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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated January 13, 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 January 13 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
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February 1898
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Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
The Wind Swept Through the City, Clearing a Wide Path,
Crushing Dwellings, Churches and Big Business Blocks,
Burying the Inmates Under Piles of Brick and Timbers.
Fire Broke Out and Consumed Many of the Victims,
Who Had Been Imprisoned by the Falling Debris.
Other Sections of Arkanas Feel the Effects of the Blow - The Long List of Identified Dead.
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 12. - Two score of human lives and upward of $1,000,000 worth of property were destroyed by a terrible... Read MORE...
The Times-Picayune - New Orleans, Louisiana - January 13, 1898
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1898 - TORNADO AT FORT SMITH. About Forty People Were Killed and Scores Injured.
The Wind Swept Through the City, Clearing a Wide Path,
Crushing Dwellings, Churches and Big Business Blocks,
Burying the Inmates Under Piles of Brick and Timbers.
Fire Broke Out and Consumed Many of the Victims,
Who Had Been Imprisoned by the Falling Debris.
Other Sections of Arkanas Feel the Effects of the Blow - The Long List of Identified Dead.
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 12. - Two score of human lives and upward of $1,000,000 worth of property were destroyed by a terrible... Read MORE...
The Times-Picayune - New Orleans, Louisiana - January 13, 1898
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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
Blind River, Algoma, Ontario, Canada
Blind River, Ont. (AP) - A car carrying six young persons skidded on an icy curve near here today and plunged into the Cataract River. Only one escaped alive.
GARY HAMILTON, 20, of Blind River, walked a mile in freezing temperatures to the farm of Lucien Labbe. He and Labbe returned to the scene in a futile attempt to remove the victims.
Dead are:
GERALD HUPPE, 24, of Blind River.
KENNETH BERNIER, 24, of Blind River.
JOSEPH FRANCOEUR, 21, of Blind River.
Two girls from the nearby... Read MORE...
Indiana Evening Gazette - Indiana, Pennsylvania - January 13, 1962
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1962 - CAR PLUNGES INTO RIVER; FIVE PERISH.
Blind River, Ont. (AP) - A car carrying six young persons skidded on an icy curve near here today and plunged into the Cataract River. Only one escaped alive.
GARY HAMILTON, 20, of Blind River, walked a mile in freezing temperatures to the farm of Lucien Labbe. He and Labbe returned to the scene in a futile attempt to remove the victims.
Dead are:
GERALD HUPPE, 24, of Blind River.
KENNETH BERNIER, 24, of Blind River.
JOSEPH FRANCOEUR, 21, of Blind River.
Two girls from the nearby... Read MORE...
Indiana Evening Gazette - Indiana, Pennsylvania - January 13, 1962
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February 1898
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
(W.A.P. Report.)
Calgary, Jan. 12. - One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Western Canada, occurred today when the large packing plant of P. Burns & Co. was totally destroyed by fire. The loss, including carcasses in cold storage, will probably be in excess of $2,000,000. On account of the low water pressure, the fire department was unable to do effective work, and at a late hour tonight, the fire was still raging.
The loss is serious, in that the local plant was the largest... Read MORE...
Lethbridge Herald - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada - January 13, 1913
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1913 - BURNS' ABATTOIR DESTROYED BY FIRE. BIG BLAZE AT CALGARY - LOSS IS OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
(W.A.P. Report.)
Calgary, Jan. 12. - One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Western Canada, occurred today when the large packing plant of P. Burns & Co. was totally destroyed by fire. The loss, including carcasses in cold storage, will probably be in excess of $2,000,000. On account of the low water pressure, the fire department was unable to do effective work, and at a late hour tonight, the fire was still raging.
The loss is serious, in that the local plant was the largest... Read MORE...
Lethbridge Herald - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada - January 13, 1913
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Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA (Attleborough) (South Attleboro)
Attleboro, Mass. (AP) - An explosion heard for miles leveled a chemical plant building Sunday night, inflicting death and injury on a Sunday shift.
Further blasts were feared as fire swept a warehouse.
Two persons were known dead and at least 10 injured.
The dead were identified as WILLIAM CANIGLIA, 35, North Providence, R. I., and NORMAN ST. PIERRE, 29.
The blast at the THOMPSON Chemical Co. plant was heard in Boston, about 40 miles north of Attleboro.
A lesser explosion shook... Read MORE...
Florence Morning News - South Carolina - January 13, 1964
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1964 - EXPLOSION HITS PLANT; TWO KILLED
Attleboro, Mass. (AP) - An explosion heard for miles leveled a chemical plant building Sunday night, inflicting death and injury on a Sunday shift.
Further blasts were feared as fire swept a warehouse.
