1888 - NO END OF FUN. How the Norwich, Conn., Boys Celebrate Thanksgiving.

Fresno, California, USA

1915 - INCENDIARY FIRE IN FRESNO - Blaze Threatens Business District. Man Confesses to Starting Fire.
FRESNO. Nov. 29. - After fire wrought $30,000 damage in Frank Hickman's store and threatened to spread ruin throughout the business section early today. Arson charges were filed this afternoon... Read MORE...

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Michigan City, Indiana, USA

1956 - TORCH SETS OFF BLAST AT SCENE OF C. & O. WRECK. 2 MORE KILLED, MAKING TOLL OF 5 FROM CROSSING CRASH.
Michigan City, Ind. (AP) -An explosion killed two more railroad men Wednesday as they began clearing the burning wreckage at a crossing where two trainmen and a gasoline truck driver had... Read MORE...

Logansport Press -  Logansport, Indiana -  November 29, 1956
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New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

1866 - A New Sect.
We see by our Eastern exchanges that a new religious sect has sprung up in New Bedford, Massachusetts. One of its most admirable peculiarities is the rule that when brethren and sisters meet, they... Read MORE...

White Cloud Kansas Chief -  White Cloud, Kansas -  November 29, 1866
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New Milford, New Jersey, USA

1943 - 2 FIREMEN ARE KILLED IN CRASH.
New Milford, N.J., Nov. 29 - A fire engine, speeding to a brush fire which later burned itself out and an Interstate bus collided in the center of this community yesterday, killing two volunteer... Read MORE...

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Norwich, Connecticut, USA

1888 - NO END OF FUN. How the Norwich, Conn., Boys Celebrate Thanksgiving.
They Go About the Town Gathering Barrels, and Then After the Turkey is Eaten What a Thanksgiving Bonfire They Have.

ROAST turkey and fixin's!

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Painesville Telegraph -  Painesville, Ohio -  November 29, 1888
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1884  In Switzerland, you can send almost anything through the mails. Trunk, gripsack, hat-box, bag of potatoes - it is all one to the postal authorities, as long as you pay the postage.
And it is a very rare thing for anything to be tampered with or miscarry.

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1913 - MANY IN CLOTH STEAL

Grand Trunk Railway, Passenger Ticket Offices

Corner of Front and Scott Streets, Toronto

Parties going East or West in the United States or Canada, will find the Cheapest Tickets at the above offices.

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Bath, Maine, USA

1895 - BEATEN AND ROBBED. Joseph Stevens of Five Islands Has Rough Experience with Highwayman.
Bath – Nov. 27. – Joseph Stevens, 65 years old, a prominent citizen of Five Islands, was waylaid and robbed Tuesday in Georgetown. Stevens, who is a large and powerful man, fought desperately and was ... Read MORE...

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Port Jervis, New York, USA

1868 - The boiler of a locomotive exploded at Port Jervis, N. Y., on the 17th, instantly killing the engineer, Fred Hardenburg.
The fireman was in front of the engine and escaped unharmed. Hardenburg was carried over the top of trees near by, and was found 150 feet from the engine, his body horribly mangled and wedged in... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  November 28, 1868
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Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA (Coltsville)

1868  Train Derailment

A train on the Housatonic Railway was thrown from the track, on the 18th, by a broken rail. Every passenger was injured, Miss Sarah Hayes, of Pittsfield, Mass., seriously.

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  November 28, 1868
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Barre, Vermont, USA

1893 - SHAKEN BY AN EARTHQUAKE
MILD SENSATION IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY REGION.
Considerable Alarm Felt in Montreal, Particularly in the Narrow Streets - Buildings Tremble and the Inmates Flee in Fright - Residents of Malone... Read MORE...

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January 18, 1870

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Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

1913 - MANY IN CLOTH STEAL
Fall River (Mass.) Mills Systematically Robbed by Operatives.
Fall River, Mass., Nov. 28. - Investigation into alleged wholesale thefts from the American Printing company and the Algonquin Printing... Read MORE...

