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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated April 8, 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 8 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Gold Medal Cough Medicine
Blackberry Root, Ginger, Cinnamon, Clove, Anise Compound
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St. Louis, Mo.
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Madison, Indiana, USA
A melancholy accident occurred at Madison, Indiana, on the 28th of March, which is thus described in a letter to the editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle:
On Thursday afternoon at 4 P.M., when the passenger cars arrived at Madison, at the head of the inclined plane, they had a wood car, heavily loaded with wood, attached. It is usual in descending the plane, to detach the wood and freight cars, and bring them just to the head of the plain, wait till the passengers have gone down.
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The Republican Compiler - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - April 8, 1844
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1844 - DREADFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
A melancholy accident occurred at Madison, Indiana, on the 28th of March, which is thus described in a letter to the editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle:
On Thursday afternoon at 4 P.M., when the passenger cars arrived at Madison, at the head of the inclined plane, they had a wood car, heavily loaded with wood, attached. It is usual in descending the plane, to detach the wood and freight cars, and bring them just to the head of the plain, wait till the passengers have gone down.
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The Republican Compiler - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - April 8, 1844
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1927 - April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television
TELEVISION SEEING OVER PHONES, SUCCEEDS
Hoover Observed in Gotham As He Talks in Capital
That's Not all - Radio Program is Also Heard While the Performers Are Seen
Years of Research Culminate Thursday
Images of Speakers and Actors Are Thrown on Both Large and Small Screens
NEW YORK, April 7. - (AP) - Television, a scientists' dream ever since the telephone was invented half a century ago, became an actuality today when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover spoke over the telephone in... Read MORE...
The Waco News-Tribune - Waco, Texas - April 8, 1927
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Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
WILMINGTON, N. C., April 2. - The boilers at the steam saw mill of Colville & Co., exploded at twenty minutes to six o'clock this morning. Two men were killed, and one woman was severely wounded; all the killed and wounded are negroes. One of the boilers was carried over a hundred yards to Front street, killing a woman in its course. Another was hurled nearly half way across Cape Fear river. Cause of the explosion has not been definitely ascertained, though it is generally supposed to have been ... Read MORE...
Georgia Weekly Telegraph - Macon, Georgia - April 8, 1873
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1873 - Terrible Explosion in Wilmington.
WILMINGTON, N. C., April 2. - The boilers at the steam saw mill of Colville & Co., exploded at twenty minutes to six o'clock this morning. Two men were killed, and one woman was severely wounded; all the killed and wounded are negroes. One of the boilers was carried over a hundred yards to Front street, killing a woman in its course. Another was hurled nearly half way across Cape Fear river. Cause of the explosion has not been definitely ascertained, though it is generally supposed to have been ... Read MORE...
Georgia Weekly Telegraph - Macon, Georgia - April 8, 1873
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
The Best Orange Pudding that ever was tasted
PARE the Yellow Rind of two fair Sevil- Oranges, so very thin that no part of the White comes with it; shred and beat it extremely small in a large Stone Mortar; add to it when very fine, half a pound...Read MORE...
‘A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery.’ Kettilby, 1719
Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Manchester, N. H., April 8. - All the worldly possessions of 2000 Greeks, Armenians, French-Canadians and Irish people, many of them either shoe shop or cotton mill employes, were wiped out by a fire today which in two hours swept away 70 buildings scattered over a block bounded by Elm, Auburn, Cedar and Beach streets. The loss is estimated at $100,000.
Nearly every building destroyed was of wood, two and three stories in height, and each was the home of between 20 and 30 families. Starting... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - April 8, 1909
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1909 - LOSS IS $100,000 - ONE LIFE LOST AT A FIRE IN MANCHESTER TODAY.
Manchester, N. H., April 8. - All the worldly possessions of 2000 Greeks, Armenians, French-Canadians and Irish people, many of them either shoe shop or cotton mill employes, were wiped out by a fire today which in two hours swept away 70 buildings scattered over a block bounded by Elm, Auburn, Cedar and Beach streets. The loss is estimated at $100,000.
Nearly every building destroyed was of wood, two and three stories in height, and each was the home of between 20 and 30 families. Starting... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - April 8, 1909
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Various medicinal remedies from St. Louis, Mo.
