Sunday, December 29, 2019

1835 - AWFUL CONFLAGRATION !! Our city has just been the theatre and the victim of the most disastrous visitation ever known to this Continent !!


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November 1898
Manhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam) (Washington Heights)

1835 - AWFUL CONFLAGRATION !!
Our city has just been the theatre and the victim of the most disastrous visitation ever known to this Continent !! The heart of her business, her commerce, and her wealth, is now a blackened mass of ... Read MORE...

Huron Reflector  -  Norwalk, Ohio -  December 29, 1835
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1851 - DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, Saturday, Dec. 27.
A destructive fire broke out at 1 o'clock this morning, in HART'S Building, corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets. The flames spread with great rapidity, destroying... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York -  December 29, 1851
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York, Pennsylvania, USA (Yorktown)

1888  Hall Collapses

A Hall at York, Pa., collapsed on the 26th during an entertainment, burying three hundred persons in the ruins, and large number were seriously injured.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  December 29, 1888
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

Spiced Cabbage - Cut a head of cabbage into small slices, put it into a two or three quart...Read MORE...



The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., July 28, 1880

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November 1898
Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA (Ayers Village)

1893 - HUNDRED LIVES IN DANGER. Ice In the River at Haverhill Breaks Up While People Are Crossing.
HAVERHILL, Mass., Dec. 28. - Special Telegram - The Merrimac River was the scene this noon of a narrow escape from a frightful accident. More than 100 men, women, and children were on the ice. Since... Read MORE...

The Daily Inter Ocean -  Chicago, Illinois -  December 29, 1893
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Bismarck, North Dakota, USA

1930 - CAPITOL BUILDING AT BISMARCK, N. DAKOTA, BURNED TO THE GROUND. FIRE STARTS IN STATE ENGINEER'S OFFICE; FLAMES RACING THROUGH STRUCTURE WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVE.
LOSS OF STATE PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS SO GREAT, CALL ISSUED FOR LEGISLATURE TO MEET AT ONCE.

INSURANCE POLICIES ON BUILDING TOTAL $600,000; LOSS ESTIMATE AT FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE.

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Winnipeg Free Press -  Winnpeg, Manitoba -  December 29, 1930
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Sebring, Florida, USA

1943 - SIX DIE WHEN BOMBER CRASHES IN HEAVY FOG.
Hendricks Field, Sebring, Fla., Dec. 29 - (AP) -
Heavy fog which came up unexpectedly was given as the cause of the crash of a heavy bomber hear here Monday night in which six fliers were killed,... Read MORE...

Panama City News-Herald -  Panama City, Florida -  December 29, 1943
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies

No lady should drink wine at dinner. Even if her head is strong enough to bear it, she will find...Read MORE...



The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Handbook for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society... by Florence Hartley, January 1, 1872
Lake Placid, New York, USA

1966 - FIVE PRESUMED DEAD IN BLAZE AT LAKE PLACID'S MARCY HOTEL.
Special to The Post-Standard.
Lake Placid - A search of ice-sheathed debris will begin Thursday in an effort to recover the bodies of five men missing and presumed dead after a fire Wednesday which... Read MORE...

The Post-Standard -  Syracuse, New York -  December 29, 1966
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1830  December 29 - A very heavy snowstorm ushered in the "winter of the deep snow." The storm produced 30 inches of snow at Peoria IL and 36 inches at Kansas City MO.

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1852  December 29 - Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants

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1890  December 29 - Wounded Knee Massacre occurred - 7th Cavalry killed more than 250 Lakota men, women and children; Sitting Bull killed at Little Eagle; Indian wars ended

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America - Did you know? 1822: Denmark Vesey, an enslaved African American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a...Read MORE...



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Quebec - Did you know? A typical French-Canadian building is the farmhouse. It is based on structures in the French...Read MORE...



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The Ladies' Home Journal
September 1898
Died December 29

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