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1909 June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States.

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1902 - EXCURSION IS IN A WRECK. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE DETROIT & MACKINAW RAILROAD. ONE KILLED AND MANY HURT.
Others May Succumb to Their Injuries - Seven of the Passengers Are in Serious Condition - Tender of the Locomotive Jumps the Track, Engineer Applies the Brakes and the Sudden Stop Derails Three... Read MORE...

The Post-Standard -  Syracuse, New York -  June 9, 1902
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Hackensack, New Jersey, USA

1909  June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States.

With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.

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June 9, 1909
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 1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

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The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, November 9, 1881

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Olean, New York, USA

1883 - Fire in Olean
OLEAN, N. Y., June 8 - The United Pipe Line tank 1,477, with a capacity of 85,000 barrels, was struck by lightning. While the employes were engaged in shooting balls from a cannon into the burning... Read MORE...

The Atlanta Constitution -  Atlanta, Georgia -  June 9, 1883
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1893 - TERRIBLE. Eighty Persons Killed by a Falling Building.
Ford's Theatre in Washington Collapsed Carrying Over 400 People into the Wreck-The Place Condemned Nearly 30 Years Ago-It was Used as Record Division of the War Department.

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The Evening Democrat -  Warren, Pennsylvania -  June 9, 1893
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 1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men

Whatever language a person uses, he should speak it in its greatest purity , and according to the...Read MORE...



Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
Flint, Michigan, USA

1905 - 11 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK.
Coaches of Flier Bound for Chicago Ditched in Michigan.

FLINT, Mich., June 8. - A fast through train on the Grand Trunk Railroad bound for Chicago from the East was wrecked this afternoon about... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  June 9, 1905
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1856  June 9 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.

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1972  June 9 - 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237

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1772  1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI
Rhode Island residents burn British ship Gaspee to protest tax laws. The World Almanac of the U.S.A, by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, 1996
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1975  June 9 - Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla)

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1955  June 9 - 100°F - Hottest day in Seattle Washington

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 America - Did you know? Observation of foreign travelers to America: In America, there are "Flags everywhere. EVERYWHERE."

 Quebec - Did you know? Within the typical habitant dwelling-house there were usually two, and never more than three, rooms ...Read MORE...



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