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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated January 5, 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 5 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
The New Pet of the Household
The Most Perfect Oil Stove Made
Automatic Blue Flame Cooker
Central Oil and gas Stove Company
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The Ladies' Home Journal
April 1898
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Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Hanover, N.H., Jan. 4. - The most disastrous fire Hanover has ever experienced broke out in the Dartmouth Hotel at 2 o'clock this morning and raged until 9 o'clock before it was got under control. The losses so far as learned are as follows:
Dartmouth Hotel, owned by FRANCIS BUTTERICK, of Waltham, Mass., and occupied by JOHN S. WILLIAMS, loss on building, $20,000 insurance unknown. The furniture was removed, but is somewhat damaged. The guests lost some of their effects, but no one was... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 5, 1887
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1887 - HANOVER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE DAMAGED TO THE EXTENT OF $130,000.
Hanover, N.H., Jan. 4. - The most disastrous fire Hanover has ever experienced broke out in the Dartmouth Hotel at 2 o'clock this morning and raged until 9 o'clock before it was got under control. The losses so far as learned are as follows:
Dartmouth Hotel, owned by FRANCIS BUTTERICK, of Waltham, Mass., and occupied by JOHN S. WILLIAMS, loss on building, $20,000 insurance unknown. The furniture was removed, but is somewhat damaged. The guests lost some of their effects, but no one was... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 5, 1887
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Apple Omelet - Separate four eggs; beat the whites to a very stiff froth; then add the yolks and beat again, adding gradually two tablespooonfuls of powdered sugar. have read and omelet-pan, in which you have melted a tablespoonful of butter; ...Read MORE...
The Ladies' Home Journal, February 1898
5% Nickel Steel Tubing is found only in Columbia Bicycles
Pope Mfg. Co, Hartford, Conn.
The Ladies' Home Journal
April 1898
Pope Manufacturing Company was founded by Albert Augustus Pope around 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, US and incorporated in Hartford, Connecticut in 1877. Manufacturing of bicycles began in 1878 in Hartford at the Weed Sewing Machine Company factory. Pope manufactured bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles. From 1905 to 1913, Pope gradually consolidated manufacturing to the Westfield Mass plant. The main offices remained in Hartford. It ceased automobile production in 1915 and ceased motorcycle production in 1918. The company subsequently underwent a variety of changes in form, name and product lines through the intervening years. To this day, bicycles continue to be sold under the Columbia brand. wikipedia
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Women cultivating individuality in dress, wear one color, not constantly, but in combination with other colors, or introduced in a general way into almost all of the costumes making up the wardrobe. Still others choose a particular material and wear ...Read MORE...
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
Massena, New York, USA
Massena, N. Y., Jan. 5 (AP) - Eight persons, seven of them night shift war workers, perished in an explosion and fire which destroyed a small restaurant and filling station on the outskirts of this northern New York town today.
Five of the victims were passengers of a bus which had stopped briefly to permit passengers to eat. The bus driver and two occupants of an automobile which had stopped for gasoline also died.
Four persons were injured, one seriously. No estimate of damage was... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - January 5, 1943
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1943 - EIGHT PERSONS PERISH IN BLAST AT MASSENA, N.Y. WAR WORKERS TRAPPED AS THEY STOP FOR MEAL ON WAY TO ALUMINUM PLANT.
Massena, N. Y., Jan. 5 (AP) - Eight persons, seven of them night shift war workers, perished in an explosion and fire which destroyed a small restaurant and filling station on the outskirts of this northern New York town today.
Five of the victims were passengers of a bus which had stopped briefly to permit passengers to eat. The bus driver and two occupants of an automobile which had stopped for gasoline also died.
Four persons were injured, one seriously. No estimate of damage was... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - January 5, 1943
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Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA
Plymouth, N. H., Jan. 5 (AP) - Two three-story brick buildings and the Methodist church were destroyed early today in a fire which caused damage estimated unofficially at more than $100,000.
The Keeler and Newbury blocks, housing stores, offices and apartments were swept by flames which spread to the church before they were brought under control.
COL. RALPH W. CASWELL, superintendent of the state police, kept in touch with his men by two-way radio from Concord and obtained the only... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - January 5, 1943
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1943 - FLAMES DESTROY PLYMOUTH, N. H. PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Plymouth, N. H., Jan. 5 (AP) - Two three-story brick buildings and the Methodist church were destroyed early today in a fire which caused damage estimated unofficially at more than $100,000.