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Portland, Maine, USA (Deering)

1870 - Train Accident
Thursday afternoon as the five o'clock train on the Portland & Rochester road was making up at the depot in Portland, Walter Mace, a lad eight years old, and son of Mr. John Mace, baggage master, on... Read MORE...

Bangor Daily Whig and Courier -  Bangor, Maine -  November 28, 1870
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1729  November 28 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.

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1868  Lawrence (Mass.) factory hands have a free reading-room, and 8,000 volumes in their library.


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1888 - No Longer a Showman. Barnum Turns Over His Interests and Retires to Private Life.

1890 - Foot Race
Peter Teirney and Henry Feige, two heavyweights ran a foot race on Onota street Saturday for a purse of $5. The distance was 100 yards, and Tierney won by less that a foot in 10 3/ 4 seconds. Each man ... Read MORE...

The Berkshire County Eagle -  Pittsfield, Massachusetts -  Thurs., November 27, 1890
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1869 - A handbill, of which the following is a copy, was lately posted in sundry places in London:
"TO ALL FENIANS.
"Vive la Republique!
"The Queen will visit the city in state on Saturday, and on that day she will be shot. She seldom gives a chance. The opportunity won't be lost!
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St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  November 27, 1869
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Lisbon, Connecticut, USA

1869 - Isaac S Geer, of Lisbon, Conn., in making some changes in a water pipe, found it needful to extend one through an under drain that ran several feet below the surface.
How to get the pipe through without taking up the drain was a problem. But Mr. Geer studied upon it, and after a while hit upon this admirable plan: He opened the lower end of the drain, and then... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  November 27, 1869
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St Albans, Vermont, USA

1891 - MANY BUILDINGS DESTROYED. FIRE DOES MUCH DAMAGE IN THE BUSINESS PART OF ST. ALBANS, VT.
St. Albans, Vt., Nov. 26. - A fire, which broke out about 12:30 o'clock this morning, proved to be the most disastrous that St. Albans has known for many years. The total loss is estimated at... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  November 27, 1891
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Chill Tonic
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Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA (Bliss Corner) (Smith Mills)

1877 - Avid Reader
Publishers of newspapers seldom meet with such conscientious subscribers as one Mrs. Butts, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Although seventy-five years old, she is reported to have recently walked from... Read MORE...

Delaware County Daily Times -  Chester, Pennsylvania -  November 27, 1877
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Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

1884 - Horse Led to Chapel
Some students in the Industrial institute at Worcester, Massachusetts, recently led a horse up two flights of stairs to the chapel. Twenty-eight members or the classes have been suspended for... Read MORE...

The Belleville Telescope -  Belleville, Kansas -  November 27, 1884
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Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

1888 - No Longer a Showman. Barnum Turns Over His Interests and Retires to Private Life.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov. 27. - P. T. Barnum, the showman, is a thing of the past. He has settled up his business, and announced that he had turned his whole circus over to Mr. Bailey, who will own and ... Read MORE...

The Fort Wayne Sentinel -  Fort Wayne, Indiana -  November 27, 1888
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Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

1888 - Steamer Frozen
The steamer Pomeranian, bound for Liverpool, which grounded at Sorel, attempted to reach Quebec Sunday with the aid of four tugs. Yesterday not only the steamer but the tugs, too, were frozen in... Read MORE...

The Fort Wayne Sentinel -  Fort Wayne, Indiana -  November 27, 1888
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1924  November 27 – In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held

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1870 - Bad Advertisment

1889 - ANOTHER FATAL EXPLOSION.
Pittsburg, Nov. 26. - By an explosion at the Allegheny Bessemer Steel Works at Duquesne this morning WILLIAM MARSHALL, night superintendent of the wire mill, and a man named COOPER were killed and a... Read MORE...

Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette -  Cedar Rapids, Iowa -  November 26, 1889
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Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma, croup, bronchitis, whooping-cough, and consumption
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., U.S.A.


