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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated January 30, 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 30 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Greenland, New Hampshire, USA
House, Barn and Outbuildings of Daniel Mahoney Burned This Morning.
Shortly after 9 o'clock this morning the barn of Daniel Mahoney in Greenland was discovered to be on fire and an hour later the barn, house and outbuildings were a mass of charred ruins.
The first known of the fire was when Mrs. Mahoney looked out of a window and saw the blaze coming through the roof of the barn. The alarm was quickly given but in spite of prompt work on the part of neighbors the flames spread and... Read MORE...
Portsmouth Herald - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - January 30, 1899
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1899 - FIRE IN GREENLAND.
House, Barn and Outbuildings of Daniel Mahoney Burned This Morning.
Shortly after 9 o'clock this morning the barn of Daniel Mahoney in Greenland was discovered to be on fire and an hour later the barn, house and outbuildings were a mass of charred ruins.
The first known of the fire was when Mrs. Mahoney looked out of a window and saw the blaze coming through the roof of the barn. The alarm was quickly given but in spite of prompt work on the part of neighbors the flames spread and... Read MORE...
Portsmouth Herald - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - January 30, 1899
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Reno, Nevada, USA
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Jan. 30. The following despatch was received from Truckee this morning:
Cascade Cut was opened yesterday morning by five hundred snow shovellers, raising the blockade from tunnel 13, westward. A wooden plough with seven engines started west from Truckee at nine o'clock, carrying sixty snow shovellers to removed the slide between here and Tunnel 13. it met with almost unsumountable difficulties on account of frozen slush. It is now less than four miles from town and has... Read MORE...
Boston Evening Transcript - Boston, Massachusetts - January 30, 1890
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1890 - Three Miles to Go - Then the Central Pacific Railroad will be Clear if the Falling Snow does not Block it Again.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Jan. 30. The following despatch was received from Truckee this morning:
Cascade Cut was opened yesterday morning by five hundred snow shovellers, raising the blockade from tunnel 13, westward. A wooden plough with seven engines started west from Truckee at nine o'clock, carrying sixty snow shovellers to removed the slide between here and Tunnel 13. it met with almost unsumountable difficulties on account of frozen slush. It is now less than four miles from town and has... Read MORE...
Boston Evening Transcript - Boston, Massachusetts - January 30, 1890
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
Horace O. Warner of this city was instantly killed in a head-end collision between a southbound work train and a northbound coal special at Oshkosh at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Warner was the engineer on the special and is reported to have been literally ground to pieces in the wreckage of the engine.
The wreck occurred on a curved track and the work train, which was loaded with ties, was slowing up for the derail switch at the bridge, when the special coming up from the south at a... Read MORE...
The Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - January 30, 1909
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1909 - Engineer Warner Killed - Meets Instant Death in Head End Freight Collision Wednesday Afternoon.
Horace O. Warner of this city was instantly killed in a head-end collision between a southbound work train and a northbound coal special at Oshkosh at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Warner was the engineer on the special and is reported to have been literally ground to pieces in the wreckage of the engine.
The wreck occurred on a curved track and the work train, which was loaded with ties, was slowing up for the derail switch at the bridge, when the special coming up from the south at a... Read MORE...
The Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - January 30, 1909
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Maple Icing - For maple icing boil together half a cup of cream, one cup scraped maple sugar and one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Cook until it forms a a soft mass when dropped into cold water.
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Peekskill, New York, USA
Peekskill, N. Y., Jan. 20. - The Depew Opera House, here, owned by Senator CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, was destroyed by fire this morning. The loss is estimated at about $40,000.
The fire was discovered about 7:30 o'clock, and when the firemen arrived on the scene the interior of the Opera House was a mass of flames. A high wind favored the rapid progress of the fire, and despite the efforts of the firemen the flames burst through the roof and through the windows. The firemen, seeing that the Opera... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 30, 1900
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1900 - DEPEW OPERA HOUSE BURNED. FIRE DESTROY'S THE SENATOR'S PROPERTY AT PEEKSKILL - LOSS, $40,000.
Peekskill, N. Y., Jan. 20. - The Depew Opera House, here, owned by Senator CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, was destroyed by fire this morning. The loss is estimated at about $40,000.
The fire was discovered about 7:30 o'clock, and when the firemen arrived on the scene the interior of the Opera House was a mass of flames. A high wind favored the rapid progress of the fire, and despite the efforts of the firemen the flames burst through the roof and through the windows. The firemen, seeing that the Opera... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 30, 1900
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St Paul, Minnesota, USA
St. Paul, Jan. 29. - Fire started in a department store on Seventh street this evening and for a while threatened to devastate a large part of the business district of the city. As it was a half dozen buildings were almost wholly destroyed with an aggregate loss of about $600,000.
