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Baltimore
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Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)
1958 - Santa Answers Appeal of Girl
TAMPA, Fla., Dec 20. (AP) - Note to Viola S. McGraw of Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada: A Christmas package containing a doll, pajamas, socks, pencils, crayons and coloring books is on its way from... Read MORE...
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Spokane, Washington - December 20, 1958
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1958 - Santa Answers Appeal of Girl
TAMPA, Fla., Dec 20. (AP) - Note to Viola S. McGraw of Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada: A Christmas package containing a doll, pajamas, socks, pencils, crayons and coloring books is on its way from... Read MORE...
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Spokane, Washington - December 20, 1958
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Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
1790 - December 20 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
Reinvent Rhode Island: The Industrial Revolution started in Rhode... Read MORE...
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December 20, 1790
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1790 - December 20 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
Reinvent Rhode Island: The Industrial Revolution started in Rhode... Read MORE...
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December 20, 1790
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St Louis, Missouri, USA
1897 - VAULTS SAVE. St. Louis' Largest Jewelry Firm From Being Wiped Out by Fire. BUILDING AND ALL GO. But Half of the Stock Was Saved by Being in Fire Proof Vaults. FAMILY'S NARROW ESCAPE.
St. Louis, Dec. 19. - Fire started in the basement of the building occupied by the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company, at the corner of Locust street and Broadway, early this morning. The five story... Read MORE...
The Morning Herald - Lexington, Kentucky - December 20, 1897
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1897 - VAULTS SAVE. St. Louis' Largest Jewelry Firm From Being Wiped Out by Fire. BUILDING AND ALL GO. But Half of the Stock Was Saved by Being in Fire Proof Vaults. FAMILY'S NARROW ESCAPE.
St. Louis, Dec. 19. - Fire started in the basement of the building occupied by the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company, at the corner of Locust street and Broadway, early this morning. The five story... Read MORE...
The Morning Herald - Lexington, Kentucky - December 20, 1897
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1800s Cooking Tips and RecipesCider Cake - One cup sugar, half a cup of butter, one egg well beaten, one large cup of...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., March 23, 1881
Warren, Michigan, USA
1964 - SIX PERISH IN HOUSE FIRE.
Warren, Mich. - Six of the nine children of ELBERT TURNER COX, 40, a steel-worker and part-time cab driver of Warren, Mich., a Detroit suburb, perished in a fire that destroyed their two-story frame... Read MORE...
Waterloo Daily Courier - Iowa - December 20, 1964
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1964 - SIX PERISH IN HOUSE FIRE.
Warren, Mich. - Six of the nine children of ELBERT TURNER COX, 40, a steel-worker and part-time cab driver of Warren, Mich., a Detroit suburb, perished in a fire that destroyed their two-story frame... Read MORE...
Waterloo Daily Courier - Iowa - December 20, 1964
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Augusta, Maine, USA
1867 - Destructive Fire in Augusta, Me.
AUGUSTA, Me., Thursday, Dec. 19. A large building, the property of the A & W Sprague Manufacturing Company, of Providence, R. I., and occupied by several firms for the manufacture of sash, blinds and ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - December 20, 1867
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1867 - Destructive Fire in Augusta, Me.
AUGUSTA, Me., Thursday, Dec. 19. A large building, the property of the A & W Sprague Manufacturing Company, of Providence, R. I., and occupied by several firms for the manufacture of sash, blinds and ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - December 20, 1867
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Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada
1887 - PLUNGED OFF A BRIDGE. EIGHT MEN PERISH UNDER AN ENGINE.
Moncton, N.B., Dec. 19. - A fearful disaster occurred last night near Caraquette Station, on the northern division of the Intercolonial Railroad. It is reported that a train went through a bridge and ... Read MORE...
Logansport Journal - Logansport, Indiana - December 20, 1887
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1887 - PLUNGED OFF A BRIDGE. EIGHT MEN PERISH UNDER AN ENGINE.
Moncton, N.B., Dec. 19. - A fearful disaster occurred last night near Caraquette Station, on the northern division of the Intercolonial Railroad. It is reported that a train went through a bridge and ... Read MORE...
Logansport Journal - Logansport, Indiana - December 20, 1887
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Huntington, West Virginia, USA
1904 - ALL FIREMEN CALLED OUT To Fight a Bad Blaze Back of the C & O Hospital
High Wind Was Blowing and the Fire Destroyed Three Buildings
A fire alarm from box twenty-eight called the department to the corner of Eighteenth street and Sixth avenue, where just back of the C &... Read MORE...
The Huntington Advertiser - Huntington, West Virginia - December 20, 1904
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1904 - ALL FIREMEN CALLED OUT To Fight a Bad Blaze Back of the C & O Hospital
High Wind Was Blowing and the Fire Destroyed Three Buildings
A fire alarm from box twenty-eight called the department to the corner of Eighteenth street and Sixth avenue, where just back of the C &... Read MORE...
The Huntington Advertiser - Huntington, West Virginia - December 20, 1904
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for LadiesResponsibilities of Wealthy Women
1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)
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A certificate was filed yesterday in the county clerk's office showing that the capital stock of the Eastman Dry Plate and Film company $200,000, has been fully paid up. The trustees ... Read MORE...
Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester, New York - December 20, 1884
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A certificate was filed yesterday in the county clerk's office showing that the capital stock of the Eastman Dry Plate and Film company $200,000, has been fully paid up. The trustees ... Read MORE...
Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester, New York - December 20, 1884
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1860 Civil War - On December 20, 1860, a little over a month after Abraham Lincoln had been elected President, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Six more states followed by the spring of 1861.
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1946 December 20 - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.
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1946 December 20 - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.
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America - Did you know? The U.S. government owns 80% of the land in Nevada.
Quebec - Did you know? Quebec contains more than 3% of the world’s fresh water reserves.
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U.S. Indian Hospital, Clinton, Oklahoma
