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 August 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 August 8 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada
FREDERICTON, N B Aug. 7 - Counterfeiters have been leading the Royal Canadian Mounted police a merry race with faked quarters here. The galling point, from the police view, is that the coins are poorly manufactured-not a professional job. Two pieces of metal crudely pressed together constituted the 28 cent coins reported by a Queen
street merchant, who said they were stamped with fairly accurate reproductions of genuine currency, but varied noticeably in both size and weight from the real... Read MORE...
Times-Union - Albany, New York - August 8, 1937
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1937 - Crude Counterfeit Quarters Passed
FREDERICTON, N B Aug. 7 - Counterfeiters have been leading the Royal Canadian Mounted police a merry race with faked quarters here. The galling point, from the police view, is that the coins are poorly manufactured-not a professional job. Two pieces of metal crudely pressed together constituted the 28 cent coins reported by a Queen
street merchant, who said they were stamped with fairly accurate reproductions of genuine currency, but varied noticeably in both size and weight from the real... Read MORE...
Times-Union - Albany, New York - August 8, 1937
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Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Kansas City, Aug. 7 (AP) - MILDRED KAUFFMAN, 25-year-old Kansas City aviatrix, was injured probably fatally, and RUSSELL SHAW, her passenger, received a severe head injury when MISS KAUFFMAN'S plane locked wings with another at an altitude of 75 feet above Fairfax Airport here tonight. MISS KAUFFMAN suffered a broken neck.
The other plane was piloted by DON MOSS. Both were flying at high speed and crashed to the ground together. MOSS, uninjured, extricated his passenger, JACK LEFTWICH, 12... Read MORE...
Wilkes-Barre Record - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - August 8, 1932
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1932 - AVIATRIX SUFFERS BROKEN NECK IN PLANE CRASH.
Kansas City, Aug. 7 (AP) - MILDRED KAUFFMAN, 25-year-old Kansas City aviatrix, was injured probably fatally, and RUSSELL SHAW, her passenger, received a severe head injury when MISS KAUFFMAN'S plane locked wings with another at an altitude of 75 feet above Fairfax Airport here tonight. MISS KAUFFMAN suffered a broken neck.
The other plane was piloted by DON MOSS. Both were flying at high speed and crashed to the ground together. MOSS, uninjured, extricated his passenger, JACK LEFTWICH, 12... Read MORE...
Wilkes-Barre Record - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - August 8, 1932
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Hampton, New Hampshire, USA
August 8, 1860, the old Marston house, the paternal homestead of Mrs. Uri Lamprey, who inherited it, was struck by lightning and injured beyond repair, "The lightning struck on the west end, near the roof, and ran down to the ground, ripping off the clapboards, passing out and in , and completely riddling the end of the building. A child, abed in one of the chambers whose wall were shattered, miraculously escaped uninjured." Mrs. John Brown, as Irish tenant, was killed, at prayer. Having just... Read MORE...
History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire: From Its Settlement in 1638 to Autumn of 1892, pages
August 8, 1860
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1860 - Lightning Strikes Old Marston House
August 8, 1860, the old Marston house, the paternal homestead of Mrs. Uri Lamprey, who inherited it, was struck by lightning and injured beyond repair, "The lightning struck on the west end, near the roof, and ran down to the ground, ripping off the clapboards, passing out and in , and completely riddling the end of the building. A child, abed in one of the chambers whose wall were shattered, miraculously escaped uninjured." Mrs. John Brown, as Irish tenant, was killed, at prayer. Having just... Read MORE...
History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire: From Its Settlement in 1638 to Autumn of 1892, pages
August 8, 1860
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1945 - August 6 – WWII: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima: A United States B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, drops an atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy", on Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a.m. (local time).
Blasting of Hiroshima
Atomic Bomb Kills 150,000
...All Living Things Seared To Death, Tokyo Says
OKINAWA, Aug. 8 - (NS) - At least 150,000 Japanese were estimated today to have been killed Monday in the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
This estimate was made by Lt. Col. Bob Herring, Breckenridge, Tex., and scores of veteran airmen after viewing new reconnaissance photographs taken of the devastated city by Okinawa-based planes.