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Biddeford, Maine, USA (Biddeford Pool)

1870 - Bad Advertisment
The Biddeford (Me.) woman who advertised for and married a man last July, to have some one to control her property, has succeeded beyond all reasonable expectations, as the fellow has run off with... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  November 26, 1870
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Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

1956 - $200,000 FIRE SWEEPS VEGAS' BOULDER CLUB
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 26 - (AP) - One of Nevada's oldest casinos, the Boulder Club, was gutted by fire last night at a loss estimated by Fire Chief Elmer Gates, at $200,000.

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The Bridgeport Post -  Bridgeport, Connecticut -  November 26, 1956
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Veal Cutlets.

Cut them from the fillet, put them in a stew pan with a piece of nice pork, a...Read MORE...



The Virginia Housewife or Methodical Cook, 1828

Augusta, Georgia, USA

1921 - BIG FIRE LOSS IN AUGUSTA, GA. BUSINESS HOUSES GUTTED BY BLAZE; HOTEL DESTROYED. CAUSE OF BLAZE STARTING IN HARRISON BUILDING IS NOT DETERMINED. HOTEL GUESTS FLEE IN NIGHT CLOTHES.
PLATE GLASS WINDOWS MELTED BY HEAT - NO LIVES REPORTED AS LOST.

Augusta, Ga., Nov. 26. - At 5:45 today firemen succeeded in bringing under control the most disastrous fire in the history of... Read MORE...

Robsonian -  Lumberton, North Carolina  -  November 26, 1921
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Lowell, Mass., U.S.A.

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Juneau, Alaska, USA

1936 - BODIES OF 10 ARE FOUND AT JUNEAU. SIX PERSONS STILL ARE ON MISSING LIST AFTER LANDSLIDE.
Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 25. - (AP) - Mud and ruins of Sunday's great landslide surrendered two more bodies to rescue crews tonight, raising the known deaths to ten and leaving six remaining on the... Read MORE...

The Modesto Bee and News-Herald -  Modesto, California -  November 26, 1936
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Providence, Rhode Island, USA

1912 - Cotton Mill King Dead
Providence, Rhode Island, Nov. 26. - Robert Knight, owner of more cotton mills than any other individual in the world, died today, aged eighty-six. Knight controlled twenty-two spinning, weaving and... Read MORE...

The Wilmington Dispatch -  Wilmington, North Carolina -  November 26, 1912
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Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA

1875  "Onion-Town"

Wethersfield, Conn., sometimes called Onion-town, derived its nickname from the fact that a church bell hung in 1775 was paid for by contributions of onions from the parishioners.

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1950  November 25-26 - Wind gusts to 110 mph recorded at Concord NH

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1870  A young man named George Heffran, of Pottsville, Pa., surrendered himself at Randolph, Mass., on the 15th, as the murderer of Benjamin Nathan. He proved to be insane.


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1897 - Thanksgiving Advice

Dorset, Vermont, USA

1907 - WORSHIPPERS ARRIVE TO FIND CHURCH IN RUINS.
Old Congregational Edifice at Dorset, Vt., Destroyed by Fire.

Manchester, Vt., Nov. 24---The Congregational Church in Dorset was burned early today, causing a loss of $10,000, upon which there is... Read MORE...

The Boston Journal -  Boston, Massachusetts -  November 25, 1907
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The "Odorless" Refrigerator

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April 1898

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1897 - Thanksgiving Advice
Cromatlc Notes.

The list of "don'ts" printed below will, it is hoped, be found particularly fitting at this season of the year. For the benefit of those who are seeking information as to what is... Read MORE...

The Skylight Kicker -  Flagstaff, Arizona -  Thurs., November 25, 1897
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Alamonde Beef

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Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico, USA

1952 - FIVE MEN ARE BURNED IN ROSWELL EXPLOSION.
Roswell, Nov. 24. (AP) - A spark from a welder's torch set off an explosion late today, burning five men, two of them seriously, and destroying the state highway department shop.

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Albuquerque Journal -  Albuquerque, New Mexico -  November 25, 1952
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79 North Green Street
Chicago, Ill.

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July 1898

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Berlin, New Hampshire, USA (Maynesborough)

1907 - THEATRE BURNED OUT.
Berlin, N. H. Nov. 25. - The interior of the Albert theatre building, a four story brick block of modern construction, was burned out. The fire started in the rear of a furniture store and... Read MORE...

