1800s Cooking Tips and RecipesFish Cakes - Cold boiled codfish, either fresh or salt, remove the bones and mince the meat; ...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., September 2, 1881
New Victoria Sewing Machines and Supplies
A. R. Acly, Jeweler, Afton, N.Y.
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Stockton, California, USA
1879 - HAVOC IN A CROWD. TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE CAUSED BY A CALIFORNIAN ENGINEER'S STUPIDITY.
San Francisco, February 22. - A terrific explosion took place today of El Dorado Street, Stockton. A crowd of more than two hundred people had assembled to witness the trial of a new propeller pump... Read MORE...
The World - New York, New York - February 26, 1879
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1879 - HAVOC IN A CROWD. TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE CAUSED BY A CALIFORNIAN ENGINEER'S STUPIDITY.
San Francisco, February 22. - A terrific explosion took place today of El Dorado Street, Stockton. A crowd of more than two hundred people had assembled to witness the trial of a new propeller pump... Read MORE...
The World - New York, New York - February 26, 1879
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St Paul, Minnesota, USA
1884 - FIRE AT ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 26. - A most disastrous fire has occurred here. The building destroyed was a large four-story warehouse at the corner of Pine and Prince streets, west end. The building was... Read MORE...
The Evening Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - February 26, 1884
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1884 - FIRE AT ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 26. - A most disastrous fire has occurred here. The building destroyed was a large four-story warehouse at the corner of Pine and Prince streets, west end. The building was... Read MORE...
The Evening Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - February 26, 1884
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Jackson, Michigan, USA
1884 - THE WORK OF DEATH. FOUR LIVES LOST AT A FIRE IN JACKSON, MICHIGAN. SURROUNDED BY FLAMES THE VICTIMS JUMP FOR THEIR LIVES.
Jackson, Mich., Feb. 26. - A conflagration swept away the Union Hall block, a four-story building, costing $125,000 in 1864, and containing four stores, a bank, a hotel and a theatre, and also burned ... Read MORE...
The Evening Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - February 26, 1884
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1884 - THE WORK OF DEATH. FOUR LIVES LOST AT A FIRE IN JACKSON, MICHIGAN. SURROUNDED BY FLAMES THE VICTIMS JUMP FOR THEIR LIVES.
Jackson, Mich., Feb. 26. - A conflagration swept away the Union Hall block, a four-story building, costing $125,000 in 1864, and containing four stores, a bank, a hotel and a theatre, and also burned ... Read MORE...
The Evening Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - February 26, 1884
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for LadiesAt a Dinner-Party - after which all present were to attend a dance, it would be in best...Read MORE...
The Ladies' Home Journal, June 1898
Pueblo, Colorado, USA
1892 - Newsboy Run Over and Killed
Last Friday evening as two Lake cars were passing at D street in Pueblo, a newsboy dodged behind one and in coming in front of the other was struck by it and instantly killed. He was taken to McMahon ... Read MORE...
Akron Pioneer Press - Akron, Ohio - February 26, 1892
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1892 - Newsboy Run Over and Killed
Last Friday evening as two Lake cars were passing at D street in Pueblo, a newsboy dodged behind one and in coming in front of the other was struck by it and instantly killed. He was taken to McMahon ... Read MORE...
Akron Pioneer Press - Akron, Ohio - February 26, 1892
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1732 February 26 - 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, St Joseph's, Philadelphia
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1870 At a recent celebration of the Lord's Supper, in Bradford, Mass., the silver goblets used by the church in 1730, 140 years ago, were made use of.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
1870 There are 226,000 children in Maine between the ages of four and twenty-one, and only fifty per cent of these attend school.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1870 At a recent celebration of the Lord's Supper, in Bradford, Mass., the silver goblets used by the church in 1730, 140 years ago, were made use of.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
1870 There are 226,000 children in Maine between the ages of four and twenty-one, and only fifty per cent of these attend school.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
1870 The Congregational church at Townsend Centre, Mass., have discontinued the use of fermented wines at their communion services, using instead the expressed juice of raisins.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
1870 John Goold was recently released from the State Prison at Thomaston, Maine,
on account of a dying confession of a man who, years before, had committed a murder for which Goold suffered imprisonment.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
1870 An Amsterdam (N. Y.) man has invented a patent glass coffin, which can be hermetically sealed after the air is exhausted, thus preserving bodies perfectly without embalming.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
1870 John Goold was recently released from the State Prison at Thomaston, Maine,
on account of a dying confession of a man who, years before, had committed a murder for which Goold suffered imprisonment.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
1870 An Amsterdam (N. Y.) man has invented a patent glass coffin, which can be hermetically sealed after the air is exhausted, thus preserving bodies perfectly without embalming.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
America - Did you know? 1850 - The continuing debate whether territory gained in the Mexican War should be open to slavery...Read MORE...www.infoplease.com
Quebec - Did you know? In New France, children of fur traders and their Indian wives were known as Metis.
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The Larkin Factories, Buffalo, N.Y.
Over Fifty Acres of Floor Space. Visitors Welcome.
The Larkin Company are the World's Largest Manufacturers of Soaps and Toilet Preparations and are important Food Specialists. The entire output of the Larkin Factories goes direct from the Factory to Family, thus saving for customers the expenses and profits of wholesalers and retailers.
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