Favored by a high northwest wind, burning cinders were thrown flying over the business section of the city and the occupants of many buildings began to remove their property.
Minneapolis sent over an engine and... Read MORE...
January 30, 1909
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1909 - ST. PAUL SAVED AFTER BATTLE WITH FLAMES. $600,000 IN BUILDINGS LEFT IN ASHES IN HEART OF THE BUSINESS SECTION. RIVAL, MINNEAPOLIS, SENDS A HOSE CART. ENTIRE FIRE FIGHTING STRENGTH USED TO PREVENT RUIN OF MINNESOTA TOWN.
St. Paul, Jan. 29. - Fire started in a department store on Seventh street this evening and for a while threatened to devastate a large part of the business district of the city. As it was a half dozen buildings were almost wholly destroyed with an aggregate loss of about $600,000.
Favored by a high northwest wind, burning cinders were thrown flying over the business section of the city and the occupants of many buildings began to remove their property.
Minneapolis sent over an engine and... Read MORE...
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Berlin, Vermont, USA
George Salina Freezes Fast to Ridgepole of His Barn While Engaged in Job of Repairing - May Not Survive.
Berlin, Vt., Jan. 29. - Frozen so stiff that he was kept from falling by the rigidity of his own joints, George Salina, a farmer, was taken from the ridge pole of his barn, where for six hours last night he had been held a prisoner, so nearly dead from from exhaustion that there are doubts as to whether or not he will recover.
Salina started to repair the roof during the afternoon, but ... Read MORE...
The Boston Journal - Boston, Massachusetts - January 30, 1907
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1907 - FARMER IS TURNED INTO A HUMAN SHINGLE
George Salina Freezes Fast to Ridgepole of His Barn While Engaged in Job of Repairing - May Not Survive.
Berlin, Vt., Jan. 29. - Frozen so stiff that he was kept from falling by the rigidity of his own joints, George Salina, a farmer, was taken from the ridge pole of his barn, where for six hours last night he had been held a prisoner, so nearly dead from from exhaustion that there are doubts as to whether or not he will recover.
Salina started to repair the roof during the afternoon, but ... Read MORE...
The Boston Journal - Boston, Massachusetts - January 30, 1907
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Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA (South Deerfield)
DEERFIELD, Mass., Jan. 29. - Five men were killed and one seriously injured, as the result of a freight train running into the rear of a passenger train to-day, on the Fitchburg Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, about a mile west of West Deerfield. The passenger train was stopped in a narrow cut by a signal, which it is thought was caused by a defect in the signaling apparatus. A brakeman was immediately sent behind to flag the following freight train, but did not stop it in time.
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The New York Times - New York, New York - January 30, 1907
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1907 - SIGNAL WRONG; 5 KILLED. Defect in the Boston & Maine System Causes a Wreck.
DEERFIELD, Mass., Jan. 29. - Five men were killed and one seriously injured, as the result of a freight train running into the rear of a passenger train to-day, on the Fitchburg Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, about a mile west of West Deerfield. The passenger train was stopped in a narrow cut by a signal, which it is thought was caused by a defect in the signaling apparatus. A brakeman was immediately sent behind to flag the following freight train, but did not stop it in time.
The ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 30, 1907
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Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
The White Star liner Republic, rammed by the Italian liner Florida, in the fog off Nantucket, Mass., when six persons were killed, sank after being kept afloat for thirty-six hours. Her passengers, 1650, taken off many hours before by the steamship Baltic, were landed in New York.
The Republic was in tow of the revenue cutter Gresham and the derelict destroyer Seneca, proceeding to New York, when she sank. On board her was Captain Sealby with a volunteer detail of fifty of her crew. They... Read MORE...
Adams County News - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - January 30, 1909
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1909 - Six Killed In Crash at Sea.
The White Star liner Republic, rammed by the Italian liner Florida, in the fog off Nantucket, Mass., when six persons were killed, sank after being kept afloat for thirty-six hours. Her passengers, 1650, taken off many hours before by the steamship Baltic, were landed in New York.
The Republic was in tow of the revenue cutter Gresham and the derelict destroyer Seneca, proceeding to New York, when she sank. On board her was Captain Sealby with a volunteer detail of fifty of her crew. They... Read MORE...
Adams County News - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - January 30, 1909
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Bath, Maine, USA
About Half a Million Dollars' Damage by the Fire of Sunday.
BATH, Me., Jan. 29 - The fire in Bath yesterday was the worst the city had ever known. The heart of the business section lies in ruins. The loss closely approaches $500,000. A defective chimney in the stable office of the Sagadahoc House started the fire, and before the blaze was discovered the wooden stable building was in flames.