The latest reconnaissance photographs... Read MORE...
The Lincoln Star - Lincoln, Nebraska - August 8, 1945
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Brown Bread Biscuit - One pound of coarse brown flour or oatmeal flour, two ounces of butter, a little water. Make the butter and water boiling hot and add both to the flour, keeping the paste firm; roll it out, cut it into biscuits and bake...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., May 3, 1882
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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Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Tuesday was hotter than the previous day by at least four degrees. The mercury reached about 101 degrees in the shade, and all the way from 115 to 132 degrees in the sun. The Captain of the schooner Fulton cooked an egg by placing it on the deck of his vessel, near the companionway, in the sun. The operation required twenty minutes by the watch. The deck of the vessel was painted dark lead color. At the end of the twenty minutes the white or albumen of the egg was thoroughly cooked; though the... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - August 8, 1868
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1868 - An Ogdensburg paper has the following sensational story:
Tuesday was hotter than the previous day by at least four degrees. The mercury reached about 101 degrees in the shade, and all the way from 115 to 132 degrees in the sun. The Captain of the schooner Fulton cooked an egg by placing it on the deck of his vessel, near the companionway, in the sun. The operation required twenty minutes by the watch. The deck of the vessel was painted dark lead color. At the end of the twenty minutes the white or albumen of the egg was thoroughly cooked; though the... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - August 8, 1868
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
To drink to any one, and tease him to pledge
you in larger glasses, against his inclination, is, in itself, an execrable custom; which, however, has so far prevailed, as to appear impossible almost ever to be...Read MORE...
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA (Waupacca)
A large gasoline launch used on Waupaca lakes was destroyed by fire at Indian crossing on the lakes Sunday afternoon. Owing to a leak in the gasoline tank or pipes a fire resulted and although the boat was headed at once for shore several of the dozen or more persons, who were on board at the time, were very painfully burned. As the boat neared shore the occupants jumped out into the water. The most severely injured were removed to the Veterans Home hospital. The boat was burned to the water's... Read MORE...
The Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - August 8, 1908
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1908 - GASOLINE LAUNCH BURNED.
A large gasoline launch used on Waupaca lakes was destroyed by fire at Indian crossing on the lakes Sunday afternoon. Owing to a leak in the gasoline tank or pipes a fire resulted and although the boat was headed at once for shore several of the dozen or more persons, who were on board at the time, were very painfully burned. As the boat neared shore the occupants jumped out into the water. The most severely injured were removed to the Veterans Home hospital. The boat was burned to the water's... Read MORE...
The Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - August 8, 1908
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Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
From Our Own Correspondent.
ERIE, August 6, 1866. On Monday afternoon, about four o'clock, a fire broke out in Sterritt & Degmier's barrel factory, on the equal, which for a time threatened to be very destructive, but through the almost superhuman efforts of the firemen, and the people acting to preserve their own property, it was checked---not, however, until the four buildings employed for factory purposes had been entirely destroyed.
The hand-engines were first on the ground, and were... Read MORE...
Titusville Morning Herald - Titusville, Pennsylvania - August 8, 1866
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1866 - Fire In Erie.
From Our Own Correspondent.
ERIE, August 6, 1866. On Monday afternoon, about four o'clock, a fire broke out in Sterritt & Degmier's barrel factory, on the equal, which for a time threatened to be very destructive, but through the almost superhuman efforts of the firemen, and the people acting to preserve their own property, it was checked---not, however, until the four buildings employed for factory purposes had been entirely destroyed.
The hand-engines were first on the ground, and were... Read MORE...
Titusville Morning Herald - Titusville, Pennsylvania - August 8, 1866
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Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
TWO FERRY BOATS RUINED AND MUCH WHARF PROPERTY DAMAGED BY FIERCE FLAMES - THE LOSS WILL BE OVER $500,000.
