1896 - An Aeronaut Killed

G. G. Whittaker, 1897

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Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

1896 - An Aeronaut Killed
Grand Rapids, Mich., June 29. - Hiram Cole, twenty-six years old, a professional aeronaut, living in Big Rapids, Mich., fell thirty feet from his balloon while making an ascension at a surburban... Read MORE...

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Sharon, Massachusetts, USA

1896 - FOUND WATERY GRAVES
Sharon, Mass., June 30. - What was intended to be a week’s enjoyable outing was brought to an abrupt and sad close at Lake Massapoag Monday afternoon. Assistant Pastor Rev. Joseph Maxwell, Choir... Read MORE...

Evening Bulletin -  Decatur, Illinois -  June 30, 1896
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Houston, Texas, USA

1896 - BOILER EXPLODES Disaster in a Texas Newspaper Office - Three Lives Lost
Houston, Tex., June 30 - Shortly after three o'clock Monday afternoon the boiler in the office of the Daily Age exploded, killing Engineer Henry Lyons, Miss Mattie Loeb, a stenographer in the office... Read MORE...

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Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (L'Enfant-Jésus-de-la-Pointe-aux-Trembles)

1912 - Village Wiped Out by Fire
MONTREAL, June 29. - The village of Pointe Aux Trembles was almost wiped out by fire which broke out late yesterday, destroying fifty houses and stores. Two hundred persons are homeless. Pointe Aux... Read MORE...

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Watertown, New York, USA

1918 - CHILD RESCUED FROM FIRE WITH MUCH DIFFICULTY - Fireman Goes Up Three Flights for Third Time to Save Baby.
Watertown, June 29. - A fire which broke out about 10:30 this evening among the boxes in the basement of the Cooperative store, a stock concern that occupies the ground floor of the Britton block in... Read MORE...

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Rensselaer, New York, USA

1949 - MOTHER AND CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
Rensselaer, N.Y. - (U.P.) - A young mother and her two-year old daughter were burned to death in a fire that swept their two-story home here early today.

Police identified the victims as JEANNINE... Read MORE...

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1859  June 30 - Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope

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1886  June 30 - The second destructive hurricane in nine days hit the Apalachicola-Tallahassee area.

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1897  The Prescott Electric Company
expects to get their street lamps in position in time to turn the current on and test them on Monday evening.

Weekly Journal-Miner
Prescott, Arizona

1942  June 30 - The temperature at Portland, OR, hit 102 degrees, an all-time record for that location.

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"The Woodbury Soap Company is an American manufacturer of personal care products such as cold cream, facial cream, facial powder, after-shave talc and ear swabs. Founded in Albany, New York in 1870, the company was sponsor to popular radio programs in the 1930s and 1940s.

The John H. Woodbury company was established in 1870 in Albany, New York by a dermatologist. The company was still in New York in 1901, making and retailing soap, when the Andrew Jergens Company (now a subsidiary of Kao) purchased the company which owned the soap brand, and moved the headquarters to Cincinnati, Ohio." wikipedia

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1893 - COWS MILKED BY FISH

St. Andrews Wine of Life Root, Female Regulator for Women
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Lachine, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Saints-Anges-de-Lachine)

1825 - 700 Irish Arrive
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Dunstable, Massachusetts, USA

1869 - Strict Laws
At Dunstable, Mass., in 1651, dancing at weddings was forbidden, and in 1660 William Walker was imprisoned for a month for courting a maid without the leave of her parents. In 1675 the wearing of... Read MORE...

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A Simple Apple Sauce

Decatur, Michigan, USA

1893 - THEIR GREAT MATRIMONIAL SCORE.
Lysander Morse and Phoebe Macomber, of Decatur, Michigan, were married sixty-five years ago. It was a love match that won the envy of all their neighbors by its promise of happiness. The couple lived ... Read MORE...

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Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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Lydia Estes Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" meant to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains. Although Pinkham's Vegetable Compound sold well to the general public, it was regarded by health experts as quackery... wikipedia

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1893 - COWS MILKED BY FISH
A New Hope, Bucks county, dispatch says: The discovery that a German carp drinks milk, has averted what threatened to be wholesale suits for theft. Michael Tiernan for several months, or ever since... Read MORE...

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Louisville, Kentucky, USA

1894 - AN ELECTRIC STORM
Does a Large Amount of Damage at Louisville.
MANY HOUSES UNROOFED AND RAZED.
Electricity Causes a Panic Among Two Hundred Sewing Girls – Men Shocked and Burned by Falling Electric Wires,... Read MORE...

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Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)

1897 - Steamship on the Rocks
Champlain, Que., June 27 - The steamship Turret Bay, Montreal for Sydney, C. B. is ashore at Point Aux Roches, near here. The vessel is in a dangerous position, resting on a rocky bottom. Attempts... Read MORE...

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

1898 - Open Air Courtship
With the coming of summer in New York the open air courtships begin. There is hardly the shadow of a friendly tree without a pair of lovers under it, and there is certainly not a bench in the park on ... Read MORE...

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1770  June 28 - Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia

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1776  June 28 - Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack

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1832 June 28, 1832: Cholera epidemic began in N.Y.C.

