Sunday, October 10, 2021

1890 - FISHING FOR TURTLES. When the Shell-Backed Monster Bites Run Like a Steer

1899 - Two Men Now Held Under Suspicion - They Tell Contradictory Stories
Henry Feige, watchman for Gimlich & white at their brewer on the corner of Columbus avenue and John street, was assaulted about 2:25 o'clock this morning by six men. An entrance was gained to the... Read MORE...

The Berkshire Eagle -  Pittsfield, Massachusetts -  October 10, 1899
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Catskill, New York, USA

1903 - CATSKILL BRIDGE COLLAPSES. FIVE MEN GO DOWN WITH THE WRECK AND TWO OF THEM DROWN.
Catskill, Oct. 9 - While a hundred spectators were on the lower village bridge to-day watching the most destructive freshet seen here in thirty years a brick barge broke from its fastenings and... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 10, 1903
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Newtown, Connecticut, USA (Sandy Hook)

1902 - ONE DEAD IN TRAIN COLLISION
DANBURY, Conn., Oct. 9. - One person dead and more than a score injured is the result of a head-on collision of the Highland division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at 7:25 this... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 10, 1902
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 1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

Fried Egg Plant - elect the large purple kind and one which feels firm; cut it crosswise...Read MORE...



The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., October 12, 1881
Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA (Valley Falls) (Ashton) (Cumberland Hill)

1890 - FISHING FOR TURTLES. When the Shell-Backed Monster Bites Run Like a Steer.
Terrapin or turtle farms are run in the South and on the Pacific coast, but the business has only been tried in New England as an experiment. As experiments, many of these have been failures, so far... Read MORE...

Hornellsville Weekly Tribune -  Hornellsville, New York -  October 10, 1890
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Lewiston, Maine, USA

1869 - TELEGRAMS. TERRIFIC HURRICANE AT EASTPORT, ME. Great Destruction of Property and Life. THE STORM IN MAINE.
...LEWISTON, Me., Oct.9.---The Evening Journal has a report of a great freshet on Swift River, in Oxford County, showing a rise of thirty-six feet in twelve hours in that stream, which is a tributary ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 10, 1869
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Chicago, Illinois, USA

1871 - October 8-10 - Fire Destroys 18,000 Buildings in Chicago

The Chicago Fire - "YOU ARE THERE"
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October 10, 1871
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 1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men

Tell stories very seldom , and absolutely never but where they are very apt, and very short. Omit...Read MORE...



Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.L
Westerly, Rhode Island, USA (Watch Hill) (Misquamicut)

1897 - Died at 108
Mrs. Charlotte Leclair of Westerly, R. I., died yesterday morning at the age of 108 years and six months. She was born in La Prairie, a small town in Quebec. Five generations of her descendants are... Read MORE...

Springfield Republican -  Springfield, Massachusetts -  October 10, 1897
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1893  October 10 – The first car number plates appear in Paris, France.

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1928  October 10 - The temperature at Minneapolis, MN, reached 90 degrees, their latest such reading of record.

The Weather Channel

 America - Did you know? S&H Green Stamps were trading stamps popular in the United States from the 1930s until the late...Read MORE...



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 Quebec - Did you know? In New France, boys who were married at age 20 or younger and girls who were married at age 16 or...Read MORE...



Canada: A People"s History (www.cbc.ca/ history/)
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Visit Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA (Romney's Marsh)!

Discover the people who lived there, the places they visited and the stories they shared.


Shurtleff School

Ski in Quebec and Lac Beauport

Visit , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)!

Died October 10

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