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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated August 9, 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 9 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Covington, Kentucky, USA
Mr. Joe Catching, son of Mr. J. F. Catching of this county, who held a position as yard switchman at Covington, was caught between two cars and crushed to death Saturday night about 7 o'clock.
His remains were brought to London on the early Monday morning train, and then conveyed to the home of his father near Piney Grove. His body was laid to rest in the Ward graveyard in the presence of a large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends.
He leaves a wife and four small children, father,... Read MORE...
The London Sentinel - London, Kentucky - August 9, 1917
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1917 - Joe Catching Killed At Covington
Mr. Joe Catching, son of Mr. J. F. Catching of this county, who held a position as yard switchman at Covington, was caught between two cars and crushed to death Saturday night about 7 o'clock.
His remains were brought to London on the early Monday morning train, and then conveyed to the home of his father near Piney Grove. His body was laid to rest in the Ward graveyard in the presence of a large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends.
He leaves a wife and four small children, father,... Read MORE...
The London Sentinel - London, Kentucky - August 9, 1917
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Nicholas Gilles
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Webster, Mass.
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1945 - August 9 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki: A United States B-29 Bomber, Bockscar, drops an atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man", on Nagasaki, Japan, at 11:02 a.m. (local time).
Another Atomic Bomb Dropped on Enemy City
Important Kyushu City of Nagasaki Struck With 'Good Results'; Other B29s Leave Four Major Targets Afire
GUAM, Aug. 9 (AP) - The world's most destructive force - the atomic bomb - was used for the second time against Japan Thursday, striking the important Kyushu island city of Nagasaki with observed "good results." More than one bomb may have been dropped in this second attack and it might have been of a different size than the first one which... Read MORE...
The Post-Register - Idaho Falls, Idaho - August 9, 1945
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1944 - August 9 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
The creation of Smokey Bear was a response to the need for forest fire prevention during World War II. The concern was that enemy attacks might set off wildfires on the West Coast, where Japanese submarines had been spotted. The iconic character was based on a real bear cub who was rescued from a wildfire in New Mexico in 1950. The cub, who suffered burns, was named Smokey Bear and became the living symbol of fire prevention. His message, "Only YOU can prevent forest fires," has since become... Read MORE...
August 9, 1944
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Aug. 8. - The fourth annual Farmers' week will be held at the college of agriculture, University of Arkansas, at Fayetteville, August 15-18, inclusive. An interesting program has been prepared that will equal if not excel the program of last year.
Farmers, farm women, boys and girls, business men and anyone else interested in country life in Arkansas are given a cordial invitation to attend this meeting. A reduced rate will probably be secured on all of the railroads and... Read MORE...
Springfield Republican - Springfield, Missouri - August 9, 1922
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1922 - Annual Farmers' Week at Fayetteville, Ark.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Aug. 8. - The fourth annual Farmers' week will be held at the college of agriculture, University of Arkansas, at Fayetteville, August 15-18, inclusive. An interesting program has been prepared that will equal if not excel the program of last year.
Farmers, farm women, boys and girls, business men and anyone else interested in country life in Arkansas are given a cordial invitation to attend this meeting. A reduced rate will probably be secured on all of the railroads and... Read MORE...
Springfield Republican - Springfield, Missouri - August 9, 1922
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Bird's Nest Pudding
Pare and halve tart mellow apples, scoop out the cores, put a little flour in the hollow of the apples, and wet it so as to form a thick paste, stick a blade or two of mace and three or four Zante currants, in each one of the...Read MORE...
The New England Cook Book, 1836
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Superior, Wisconsin, USA
Superior - Indignant over the ore car collision in which three persons were killed and several injured, 250 dock workers struck. The accident is blamed to careless switching. The known dead: Nick Libest, laborer, Superior; John Koski, laborer, Superior; unidentified man, supposed laborer. The fatally injured: Isaac Isel, laborer, leg cut off; unidentified man, laborer, leg and arm cut off. Badly hurt; John Koshlo, bruised and cut by ore lumps; Charles Stanholm, laborer, bruised and cut; Reno... Read MORE...
The Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - August 9, 1913
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1913 - Train Wreck
Superior - Indignant over the ore car collision in which three persons were killed and several injured, 250 dock workers struck. The accident is blamed to careless switching. The known dead: Nick Libest, laborer, Superior; John Koski, laborer, Superior; unidentified man, supposed laborer. The fatally injured: Isaac Isel, laborer, leg cut off; unidentified man, laborer, leg and arm cut off. Badly hurt; John Koshlo, bruised and cut by ore lumps; Charles Stanholm, laborer, bruised and cut; Reno... Read MORE...
The Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - August 9, 1913
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Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA (Point Judith)
Providence, R. I., August 9. - Army officers, urged on by civil authorities, sought today for an armed airplane which yesterday sprayed Narragansett Bay with machine gun bullets, wounding a girl seriously and nearly sinking a launch.
The plane, marked with what appeared to be the figures "92" and a blurred letter, dived toward the launch as it lay at anchor. Five persons lounged in the boat.
As the plane came on, the sharp rattle of a machine gun was heard above the roar of the engine.... Read MORE...
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - August 9, 1921
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1921 - ARMED AIRPLANE SHOWERS BULLETS ON NARRAGANSETT - Unknown Craft Seriously Wounds Girl and Damages Launch
Providence, R. I., August 9. - Army officers, urged on by civil authorities, sought today for an armed airplane which yesterday sprayed Narragansett Bay with machine gun bullets, wounding a girl seriously and nearly sinking a launch.
The plane, marked with what appeared to be the figures "92" and a blurred letter, dived toward the launch as it lay at anchor. Five persons lounged in the boat.
As the plane came on, the sharp rattle of a machine gun was heard above the roar of the engine.... Read MORE...
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - August 9, 1921
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Avoid making any noise in eating, even if each meal is eaten in solitary state. It is a disgusting habit, and one not easily cured if once contracted, to make any noise with the lips when...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
Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA
Plymouth, N.H., Aug. 8. - One of the worst collisions that ever occurred on the White Mountain division of the Boston and Maine Railroad took place one mile south of here at 5:40 o'clock this morning. Three men met with instant death, several received injuries and ten or twelve passengers received a fearful shaking up. Train No. 64 the Cannon-ball express, due in Boston at 9:40, left Plymouth on time at 5:35 in charge of Conductor EUGENE BENNETT of Concord.
It is the only vestibuled train... Read MORE...
San Francisco Call - San Francisco, California - August 9, 1895
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1895 - COLLIDED IN THE FOG. TWO TRAINS MET AND WERE SMASHED ON AN EASTERN ROAD. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT COACHES DEMOLISHED AND SEVERAL TRAINMEN KILLED.
Plymouth, N.H., Aug. 8. - One of the worst collisions that ever occurred on the White Mountain division of the Boston and Maine Railroad took place one mile south of here at 5:40 o'clock this morning. Three men met with instant death, several received injuries and ten or twelve passengers received a fearful shaking up. Train No. 64 the Cannon-ball express, due in Boston at 9:40, left Plymouth on time at 5:35 in charge of Conductor EUGENE BENNETT of Concord.
It is the only vestibuled train... Read MORE...
San Francisco Call - San Francisco, California - August 9, 1895
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Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Boca Raton (AP) - A Civil Aeronautics Board query was underway today into the cause of fruit fly spray plane crash in which five men were killed.
The aerial spray campaign, meanwhile, continued. A spokesman for the Mediterranean fruit fly fighters said to stop now would "undo everything we've done so far."
The plane, a C82 "Flying Boxcar," plummeted to the ground yesterday from a height of about 200 feet while banking to land at a deserted airfield here and burst into flames.
The five... Read MORE...
Fort Pierce News-Tribune - Florida - August 9, 1956
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1956 - INQUIRY IS LAUNCHED INTO PLANE CRASH.
Boca Raton (AP) - A Civil Aeronautics Board query was underway today into the cause of fruit fly spray plane crash in which five men were killed.
The aerial spray campaign, meanwhile, continued. A spokesman for the Mediterranean fruit fly fighters said to stop now would "undo everything we've done so far."
The plane, a C82 "Flying Boxcar," plummeted to the ground yesterday from a height of about 200 feet while banking to land at a deserted airfield here and burst into flames.
The five... Read MORE...
Fort Pierce News-Tribune - Florida - August 9, 1956
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Miss Gustason of Denver and O. A. Aubrey of Manitou Attended by Physicians.
Miss Alva Gustason of Denver, O. A. Aubrey of Manitou and other passengers of a Manitou Street car were injured late yesterday afternoon during a stampede of the occupants who were panic stricken as the result of the blowing out of a fuse, which enveloped the front of the car in flames. The air brakes refused to work as the car approached the corner of Seventeenth Street and Colorado Avenue, and the heavy coach... Read MORE...
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph - Colorado Springs, Colorado - August 9, 1909
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1909 - Several Injured In Street Car Panic. Fuse Blows Out, Causing A Wild Scramble.
