1890 - Burglars

Holliston, Massachusetts, USA (Metcalf)

1890  Burglars

Burglars blew open the office safe at the Boston & Albany Railroad depot at Holliston this morning but obtained less than one dollar in money for their trouble.

Boston Evening Transcript -  Boston, Massachusetts -  January 31, 1890
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Mooers, New York, USA

1881 - January 31 - A Mother's Fatal Error.
ALTONA, N.Y., Jan. 31. - Mrs Barcomb, of Mooers, locked her four children, the eldest being but seven years of age, in the house on Friday evening, while she went to the store for kerosene. After... Read MORE...

Harrisburg Telegraph -  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -  January 31, 1881
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Adding Fruit to Cake - Currants, raisins and citrus will not settle to the bottom of either...Read MORE...



The Ladies' Home Journal, June 1898

Hayfield of Joshua T. Durfee, Tiverton, R.I., which was seeded down four years ago with Hubbard's "Bone Base" Fertilizers. Last Spring it cut, first crop, over four tons of hay per acre. Remember, it was dry.

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Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

1921 - 12 DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE; TWO INQUIRIES BEGUN IN HOBOKEN. POLICE SEEK CAUSE OF BLAZE WHILE PROSECUTER INVESTIGATES CONDUCT OF HOSTELRY. SEVEN BODIES IDENTIFIED.
SHOES, RINGS AND SCORCHED REMNANTS OF CLOTHING GIVE CLUES IN SEVERAL CASES.
WOMAN DIES IN HOSPITAL.
FLAMES BELIEVED TO HAVE STARTED IN ROOM SHORTLY AFTER COUPLE HAD GIVEN IT UP.

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The New York Times -  New York, New York -  January 31, 1921
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Milledgeville, Georgia, USA

1889 - The Camp Creek Wreck. Cars Wrecked And Passengers Injured. The Rails and the Train Rushes Down Into Disaster - The Number of Casualties Noted.
Milledgeville, Ga., January 30. [Special.] - The Central railroad train due here at 2:20 this afternoon, happened to an accident about five miles below this city, in which several cars were badly... Read MORE...

The Atlanta Constitution -  Atlanta, Georgia -  January 31, 1889
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Avoid making any noise in eating, even if each meal is eaten in solitary state. It is a disgusting...Read MORE...



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Atlanta, Georgia, USA

1978 - LOEW'S TOP THREE FLOORS MOSTLY DESTROYED IN FIRE.
Atlanta (AP) - Flames billowed Monday where Hollywood's spotlight's once played on the ornate facade of LOEW'S Grand Theater, the site of the glamorous 1939 premiere of "Gone With The Wind." Awed... Read MORE...

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1949  January 31 - First TV Soap Opera Debuts. On Jan. 31, 1949, an NBC station in Chicago aired the first episode of Irna Phillips' “These Are My Children,” the first daytime soap opera on a major television network.

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1950  January 31 - President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949

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1949 January 31, 1949 - Helena MT reached 42 degrees below zero.

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1949 January 31, 1949 - The temperature at San Antonio, TX, plunged to a record low of one degree below zero.

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1911 January 31, 1911 - Tamarack, CA, was without snow the first eight days of the month, but by the end of January had been buried under 390 inches of snow, a record monthly total for the U.S.

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Fort Neilson - Fortified Camp of the American Army at Bemis Heights. From here the Army moved to victory of Oct. 7th, 1777.

Home of Slater Trust Company, Main St., cor. East Ave., Pawtucket, R.I.
Over 50 years Conservative Banking. Many Larger, Few Stronger. Visitors and Inquiries Welcome.

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1719 - The Best Orange Pudding that ever was tasted

Greenland, New Hampshire, USA

1899 - FIRE IN GREENLAND.
House, Barn and Outbuildings of Daniel Mahoney Burned This Morning.

Shortly after 9 o'clock this morning the barn of Daniel Mahoney in Greenland was discovered to be on fire and an hour later the... Read MORE...

Portsmouth Herald -  Portsmouth, New Hampshire -  January 30, 1899
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Reno, Nevada, USA

1890 - Three Miles to Go - Then the Central Pacific Railroad will be Clear if the Falling Snow does not Block it Again.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Jan. 30. The following despatch was received from Truckee this morning:

Cascade Cut was opened yesterday morning by five hundred snow shovellers, raising the blockade from... Read MORE...