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Robert J. MacConnell Dairy bottlecap

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1868 - Interesting Marriage

1890's ad
Hires Rootbeer
Philadelphia, Penn.

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Topsfield, Massachusetts, USA

1868 - Interesting Marriage
The Salem (Mass.) Gazette says: "On Tuesday of last week Mr. Wm. Blodgett, a resident of Topsfield, who severed creditably in the army in the late war, and is looking for a pension for support,... Read MORE...

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Bolton, Massachusetts, USA

1885  The fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Samuel Brown Hayes and Miss Rebecca Hosmer was celebrated at their residence in Bolton, Mass.,

lately, where they have lived fifty years. Mrs. Hayes was the fourth daughter of the late Nathan David Hosmer, of Acton, and is the fourth child in the family who has celebrated a golden wedding.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 27, 1885
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1889 - FRIGHTFUL WRECKS. Two Freight Trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad Reduced to Debris. A Large Number of Train-Hands and Passengers Killed and Wounded.
PITTSBURGH, PA., June 26. - At 2:20 a.m. today west-bound freight No. 1313 telescoped the extra west-bound freight No. 308 at Monastery Coke-works, near Latrobe station on the Pennsylvania railroad.... Read MORE...

Daily Republican -  Decatur, Illinois -  June 27, 1889
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Spooner, Wisconsin, USA

1908 - FIRE AT SPOONER, WIS. Loss of Fifteen Thousand Dollars by Early Morning Blaze.
SPOONER, Wis., June 26. - Fire broke out in Tnen & Idean's saloon at 2 o'clock this morning, consuming the building and entire contents, as well as two adjoining buildings occupied by Charles Yep as... Read MORE...

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1897 ad found in Sears & Roebuck Catalog
Colman's Mustard
Norwich, England

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1833  June 27 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn

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1901  June 27 - There was a rain of fish from the sky at Tiller's Ferry, SC. Hundreds of fish were swimming between cotton rows after a heavy shower.

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1967  June 27 - Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)

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Furniture, Carpet & Stove House
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Baltimore

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1888 - June 26 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave.

St Joseph, Missouri, USA

1869  At St. Joseph, Missouri, the other day, a young man employed in a saw mill had helped put a log on the carriage while the circular saws were yet in motion,

when he was caught by the log, thrown against the saws and instantly killed. His body was cut completely in two, the pieces falling on different sides of the saws.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 26, 1869
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Casca-Laxative
H. K. Mulford Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1907

Found at The Way It Was Museum, Virginia City, Nevada

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Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA

1877 - DESTRUCTION BY FIRE. MARBLEHEAD, MASS., DEVASTATED.
TEN ACRES OF BUSINESS AND DWELLING HOUSES SWEPT AWAY IN A FEW HOURS -ALL BUT THREE OF THE SHOE FACTORIES OF THE TOWN, THE PUBLIC HALL AND ARMORY, A CHURCH, AND OVER 70 SHOPS AND DWELLINGS DESTROYED - ... Read MORE...

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Stonington, Connecticut, USA (Pawcatuck)

1880  Huge Estate

The estate of the late Charles P. Williams, of Stonington, Conn., is appraised at $2,250,000, probably as large a sum as has ever been presented for probate in that State.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 26, 1880
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Clinton, Massachusetts, USA

1886  Gingham was first manufactured in the United States by Erastus Bigelow, at Clinton, Mass., in 1846.

It was the first attempt to manufacture the fabric mentioned by machinery, and enabled the American manufacturers to compete successfully with those of England.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 26, 1886
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Taylax - Relief of Constipation

Found at The Way It Was Museum, Virginia City, Nevada

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1888 - June 26 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave.
Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of that year, which buried the city under nearly two... Read MORE...

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Springfield, Illinois, USA

1896 - ACCIDENT AT A SOCIETY CIRCUS.
Springfield, Ill., June 25. - At a society circus, given last evening on the lawn of JAMES T. JONES, a section of the seats gave way and their occupants were thrown to the ground. MRS. J. L. HUDSON,... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 26, 1896
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North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

1899 - VACATION AT AN END. The President and Party Leave Adams, Mass., for the Nation's Capitol.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass., June 26. - The President [McKinley] was met at 2:30 o'clock on Church street, by Sanford Post G. A. R. and a band, and was taken to a reviewing stand in Monument square, and from... Read MORE...

Lewiston Evening Journal -  Lewiston, Maine -  June 26, 1899
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Be careful always that the details of your dress are perfectly finished in every point. The small...Read MORE...



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Rapid City, South Dakota, USA

1907 - FIVE DROWNED IN BLACK HILLS
Rapid City, June 25. - Five people are known to have been drowned in the terrible flood in the Black Hills last week, and it is greatly feared that others will be found when some of the ranches... Read MORE...

Aberdeen Daily American -  Aberdeen, South Dakota -  June 26, 1907
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1870  June 26, 1870: The first boardwalk in the world was completed at the resort town of Atlantic City, NJ

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1886  A young man in Sacramento went into a saloon, sat down, read a paper a few minutes, and fell to the floor totally blind,
It was found that the blindness resulted from inflammation of a near leading to the eye, superinduced by impure blood. - San Francisco Chronicle.

