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 April 3, 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 April 3 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Dallas, Texas, USA
By Whitey Sawyer
DALLAS (AP) - A huge, black tornado whirled and roared over a deadly, 21-mile path across Dallas yesterday as thousands watched in fear and awe. Ten persons were killed and police sought others reported missing.
Some 196 were treated at hospitals for injuries.
JESS CURRY, assistant police chief, said damage would be at least 1½ million dollars.
Tornadoes also plowed into southern Oklahoma and killed at least five persons. Another person was killed near Paris, Tex., as a ... Read MORE...
The Abilene Reporter-News - Abilene, Texas - April 3, 1957
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1957 - TORNADO RAKES DALLAS 10 DIE; MANY MISSING. 196 Injured; Damage Heavy.
By Whitey Sawyer
DALLAS (AP) - A huge, black tornado whirled and roared over a deadly, 21-mile path across Dallas yesterday as thousands watched in fear and awe. Ten persons were killed and police sought others reported missing.
Some 196 were treated at hospitals for injuries.
JESS CURRY, assistant police chief, said damage would be at least 1½ million dollars.
Tornadoes also plowed into southern Oklahoma and killed at least five persons. Another person was killed near Paris, Tex., as a ... Read MORE...
The Abilene Reporter-News - Abilene, Texas - April 3, 1957
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St Joseph, Missouri, USA
The first rider was to leave St. Joseph at 5:00 pm. However, the mail had been slowed up in Chicago for transfer to Hannibal, Missouri. A train was stripped down with no passenger cars at Hannibal. Once the mail arrived there, the train rolled across the state at a record speed to St. Joseph. It finally arrived around 7:00 pm and the mail was rushed to the stables where the first rider, Johnny Fry awaited. The mail was placed into the specially made mochilla saddle and at 7:15 pm a cannon was... Read MORE...
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April 3, 1860
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1860 - April 3 – The Pony Express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.
The first rider was to leave St. Joseph at 5:00 pm. However, the mail had been slowed up in Chicago for transfer to Hannibal, Missouri. A train was stripped down with no passenger cars at Hannibal. Once the mail arrived there, the train rolled across the state at a record speed to St. Joseph. It finally arrived around 7:00 pm and the mail was rushed to the stables where the first rider, Johnny Fry awaited. The mail was placed into the specially made mochilla saddle and at 7:15 pm a cannon was... Read MORE...
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April 3, 1860
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Snow Custard
Use half a package of gelatine, three eggs, one pint of sweet milk, two cups of sugar and the juice of two good-sized lemons. Soak the gelatine in a teacup of cold water; it will need to soak for an hour at least, when it is entirely ...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, December 28, 1881
Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA
VICTIM'S CLOTHES BURNED OFF
Bradford, Pa., April 3. - More than 30 young school children, mostly residents of the Third ward, here, were severely burned late yesterday afternoon in a gas explosion at a new oil well on School street. Four men were also badly injured. They are members of the crew engaged in shooting the well.
Hooker & O'Donnell, contractors, had shot the well with nitro-glycerine and the children had been attracted to the vicinity. Escaping gas was ignited in some manner... Read MORE...
Indiana Evening Gazette - Indiana, Pennsylvania - April 3, 1909
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1909 - CHILDREN BURNED IN OIL BLAZE - Flames Shooting From Well Causes Bad Disaster. ALL SCHOOL PUPILS - Bradford Youngsters Were Returning Home When They Visited the Well.
VICTIM'S CLOTHES BURNED OFF
Bradford, Pa., April 3. - More than 30 young school children, mostly residents of the Third ward, here, were severely burned late yesterday afternoon in a gas explosion at a new oil well on School street. Four men were also badly injured. They are members of the crew engaged in shooting the well.
Hooker & O'Donnell, contractors, had shot the well with nitro-glycerine and the children had been attracted to the vicinity. Escaping gas was ignited in some manner... Read MORE...
Indiana Evening Gazette - Indiana, Pennsylvania - April 3, 1909
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Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA
WILD SCENES OF PANIC - THREE LIVES LOST, AND MANY JUMP FROM SECOND AND THIRD-FLOOR WINDOWS - BABES THROWN INTO THE CREEK - BURNED OUT FIVE TIMES IN TWO YEARS, BUT STILL NOT DISCOURAGED. - A TITUSVILLE MAN AMONG THE VICTIMS - LIST OF THE KILLED AND INJURED.
(By Associated Press To The Herald)
Bradford, April 2. - The Higgins house, the scene of so many fires, was destroyed again Saturday morning, causing the death or terrible injure to many persons who were unable to escape or sought escape... Read MORE...
