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 December 7, 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 December 7 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
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1941 - December 7 - Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor: Aircraft flying from Imperial Japanese Navy carriers launch a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack begins at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time and is announced on radio stations in the U.S. at about 11:26 p.m. PST (19.26 GMT). (Wikipedia)
On December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy," Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii... Read MORE...
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Molasses Puff Candy
Ingredients
1 1/ 2 cups sugar
1/ 3 cup water
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/ 4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/ 2 cup mild molasses
2 1/ 2 teaspoons baking soda
Preparation
Line bottom and sides of a 13- by 9-inch baking...Read MORE...
The Dalles, Oregon, USA
Portland, Ore., Dec. 6. - The eastbound passenger train, No. 2, on the Oregon Railway & Navigation, which left this city at 9 a.m., was wrecked 12 miles east of The Dalles this afternoon.
The engine turned completely over and the mail car left the track, but turned only partially over. The composite sleeper and diner left the track, but remained upright. The other cars, including a private car containing Col. R. C. CLOWRY, general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and... Read MORE...
Anaconda Standard - Montana - December 7, 1901
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1901 - ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN. NARROW ESCAPE OF PASSENGERS ON O. R. & N. NEAR THE DALLES. NUTS PLACED ON RAILS SEND ENGINE AND MAIL CAR FROM TRACK - ENGINEER AND FIREMAN INJURED - PASSENGERS ARE UNHURT.
Portland, Ore., Dec. 6. - The eastbound passenger train, No. 2, on the Oregon Railway & Navigation, which left this city at 9 a.m., was wrecked 12 miles east of The Dalles this afternoon.
The engine turned completely over and the mail car left the track, but turned only partially over. The composite sleeper and diner left the track, but remained upright. The other cars, including a private car containing Col. R. C. CLOWRY, general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and... Read MORE...
Anaconda Standard - Montana - December 7, 1901
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Sands' Patent Triple Motion White Mountain Freezers
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Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
HAGERSTOWN, Dec. 7 1 A. M. — Last evening at ten o’clock a fire broke out in the business house of Rollins & Burbank, agricultural implement dealers, Antietam street, opposite the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and rapidly spread to the adjacent buildings. The Episcopal Church and court-house were burned to the ground. All the public records were saved. Several lives were lost by the falling of the court-house dome, and a number of other persons severely injured. The fire is still raging with a... Read MORE...
Boston Daily Advertiser - Boston, Massachusetts - December 7, 1871
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1871 - MARYLAND. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE RAGING IN HAGERSTOWN.
HAGERSTOWN, Dec. 7 1 A. M. — Last evening at ten o’clock a fire broke out in the business house of Rollins & Burbank, agricultural implement dealers, Antietam street, opposite the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and rapidly spread to the adjacent buildings. The Episcopal Church and court-house were burned to the ground. All the public records were saved. Several lives were lost by the falling of the court-house dome, and a number of other persons severely injured. The fire is still raging with a... Read MORE...
Boston Daily Advertiser - Boston, Massachusetts - December 7, 1871
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San Francisco, California, USA
Disaster Occurred at a Football Game in San Francisco - Victims Were Hurled on a Red Hot Furnace - Bodies Drawn From the Retorts With Pokers - The Dead and Injured.
San Francisco (Special). - By the collapse of the roof of the Pacific Glass Works while it was crowded with men and boys who were watching a football game between the Stanford and University of California teams, fifteen persons were killed. More than 100 persons fell into the furnace of the factory upon ovens and retorts... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - December 7, 1900
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1900 - FELL ON MOLTEN GLASS. Scores Killed and Injured by the Collapse of a Roof. SEVERAL ROASTED TO DEATH.
Disaster Occurred at a Football Game in San Francisco - Victims Were Hurled on a Red Hot Furnace - Bodies Drawn From the Retorts With Pokers - The Dead and Injured.
San Francisco (Special). - By the collapse of the roof of the Pacific Glass Works while it was crowded with men and boys who were watching a football game between the Stanford and University of California teams, fifteen persons were killed. More than 100 persons fell into the furnace of the factory upon ovens and retorts... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - December 7, 1900
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Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
LOSS OF $100,000 - PROBABLY DUE TO CIGARETTE STUB LEFT BY SOMEONE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL DANCE - TOWN RECORDS SAFE, AND NO OTHER BUILDINGS BURNED.
Clinton, Mass., Dec. 7. - This town was visited by one of the most disastrous fires in its history, this morning, when at 5:30 flames were seen breaking from the front end of the town hall located at the corner of Church and Walnut streets. In an hour and a half, the building, the biggest and most valuable municipal structure in town, was a mass of... Read MORE...
The Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - December 7, 1907
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1907 - CLINTON'S TOWN HALL DESTROYED BY FIRE.
LOSS OF $100,000 - PROBABLY DUE TO CIGARETTE STUB LEFT BY SOMEONE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL DANCE - TOWN RECORDS SAFE, AND NO OTHER BUILDINGS BURNED.
