Bethel, Vermont, USA
Bethel, Jan. 20. - The Woodbury Granite Co., holders of the Harlow granite quarry in Bethel, have just closed a contract for furnishing Bethel granite for two palatial residences on Fifth ave., New York city, facing Central park. The first will be built for J. D. Lyon and will be erected next to... Read MORE...
St Albans Messenger - St Albans, Vermont - January 20, 1903
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1903 - WILL USE BETHEL GRANITE. A $100,000 Contract for Two Fifth Avenue Houses.
Bethel, Jan. 20. - The Woodbury Granite Co., holders of the Harlow granite quarry in Bethel, have just closed a contract for furnishing Bethel granite for two palatial residences on Fifth ave., New York city, facing Central park. The first will be built for J. D. Lyon and will be erected next to... Read MORE...
St Albans Messenger - St Albans, Vermont - January 20, 1903
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Virginia City, Nevada
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Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA
Londonderry, N. H., Jan. 19.--A boiler connected with the Annis grain and lumber mills plant at North Londonderry exploded today, wrecking the boiler and the engine house, and damaging both the grain mill and the wood working factory, besides causing injuries to Justin Sanborn, the engineer.
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Portsmouth Herald - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - January 20, 1906
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1906 - AT LONDONDERRY Big Boiler Explosion On Friday LIVES OF THIRTY MEN WERE IN DANGER $10,000 Loss In The Rockingham County Town FACTORY WILL BE COMPELLED TO TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN
Londonderry, N. H., Jan. 19.--A boiler connected with the Annis grain and lumber mills plant at North Londonderry exploded today, wrecking the boiler and the engine house, and damaging both the grain mill and the wood working factory, besides causing injuries to Justin Sanborn, the engineer.
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Portsmouth Herald - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - January 20, 1906
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Southwick, Massachusetts, USA
An old apple tree, more than a hundred years old, is standing on the farm of L. A. Lamson, Southwick, which produced apples for more than seven barrels of cider, last year. This tree is fifteen feet and two inches in circumference at the butt, and measures around the outer edge of the limbs eleven... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - January 20, 1872
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1872 - OLD APPLE TREES. - The New England Homestead says:
An old apple tree, more than a hundred years old, is standing on the farm of L. A. Lamson, Southwick, which produced apples for more than seven barrels of cider, last year. This tree is fifteen feet and two inches in circumference at the butt, and measures around the outer edge of the limbs eleven... Read MORE...
St Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - January 20, 1872
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Manhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam) (Washington Heights)
Parkinson's in Whitehall Street Destroyed and Several Persons Burned.
An aged scrubwoman was seriously burned and three men, one a fireman, were slightly injured yesterday in a fire which destroyed the three-story brick building at 40-42 Whitehall Street, just off Bowling Green. The building was ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 20, 1909
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1909 - FIRE WIPES OUT A LANDMARK.
Parkinson's in Whitehall Street Destroyed and Several Persons Burned.
An aged scrubwoman was seriously burned and three men, one a fireman, were slightly injured yesterday in a fire which destroyed the three-story brick building at 40-42 Whitehall Street, just off Bowling Green. The building was ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 20, 1909
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Lemon Cream Pie - One teacup of pulverized sugar, one tablespoonful butter, one egg, one lemon (remove the seeds), one teacup of boiling water, one tablespoonful of corn starch dissolved in cold water; stir the corn starch into the water.
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Virginia, Nevada
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Children rejoice in noise. They appear to take a pleasure, both in noise itself and in the act of making it that is perfectly unintelligible to grown-up people. "Why do fathers and mothers always keep saying 'hush'?" a bright healthy boy asked the other day, and he was evidently much puzzled that we
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (Losanteville)
CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 19. - With the crest of the flood water in the Ohio river not yet in sight the financial loss in Cincinnati and vicinity, due to high water, is $500,000 up to tonight. The loss includes damaged goods, loss of manufacturing facilities and wages of idle men. Some 15,000 persons... Read MORE...
The Macon Daily Telegraph - Macon, Georgia - January 20, 1907
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1907 - CINCINNATI SUFFERS HEAVY LOSS BY FLOOD FIFTEEN THOUSAND PERSONS DRIVEN TO HIGHER LAND.
CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 19. - With the crest of the flood water in the Ohio river not yet in sight the financial loss in Cincinnati and vicinity, due to high water, is $500,000 up to tonight. The loss includes damaged goods, loss of manufacturing facilities and wages of idle men. Some 15,000 persons... Read MORE...
The Macon Daily Telegraph - Macon, Georgia - January 20, 1907
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1954 January 20, 1954 - The temperature at Rogers Pass, MT, plunged to 70 degrees below zero to establish a new record for the continental U.S.
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1864 A LONG ABSENCE
Nathaniel Woodell, of Westport, Massachusetts, who mysteriously disappeared in 1816, has returned after an absence of forty seven and a half years looking hale and rugged though more than eighty years old. He has been wandering about the western country ever since his unceremonious leave taking.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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1885 Men of Brains - Some of the Distinguished American Inventors
Elias Howe, inventor of the modern sewing machine; born at Spencer, Massachusetts, in 1819; died in 1867; machinist; sewing machine patented in 1846. From that time to 1854 his priority was contested, and he suffered from poverty, when a decision of the courts in his favor brought him large...
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Monogahela, Pennsylvania
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1864 A LONG ABSENCE
Nathaniel Woodell, of Westport, Massachusetts, who mysteriously disappeared in 1816, has returned after an absence of forty seven and a half years looking hale and rugged though more than eighty years old. He has been wandering about the western country ever since his unceremonious leave taking.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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1885 Men of Brains - Some of the Distinguished American Inventors
Elias Howe, inventor of the modern sewing machine; born at Spencer, Massachusetts, in 1819; died in 1867; machinist; sewing machine patented in 1846. From that time to 1854 his priority was contested, and he suffered from poverty, when a decision of the courts in his favor brought him large...
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Monogahela, Pennsylvania
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1896 FIRE IN A BANGOR BLOCK.
A fire, apparently of incendiary origin, broke out in the brick block owned by J. P. Bass at the foot of Main street in Bangor, Me., Saturday evening. The flames started in a closet on the third story, where no one was in the habit of going. The loss is principally by water, the fire being...
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Springfield, Massachusetts
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1955 January 20 - 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn
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A fire, apparently of incendiary origin, broke out in the brick block owned by J. P. Bass at the foot of Main street in Bangor, Me., Saturday evening. The flames started in a closet on the third story, where no one was in the habit of going. The loss is principally by water, the fire being...
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Springfield, Massachusetts
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1955 January 20 - 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn
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America - Did you know?
Los Angeles is not as “tall” as other large cities and sprawls for miles. One reason is that before 1957, there was a law against any building having more than 13 stories. They were afraid of earthquakes. City Hall, built in 1927, was the lone...Read MORE...legendsofamerica.com
Quebec - Did you know?
A common belief in old Quebec was that lutins [spirits] had the power to do many things for people. They could procure good weather for the crops. They could watch over favorite animals. They could intercede for the recovery of a sick member of the...Read MORE...The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 5, No. 19, Oct. - Dec., 1892, Lutins in the Province of Quebec
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International Hotel, (Open day and night), Corner C, Union & B Streets, Virginia, Nevada
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