The Keeler and Newbury blocks, housing stores, offices and apartments were swept by flames which spread to the church before they were brought under control.
COL. RALPH W. CASWELL, superintendent of the state police, kept in touch with his men by two-way radio from Concord and obtained the only... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - January 5, 1943
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South Bend, Indiana, USA
South Bend, Ind., Jan. 5 - Three men and one woman were killed when a recently remodeled three story building, the lower floor of which was vacant, collapsed here Saturday. One of the victims was a Chinaman, the other was a negress.
The Chinaman and negress were employed in a restaurant, which occupied the second floor of the building.
The building collapsed while the streets were crowded and a number of persons had narrow escapes from injury.
One man was caught by the falling timbers... Read MORE...
The Evening Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - January 5, 1914
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1914 - SOUTH BEND BUILDING COLLAPSES; FOUR DIE. STRUCTURE FALLS WHILE STREETS ARE CROWDED, NARROWLY MISSING KILLING PERSONS ON STREET.
South Bend, Ind., Jan. 5 - Three men and one woman were killed when a recently remodeled three story building, the lower floor of which was vacant, collapsed here Saturday. One of the victims was a Chinaman, the other was a negress.
The Chinaman and negress were employed in a restaurant, which occupied the second floor of the building.
The building collapsed while the streets were crowded and a number of persons had narrow escapes from injury.
One man was caught by the falling timbers... Read MORE...
The Evening Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - January 5, 1914
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Hartford, Connecticut, USA
...A Hartford youth, pronounced by police to be under the influence of liquor after he left a tavern at closing time, sprawled out in the middle of the road and remained there after a huge ten-wheel oil tank trailer passed over him. According to the driver, he did not notice the man in the street until he was nearly upon him and, rather than chance a "jack knife" by applying the brakes he decided to straddle the inert youth. Later the youth became abusive when police aroused him and removed him ... Read MORE...
Naugatuck News - Naugatuck, Connecticut - Wednesday, January 5, 1949
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1949 - Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Bad Place to Sleep
...A Hartford youth, pronounced by police to be under the influence of liquor after he left a tavern at closing time, sprawled out in the middle of the road and remained there after a huge ten-wheel oil tank trailer passed over him. According to the driver, he did not notice the man in the street until he was nearly upon him and, rather than chance a "jack knife" by applying the brakes he decided to straddle the inert youth. Later the youth became abusive when police aroused him and removed him ... Read MORE...
Naugatuck News - Naugatuck, Connecticut - Wednesday, January 5, 1949
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Portland, Connecticut, USA
...Last September in Portland a saddle horse became tired of the routine obstacle jumps and bolted for the highway. An automobile blocked the path of the animal and it essayed a high-and-broad jump from front to rear. It cleared the radiator cap and hood, but its two front hooves crashed through the windshield and the rider came a cropper and landed sitting down on top of the car. The horse suffered cuts from the windshield and the motorist and rider were uninjured, but the hood, fenders and... Read MORE...
Naugatuck News - Naugatuck, Connecticut - Wednesday, January 5, 1949
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1949 - Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Horse Meets Car
...Last September in Portland a saddle horse became tired of the routine obstacle jumps and bolted for the highway. An automobile blocked the path of the animal and it essayed a high-and-broad jump from front to rear. It cleared the radiator cap and hood, but its two front hooves crashed through the windshield and the rider came a cropper and landed sitting down on top of the car. The horse suffered cuts from the windshield and the motorist and rider were uninjured, but the hood, fenders and... Read MORE...
Naugatuck News - Naugatuck, Connecticut - Wednesday, January 5, 1949
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1876 The Tramp Murder at Benson
The court inquiry on the body of the tramp who was shot at Benson, on Friday night last, by Franklin Munger, rendered the following verdict: That the death of said transient person was caused by a gun shot wound at the hand of Franklin Munger, of Benson,a nd that said Munger was jutsified in the force and means used, by which such transient person come to his death.
St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
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1905 January 5 - Wilbur Guyette was hanging up his shotgun in his house at Altona, N. Y., when he fell from his chair, accidentally discharging the gun and mortally wounding his father, Edward Guyette. The young man is nearly crazy from grief.