Miss Gustason of Denver and O. A. Aubrey of Manitou Attended by Physicians.
Miss Alva Gustason of Denver, O. A. Aubrey of Manitou and other passengers of a Manitou Street car were injured late yesterday afternoon during a stampede of the occupants who were panic stricken as the result of the blowing out of a fuse, which enveloped the front of the car in flames. The air brakes refused to work as the car approached the corner of Seventeenth Street and Colorado Avenue, and the heavy coach... Read MORE...
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph - Colorado Springs, Colorado - August 9, 1909
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Livermore Falls, Maine, USA (East Livermore)
LIVERMORE FALLS, Me., Aug. 28 - Damage estimated at $75,000 was done to-day by a fire which consumed an immense quantity of spruce owned by the International Paper Company and piled along the Androscoggin River at Jay Bridge. The fire is believed to be of incendiary origin. The mill, which is situated on the opposite side of the river was in no danger, owing to a favorable wind.
Nothing is known here about the insurance, the policies being kept in the New York offices. The wood was intended... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 9, 1909
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1909 - Fire
LIVERMORE FALLS, Me., Aug. 28 - Damage estimated at $75,000 was done to-day by a fire which consumed an immense quantity of spruce owned by the International Paper Company and piled along the Androscoggin River at Jay Bridge. The fire is believed to be of incendiary origin. The mill, which is situated on the opposite side of the river was in no danger, owing to a favorable wind.
Nothing is known here about the insurance, the policies being kept in the New York offices. The wood was intended... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - August 9, 1909
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1842 The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains. (August 9)
Webster–Ashburton Treaty, (1842), treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain establishing the northeastern boundary of the U.S. and providing for Anglo–U.S. cooperation in the suppression of the slave trade. The treaty established the present boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, granted the U.S. navigation rights on the St. John River, provided for extradition in enumerated nonpolitical criminal cases, and established a joint naval system for suppressing the slave trade off the African...
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August 9, 1842
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1750 1700's - A Baby's Adventure
In the year 1819,died in the town of Greene, Me., an old man named Thomas, who had a thrilling wolf-story of his own to tell, though the experience was too early for his memory, he being at the time a baby in arms. Mr. George J. Varney relates the adventure in the Lewiston Journal. Mrs. Thomas was a fisherman's wife who lived in the town of Brunswick, Me., where Bowdoin College now stands. At one time when her husband was in port, but could not come home, she started on foot to Harpswell, a...
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St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 9, 1879
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1831 August 9 - 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
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August 9, 1831
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Webster–Ashburton Treaty, (1842), treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain establishing the northeastern boundary of the U.S. and providing for Anglo–U.S. cooperation in the suppression of the slave trade. The treaty established the present boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, granted the U.S. navigation rights on the St. John River, provided for extradition in enumerated nonpolitical criminal cases, and established a joint naval system for suppressing the slave trade off the African...
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August 9, 1842
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1750 1700's - A Baby's Adventure
In the year 1819,died in the town of Greene, Me., an old man named Thomas, who had a thrilling wolf-story of his own to tell, though the experience was too early for his memory, he being at the time a baby in arms. Mr. George J. Varney relates the adventure in the Lewiston Journal. Mrs. Thomas was a fisherman's wife who lived in the town of Brunswick, Me., where Bowdoin College now stands. At one time when her husband was in port, but could not come home, she started on foot to Harpswell, a...
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St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 9, 1879
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1831 August 9 - 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
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August 9, 1831
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1911 Senator Frye Dies in Maine - Former President Pro Tem. of National Body Passes Away in Old Home
Lewiston, Maine, Aug. 9 - United States Senator William Pierce Frye died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen White, here yesterday. Mrs. White and Mrs. Alice Briggs, another daughter, were at his bedside. Although he had been ill a long time, death came suddenly. he was 81 years old...
Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
August 9, 1911
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Lewiston, Maine, Aug. 9 - United States Senator William Pierce Frye died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen White, here yesterday. Mrs. White and Mrs. Alice Briggs, another daughter, were at his bedside. Although he had been ill a long time, death came suddenly. he was 81 years old...
Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
August 9, 1911
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America - Did you know?
Observation of foreign travelers to America: "Why is bread in the USA so sweet? Sandwich bread, hamburger buns, taste like cake but Americans have no idea what you're talking about because they're used to it... American bread is awful. I swear, all...Read MORE...thoughtcatalog.com
Quebec - Did you know?
People of New France were rewarded for having large families - 10 children - 300 pounds per year; 12 children - 400 pounds.
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