When the firemen arrived at the scene, they found the hydrants empty. Another break at New-Meadows... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 30, 1894
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1894 - Fire - BATH SUFFERED A HEAVY LOSS
About Half a Million Dollars' Damage by the Fire of Sunday.
BATH, Me., Jan. 29 - The fire in Bath yesterday was the worst the city had ever known. The heart of the business section lies in ruins. The loss closely approaches $500,000. A defective chimney in the stable office of the Sagadahoc House started the fire, and before the blaze was discovered the wooden stable building was in flames.
When the firemen arrived at the scene, they found the hydrants empty. Another break at New-Meadows... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 30, 1894
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
Act Is Introduced in New Hampshire Legislature Providing for Safety Equipment on All Buildings of Three or More Stories.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 29. - His action prompted by the destruction of the Cocheco Manufacturing Compnay's No. 1 mill at Dover on Saturday with a loss of five lives. Senator Pinkham of Dover today presented to the New Hampshire Senate committee on revision of the statutes a bill in relation to fire escapes. The bill provides that all buildings in which people are employed... Read MORE...
The Boston Journal - Boston, Massachusetts - January 30, 1907
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1907 DOVER MILL DEATHS PROMPTS A FIRE ESCAPE LAW
Act Is Introduced in New Hampshire Legislature Providing for Safety Equipment on All Buildings of Three or More Stories.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 29. - His action prompted by the destruction of the Cocheco Manufacturing Compnay's No. 1 mill at Dover on Saturday with a loss of five lives. Senator Pinkham of Dover today presented to the New Hampshire Senate committee on revision of the statutes a bill in relation to fire escapes. The bill provides that all buildings in which people are employed... Read MORE...
The Boston Journal - Boston, Massachusetts - January 30, 1907
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New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
General Alarm Sounded at Early Morning Blaze - Commercial House Razed
New Bedford, Jan. 29 - (AP) - A general alarm at 2:30 this morning called the apparatus to the Commercial house at the corner of Union and Second streets to a fire which started back of the Homebakery on he Second-street side under the hotel, swept through the hotel causing a total loss, and then swept down Union street and destroyed the wholesale produce building owned by William Karalekas & Co. and the building owned by... Read MORE...
Springfield Republican - Springfield, Massachusetts - January 30, 1928
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1928 - LOSS REACHES $371,000 AT NEW BEDFORD FIRE
General Alarm Sounded at Early Morning Blaze - Commercial House Razed
New Bedford, Jan. 29 - (AP) - A general alarm at 2:30 this morning called the apparatus to the Commercial house at the corner of Union and Second streets to a fire which started back of the Homebakery on he Second-street side under the hotel, swept through the hotel causing a total loss, and then swept down Union street and destroyed the wholesale produce building owned by William Karalekas & Co. and the building owned by... Read MORE...
Springfield Republican - Springfield, Massachusetts - January 30, 1928
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1847 January 30 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
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1869 More than fifteen hundred deaths occur in London every week.
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1869 Prussia has lent a number of farmers near Insterburg from $1,500 to $3,500 each, to enable them to improve their farms.
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1869 More than fifteen hundred deaths occur in London every week.
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1869 Prussia has lent a number of farmers near Insterburg from $1,500 to $3,500 each, to enable them to improve their farms.
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1869 A Christmas goose, sent to two prisoners in a Canada jail, was stuffed with files and steel saws. They appreciated the stuffing.
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1869 Ladies are to be admitted to Cornell University next fall.
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1869 It is estimated that not one-eighth of the people of the United States attend public worship on Sunday.
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1869 Ladies are to be admitted to Cornell University next fall.
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1869 It is estimated that not one-eighth of the people of the United States attend public worship on Sunday.
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1869 The New York Sun says: "Four hours of good hard study in the morning is as much as should be required of any child under fourteen years of age, girls especially."
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1869 An attempt to poison a miller at St. Johnsbury, Vt.,was made a few days ago
by leaving a plug of tobacco in his mill, with strychine enough to kill twenty men concealed in one end of it.
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1869 California proposes to hold a World's Fair in 1870, and the Pacific railroad agrees to carry passengers at half fare.
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1869 An attempt to poison a miller at St. Johnsbury, Vt.,was made a few days ago
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1869 California proposes to hold a World's Fair in 1870, and the Pacific railroad agrees to carry passengers at half fare.
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1869 The county poor of Chemung, N. Y., are fed at the rate of sixty-three cents a week per head.
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1869 The Merchant's Hotel at Riviere de Loup, Canada, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 22d. Four of the inmates were burned to death and several injured.
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1869 A St. Louis dispatch of the 22d reports that General Sherman had been quite ill for several days past.