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Rexall Iron, Liver and Bone Marrow Compound
Trio-Carb Tablets
Dr. J. H. McLean's Cordial
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Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada
Peak Anxiously Awaited as Thames River Carries Boiling Waters to Lake St. Clair--River 19 2-3 Feet Above Normal and Millions of Dollars in Devastation Results.
(By George Ronald, Canadian Press Staff Writer)
CHATHAM, April 8--(C.P.)--The rampaging Thames river, running its flood-swollen course into Lake St. Clair, rose today to 19 2-3 feet above its normal level in this western Ontario city of 17,000 and threatened to spill still further over its low banks. The flood waters have claimed... Read MORE...
The Lethbridge Herald - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada - April 8, 1947
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1947 - ONTARIO FLOODS CLAIM SIX LIVES Chatham Is Under Water
Peak Anxiously Awaited as Thames River Carries Boiling Waters to Lake St. Clair--River 19 2-3 Feet Above Normal and Millions of Dollars in Devastation Results.
(By George Ronald, Canadian Press Staff Writer)
CHATHAM, April 8--(C.P.)--The rampaging Thames river, running its flood-swollen course into Lake St. Clair, rose today to 19 2-3 feet above its normal level in this western Ontario city of 17,000 and threatened to spill still further over its low banks. The flood waters have claimed... Read MORE...
The Lethbridge Herald - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada - April 8, 1947
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Rockingham, Vermont, USA (Bellows Falls) (Saxton's River)
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt., April 7. - The night express train on the Vermont Central Railroad which left Boston at 7 o'clock last night was wrecked about 10:40 o'clock by a washout near Rockingham, five miles north of this place. The engineer, Moses Pratt, of Rutland, and the fireman, John Pratt, of Rutland, were instantly killed, and several persons injured. The train reached this station at 10"30 o'clock. At this point it was taken in charge by Conductor Whitney. The train consisted of the engine... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - April 8, 1888
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1888 - AN EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED. AND BOTH THE ENGINEER AND FIREMAN WERE KILLED.
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt., April 7. - The night express train on the Vermont Central Railroad which left Boston at 7 o'clock last night was wrecked about 10:40 o'clock by a washout near Rockingham, five miles north of this place. The engineer, Moses Pratt, of Rutland, and the fireman, John Pratt, of Rutland, were instantly killed, and several persons injured. The train reached this station at 10"30 o'clock. At this point it was taken in charge by Conductor Whitney. The train consisted of the engine... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - April 8, 1888
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
If you are ever caught in a shower, and meet a gentleman friend who offers an umbrella, accept it, if he will accompany you to your destination; but do not deprive him of it, if he is not able to join you. Should he insist, return it to his house or ...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
Shelburne, Massachusetts, USA (Shelburne Falls)
The Cars Take Fire and a Passenger is Roasted Alive Without the Chance of Succor.
Probably a Hundred Passengers on Board, and only Three Found Uninjured
The Rails Spread.
A Dozen Dead Bodies Recovered and the Work Not Yet Finished
Many Killed While Falling.
GREENFIELD, Mass., April 8. - A terrible disaster occurred on the Fitchburg railroad last night midway between Bardwell's ferry and West Deerfield Station, the east-bound passenger train, due at Greenfield at 6:05 p. m., going ... Read MORE...
Decatur Daily Republican - Decatur, Illinois - April 8, 1886
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1886 - A Passenger Train in Massachusetts Plunges 200 Feet Down an Embankment.
The Cars Take Fire and a Passenger is Roasted Alive Without the Chance of Succor.
Probably a Hundred Passengers on Board, and only Three Found Uninjured
The Rails Spread.
A Dozen Dead Bodies Recovered and the Work Not Yet Finished
Many Killed While Falling.
GREENFIELD, Mass., April 8. - A terrible disaster occurred on the Fitchburg railroad last night midway between Bardwell's ferry and West Deerfield Station, the east-bound passenger train, due at Greenfield at 6:05 p. m., going ... Read MORE...
Decatur Daily Republican - Decatur, Illinois - April 8, 1886
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Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA
The Coaches Take Fire and the Wounded Passengers are Burned to Death
The Disaster Caused by the Sinking of the Track
A Partial List of the Injured.
GREENFIELD, Mass., April 7. - A terrible disaster occurred on the Fitchburg railroad to-night, midway between Bardwell's ferry and West Deerfield station, the east bound passenger train, due at Greenfield at 6:05 P. M., going over an embankment 200 feet high. Six bodies have already been taken out of the ruins and it is not known how many... Read MORE...