New York, Aug. 8. - Inside of three-quarters of an hour fire swept away the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company's terminal in Hoboken, seized two ferry boats and practically ruined them, and for half an hour threatened the destruction of the entire water front in the vicinity, including the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd steamship docks, at which several big ships... Read MORE...
Tyrone Daily Herald - Pennsylvania - August 8, 1905
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1905 - BIG FIRE IN HOBOKEN. DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN'S TERMINAL DESTROYED. ENTIRE WATER FRONT IN PERIL.
TWO FERRY BOATS RUINED AND MUCH WHARF PROPERTY DAMAGED BY FIERCE FLAMES - THE LOSS WILL BE OVER $500,000.
New York, Aug. 8. - Inside of three-quarters of an hour fire swept away the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company's terminal in Hoboken, seized two ferry boats and practically ruined them, and for half an hour threatened the destruction of the entire water front in the vicinity, including the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd steamship docks, at which several big ships... Read MORE...
Tyrone Daily Herald - Pennsylvania - August 8, 1905
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San Diego, California, USA
San Diego, Aug. 8. - (AP) - Five persons are in hospitals as the result of an explosion of acetylene gas that wrecked the plant of the Pacific Acetylene company at Thirtieth and Main Streets and a collision between a fire engine and an automobile as the firemen were answering the alarm.
The explosion, resulting from unknown causes, demolished the gas plant, doing damage estimated at $36,000. So great was the force of the blast that a nine inch brick wall was thrown out, pieces of the roof... Read MORE...
Oakland Tribune - Oakland, California - August 8, 1927
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1927 - BLAST RAZES PLANT, 5 HURT. ACETYLENE WORKS WRECKED; FIREMEN, BOUND FOR SCENE, HURT IN CRASH.
San Diego, Aug. 8. - (AP) - Five persons are in hospitals as the result of an explosion of acetylene gas that wrecked the plant of the Pacific Acetylene company at Thirtieth and Main Streets and a collision between a fire engine and an automobile as the firemen were answering the alarm.
The explosion, resulting from unknown causes, demolished the gas plant, doing damage estimated at $36,000. So great was the force of the blast that a nine inch brick wall was thrown out, pieces of the roof... Read MORE...
Oakland Tribune - Oakland, California - August 8, 1927
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Palmer, Massachusetts, USA (Bondsville) (Three Rivers)
A Congregational Minister Loses His Life at Palmer, Mass.
Palmer, Mass., Aug. 3. - The Weeks House on South Main Street, an old landmark, was discovered on fire at about 2 o'clock this morning. The flames spread with great rapidity and in a short time enveloped almost the entire structure. There were about thirty-five guests and borarders in the house, and they had barely time to escape in their night clothing. The Rev. Mr. Williams, a retired Congregational minister, who had been boarding... Read MORE...
Centralia Enterprise and Tribune - Centralia, Washington - August 8, 1891
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1891 - FATAL HOTEL FIRE.
A Congregational Minister Loses His Life at Palmer, Mass.
Palmer, Mass., Aug. 3. - The Weeks House on South Main Street, an old landmark, was discovered on fire at about 2 o'clock this morning. The flames spread with great rapidity and in a short time enveloped almost the entire structure. There were about thirty-five guests and borarders in the house, and they had barely time to escape in their night clothing. The Rev. Mr. Williams, a retired Congregational minister, who had been boarding... Read MORE...
Centralia Enterprise and Tribune - Centralia, Washington - August 8, 1891
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Gardiner, Maine, USA
SIXTY DWELLINGS AND MANY MILLS DESTROYED - THE LOSS VERY HEAVY.