Clinton, Mass., Dec. 7. - This town was visited by one of the most disastrous fires in its history, this morning, when at 5:30 flames were seen breaking from the front end of the town hall located at the corner of Church and Walnut streets. In an hour and a half, the building, the biggest and most valuable municipal structure in town, was a mass of... Read MORE...
The Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - December 7, 1907
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
At a funeral, enter the church quietly, and, unless you belong to the mourners, wait until they leave the church before you rise from your seat. Never attempt to speak to any of the afflicted family. However heartfelt your sympathy, it will not be...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
Lancaster, Los Angeles, California, USA
Lancaster, Cal., Dec. 7 - (I.P.) - The toll of a collision between a school bus and an army station wagon rose to five today with the death in Community hospital of 14-year-old HOWARD McCALEB.
Young McCALEB was the first to die of 12 students involved in the accident. The four other victims were inspectors attached to the army air corps at Riverside, Cal., and an enlisted army man. Two students are seriously injured.
Girl Summons Help.
It was HOWARD McCALEB'S elder sister, ALVERDA, who ... Read MORE...
The Times - San Mateo, California - December 7, 1940
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1940 - 4 AIR OFFICERS, SCHOOL BOY DIE; TWELVE ESCAPE.
Lancaster, Cal., Dec. 7 - (I.P.) - The toll of a collision between a school bus and an army station wagon rose to five today with the death in Community hospital of 14-year-old HOWARD McCALEB.
Young McCALEB was the first to die of 12 students involved in the accident. The four other victims were inspectors attached to the army air corps at Riverside, Cal., and an enlisted army man. Two students are seriously injured.
Girl Summons Help.
It was HOWARD McCALEB'S elder sister, ALVERDA, who ... Read MORE...
The Times - San Mateo, California - December 7, 1940
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Brooklyn, New York, USA (Flatlands) (Flatbush) (Coney Island)
A Hundred Bodies Recovered from the Ruins and a Hundred More Visible.
GENERAL FEATURES OF THE DISASTER.
Every hour since the fire in the theatre was extinguished has brought fresh and saddening evidence of the extent of the horror.
At first it was believed that few, if any, lives had been lost. About 7 o'clock it was known that at least twenty persons had been burned to death or smothred. By 9 o'clock the list of deaths had risen to seventy. At 11 o'clock ninety victims were counted, and ... Read MORE...
The Brooklyn Eagle - New York, New York - December 7, 1876
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1876 - THE HOLOCAUST. The Story as it Stood at Two O'clock This Afternoon. AN UNPRECEDENTED HORROR. EVERY HOUR ADDING TO THE LIST OF THE DEAD. THE CALAMITY NOT YET MEASURED.
A Hundred Bodies Recovered from the Ruins and a Hundred More Visible.
GENERAL FEATURES OF THE DISASTER.
Every hour since the fire in the theatre was extinguished has brought fresh and saddening evidence of the extent of the horror.
At first it was believed that few, if any, lives had been lost. About 7 o'clock it was known that at least twenty persons had been burned to death or smothred. By 9 o'clock the list of deaths had risen to seventy. At 11 o'clock ninety victims were counted, and ... Read MORE...
The Brooklyn Eagle - New York, New York - December 7, 1876
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1905 Mrs. Ira Whittemore on going to her room Monday forenoon found it full of smoke...
On investigation it was found that the bed and bed clothes were nearly consumed. Mrs. Whittemore things it must have caught from a lighted candle which the little girl used in going to bed.
St Albans Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
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1900 Water
Boiled water or distilled water should not be used either by grown people or children unless there is danger from contamination from the water in ordinary use. Pure cold water Is preferable. A child may be given a glass of cool (never ice) water the first thing in the morning - say half an hour before breakfast, and may also take a glass on retiring.
Amador Ledger
Jackson, California
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1930 December 7 – The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers.
This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast.
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On investigation it was found that the bed and bed clothes were nearly consumed. Mrs. Whittemore things it must have caught from a lighted candle which the little girl used in going to bed.
St Albans Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
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1900 Water
Boiled water or distilled water should not be used either by grown people or children unless there is danger from contamination from the water in ordinary use. Pure cold water Is preferable. A child may be given a glass of cool (never ice) water the first thing in the morning - say half an hour before breakfast, and may also take a glass on retiring.
Amador Ledger
Jackson, California
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1930 December 7 – The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers.
This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast.
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1935 December 7 - Severe flooding hit parts of the Houston, TX, area. Eight persons were killed as one hundred city blocks were inundated.
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America - Did you know?
Ford Motor Company paid auto workers $5 per day in 1914.
Quebec - Did you know?
Women in New France worked very hard. They had to take care of the house, cook for the family, take care of the younger children. Sometimes women had 15 children or more. Women made clothes for the family using cloth that she spun.
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Twelve Bags Rogers & Hubbard's Corn Manure (No other manure) Used on this Field
Field of Wm. Wilder's, Norwell, Mass., which the neighbors say "largest that they ever saw." This field has not been cultivated for over 15 years and some of the ears weighted two pounds apiece at the time of harvest.
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