The Quincy Daily Whig - Illinois - April 8, 1886
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1886 - FEARFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT - An Express Train Plunges Down an Almost Perpendicular Precipice.
The Coaches Take Fire and the Wounded Passengers are Burned to Death
The Disaster Caused by the Sinking of the Track
A Partial List of the Injured.
GREENFIELD, Mass., April 7. - A terrible disaster occurred on the Fitchburg railroad to-night, midway between Bardwell's ferry and West Deerfield station, the east bound passenger train, due at Greenfield at 6:05 P. M., going over an embankment 200 feet high. Six bodies have already been taken out of the ruins and it is not known how many... Read MORE...
The Quincy Daily Whig - Illinois - April 8, 1886
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1891 LEPROSY DISAPPEARING. The Awful Disease Being Slowly But Surely Eradicated in New Brunswick.
OTTAWA, April 7. - The report of Dr. Smith, physician to the Tracadie lazaretto, shows that leprosy with which a few settlements of fishermen in New Brunswick has been afflicted for the past half centrury is being slowly but surely eradicated. The policy of segregation, which has now been pursued systematically under the supervision of the government for a number of years, has resulted in a lessening of the cases. At Tracadie, the original center of the disease, the cases seem to have been...
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The Cleveland Leader and Morning Herald
Cleveland, Ohio
April 8, 1891
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1936 BOY'S DROWNED BODY FOUND.
Charlotte, April 8. - (AP) - The body of D. C. Kiser, Jr., 13 year old boy who was drowned in Sugar Creek yesterday, was recovered this morning. The body was about half a mile down stream from the point on his father's farm near Pineville where Kiser fell into the flooded stream.
The Daily Times-News
Burlington, North Carolina
April 8, 1936
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1873 Providence, Rhode Island, has a big gasometer, and the city papers are confident its dome is the largest in the world, it being 140 feet in diameter, or one foot larger than the dome of St. Peter's in Rome.
It holds, above the top of the tank, 1,540,000 cubic feet.
The Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana
April 8, 1873
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OTTAWA, April 7. - The report of Dr. Smith, physician to the Tracadie lazaretto, shows that leprosy with which a few settlements of fishermen in New Brunswick has been afflicted for the past half centrury is being slowly but surely eradicated. The policy of segregation, which has now been pursued systematically under the supervision of the government for a number of years, has resulted in a lessening of the cases. At Tracadie, the original center of the disease, the cases seem to have been...
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The Cleveland Leader and Morning Herald
Cleveland, Ohio
April 8, 1891
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1936 BOY'S DROWNED BODY FOUND.
Charlotte, April 8. - (AP) - The body of D. C. Kiser, Jr., 13 year old boy who was drowned in Sugar Creek yesterday, was recovered this morning. The body was about half a mile down stream from the point on his father's farm near Pineville where Kiser fell into the flooded stream.
The Daily Times-News
Burlington, North Carolina
April 8, 1936
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1873 Providence, Rhode Island, has a big gasometer, and the city papers are confident its dome is the largest in the world, it being 140 feet in diameter, or one foot larger than the dome of St. Peter's in Rome.
It holds, above the top of the tank, 1,540,000 cubic feet.
The Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana
April 8, 1873
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1826 26th Child!
Quebec, March 25. We understand that the wife of one Andre Ouellet dit Rochette, of the parish of Ste. Anne, (la Pocatiere) is on the point of giving her husband a twenty-sixth child; but the parish priest, always read to take his Dixme, claims, him, by right, as his own, and wishes to have him brought up under his paternal care. It is well known that the 26th of all farm produce is due to the Church. [Mercury]
Berks and Schuylkill Journal
Pennsylvania
April 8, 1826
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Quebec, March 25. We understand that the wife of one Andre Ouellet dit Rochette, of the parish of Ste. Anne, (la Pocatiere) is on the point of giving her husband a twenty-sixth child; but the parish priest, always read to take his Dixme, claims, him, by right, as his own, and wishes to have him brought up under his paternal care. It is well known that the 26th of all farm produce is due to the Church. [Mercury]
Berks and Schuylkill Journal
Pennsylvania
April 8, 1826
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America - Did you know?
The 30’s gangster Machine Gun Kelly gave the FBI the nickname “G-Men.”
Quebec - Did you know?
Eating while walking or standing on the street in Quebec is considered bad form.
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St. Louis, Mo.
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