Two persons were known dead and at least 10 injured.
The dead were identified as WILLIAM CANIGLIA, 35, North Providence, R. I., and NORMAN ST. PIERRE, 29.
The blast at the THOMPSON Chemical Co. plant was heard in Boston, about 40 miles north of Attleboro.
A lesser explosion shook... Read MORE...
Florence Morning News - South Carolina - January 13, 1964
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Freetown, Massachusetts, USA (Assonet) (East Freetown)
New Haven Engineer Could Not See Signals - One Killed, Two Hurt.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 12. - A New York, New Haven & Hartford train was wrecked at East Freetown Station this forenoon by collision with a Concord freight, the engineer, on account of the blinding storm, being unable to see the signals. The freight train was taking a siding to allow the passenger train to pass.
The caboose of the freight and the engine of the passenger train were overturned, and the wreck caught fire.... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 13, 1912
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1912 - STORM CAUSES TRAIN WRECK
New Haven Engineer Could Not See Signals - One Killed, Two Hurt.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 12. - A New York, New Haven & Hartford train was wrecked at East Freetown Station this forenoon by collision with a Concord freight, the engineer, on account of the blinding storm, being unable to see the signals. The freight train was taking a siding to allow the passenger train to pass.
The caboose of the freight and the engine of the passenger train were overturned, and the wreck caught fire.... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 13, 1912
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
She who weds with one of an inferior rank in life has no right to expect that her friends will associate with her husband, or treat him with that respect which she may think his...Read MORE...
Letters to Young Ladies on Their Entrance into the World, by Elizabeth Lanfear, 1824
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
NEW HAVEN, Jan. 12 - The New Haven Road has just purchased through the People's Tramway Company of Danielson, Conn., the Webster and Worcester Street Railway Company.
The purchase gives to the People's Tramway Company control of the trolley lines from Danielson, Conn., to Worcester, a distance of forty miles. The company recently acquired the Putnam and Thompson Street Railway Company, and later took over the Webster and Dudley system, the latest purchase of the Webster and Worcester... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 13, 1901
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1901 - TROLLEY DEAL IN CONNECTICUT: New Haven Road Purchases the Webster and Worcester System.
NEW HAVEN, Jan. 12 - The New Haven Road has just purchased through the People's Tramway Company of Danielson, Conn., the Webster and Worcester Street Railway Company.
The purchase gives to the People's Tramway Company control of the trolley lines from Danielson, Conn., to Worcester, a distance of forty miles. The company recently acquired the Putnam and Thompson Street Railway Company, and later took over the Webster and Dudley system, the latest purchase of the Webster and Worcester... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 13, 1901
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New London, Connecticut, USA
New London, Jan. 12 - Fire tonight swept through the Old Yale Brewery now used as a storage building destroying the entire structure and its contents and causing a loss estimated at $100,000. Late tonight the building was a bright red shell with its roof gone and a few scattered flames still rising in the ruins.
The fire which is believed to have started in an elevator shaft gutted the building quickly and destroyed tons of hay and feed stored on upper floors. Only the brick walls four... Read MORE...
The Bridgeport Telegram - Bridgeport, Connecticut - January 13, 1923
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1923 - OLD YALE BREWERY DESTROYED BY FIRE; Loss is $100,000
New London, Jan. 12 - Fire tonight swept through the Old Yale Brewery now used as a storage building destroying the entire structure and its contents and causing a loss estimated at $100,000. Late tonight the building was a bright red shell with its roof gone and a few scattered flames still rising in the ruins.
The fire which is believed to have started in an elevator shaft gutted the building quickly and destroyed tons of hay and feed stored on upper floors. Only the brick walls four... Read MORE...
The Bridgeport Telegram - Bridgeport, Connecticut - January 13, 1923
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1941 January 13 – All persons born in Puerto Rico since this day are declared U.S. citizens by birth, through U.S. federal law.
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1908 January 13 – A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., kills 170.
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1888 January 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
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1908 January 13 – A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., kills 170.
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1888 January 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
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1888 January 13, 1888 - The mercury plunged to 65 degrees below zero at Fort Keough, located near Miles City MT. The reading stood as a record for the continental U.S. for sixty-six years.
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America - Did you know?
The first gold rush in the United States happened in Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1828.
Quebec - Did you know?
In the French-speaking parishes of the Province of Quebec, lutins are considered as mischievous, fun-loving little spirits, which may be protecting or annoying household gods or demons, according to the treatment that they receive from the inmates...Read MORE...The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 5, No. 19, Oct. - Dec., 1892, Lutins in the Province of Quebec
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Delaware & Hudson, R.R., Albany, N.Y.
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June 1898
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