structure, and it was with extreme difficulty that the firemen were able to drag their hose up the stairs to the fourth story, where the flames first raged. Meanwhile the servants of the hotel on the upper floor, blinded by smoke and bewildered with terror, rushed frantically for the stairs, but in... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - March 20, 1873
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1873 - THE MONTREAL HOTEL FIRE. Terrible Scenes Among the Boarders and Servants - A Woman Hangs to a Window-Frame for Half and Hour - Two Lives Lost.
The Montreal papers come filled with details of the terrible scenes connected with the partial destruction of the St. James Hotel, in that city, by fire, on Monday night. The hotel was a five story structure, and it was with extreme difficulty that the firemen were able to drag their hose up the stairs to the fourth story, where the flames first raged. Meanwhile the servants of the hotel on the upper floor, blinded by smoke and bewildered with terror, rushed frantically for the stairs, but in... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - March 20, 1873
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Milford, Connecticut, USA
MILFORD, Mar. 19. Fanned by high winds, fire did considerable damage to a chimney on Smith's hotel at Milford Point early tonight, and would probably have resulted more seriously had not the firemen arrived in time to check it.
A still alarm was sent in to Chemical company, No. 3 of Myrtle Beach, which is two miles away, and when the firemen arrived on the scene, the chimney was a mass of flames. After a stubborn fight for a half hour, the blaze was extinguished.
The hotel is operated as... Read MORE...
The Bridgeport Telegram - Bridgeport, Connecticut - March 20, 1923
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1923 - WINDS FAN SPARKS, DAMAGING CHIMNEY OF MILFORD HOTEL
MILFORD, Mar. 19. Fanned by high winds, fire did considerable damage to a chimney on Smith's hotel at Milford Point early tonight, and would probably have resulted more seriously had not the firemen arrived in time to check it.
A still alarm was sent in to Chemical company, No. 3 of Myrtle Beach, which is two miles away, and when the firemen arrived on the scene, the chimney was a mass of flames. After a stubborn fight for a half hour, the blaze was extinguished.
The hotel is operated as... Read MORE...
The Bridgeport Telegram - Bridgeport, Connecticut - March 20, 1923
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1936 Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two
136 DEAD, 200,000 HOMELESS AND $300,000,000 DAMAGE IN FLOOD Estimate Eight Thousand Homeless in Maine Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two The Most Important Bridge in Maine Today Wild Androscoggin Thunders Against The North Bridge City Without Street Lights Tonight – Lewiston Pumping Station Flooded Out – Boil Water for 20 Minutes Warns Health Officer – Local Units 103d Infantry on Duty No Announcement on Bridge Reopening Lewiston's Homeless Placed At Over 400
Lewiston Evening Journal
Lewiston, Maine
March 20, 1936
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1899 March 20 – At Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
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March 20, 1899
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1852 March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in book form in Boston.
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March 20, 1852
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136 DEAD, 200,000 HOMELESS AND $300,000,000 DAMAGE IN FLOOD Estimate Eight Thousand Homeless in Maine Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two The Most Important Bridge in Maine Today Wild Androscoggin Thunders Against The North Bridge City Without Street Lights Tonight – Lewiston Pumping Station Flooded Out – Boil Water for 20 Minutes Warns Health Officer – Local Units 103d Infantry on Duty No Announcement on Bridge Reopening Lewiston's Homeless Placed At Over 400
Lewiston Evening Journal
Lewiston, Maine
March 20, 1936
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1899 March 20 – At Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
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March 20, 1899
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1852 March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in book form in Boston.
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March 20, 1852
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1886 Another Nihilistic plot having been discovered in the neighborhood of the royal palaces at St. Petersburg,
it stands the Czar in hand to have another bolt put on his door, if there is room for it, and have an additional boiler-iron counterpane spread on his bed. - Chicago News.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 20, 1886
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1869 The farmers in Ireland are complaining of great losses of potatoes, by disease.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 20, 1869
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1880 A ship canal over seven miles long is to be constructed across the Isthmus at Cohasset Narrows, in Massachusetts, at a cost of about $2,500,000.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 20, 1880
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it stands the Czar in hand to have another bolt put on his door, if there is room for it, and have an additional boiler-iron counterpane spread on his bed. - Chicago News.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 20, 1886
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1869 The farmers in Ireland are complaining of great losses of potatoes, by disease.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 20, 1869
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1880 A ship canal over seven miles long is to be constructed across the Isthmus at Cohasset Narrows, in Massachusetts, at a cost of about $2,500,000.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 20, 1880
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1944 March 20 - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
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March 20, 1944
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1902 Wind Storm
Adams, Mass., March 20. - A high wind which had prevailed all Tuesday night suddenly assumed cyclone proportions yesterday and considerable damage resulted. Covered vehicles were overturned in the streets, chimneys were demolished, trees were uprooted and the spire and belfry on the First Congregational church was wrenched off. In falling the spite took with it two large cupolas and a portion of the roof from the parish house which adjoined the church. The damage to the church property is...