GARDINER, Me., Aug. 7. - The most extensive conflagration that ever visited Gardiner began a little before 7 o'clock this evening in Moore & Brown's planing mill, on Bridge-street, near Water. A cluster of manufactories are located on the "Lower Dam" on the Cobbosse stream at this point. The wind blew the flames away from the main business street into the saw mills and foundries. Owing to the protracted drought and the... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 8, 1882
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1882 - A GREAT FIRE IN GARDINER, ME
SIXTY DWELLINGS AND MANY MILLS DESTROYED - THE LOSS VERY HEAVY.
GARDINER, Me., Aug. 7. - The most extensive conflagration that ever visited Gardiner began a little before 7 o'clock this evening in Moore & Brown's planing mill, on Bridge-street, near Water. A cluster of manufactories are located on the "Lower Dam" on the Cobbosse stream at this point. The wind blew the flames away from the main business street into the saw mills and foundries. Owing to the protracted drought and the... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 8, 1882
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New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Westville)
New Haven, Conn., July 31. - When the steamer Elm City, with 1,300 excursionists on board, was midway between New York and Bridgeport last evening, fire broke out on board. The flames originated in the engine-room and spread with alarming rapidity, and the dense clouds of smoke that rolled up struck terror to the hearts of the passengers. The excitement was intense, amounting almost to a panic. Women screamed and the little ones clung to their mothers in terror. A man and woman in state-room... Read MORE...
Centralia Enterprise and Tribune - Centralia, Washington - August 8, 1891
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1891 - FIRE ON A BIG STEAMER. Thirteen Hundred Persons Narrowly Escape Death on a Sound Steamer.
New Haven, Conn., July 31. - When the steamer Elm City, with 1,300 excursionists on board, was midway between New York and Bridgeport last evening, fire broke out on board. The flames originated in the engine-room and spread with alarming rapidity, and the dense clouds of smoke that rolled up struck terror to the hearts of the passengers. The excitement was intense, amounting almost to a panic. Women screamed and the little ones clung to their mothers in terror. A man and woman in state-room... Read MORE...
Centralia Enterprise and Tribune - Centralia, Washington - August 8, 1891
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1925 August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade in Washington DC;
as many as 40,000 male and female members of the Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1925, an estimated 5,000,000 members belong to the Ku Klux Klan, making it the largest fraternal organization in the United States.
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August 8, 1925
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1908 August 8 – The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights to the upright portable vacuum cleaner just invented by James M. Spangler.
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August 8, 1908
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1868 A business firm in Jamestown, Chatauque county N. Y., lately inserted a nine column advertisement in the Jamestown Journal.
A few days thereafter they sold in one day goods enough at retail to amount to over thirteen hundred dollars.
St. Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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as many as 40,000 male and female members of the Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1925, an estimated 5,000,000 members belong to the Ku Klux Klan, making it the largest fraternal organization in the United States.
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August 8, 1925
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1908 August 8 – The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights to the upright portable vacuum cleaner just invented by James M. Spangler.
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1868 A business firm in Jamestown, Chatauque county N. Y., lately inserted a nine column advertisement in the Jamestown Journal.
A few days thereafter they sold in one day goods enough at retail to amount to over thirteen hundred dollars.
St. Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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1885 During Saturday, 3,820 new cholera cases were reported in Spain, and 1,464 deaths, and on Sunday, 3,807 new cases and 1,364 deaths.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1885
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1885 The city of Toronto, Canada, had a million-dollar conflagration Sunday night. The entire city was seriously threatened.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1885
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1868 Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan arrive at St. Joseph, Missouri, on the 28th.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1885
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1885 The city of Toronto, Canada, had a million-dollar conflagration Sunday night. The entire city was seriously threatened.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1885
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1868 Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan arrive at St. Joseph, Missouri, on the 28th.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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1868 There is a little child in the village of Baltic, Conn., only four years old, who plays more than forty tunes correctly on the piano.