The Columbian
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
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1948 January 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
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The court inquiry on the body of the tramp who was shot at Benson, on Friday night last, by Franklin Munger, rendered the following verdict: That the death of said transient person was caused by a gun shot wound at the hand of Franklin Munger, of Benson,a nd that said Munger was jutsified in the force and means used, by which such transient person come to his death.
St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
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1905 January 5 - Wilbur Guyette was hanging up his shotgun in his house at Altona, N. Y., when he fell from his chair, accidentally discharging the gun and mortally wounding his father, Edward Guyette. The young man is nearly crazy from grief.
The Columbian
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
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1948 January 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
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1901 January 5 – Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in the USA during the year.
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1889 On the 28th Charlotte Morgan (colored), died at Xenia, O., aged one hundred and seven years.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1888 July 25 - Severe earthquake shock at Tucson, A. T.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1889 On the 28th Charlotte Morgan (colored), died at Xenia, O., aged one hundred and seven years.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1888 July 25 - Severe earthquake shock at Tucson, A. T.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1889 200th Anniversary
The city of Newton, one of Boston's suburbs, celebrated its two hundredth anniversary as a town on the 27th.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1889 Gold!
Farmers in Franklin County, Mass., were greatly excited on the 1st over the discovery of gold among the Buckland hills.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1909 NIAGARA FALLS FIRE - Columbia Hotel Damaged and Two Employes Injured - Guest Who Gave Alarm Disappeared.
NIAGARA FALLS, Jan. 5. - Fire was discovered early to-day in the Columbia Hotel, a five-story brick structure. The seventy guests all got our safely but two employes, LYDA BILLINGS, an Indian, aged 21, and MARY SWIACZECK, aged 17, were found later lying unconscious in an alley where they dropped from a rope to descend from the fourth floor. Miss Billing's legs were broken and she was injured internally. Mary Swiaczeck was badly injured about the ankles and feet. William King was badly...
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York
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The city of Newton, one of Boston's suburbs, celebrated its two hundredth anniversary as a town on the 27th.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1889 Gold!
Farmers in Franklin County, Mass., were greatly excited on the 1st over the discovery of gold among the Buckland hills.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1909 NIAGARA FALLS FIRE - Columbia Hotel Damaged and Two Employes Injured - Guest Who Gave Alarm Disappeared.
NIAGARA FALLS, Jan. 5. - Fire was discovered early to-day in the Columbia Hotel, a five-story brick structure. The seventy guests all got our safely but two employes, LYDA BILLINGS, an Indian, aged 21, and MARY SWIACZECK, aged 17, were found later lying unconscious in an alley where they dropped from a rope to descend from the fourth floor. Miss Billing's legs were broken and she was injured internally. Mary Swiaczeck was badly injured about the ankles and feet. William King was badly...
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1933 January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
Before the project began, many people thought building the bridge was impossible. And when the construction started, most thought that dozens would die in the process. The rule of thumb at the time was that for every million dollars spent on a project, one person would die — and the Golden Gate Bridge was going to cost $37 million.
At first, those fears seemed to be proved unfounded. On Jan. 5, 1933, construction began — and it continued without a single fatality for four years....
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Sanded
...the sand man occasionally awakens sleepers as a Willimantic man can testify. He was asleep in the rear seat of a car which was being driven in Colchester last February when highway department workers were spreading sand on slippery highways. The car in which he was sleeping was driven past the sand truck just as an employe tossed out a shovel full of sand. The sand hit the windshield, broke it and the flying glass cut the innocent sleeper...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents
Painful Signal ...A Bloomfield girl stuck her hand out of the car to signal as the auto was rounding a curve. She received a fractured wrist when her hand struck a tree and it became necessary to take her to a hospital...
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Before the project began, many people thought building the bridge was impossible. And when the construction started, most thought that dozens would die in the process. The rule of thumb at the time was that for every million dollars spent on a project, one person would die — and the Golden Gate Bridge was going to cost $37 million.
At first, those fears seemed to be proved unfounded. On Jan. 5, 1933, construction began — and it continued without a single fatality for four years....
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Sanded
...the sand man occasionally awakens sleepers as a Willimantic man can testify. He was asleep in the rear seat of a car which was being driven in Colchester last February when highway department workers were spreading sand on slippery highways. The car in which he was sleeping was driven past the sand truck just as an employe tossed out a shovel full of sand. The sand hit the windshield, broke it and the flying glass cut the innocent sleeper...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents
Painful Signal ...A Bloomfield girl stuck her hand out of the car to signal as the auto was rounding a curve. She received a fractured wrist when her hand struck a tree and it became necessary to take her to a hospital...
