Welcome to our blog, where we embark on a captivating journey through time, exploring the rich tapestry of history and genealogy.
In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated October 28, unearthing stories that resonate with genealogists and history enthusiasts alike.
From local happenings to global events, we'll uncover the stories that shaped the lives of our ancestors, providing valuable insights for those on a quest to discover their roots.
So, grab your magnifying glass and step into the past as we unravel the October 28 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
1942 - October 28 – The Alaska Highway is completed.
The completion of the Alaska Highway on October 28, 1942, marked a significant milestone in North American history. The highway, also known as the Alcan Highway, stretched over 1,500 miles, connecting Dawson Creek in British Columbia, Canada, to Delta Junction in Alaska, USA. It was constructed in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, which raised concerns about the vulnerability of the US to potential invasion through Alaska.
Construction of the highway was a... Read MORE...
October 28, 1942
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1919 - October 28 – Prohibition in the United States is authorized:
The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. (Wikipedia)
The President's message again makes clear his desire that Congress repeal "war-time" prohibition, but this Congress has refused to do. The situation, therefore, reverts to the status of the past few months. In the face of the unwillingness to Congress to repeal the legislation Attorney-General Palmer has held that the ban cannot be lifted until the peace treaty is ratified, and the President, ... Read MORE...
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati, Ohio - October 28, 1919
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1868 - Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
In October 1868, while working in Boston, Thomas Edison obtained his first patent for an invention called the “electrographic vote recorder”. This device allowed legislators to cast instant votes by tapping one of two switches—either signifying a “yes” or a “no” vote. The information was then transmitted via electric current to a main recorder, which tallied the votes into separate columns1. Unfortunately, this invention didn’t gain much interest from Congress, but it marked the beginning of... Read MORE...
October 28, 1868
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Chow Chow
Two quarts of tomatoes, two white onions, half dozen green peppers, one dozen cucumbers, two heads of cabbage, all chopped fine; let this stand over night; sprinkle a teacup of salt in it. In the morning drain off the brine, and season...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, September 7, 1881
Waterloo Organs.
Best in the World
Manfd by Malcom Love & Co.
For Sale by
C. W. Blodgett,
Brockport, N.Y.
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Newark, New Jersey, USA
Newark, N.J., Oct. 28. - Five women were badly burned, two of them probably fatally, in a fire which destroyed the hardware factory of M. Gould Sons & Co. at night.
The injured are:
MINNIE GARRITY, aged fifteen.
CARRIE RUMMER, aged sixteen.
SADIE SCHAFER, aged eighteen.
MARY SCHWENCH, aged eighteen.
ANNA GLAZER, aged fifteen.
The fire started just as the factory was about to close, when one of the girls upset a candle in a pot of lacquer, causing an explosion which set fire to her... Read MORE...
Daily Telegram - Eau Claire, Wisconsin - October 28, 1905
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1905 - FIVE WOMEN BADLY BURNED. TWO OF THEM MAY DIE FROM THEIR INJURIES.
Newark, N.J., Oct. 28. - Five women were badly burned, two of them probably fatally, in a fire which destroyed the hardware factory of M. Gould Sons & Co. at night.
The injured are:
MINNIE GARRITY, aged fifteen.
CARRIE RUMMER, aged sixteen.
SADIE SCHAFER, aged eighteen.
MARY SCHWENCH, aged eighteen.
ANNA GLAZER, aged fifteen.
The fire started just as the factory was about to close, when one of the girls upset a candle in a pot of lacquer, causing an explosion which set fire to her... Read MORE...
Daily Telegram - Eau Claire, Wisconsin - October 28, 1905
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Great Falls, Montana, USA
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Oct. 27. - A party who arrived in town from the end of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern brought the news of an accident there, the result of which is appalling. Four men are dead and two maimed for life by an explosion twenty-two miles west of the summit.
The men were killed last Wednesday in a rock cut on some work under Sub-contractor O'Brien. The hole in the rock containing some powder became choked with rock, and the foreman started to drill it out. About... Read MORE...
The Daily Inter Ocean - Chicago, Illinois - October 28, 1891
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1891 - FOUR KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Oct. 27. - A party who arrived in town from the end of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern brought the news of an accident there, the result of which is appalling. Four men are dead and two maimed for life by an explosion twenty-two miles west of the summit.
The men were killed last Wednesday in a rock cut on some work under Sub-contractor O'Brien. The hole in the rock containing some powder became choked with rock, and the foreman started to drill it out. About... Read MORE...
The Daily Inter Ocean - Chicago, Illinois - October 28, 1891
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
If muscles and nerves are over-strained, learn to shirk, somewhat judiciously, but surely. Let reason come to your aid, and compel yourself to take a rest, even in a change of work. The acquiescence and approval of the mind is necessary to rest...Read MORE...
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Lexington, Ky., Oct. 28 - Passengers on the Louisville Southern train No. 9, due here at 7 p.m., had a narrow escape when the train was hurled from a bridge seven miles from here into a creek forty feet below. Twelve persons were injured, but none was killed.
The seriously injured are:
W. L. HERNDON, mail clerk.
JOSEPH THOMPSON, express messenger.
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, conductor.
J. W. HUGHES, Lexington.
EDWARD DOWLING, Louisville.
The tender, mail and baggage coaches and smoker were... Read MORE...
Daily Telegram - Eau Claire, Wisconsin - October 28, 1905
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1905 - TWELVE PERSONS ARE INJURED. RAILROAD TRAIN HURLED FROM A BRIDGE INTO A CREEK.