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Acidine
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1880 - Chicken Mayonnaise

So-N-Mor
The Dress-Shield Retainers
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July 1898

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San Antonio, Texas, USA

1870 - The postmaster at San Antonio, Texas, was not long since puzzled by the receipt of a letter from New Orleans,
directed to "My Mammy, living in the City of San Antonio." One day, however, a small, fierce looking old woman appeared at the post office window, saying, "Mister, have you got any letters there from ... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  June 25, 1870
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Washington, DC, USA

1870 - 4th of July, Christmas, New Year's and Thanksgiving Federal Holidays
WASHINGTON, June 24. - SENATE. - The bill making the 4th of July, Christmas, New Year's and Thanksgiving Days legal holidays in the District of Columbia passed, and goes to the President for his... Read MORE...

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Swan's Down Prepared Cake Flour
Makes Delicious Angel Food and Other Cakes
Costs only 2 cents a cake

Igleheart Bros.
Dapartment C.
Evansville, Ind.

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New London, Connecticut, USA

1872 - ANOTHER STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION. FEARFUL DISASTER AT NEW LONDON, CONN.
A GOVERNMENT LIGHTER BLOWN UP.

THREE MEN KILLED AND THE OFFICERS ALL INJURED.

New London, Conn., June 24, 1872.
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1876  June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn:

300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

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Mobile, Alabama, USA

1885 - FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
Mobile, Ala., June 24. - There was a terrific explosion of the boiler of Mountain & Son's grist mill, on St. Louis, near Water street, this afternoon, caused by defective iron and over pressure. The... Read MORE...

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1672  June 25 - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass

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1749  June 25 - A general fast was called on account of drought in Massachusetts. It was the year of the famous dry spring in which fields and villages burned.

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1866  A Bridgeport (Ct.) man has invented a horse-car for hot weather, in which the seats run crosswise, and which has doors at the sides. It will carry sixty passengers.

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Lowell, Massachusetts

1870  Nellie Grant, the President's daughter, is attending school at Farmington, Conn.


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1899  June 25 – Three Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story (later proved to be a fabrication) that the Chinese government under the Guangxu Emperor is going to demolish the Great Wall of China.

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The New Pet of the Household
The Most Perfect Oil Stove Made

Automatic Blue Flame Cooker
Central Oil and gas Stove Company
210 School St., Gardner, Mass.

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April 1898

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1881 - Johnny Cake

Swansea, Massachusetts, USA (Ocean Grove)

1675 - King Philip's War takes place between Native Americans and New England colonists
In colonial New England, King Philip's War begins when a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts, and massacre the English colonists there.

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What to Get a Man for Christmas
Postal Scale and Letter Opener
Postal Scale Company, Chapel St., New Haven, Conn.

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December 1898

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Springport, New York, USA (Union Springs)

1882 - Assault
A fiendish assault was committed Thursday on a child belonging to Union Springs, N. Y., by Thos. E. Ford and John Wingfield, lately connected with Frank A. Robbins' show and exposition. A reward of... Read MORE...

Lebanon Daily News -  Lebanon, Pennsylvania -  June 24, 1882
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

1882 - Storm
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 23. - The following particulars have been learned of the storm of Thursday; It was a hurricane - not a tornado -- and swept over all area of 20 miles in width; some damage... Read MORE...

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Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

1893 - Mill Fire
Appleton, Wis., June 24. - The Kaukauna Fiber company's sulphite mill at Kaukauna was destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. It was a two digester mill, with a capacity of seven tons a day. Loss,... Read MORE...

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Greeley, Colorado, USA

1897 - Kicked by Horse
Last Wednesday the little four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Klug while playing near a horse at their home on Box Elder was kicked in the head above the left eye inflicting a terrible gash and... Read MORE...

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The Edison New Standard Phonograph
Price $20
National Phonograph Co., New York

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November 1898

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Adams, Massachusetts, USA

1899 - VACATION AT AN END. The President and Party Leave Adams, Mass., for the Nation's Capitol.
ADAMS, Mass., June 26. - The vacation which President and Mrs. McKinley have been enjoying here as the guests of Hon. and Mrs. W. B. Plunkett, is at an end, and to-night, the presidential train bore... Read MORE...

Lewiston Evening Journal -  Lewiston, Maine -  June 24, 1899
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Wichita, Kansas, USA

1910 - THREE KILLED IN A WRECK. Harvest Hands Stealing Ride in an Accident.
WICHITA, Kas., June 23. - Three men were killed and ten were injured in the wreck of an extra St. Louis & San Francisco freight train just east of here, at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

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Canaan, Connecticut, USA

1913 - COLLISION ON NEW HAVEN.
Eight Passengers Hurt, One Mortally, in Wreck at Canaan.
Special to The New York Times.

CANAAN, Conn., June 23. - Two milk cars shunted against a passenger coach on the New Haven Road a the... Read MORE...

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1717  June 24 - 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London

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1897  June 24 - Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas

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Goff's Angora Braid
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September 1898

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