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Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 ..Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - It's a smart car that knows when to stop.
A Brooklyn man driving in Greenwich in November stopped when he got a flat tire. When the car stopped, eight other drivers sought to swing around the parked car, but bunched up and bumped. Slight damage was caused to all cars - except the one with the flat tire...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - "Circus" Accident
...A circus touch was added to the list of freak accidents last November in Milford, when a car struck an esplanade, veered across the highway, mounted a sidewalk and retaining wall and turned a complete somersault, landing on four wheels. The driver received slight leg and shoulder bruises...
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Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Tomato Accident
...Perhaps the freakiest of the runaway accidents was caused by a tomato in Glastonbury last September. A woman had placed a basket of tomatoes on the front seat of her car and started to drive home. One of the tomatoes kept tipping precariously atop the pile and finally rolled off. The woman lunged at the rolling tomato and the car swerved and grazed a tree. The car wasn't badly damaged and the other tomatoes in the basket joined their playmate on the floor of the car...
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Naugatuck, Connecticut
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A Brooklyn man driving in Greenwich in November stopped when he got a flat tire. When the car stopped, eight other drivers sought to swing around the parked car, but bunched up and bumped. Slight damage was caused to all cars - except the one with the flat tire...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - "Circus" Accident
...A circus touch was added to the list of freak accidents last November in Milford, when a car struck an esplanade, veered across the highway, mounted a sidewalk and retaining wall and turned a complete somersault, landing on four wheels. The driver received slight leg and shoulder bruises...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Tomato Accident
...Perhaps the freakiest of the runaway accidents was caused by a tomato in Glastonbury last September. A woman had placed a basket of tomatoes on the front seat of her car and started to drive home. One of the tomatoes kept tipping precariously atop the pile and finally rolled off. The woman lunged at the rolling tomato and the car swerved and grazed a tree. The car wasn't badly damaged and the other tomatoes in the basket joined their playmate on the floor of the car...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents
...Another accident reminiscent of the horse and buggy days occurred last October at the Harwinton Fair. A horse, hitched to a sulky, became frightened and bolted. The driverless sulky knocked down three persons while they were attempting to get out of the way...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Automobile vs. Horse
...A Groton automobile reversed the picture and ran into a horse, but got the worst of the deal. A driver noticed a horse grazing near the side of the road, suddenly leap into the path of the automobile. The driver veered to the left to avoid hitting the horse but struck the animal and then overturned on its side. The horse was not seriously injured...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Runaway Accident
...A similar incident occurred in Branford one night last November. A driver and two passengers saw a runaway horse and the next thing they knew there was a loud crash. The car was halted and the occupants alighted to find a dead horse on the roof of the car. The horse owner who witnessed the affair reported that the horse had escaped from a corral and was being chased by the owner. In his opinion the horse had become frightened by the headlights and had attempted to leap over the car. The...
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...Another accident reminiscent of the horse and buggy days occurred last October at the Harwinton Fair. A horse, hitched to a sulky, became frightened and bolted. The driverless sulky knocked down three persons while they were attempting to get out of the way...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Automobile vs. Horse
...A Groton automobile reversed the picture and ran into a horse, but got the worst of the deal. A driver noticed a horse grazing near the side of the road, suddenly leap into the path of the automobile. The driver veered to the left to avoid hitting the horse but struck the animal and then overturned on its side. The horse was not seriously injured...
Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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1949 Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Runaway Accident
...A similar incident occurred in Branford one night last November. A driver and two passengers saw a runaway horse and the next thing they knew there was a loud crash. The car was halted and the occupants alighted to find a dead horse on the roof of the car. The horse owner who witnessed the affair reported that the horse had escaped from a corral and was being chased by the owner. In his opinion the horse had become frightened by the headlights and had attempted to leap over the car. The...
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Naugatuck News
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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America - Did you know?
Every year, the average American spends 17 days watching commercials.
Quebec - Did you know?
In Quebec, sit straight with your legs crossed at the knee, or with your knees together. Don't sit with your legs apart, or with your feet propped up on tables or chairs.
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July 1898
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