The Fitchburg Sentinel -  Fitchburg, Massachusetts -  November 25, 1907
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Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA (Albion) (Manville) (Fairlawn) (Lonsdale)

1947 - Berkshire Spinning Concern Builds For 204 Families
ALBION, R.I. (AP) - Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates, Inc. to-day started a program to revive the old New England mill village in modern form when it broke ground for housing to accommodate 204... Read MORE...

The Berkshire Evening Eagle -  Pittsfield, Massachusetts -  November 25, 1947
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Ware, Massachusetts, USA

1907 - WARE'S SUNDAY BLAZE CAUSES LOSS OF $30,000
Ware, Nov. 24. - A loss of over $30,000 was caused by a fire here late today which destroyed the two-story wooden block, at 118 and 120 Main street. The fire started from some unknown cause in the... Read MORE...

The Boston Journal -  Boston, Massachusetts -  November 25, 1907
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Responsibilities of Wealthy Women

Manchester, Massachusetts, USA (Manchester-by-the-Sea)

1907 - BOSTON MAN'S SUMMER COTTAGE IS DESTROYED.
Manchester, Nov. 24. - A summer cottage which Charles Head, the Boston broker and banker, was building for his daughter, Mrs. Philip Stockton of Boston, on Glouscester road, was burned today, the... Read MORE...

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1895  November 25 - Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. Press coverage first arouses significant American interest in the automobile.

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1895  November 25 - Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district.

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1874  November 25 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party, made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.

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Cold Spring Farm, 1911

A New Idea in Trunks
The Stallman Dresser Trunk
F. A. Stallman, Columbus O.

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1880 - A novel way of catching a swarm of bees was unintentionally tried at Decatur, Michigan, the other day by a young man, who is not likely to repeat the experiment if he can help it.

Decatur, Michigan, USA

1880 - A novel way of catching a swarm of bees was unintentionally tried at Decatur, Michigan, the other day by a young man, who is not likely to repeat the experiment if he can help it.
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Jamestown, New York, USA

1891 - A FATAL HOTEL FIRE. THREE WOMEN AND A LITTLE BOY BURNED TO DEATH.
Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 23 - Three women and a boy were burned to death between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning in a fire which gutted the Old Homestead Hotel, at Third and Pine Streets. They were MRS.... Read MORE...

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Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

1858 - TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
We stop the press to announce a frightful accident that occurred near this city, on the Central Railroad, about 1 - o'clock this afternoon, on Drew & Hopkins gravel train.

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New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette -  Concord, New Hampshire -  November 24, 1858
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Sutton, Massachusetts, USA

1910  Signed "Wife"

Up in Sutton, Massachusetts, a young woman organist wrote a preacher and signed herself "wife." And the organist's play-ful ways caused the deuce of a domestic discord.

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Augusta, Maine, USA

1888 - Schooners Fast in the Ice
AUGUSTA, Me., Nov. 24. - The Kennebec river closed to navigation Thursday night, ten days earlier than usual. It is solidly frozen over between Gardiner and Brown's Island. There are seven schooners... Read MORE...

The Daily City News -  New Castle, Pennsylvania -  November 24, 1888
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1888  America for Americans

BROOKLYN, N. Y., Nov. 24 - "Deacon" Richardson has given notice that hereafter only American citizens, native or naturalized, will be employed on his street car lines as conductors or drivers.

The Daily City News -  New Castle, Pennsylvania -  November 24, 1888
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Biddeford, Maine, USA (Biddeford Pool)

1888 - Railroad Ticket Office Burglarized
BIDDEFORD, Me., Nov. 24. - Thursday night burglars broke into the Boston & Maine railroad ticket office at Pine Point, blew open the safe and secured the week's wages of the station men and section... Read MORE...

The Daily City News -  New Castle, Pennsylvania -  November 24, 1888
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1917  November 24 – In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb

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1888  On the 19th Mrs. Elizabeth Worth White, of Newburyport, Mass., celebrated her one hundredth birthday.


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Blue Store
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Lewiston, Me.

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