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1869 The Merchant's Hotel at Riviere de Loup, Canada, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 22d. Four of the inmates were burned to death and several injured.
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1869 A St. Louis dispatch of the 22d reports that General Sherman had been quite ill for several days past.
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1869 Late Arizona advices say sickness of a malignant type prevailed at Tuscon [sic]. Almost every person in the place had been attacked, and many died.
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1869 The Utah Legislature had adopted a memorial to Congress for admission as a State.
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1869 The Kansas Legistlature, on the 19th, indefinitely postponed the resolution allowing negroes to vote. A concurrent resolution asking Senator Ross to resign was laid over.
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1869 The Utah Legislature had adopted a memorial to Congress for admission as a State.
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1869 The Kansas Legistlature, on the 19th, indefinitely postponed the resolution allowing negroes to vote. A concurrent resolution asking Senator Ross to resign was laid over.
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1869 Young Sears, the richest boy in America, who has been attending school at South Williamstown, Mass., was, it is said, killed on the 16th, while coasting, having slid against a rock by which his brains were dashed out.
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1909 ALLENTOWN MAN KILLED. Alfred Ashley Thrown to Death From Wagon When Horse Bolted.
Allentown, Pa., Jan. 29.- Alfred Ashley, twenty-nine years old, was driving the delivery wagon of his brother, Ernest Ashley, a florist, on Gordan street, when the horse shied at a train and ran away. Mr. Ashley was jolted off the wagon on a crossing and was run over by the wagon. His skull was fractured and three ribs were broken. He died within an hour at the hospital.
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1909 ALLENTOWN MAN KILLED. Alfred Ashley Thrown to Death From Wagon When Horse Bolted.
Allentown, Pa., Jan. 29.- Alfred Ashley, twenty-nine years old, was driving the delivery wagon of his brother, Ernest Ashley, a florist, on Gordan street, when the horse shied at a train and ran away. Mr. Ashley was jolted off the wagon on a crossing and was run over by the wagon. His skull was fractured and three ribs were broken. He died within an hour at the hospital.
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1928 Three Buildings Burned in Atlantic City Blaze
Atlantic City, N. J., Jan. 29. - (AP) - Unable to state definitely the total damage resulting from the boardwalk conflagration here early this morning, Battalion Chiefs Johnson and Mathis gave much credit to the new high-pressure fire mains recently installed on the wooden way, in their being able to bring the fire under control. The fire razed three buildings, occupied by Cutbbert's baths, Smith's baths, the home of Safety Commissioner William S. Cuthbert and the Atlantic Foto Service....
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1898 TRAIN WRECKED IN MAINE.
OLD TOWN, Me., Jan. 29. - The St. John Train No. 29, or what is called down here the Provincial Express, was wrecked in the cut at Orono Basin Mills at 3:45 this afternoon, and six cars, including the smoker, were turned topsy-turvy into the ditch. One of the passenger cars was almost entirely demolished. Two persons were killed and more than a score injured severally probably fatally. The dead are Jennie S. Murray, St. Stephen, N. B.; Mrs. D. Cunningham, Troy, Me. The fatally injured are...
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1908 Flames in a Packing Plant.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30. - Fire of unknown origin in the canning department of the $27,000,000 packing plant of Nelson Morris & Co., in Kansas City, Kan., caused a loss of $500,000.
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Atlantic City, N. J., Jan. 29. - (AP) - Unable to state definitely the total damage resulting from the boardwalk conflagration here early this morning, Battalion Chiefs Johnson and Mathis gave much credit to the new high-pressure fire mains recently installed on the wooden way, in their being able to bring the fire under control. The fire razed three buildings, occupied by Cutbbert's baths, Smith's baths, the home of Safety Commissioner William S. Cuthbert and the Atlantic Foto Service....
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1898 TRAIN WRECKED IN MAINE.
OLD TOWN, Me., Jan. 29. - The St. John Train No. 29, or what is called down here the Provincial Express, was wrecked in the cut at Orono Basin Mills at 3:45 this afternoon, and six cars, including the smoker, were turned topsy-turvy into the ditch. One of the passenger cars was almost entirely demolished. Two persons were killed and more than a score injured severally probably fatally. The dead are Jennie S. Murray, St. Stephen, N. B.; Mrs. D. Cunningham, Troy, Me. The fatally injured are...
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1908 Flames in a Packing Plant.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30. - Fire of unknown origin in the canning department of the $27,000,000 packing plant of Nelson Morris & Co., in Kansas City, Kan., caused a loss of $500,000.
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July 26, 1908 - Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is established.
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Tourtière is a traditional Quebecois meat pie. The filling varies from region to region, but it often involves minced pork, beef, or wild game.
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