Titusville Herald - Titusville, Pennsylvania - April 3, 1893
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1893 - BRADFORD'S MISFORTUNE. THE HIGGINS HOUSE AGAIN DESTROYED BY FIRE.
WILD SCENES OF PANIC - THREE LIVES LOST, AND MANY JUMP FROM SECOND AND THIRD-FLOOR WINDOWS - BABES THROWN INTO THE CREEK - BURNED OUT FIVE TIMES IN TWO YEARS, BUT STILL NOT DISCOURAGED. - A TITUSVILLE MAN AMONG THE VICTIMS - LIST OF THE KILLED AND INJURED.
(By Associated Press To The Herald)
Bradford, April 2. - The Higgins house, the scene of so many fires, was destroyed again Saturday morning, causing the death or terrible injure to many persons who were unable to escape or sought escape... Read MORE...
Titusville Herald - Titusville, Pennsylvania - April 3, 1893
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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
DAMAGE OF $1,500,000 LEFT IN WAKE OF FREAK TWISTER.
WIDE AREAS DEVASTATED.
Greensboro, April 3. - (AP) - The body of another negro man was taken today from the debris left by last night's tornado to swell the death toll to 12, with at least one other persons expected to die during the day.
Men armed with shovels, picks, axes, crowbars and aided by tractors dug into the ruins in all parts of the devastated area and searchers expressed the belief one or more other negroes had perished in ... Read MORE...
The Daily Times-News - Burlington, North Carolina - April 3, 1936
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1936 - LIST OF DEAD IN TORNADO-RAVAGED GREENSBORO SWELLS TO 12; WORK OF RELIEF AND REHABILITATION SPEEDED. AT LEAST ONE MORE EXPECTED TO DIE TODAY.
DAMAGE OF $1,500,000 LEFT IN WAKE OF FREAK TWISTER.
WIDE AREAS DEVASTATED.
Greensboro, April 3. - (AP) - The body of another negro man was taken today from the debris left by last night's tornado to swell the death toll to 12, with at least one other persons expected to die during the day.
Men armed with shovels, picks, axes, crowbars and aided by tractors dug into the ruins in all parts of the devastated area and searchers expressed the belief one or more other negroes had perished in ... Read MORE...
The Daily Times-News - Burlington, North Carolina - April 3, 1936
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
As to matters of little comparative moment – as to what shall be for dinner – as to how the house shall be furnished – as to the management of the house and of menial servants – as to those matters, and many others, the wife may have her way without ...Read MORE...
The Young Husband’s Book, 1837
Camden, New Jersey, USA
Philadelphia, April 2. - Two women were fatally injured, scores of houses were unroofed and more than twenty-five were completely demolished by a wind storm of cyclonic velocity which passed over that portion of Camden known as Cooper's Point, and swept down the Delaware river to the center of the city, doing thousands of dollars worth of property damage.
Tonight Camden is in utter darkness, all the electric lights having been turned off, and the streets in the northern section of that city... Read MORE...
The Boston Journal - Boston, Massachusetts - April 3, 1912
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1912 - ROOFS LIFTED BY CYCLONE STORM. Philadelphia and Camden swept by Tornado - Two Fatally Hurt.
Philadelphia, April 2. - Two women were fatally injured, scores of houses were unroofed and more than twenty-five were completely demolished by a wind storm of cyclonic velocity which passed over that portion of Camden known as Cooper's Point, and swept down the Delaware river to the center of the city, doing thousands of dollars worth of property damage.
Tonight Camden is in utter darkness, all the electric lights having been turned off, and the streets in the northern section of that city... Read MORE...
The Boston Journal - Boston, Massachusetts - April 3, 1912
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Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Atlanta, Ga., April 2. – Fire started in Durand’s restaurant at 11 East Alabama street early this morning, gutted the upstairs portion of the restaurant, and did damage through water or smoke, to the hardware store of Heinz & Sons, at 13 East Alabama street, the wholesale department of Oppenheim’s saloon, and Essig Brothers at 26 Whitehall street.
The blaze burned for fully an hour, and the firemen had hard work to get at it. For a time the whole block, in one of the most congested parts of... Read MORE...
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun - Columbus, Georgia - April 3, 1907
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1907 - FIRE THREATENED AN ATLANTA BLOCK. Considerable Damage by Flames in Business Section.
Atlanta, Ga., April 2. – Fire started in Durand’s restaurant at 11 East Alabama street early this morning, gutted the upstairs portion of the restaurant, and did damage through water or smoke, to the hardware store of Heinz & Sons, at 13 East Alabama street, the wholesale department of Oppenheim’s saloon, and Essig Brothers at 26 Whitehall street.