Boston Evening Transcript -  Boston, Massachusetts -  January 30, 1890
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA

1909 - Engineer Warner Killed - Meets Instant Death in Head End Freight Collision Wednesday Afternoon.
Horace O. Warner of this city was instantly killed in a head-end collision between a southbound work train and a northbound coal special at Oshkosh at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Warner was... Read MORE...

The Stevens Point Journal -  Stevens Point, Wisconsin -  January 30, 1909
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The Best Orange Pudding that ever was tasted

PARE the Yellow Rind of two fair Sevil- Oranges, so ...Read MORE...



‘A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery.’ Kettilby, 1719

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Remember that a lady-like deportment is always modest and quiet. If you meet a friend at table, and ...Read MORE...



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1847  January 30 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.

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1869  More than fifteen hundred deaths occur in London every week.


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1869  Prussia has lent a number of farmers near Insterburg from $1,500 to $3,500 each, to enable them to improve their farms.


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1869  A Christmas goose, sent to two prisoners in a Canada jail, was stuffed with files and steel saws. They appreciated the stuffing.


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1869  Ladies are to be admitted to Cornell University next fall.


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1869  It is estimated that not one-eighth of the people of the United States attend public worship on Sunday.


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1869  The New York Sun says: "Four hours of good hard study in the morning is as much as should be required of any child under fourteen years of age, girls especially."


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 America - Did you know? 1857 - Dred Scott v. Sanford: Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that Congress does not have the ...Read MORE...



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1899 - CANDELEMAS DAY AT HAND

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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1921 January 29, 1921 - A small but intense windstorm resulted in the "Great Olympic Blowdown" in the Pacific Northwest.

Hurricane force winds, funneled along the mountains, downed vast expanses of Douglas fir trees, and the storm destroyed eight billion board feet of timber. Winds at North Head WA gusted to 113 mph.

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1887 - Mrs. Joseph Farrell, of Winnipeg, is famed as the first white woman married in the Canadian Northwest.
The ceremony took place at Fort Whoop-Up in 1877. It was the occasion of a big blowout on the part of the Blood and Blackfeet Indians, who turned out in great numbers in holiday garb, firing guns,... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  January 29, 1887
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The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., September 29, 1880

UNDERTAKING
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NEW DOUBLE HEARSE

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January 18, 1870

The Irish Canadian, Toronto, Ontario, Wednesday, March 30, 1870

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



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Manhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam) (Washington Heights)

1899 - CANDELEMAS DAY AT HAND.
Something About That Day and the Practices and Beliefs Popularly Associated with It.

The careless, everyday reader, who is too busy to trouble himself about musty historic matters and exact dates, ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  January 29, 1899
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1886  January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent Motorwagen (built in 1885).

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1870  We see it stated that a farmer near Waterloo, N. Y., has two hens which lay two eggs each every day, and have done so for some time past.


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1870  The practice of torturing prisoners in order to make them confess, which has been abolished by most civilized nations, still exists in Switzerland.


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1870  The number of emigrants that left Switzerland for over sea in 1868 numbered 9,752, of whom 4,755 came to America.


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1870  At Bennington, Vt., a physician gave a man up to die, but going home he broke his leg, and his patient was the one who made him a crutch to hobble about on.


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1870  Maine has a mail carrier, now 76 years of age, who has carried the mail daily from North Monmouth to Monmouth Centre for twenty-one years, and has missed but one trip during that time.


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1870  Mr. David S. Draper, of Great Barrington, Mass., refuses to be qualified as Representative elect, on the ground that he was elected without his consent.


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(Fort Whiting) Brookley Field Recreational Center, Mobile, Alabama

"The exterior of Fort Whiting Armory, located at Brookley Field in Mobile, Alabama. Construction of the armory was paid for by the federal government during the Great Depression. Completed in 1938, the armory is named for Julian Wythe Whiting, a Confederate general during the Civil War who fought in the Battle of Mobile Bay. It is now one of the locations where soldiers with the Alabama National Guard train."
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Ossawn Mills Co., Norwich, Conn., 1898
Manufacturers of Bicycle Lacing Cord and Dress Guard Nets, Crown Hangers, Franklin Hooks, Brass and Steel Picture Hooks, Picture Wire, Shade Cords, Solid Braided Cords, Clothes-lines, Chalk-lines, Picture and Shade Hardware, Drapery Pins, Gilt Nails, Bright Wire Goods, Spool Wire, Flower Wire, &c., &c.
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1871 - The King of Bavaria came near drowning last December...

