Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1904 - FIRE IN MINNEAPOLIS. BIG STORES ARE BURNED AND TWO FIREMEN LOSE THEIR LIVES. LOSS, $830,000.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 15. - In one of the fiercest fires in the history of Minneapolis Tuesday night three firemen lost their lives and property valued at $830,000 was destroyed. The entire retail ... Read MORE...
The Worthington Advance - Minnesota - December 23, 1904
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1904 - FIRE IN MINNEAPOLIS. BIG STORES ARE BURNED AND TWO FIREMEN LOSE THEIR LIVES. LOSS, $830,000.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 15. - In one of the fiercest fires in the history of Minneapolis Tuesday night three firemen lost their lives and property valued at $830,000 was destroyed. The entire retail ... Read MORE...
The Worthington Advance - Minnesota - December 23, 1904
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1904 - DISASTER ON BATTLESHIP MASSACHUSETTS.
Philadelphia, Dec. 16. - Caught in a trap and helpless to save themselves, three men lost their lives and four others, including LIEUT. WILLIAM C. COLE, were terribly scalded Thursday by a rush of... Read MORE...
Worthington Advance - Minnesota - December 23, 1904
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1904 - DISASTER ON BATTLESHIP MASSACHUSETTS.
Philadelphia, Dec. 16. - Caught in a trap and helpless to save themselves, three men lost their lives and four others, including LIEUT. WILLIAM C. COLE, were terribly scalded Thursday by a rush of... Read MORE...
Worthington Advance - Minnesota - December 23, 1904
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Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA
1922 - RUTH TO TEST PROWESS IN YANKEES’ NEW PARK
NEW YORK. December 23. - Babe Ruth is coming from his farm in Sudbury, Mass. in a week or two to visit the Yankees' new stadium and bat a few drives over the fences Just to prove that zoning rules... Read MORE...
Washington D.C. Evening Star - Washington, D.C. - December 23, 1922
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1922 - RUTH TO TEST PROWESS IN YANKEES’ NEW PARK
NEW YORK. December 23. - Babe Ruth is coming from his farm in Sudbury, Mass. in a week or two to visit the Yankees' new stadium and bat a few drives over the fences Just to prove that zoning rules... Read MORE...
Washington D.C. Evening Star - Washington, D.C. - December 23, 1922
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Port Jervis, New York, USA
1876 - Christmas
THE POST OFFICE ON CHRISTMAS.
The postoffice will be opened on Christmas day from 9 to 10 a.m. and 12 to 1 p.m.
...Many of our villagers were busily engaged in removing the snow and ice from... Read MORE...
The Evening Gazette - Port Jervis, New York - Saturday, December 23, 1876
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1876 - Christmas
THE POST OFFICE ON CHRISTMAS.
The postoffice will be opened on Christmas day from 9 to 10 a.m. and 12 to 1 p.m.
...Many of our villagers were busily engaged in removing the snow and ice from... Read MORE...
The Evening Gazette - Port Jervis, New York - Saturday, December 23, 1876
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1800s Cooking Tips and RecipesDelicious Strawberry Dumplings - Put one pint of flour into a bowl; add to it half a...Read MORE...
The Ladies' Home Journal, May 1898
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA (Steitztown)
1900 - BABE TRAMPLED UPON BY FRANTIC PASSENGERS Cars Collide on Lebanon Trolley Line, Twenty Injured in the Crash.
Special to The Inquirer.
LEBANON, Pa., Dec. 22. - Two cars filled with Christmas shoppers collided this afternoon on the Lebanon Valley Street Railway, a short distance west of this city, with... Read MORE...
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - December 23, 1900
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1900 - BABE TRAMPLED UPON BY FRANTIC PASSENGERS Cars Collide on Lebanon Trolley Line, Twenty Injured in the Crash.
Special to The Inquirer.
LEBANON, Pa., Dec. 22. - Two cars filled with Christmas shoppers collided this afternoon on the Lebanon Valley Street Railway, a short distance west of this city, with... Read MORE...
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - December 23, 1900
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Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1905 - PANIC FOLLOWS EXPLOSION. All Providence Scared Over Prediction of Christmas Disaster.
Special to The New York Times.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 22. - A slight explosion in a jewelry factory, within a short block of the shopping district caused by a panic to-day among the several... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - December 23, 1905
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1905 - PANIC FOLLOWS EXPLOSION. All Providence Scared Over Prediction of Christmas Disaster.
Special to The New York Times.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 22. - A slight explosion in a jewelry factory, within a short block of the shopping district caused by a panic to-day among the several... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - December 23, 1905
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1913 December 23 – The Federal Reserve System is created as the central banking system of the United States by Woodrow Wilson's signature of the Federal Reserve Act.
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America - Did you know? 150 residences in New York City got the first televisions in 1936.
Quebec - Did you know? In the mid 1600s, pro-birth measures were put in place to encourage population growth in New...Read MORE...History of Quebec for Dummies by Eric Bedard, published by John Wiley & Sons, Canada, Ltd.
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Hotel Valencia, Anaheim, California
"Hotel Valencia, located at 182 West Center Street (now Lincoln Ave.; address 148 West Center prior to 1922), Anaheim; built in 1916 by John Ziegler for $40,000 and designed by architect M. Eugene Durfee,on the same site as two previous hotels, the Anaheim Hotel and the Commercial Hotel; image shows corner view of four-story brick hotel and businesses, including Anaheim First National Bank (150 West Center, in ground floor of the Hotel Valencia), C.L. Meacham's Billiard Parlor (142 West Center) and A.D. Erickson, Men's Furnishings (128 West Center); structure was destroyed by fire in 1977." (www.oac.cdlib.org/)
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