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Naugatuck Daily News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
March 20, 1902
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1895 LOSSES BY FIRE.
Burlington, Vt., March 19. - Booth's planing mill and shops, the Baldwin Refrigerator Company's factory, the Vermont Shade Roller factory, and all their storage buildings, &c., burned; loss, $250,000; insurance, $125,000.
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New York, New York
March 20, 1895
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March 20, 1944
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1902 Wind Storm
Adams, Mass., March 20. - A high wind which had prevailed all Tuesday night suddenly assumed cyclone proportions yesterday and considerable damage resulted. Covered vehicles were overturned in the streets, chimneys were demolished, trees were uprooted and the spire and belfry on the First Congregational church was wrenched off. In falling the spite took with it two large cupolas and a portion of the roof from the parish house which adjoined the church. The damage to the church property is...
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Naugatuck Daily News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
March 20, 1902
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1895 LOSSES BY FIRE.
Burlington, Vt., March 19. - Booth's planing mill and shops, the Baldwin Refrigerator Company's factory, the Vermont Shade Roller factory, and all their storage buildings, &c., burned; loss, $250,000; insurance, $125,000.
The New York Times
New York, New York
March 20, 1895
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1902 ornado
Milford, March 20. - During the progress of the small cyclone which struck Milford yesterday afternoon, Mrs. John S. Mitchell was picked up by a guest[sic] of wind and thrown into the street between the wheels of a coal wagon. The driver of the vehicle just saw Mrs. Mitchell's body in time to prevent it from being crushed. As it was she badly bruised from head to foot, but it is not believed that her injuries are serious. A new hotel which is being built for Fitzroy Willard at Fort Trumbull...
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Naugatuck Daily News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
March 20, 1902
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1880 A WALLINGFORD FACTORY BURNED.
WALLINGFORD, Conn., March 19. - The shop of the Wallingford Wheel Company was found to be on fire at 8 o'clock last evening, and by 9 o'clock was burned to the ground. The fire broke out in an addition over the engine-room, but the engineer is confident that it did not catch from the furnace. The building had been unoccupied since 5:30 o'clock. It was a wooden shop, three stories in height, and 40 by 90 feet, and had two wings each about 30 feet square and two stories in height. The loss is...
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The New York Times
New York, New York
March 20, 1880
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Milford, March 20. - During the progress of the small cyclone which struck Milford yesterday afternoon, Mrs. John S. Mitchell was picked up by a guest[sic] of wind and thrown into the street between the wheels of a coal wagon. The driver of the vehicle just saw Mrs. Mitchell's body in time to prevent it from being crushed. As it was she badly bruised from head to foot, but it is not believed that her injuries are serious. A new hotel which is being built for Fitzroy Willard at Fort Trumbull...
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Naugatuck Daily News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
March 20, 1902
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1880 A WALLINGFORD FACTORY BURNED.
WALLINGFORD, Conn., March 19. - The shop of the Wallingford Wheel Company was found to be on fire at 8 o'clock last evening, and by 9 o'clock was burned to the ground. The fire broke out in an addition over the engine-room, but the engineer is confident that it did not catch from the furnace. The building had been unoccupied since 5:30 o'clock. It was a wooden shop, three stories in height, and 40 by 90 feet, and had two wings each about 30 feet square and two stories in height. The loss is...
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The New York Times
New York, New York
March 20, 1880
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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 New France, the habitant's homes were commonly built of felled timber or of rough-hewn stone, solid, low, stocky buildings, usually about twenty by forty feet or thereabouts in size, with a single doorway and very few windows. The roofs were...Read MORE...Daily Life in New France (www.chroniclesofamerica.com/ french/ daily_life_in_new_france.htm)
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