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1871 - The King of Bavaria came near drowning last December.
He was skating in the neighborhood of Munich, when the ice broke and he fell in. A private soldier who was near saved the King's life with great difficulty at the risk of his own life. The King... Read MORE...

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Orange Pie

Grate the rind of one and use the juice of two large oranges, beat the yolks of four...Read MORE...



The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, October 19, 1881

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA

1888 - In Wisconsin spirit thermometers on the 21st registered 68 degrees below zero at Chippewa Falls,
36 below at Janesville, 55 at Hudson, 52 at Dartford, 53 at Princeton, 50 at Sparta, 52 at Green Lake, and extreme cold was reported in other portions of the State. In the northern portions of... Read MORE...

St Joseph Herald -  Saint Joseph, Michigan -  January 28, 1888
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 1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies

Morning Dress — The most suitable dress for breakfast, is a wrapper made to fit the figure loosely, ...Read MORE...



The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Handbook for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society... by Florence Hartley, January 1, 1872

1902  January 28 – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

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1888  Near Dunkirk, N. Y., a gas well was yielding one million feet per day on the 21st.


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1888  An epidemic of meningitis was on the 20th depopulating Asheville, N. C., at the rate of a dozen deaths a day,
all attempts to check it proving futile. Many inhabitants were leaving town.

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1888  At Victoria, B. C., the discovery was made on the 24th of a powerful Chinese society whose object was to murder at $500 a head.


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1888  A fire on the 25th in Barber & Co.'s thread-mill at Allentown, Pa., caused a loss of $250,000.


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1888  Governor Martin, of Kansas, authorized the statement on the 23d that great distress prevailed in the extreme southwestern part of the State, owing to the failure of the crops last year and the rigor of the winter.


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1888  An Apache Indian at San Carlos, A. T., got drunk on the 21st, killed his wife and child, and was shot by a sergeant of the guard.


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1888  Brewere Arsendorf, who was twice tried at Sioux City, Ia., for the Haddock murder, spent a fortune. His defense cost him over $175,000 and he is now reduced to traveling for a Milwaukee concern.


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Russell Free Library, 1907

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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

1895 - ELECTRIC CARS COLLIDE. THE DEATH OF TWO PERSONS, AT LEAST, BEYOND A DOUBT.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Jan. 26. - Two men were fatally and five other persons seriously injured in a collision between two electric cars near this city today. The collision occurred on a sharp curve, and ... Read MORE...

St. Paul Globe -  St. Paul, Minnesota -  January 27, 1895
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State College, Pennsylvania, USA

1953 - FOUR KILLED IN PLANE CRASH AT STATE COLLEGE.
State College (AP) - Three food executives and a 4-year-old woman, en route to the national potato chip convention in New York City, were killed yesterday when their private plane crashed in an... Read MORE...

Gazette And Bulletin -  Williamsport, Pennsylvania -  January 27, 1953
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Plattsburgh, New York, USA

1929 - SIX RESCUED IN PLATTSBURG NORMAL FIRE. TEACHER DROPS PUPILS FROM WINDOW TO GROUND.
Plattsburg, Jan. 26 - Fire believed to have started in the basement as a result of an explosion of an oil burning furnace destroyed Plattsburg Normal School yesterday noon with an estimated loss of... Read MORE...

The Syracuse Herald -  Syracuse, New York -  January 27, 1929
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Long Beach, New York, USA

1922 - LONG BEACH FIRE ROUTS 100 IN HOTEL. QUICK AID FROM NEARBY TOWNS SAVES THE NASSAU FROM EARLY MORNING BLAZE. BOARDWALK IS BURNED.
SEVERAL SHOPS PREY TO FLAMES, WHICH CAUSES $50,000 DAMAGE - COLD NUMBS FIREMEN.

The Hotel Nassau, at Long Beach, was threatened by a fire which started in one of the small boardwalk shops at the... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  January 27, 1922
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Potato snow (1892)

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Weston, Massachusetts, USA

1908 - Boston Banker's Home At Weston Is Burned
Weston, Jan. 26, Lack of water so badly handicaped (sic) the Weston firemen in fighting a blaze on the Conant road estate of George G. McCAUSLAND, vice president of the First National Bank in Boston, ... Read MORE...