The blaze burned for fully an hour, and the firemen had hard work to get at it. For a time the whole block, in one of the most congested parts of... Read MORE...
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun - Columbus, Georgia - April 3, 1907
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Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
From Our Own Correspondent.
Scranton, Tuesday, April 2, 1872.
To prevent an accident in or about a coal mine is almost an impossibility. Outside is the breaker, towering to an altitude of 100 to 150 feet above the mouth of the shaft or slope. The breaker, constructed entirely of timber, becomes in time as dry as tinder, and liable from the least cause to be consumed by fire or to be blown down by a heavy gust of wind. Inside of the mine the accumulation of gas, the fall of top coal and... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - April 3, 1872
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1872 - FATAL MINING DISASTER. THE LACKAWANNA BREAKER BLOWN DOWN AND BURNED -- FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND ANOTHER NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Scranton, Tuesday, April 2, 1872.
To prevent an accident in or about a coal mine is almost an impossibility. Outside is the breaker, towering to an altitude of 100 to 150 feet above the mouth of the shaft or slope. The breaker, constructed entirely of timber, becomes in time as dry as tinder, and liable from the least cause to be consumed by fire or to be blown down by a heavy gust of wind. Inside of the mine the accumulation of gas, the fall of top coal and... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - April 3, 1872
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1873 April 3 - Gen. S. P. Hazeltine, Town Clerk of Bakersfield, Vermont, has held his office for 51 years and has recorded all but two of the deeds handed in for record during that time.
The New Berne Times
New Berne, North Carolina
April 3, 1873
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1888 April 3 – The Brighton Beach Hotel in Coney Island is moved 520 feet using six steam locomotives by civil engineer B. C. Miller to save it from ocean storms.
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April 3, 1888
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1869 A thousand and forty dollars in gold pieces of the year 1795, or thereabouts, was recently disposed of in Trenton, N. J., after being hoarded for seventy-four years. The loss of interest in that time was somewhat over $4,000.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
April 3, 1869
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The New Berne Times
New Berne, North Carolina
April 3, 1873
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1888 April 3 – The Brighton Beach Hotel in Coney Island is moved 520 feet using six steam locomotives by civil engineer B. C. Miller to save it from ocean storms.
wikipedia.org
April 3, 1888
Visit , New York, USA!
1869 A thousand and forty dollars in gold pieces of the year 1795, or thereabouts, was recently disposed of in Trenton, N. J., after being hoarded for seventy-four years. The loss of interest in that time was somewhat over $4,000.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
April 3, 1869
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1908 Fatal Wreck on Erie.
The westbound Wells-Fargo express train on the Erie Railroad, crashed into an eastbound freight at Hornell. Two were killed and four were injured. The dead are: L. H. HELMER, engineer of the express train, of Hornell, and JAMES CANNON, fireman of the express, of Andover.
The injured include the fireman of the freight train, a man named McGEE, of Salamanca; JOHN FIELD, conductor of the express train, of Binghamton; W. H. POST, head messenger, of Hoboken, N. J., and WILLIAM HUBERTON, of...
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Chateaugay Record
Chateaugay, New York
April 3, 1908
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1868 Fire in Milford, Mass.
MILFORD, Mass., Thursday, April 2. A fire in Milford, this morning, destroyed Underwood's large boot manufactory. The stock and fixtures were mostly saved. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The loss is estimated at $25,000, mostly covered by insurance in Boston offices.
The New York Times
New York, New York
April 3, 1868
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The westbound Wells-Fargo express train on the Erie Railroad, crashed into an eastbound freight at Hornell. Two were killed and four were injured. The dead are: L. H. HELMER, engineer of the express train, of Hornell, and JAMES CANNON, fireman of the express, of Andover.
The injured include the fireman of the freight train, a man named McGEE, of Salamanca; JOHN FIELD, conductor of the express train, of Binghamton; W. H. POST, head messenger, of Hoboken, N. J., and WILLIAM HUBERTON, of...
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Chateaugay Record
Chateaugay, New York
April 3, 1908
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1868 Fire in Milford, Mass.
MILFORD, Mass., Thursday, April 2. A fire in Milford, this morning, destroyed Underwood's large boot manufactory. The stock and fixtures were mostly saved. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The loss is estimated at $25,000, mostly covered by insurance in Boston offices.
The New York Times
New York, New York
April 3, 1868
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America - Did you know?
It is prohibited to dance to the “Star Spangled Banner” in Massachusetts, thanks to an excessively patriotic 1917 law.
Quebec - Did you know?
It's considered bad form by many in Quebec to talk with your hands in your pockets.
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