Saturday, November 13, 2021

1869 - About seven months ago, a lady in Santa Clara, Cal., in kneeling down for the purpose of religious devotion...

Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, USA

1940 - BLAST KILLS 8.
Woodbridge, N.J., Nov. 12. - (AP) - A mysterious, deafening blast shattered 14 buildings in and adjoining the United Railway Signal Co. plant today, killing eight persons and breaking windows 17... Read MORE...

Sandusky Register -  Sandusky, Ohio -  November 13, 1940
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Pillsbury's Vitos The Ideal Wheat Food for Breakfast
Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Co., Ltd., Minneapolis, Minn.

The Ladies' Home Journal
October 1898

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Santa Clara, California, USA

1869 - About seven months ago, a lady in Santa Clara, Cal., in kneeling down for the purpose of religious devotion,
knelt on the edge of a spring to her hoop skirt. She experienced some little pain in her knee at the time, but thought it no serious matter. However, the limb commenced swelling, and it became... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  November 13, 1869
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 1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

Pie Crust Shortened with Beans - Boil white beans until soft, rub through a sieve and mix as ...Read MORE...



The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., March 29, 1881
Harwich, Massachusetts, USA (N., S., E., W.) (Harwichport) (Pleasant Lake)

1869 - House Fire
The dwelling of Nathan Dowry, in Harwich, Mass., was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 3d, and his only children, two little girls, aged six and four years, perished. The parents were visiting... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  November 13, 1869
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Embroidery Lessons with Colored Studies for 1899
The Brainerd & Armstrong Co.
No. 6 Union Street, New London, Conn.

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September 1898

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Milford, New Hampshire, USA

1869 - Parsonage Problem
A church society in Milford, N.H., having repaired its church and raised its pastor's salary, set about providing him with a parsonage. Contributions of five thousand dollars were made, and a house... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  November 13, 1869
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Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

1901 - BUILDING IS BADLY DAMAGED. MECHANIC ARTS HALL AT UNIVERSITY FIRESWEPT. CAUSE NOT AT ALL CERTAIN - EVIDENCE POINTS TO DEFECTIVE WIRING BUT IS NOT CONCLUSIVE - LOSS OF $16,000 SUSTAINED WITH NO INSURANCE.
Lincoln, Neb. - With the fourth floor of Mechanic Arts hall fireswept, the loss by blaze and water amounting to upwards of $16,000, the state university yesterday morning sustained the most serious... Read MORE...

The Nebraska State Journal -  Lincoln, Nebraska -  November 13, 1901
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Lansing, Michigan, USA

1889 - A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Lansing, Mich., Oct. 13. - While the wrecking crew was engaged in cleaing away the freight wreck on the Lansing & Trannet Railway today, the hoisting beam of the steam derrick fell upon a group of... Read MORE...

Sandusky Ohio Gazette -  Sandusky, Ohio -  November 13, 1889
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 1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies

At a Dinner-Party - after which all present were to attend a dance, it would be in best taste for...Read MORE...



The Ladies' Home Journal, June 1898
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

1938 - Distillery Burns, Loss Is $2,250,000
OWENSBORO, Ky., Nov. 12 (AP)—A wild fire raged out of control Saturday night at the Glenmore Distillery, one of the largest in the country.

Company officials had small hope of saving the plant... Read MORE...

Dallas Morning News -  Dallas, Texas -  November 13, 1938
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1887  November 13 – Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.

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1946  November 13 - General Electric scientists produced snow in the Massachusetts Berkshires in the first modern day cloud seeding experiment.

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1869  Four inches of snow fell on the 7th at Covington, Va., and Greensboro, N. C.


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Saint Joseph, Michigan

 America - Did you know? According to a Kiowa Native American legend, Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming was created...Read MORE...



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 Quebec - Did you know? The first commercial brewery in Canada was started in Quebec City by Jean Talon in 1668.
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E.G. Norton, meat delivery, 1908

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

The Ladies' Home Journal
December 1898

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