The Boston Journal -  Boston, Massachusetts -  January 27, 1908
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Middlefield, Massachusetts, USA

1873 - COLLISION OF FREIGHT TRAINS ON A BRIDGE IN MASSACHUSETTS - THREE LIVES LOST AND SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED.
From the Springfield (Mass.) Union. Jan. 25.
A most disastrous accident occurred on the Boston and Albany Railroad last evening, a short distance beyond Middlefield. The first of the afternoon... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  January 27, 1873
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Everett, Massachusetts, USA

1908 - PASSENGERS CUT BY GLASS AS CARS CRASH
The passengers of two outward-bound electrics were thrown into confusion as the two cars collided yesterday afternoon in Glendale square, Everett. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt, although... Read MORE...

The Boston Journal -  Boston, Massachusetts -  January 27, 1908
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Everett, Massachusetts, USA

1908 - BLOCK OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
Everett, Mass., Jan. 27. - Nearly an entire block of buildings, including the Masonic Hall, was destroyed by fire early in the day, with a loss of about $75,000. The local department was unable to... Read MORE...

Edwardsville Intelligencer  -  Edwardsville, Illinois -  January 27, 1908
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 1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies

Boiling hot water should not be poured on china, or other dishes, as it cracks the enamel, and in...Read MORE...



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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

1885 - THE STATE INSANE ASYLUM ON FIRE.
Indianapolis, Jan. 27. - Fire at the insane hospital this morning was got under control after destroying the engine room, laundry and bakery, and some smaller apartments located in the rear of the... Read MORE...

Fort Wayne Sentinel -  Fort Wayne, Indiana -  January 27, 1885
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1966 January 27, 1966 - Oswego, NY, was in the midst of a five day lake effect storm which left the town buried under 102 inches of snow.

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1937 - MARIETTA BADLY HIT - Water 20 Feet Deep Swirls In Parts Of Business Area; 500 Homes Affected.
At Martins Ferry the Ohio [River] was at a 46 foot stage after it had dropped to 44 feet Sunday afternoon. The crest was stationary at 51 feet at Marietta but the Muskingum was rising again due to... Read MORE...

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1919 - February 26 – Grand Canyon National Park: An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park.
GRAND CANYON TO BECOME PARK AFTER FIGHT OF 33 YEARS

The senate bill to make the Grand Canyon a national park was passed last Monday and sent to conference. In the area set aside are 996 square... Read MORE...

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1821 January 25, 1821 - The Hudson River was frozen solid during the midst of the coldest winter in forty-one years.

Thousands of persons crossed the ice from New York City to New Jersey, and refreshment taverns were set up in the middle of the river to warm pedestrians.

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1904 - FIREMEN'S BITTER FIGHT. Kaukauna Has Blaze Sunday Morning
(Special to the Northwestern.)

Kaukauna, Wis., Jan. 25. - With the thermometer 26 degrees below zero and with face and hands frozen, brave Kaukauna firemen battled with a stubborn fire Sunday... Read MORE...

The Daily Northwestern -  Oshkosh, Wisconsin -  January 25, 1904
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1936 - $35,000 BLAZE AT WATERVILLE.
Waterville, Me., Jan. 24. - Damage of about $35,000 was done to the two-story brick HAINES building on Silver street early Thursday by a fire which threatened to spread to the adjoining MORRISON... Read MORE...

Portsmouth Herald -  Portsmouth, New Hampshire -  January 25, 1936
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Tell stories very seldom , and absolutely never but where they are very apt, and very short. Omit...Read MORE...



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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

1936 - Six Army Fliers Killed in Hawaiian Crash; 2 Bombers Fall in Flames After Collision
HONOLULU, Jan. 24 — Six army fliers were killed tonight when two big bombing planes collided 1,000 feet over Luke Field and plunged to the ground in flames. The victims of one of Hawaii's worst... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  January 25, 1936
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1876  Joel O., aged 25, son of Rev. Mr. Durfee of Worcester, Vt., was killed by a log rolling upon him off the team he was driving on Friday.


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1917  January 25 – An anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs and police close about 200 prostitution houses.

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1879  A schoolmistress in Newburgh, N. Y., was arrested for whipping a boy.
She proved the boy bad, and, instead of having to pay $2,000 she secured a verdict of $25 against the boy's parents for the annoyance of arrest.

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