Here name is Susan Medbury, daughter of George Medbury, chorister in the Baptist church.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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1885 Italian Musicians
A company of Italian musicians, who have been playing on the Stonington, Ct., line of steamers, now furnish music on the steamer Lorn.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1885
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1868 Foreign Students
Poughkeepsie, the City of Schools, has over a thousand pupils from abroad.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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Here name is Susan Medbury, daughter of George Medbury, chorister in the Baptist church.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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1885 Italian Musicians
A company of Italian musicians, who have been playing on the Stonington, Ct., line of steamers, now furnish music on the steamer Lorn.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1885
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1868 Foreign Students
Poughkeepsie, the City of Schools, has over a thousand pupils from abroad.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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1868 Squaring the Circle
Mr. Joseph Sweetsir, of Biddeford, Me., claims to have discovered a method of squaring the circle, a problem which has baffled all mathematicians. Mr. Sweetsir will soon publish an explanation of the matter.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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1907 THREE DROWNED.
NEWTON, N. J., Aug. 8. - JAMES JOHNSON, 21 of Jersey City; HARRIET SLINKARD, 16, and HELEN BLOOMER, 18, both of Brooklyn, were drowned while bathing in the lake here. With a girl on either arm Johnson was clinging to a raft moored near the shore in what was supposed to be water reaching to their waists. Suddenly one of the girls screamed and the three bathers sand together. The bodies were recovered.
The Marion Daily Star
Marion, Ohio
August 8, 1907
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1909 HOTEL'S MYSTERIOUS FIRE.
Massachusetts Resort Was to Have Been Auctioned to Satisfy Claims. FALMOUTH, Mass., Aug. 7. - The Maravista Hotel, in course of construction at Falmouth Heights, was burned to the ground early to-day under mysterious circumstances. The building was to have been sold at auction to-day to satisfy the claims of Timothy Bourne, the contractor. It was valued at $15,000, and was insured. The structure was owned by the Falmouth Land Company.
The New York Times
New York, New York
August 8, 1909
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Mr. Joseph Sweetsir, of Biddeford, Me., claims to have discovered a method of squaring the circle, a problem which has baffled all mathematicians. Mr. Sweetsir will soon publish an explanation of the matter.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 8, 1868
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1907 THREE DROWNED.
NEWTON, N. J., Aug. 8. - JAMES JOHNSON, 21 of Jersey City; HARRIET SLINKARD, 16, and HELEN BLOOMER, 18, both of Brooklyn, were drowned while bathing in the lake here. With a girl on either arm Johnson was clinging to a raft moored near the shore in what was supposed to be water reaching to their waists. Suddenly one of the girls screamed and the three bathers sand together. The bodies were recovered.
The Marion Daily Star
Marion, Ohio
August 8, 1907
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1909 HOTEL'S MYSTERIOUS FIRE.
Massachusetts Resort Was to Have Been Auctioned to Satisfy Claims. FALMOUTH, Mass., Aug. 7. - The Maravista Hotel, in course of construction at Falmouth Heights, was burned to the ground early to-day under mysterious circumstances. The building was to have been sold at auction to-day to satisfy the claims of Timothy Bourne, the contractor. It was valued at $15,000, and was insured. The structure was owned by the Falmouth Land Company.
The New York Times
New York, New York
August 8, 1909
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1884 Sick Sheep
The Canadian government has ordered that no sheep be allowed to leave the county of La Prairie, in the province of Quebec, because of a disease existing there. The diseased animals are to be slaughtered, the government paying the owners one-third their value.
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin
August 8, 1884
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The Canadian government has ordered that no sheep be allowed to leave the county of La Prairie, in the province of Quebec, because of a disease existing there. The diseased animals are to be slaughtered, the government paying the owners one-third their value.
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin
August 8, 1884
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America - Did you know?
The California grizzly bear is the state’s official animal. However, in 1953 when it was named, it had already become extinct. The last known California grizzly to have been seen was killed in 1922.
Quebec - Did you know?
Quebec City, known by tourists and travellers as Quebec, is one of the most beautiful cities in North America, looking suspiciously like several European cities. The American and Canadian houses are mostly built of wood, but in Quebec, especially in ...Read MORE...weleaf.nl
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