Lexington, Ky., Oct. 28 - Passengers on the Louisville Southern train No. 9, due here at 7 p.m., had a narrow escape when the train was hurled from a bridge seven miles from here into a creek forty feet below. Twelve persons were injured, but none was killed.
The seriously injured are:
W. L. HERNDON, mail clerk.
JOSEPH THOMPSON, express messenger.
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, conductor.
J. W. HUGHES, Lexington.
EDWARD DOWLING, Louisville.
The tender, mail and baggage coaches and smoker were... Read MORE...
Daily Telegram - Eau Claire, Wisconsin - October 28, 1905
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Bristol, Connecticut, USA
Three Men Killed, Two Wounded, and a Building Set on Fire.
E. C. WILSDON left his japan oven, at SESSIONS & SONS foundry, Bristol, Conn., in the room where a dozen men and boys were at work, to go to his dinner. He had but just gone out when the oven exploded with fearful violence, instantly killing one man and two boys, lacerating two others and setting the building on fire. It was some time before the flames were subdued, and then there were dragged forth the charred remains of the three... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - October 28, 1887
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1887 - A FATAL EXPLOSION
Three Men Killed, Two Wounded, and a Building Set on Fire.
E. C. WILSDON left his japan oven, at SESSIONS & SONS foundry, Bristol, Conn., in the room where a dozen men and boys were at work, to go to his dinner. He had but just gone out when the oven exploded with fearful violence, instantly killing one man and two boys, lacerating two others and setting the building on fire. It was some time before the flames were subdued, and then there were dragged forth the charred remains of the three... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - October 28, 1887
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Seattle, Washington, USA
Most of the Bodies So Charred as to be Unrecognizable-Thrilling Scenes as Guests, Awakened Shortly After Midnight, Leaped from the Windows -Pathetic Groups of Dead - List of Transient Guests, Some of Whom Perished.
SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 27. - A fire which resulted in the death of at least sixteen persons and the injury of three more started in the West Street House, at Columbia and West Streets, at about 1 A. M. At 3 A. M. the fire was under control, and an investigation of the ruins was ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - October 28, 1894
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1894 - MANY BURNED IN A HOTEL. NEARLY A SCORE OF DEAD IN THE RUINS AT SEATTLE.
Most of the Bodies So Charred as to be Unrecognizable-Thrilling Scenes as Guests, Awakened Shortly After Midnight, Leaped from the Windows -Pathetic Groups of Dead - List of Transient Guests, Some of Whom Perished.
SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 27. - A fire which resulted in the death of at least sixteen persons and the injury of three more started in the West Street House, at Columbia and West Streets, at about 1 A. M. At 3 A. M. the fire was under control, and an investigation of the ruins was ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - October 28, 1894
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1905 It is suggested that the new tuberculosis sanatorium be located in Barnard "where there are no grave yards and where nobody ever dies"...
When Ponce de Leon was fussing around in Florida looking for the fountain of youth he was really looking for Barnard. Now that the secret is out perhaps Barnard will open her gates, broadening the invitation to include others beside those strictly belonging in the tuberculous class. There may be a balm in Barnard for other ills.
St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
October 28, 1905
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1726 October 28 - "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London
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October 28, 1726
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1858 October 28 – Macy's department store, founded by R.H. Macy, opens for business in New York.
Rowland H. Macy opened R.H. Macy & Co. as a dry goods store in New York City. First-day sales totaled $11.06.
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October 28, 1858
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When Ponce de Leon was fussing around in Florida looking for the fountain of youth he was really looking for Barnard. Now that the secret is out perhaps Barnard will open her gates, broadening the invitation to include others beside those strictly belonging in the tuberculous class. There may be a balm in Barnard for other ills.
St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
October 28, 1905
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1726 October 28 - "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London
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October 28, 1726
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1858 October 28 – Macy's department store, founded by R.H. Macy, opens for business in New York.
Rowland H. Macy opened R.H. Macy & Co. as a dry goods store in New York City. First-day sales totaled $11.06.
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October 28, 1858
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1875 The Butte (Cal.) Mercury tells of a band of sheep being brought down from the mountains and turned into a wheat field.
Over one hundred head died in one night from eating wheat and drinking water. The wheat swelled to such an extent that the stomach was completely torn apart.
Fayetteville Observer
Fayetteville, Tennessee
October 28, 1875
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1864 Disastrous Fire at Eastport, Me.
A fire broke out at half past 1, Sunday morning, on Union wharf, Eastport, Me., and continued until 8, consuming all the business part of the town. About fifty places of business were destroyed, including the best stores. The building containing the Frontier bank and telegraph office, &c., was burned. Loss estimated at $500,000.
The Vermont Phoenix
Brattleboro, Vermont
October 28, 1864
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Over one hundred head died in one night from eating wheat and drinking water. The wheat swelled to such an extent that the stomach was completely torn apart.
Fayetteville Observer
Fayetteville, Tennessee
October 28, 1875
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1864 Disastrous Fire at Eastport, Me.
A fire broke out at half past 1, Sunday morning, on Union wharf, Eastport, Me., and continued until 8, consuming all the business part of the town. About fifty places of business were destroyed, including the best stores. The building containing the Frontier bank and telegraph office, &c., was burned. Loss estimated at $500,000.
The Vermont Phoenix
Brattleboro, Vermont
October 28, 1864
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America - Did you know?
1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated members of the Underground Railroad.
Quebec - Did you know?
The Loup-GarouA staple of Quebecois folklore, the story of the loup-garou AKA werewolf goes something like this: A young man named Andre wants to become a hunter and trapper and unknowingly apprentices with a man who’s a werewolf. What’s more,...Read MORE...
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