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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated July 18, 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 July 18 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Denver, Colorado, USA
Denver, July 14. - Without a moment's warning yesterday afternoon the great Tent Endeavor was blown down at 4:10 o'clock. The most remarkable feature of the disaster is that no one was seriously hurt. At the time the tent collapsed there were fully 6,000 people under it. When they were listening to REV. S. J. HORSEFIELD of Bristol, Eng., who was telling what America might learn from England. The bell was rung as soon as the wind sprang up and the ushers were at their places in a moment to pull... Read MORE...
Summit County Journal - Colorado - July 18, 1903
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1903 - THE BIG ENDEAVOR TENT BLOWN DOWN
Denver, July 14. - Without a moment's warning yesterday afternoon the great Tent Endeavor was blown down at 4:10 o'clock. The most remarkable feature of the disaster is that no one was seriously hurt. At the time the tent collapsed there were fully 6,000 people under it. When they were listening to REV. S. J. HORSEFIELD of Bristol, Eng., who was telling what America might learn from England. The bell was rung as soon as the wind sprang up and the ushers were at their places in a moment to pull... Read MORE...
Summit County Journal - Colorado - July 18, 1903
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St. Andrews Wine of Life Root, Female Regulator for Women
Made in Bristol, TN
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1924 - Carl Adler Hurt in Auto Collision
Motorcycle Meets Car at Hawley Curve
Carl Adler, son of Charles Adler, met with a serious accident Thursday night when riding his motorcycle towards Hawley. Ed Feige, Jr. and Fred March were returning from Hawley and at a turn in the road, which was narrow, the motorcycle and car collided. Adler sustained a compound fracture of the left leg and his machine was badly wrecked. The automobile was somewhat damaged, but the occupants were uninjured. Adler was taken to the Farren hospital where... Read MORE...
The North Adams Transcript - North Adams, Massachusetts - Fri., July 18, 1924
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Marietta, Ohio, USA
Marietta,O., July 18. - Marietta was the center of a storm Wednesday afternoon which did $50,000 damage in Washington county. Half a mile back of town there was a cloudburst flooding the suburb of Glendale. Water rushed through the houses five feet deep and the inhabitants fled to the upper stories to save themselves.
The Marietta Chair company was flood-swept, and its loss alone is $10,000.
Cattle on neighboring dairying farms were drowned in large numbers; horses were killed by... Read MORE...
Repository - Canton, Ohio - July 18, 1907
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1907 - HEAVY DAMAGE BY A STORM.
Marietta,O., July 18. - Marietta was the center of a storm Wednesday afternoon which did $50,000 damage in Washington county. Half a mile back of town there was a cloudburst flooding the suburb of Glendale. Water rushed through the houses five feet deep and the inhabitants fled to the upper stories to save themselves.
The Marietta Chair company was flood-swept, and its loss alone is $10,000.
Cattle on neighboring dairying farms were drowned in large numbers; horses were killed by... Read MORE...
Repository - Canton, Ohio - July 18, 1907
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Sabattus, Maine, USA (Webster)
SABATIS, Me. - Frank Lombard who has done so much toward making Lake View Park a pleasant spot, is now building a bath house for the benefit of those who may care to take advantage of the fine bathing on the sandy beach near the park. He has several bathing suits ordered, and it is hoped that this may be an incentive to the many who do not seem to realize that the bathers in Sabatis Pond are as conspicuous as in any public place.
Many of the citizens of Sabatis suggest that officers be... Read MORE...
Lewiston Evening Journal - Lewiston, Maine - July 18, 1911
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1911 - Lake View Park Bathers
SABATIS, Me. - Frank Lombard who has done so much toward making Lake View Park a pleasant spot, is now building a bath house for the benefit of those who may care to take advantage of the fine bathing on the sandy beach near the park. He has several bathing suits ordered, and it is hoped that this may be an incentive to the many who do not seem to realize that the bathers in Sabatis Pond are as conspicuous as in any public place.
Many of the citizens of Sabatis suggest that officers be... Read MORE...
Lewiston Evening Journal - Lewiston, Maine - July 18, 1911
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
There is a crying need of bath tubs in Cleveland. In fact a bath tub famine has been in progress in this city for some time and also in almost every city in the United States, where building operations are booming.
The demand is far in excess of the supply and the plumbing supply houses have now given up any hope they had previously entertained of being able to fill the orders which have been pouring in on them since early spring.
The rather unique famine is seriously delaying the... Read MORE...
Plain Dealer - Ohio - July 18, 1901
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1901 - Bath Tub Famine is the Latest. Plumbers Are Entirely Unable to Supply the Demand. Extensive Building Operations Cause the Scarcity.
There is a crying need of bath tubs in Cleveland. In fact a bath tub famine has been in progress in this city for some time and also in almost every city in the United States, where building operations are booming.
The demand is far in excess of the supply and the plumbing supply houses have now given up any hope they had previously entertained of being able to fill the orders which have been pouring in on them since early spring.
The rather unique famine is seriously delaying the... Read MORE...
Plain Dealer - Ohio - July 18, 1901
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
White Mountain Rolls - Sixteen cups of flour, half cup of sugar, cup of butter, cup of yeast, the white of four eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, and four cups of boiling milk; melt the butter and sugar in the milk, have the milk blood warm, and ...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., October 26, 1881
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Made in Lynn, MA
Lydia Estes Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" meant to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains. Although Pinkham's Vegetable Compound sold well to the general public, it was regarded by health experts as quackery... wikipedia
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
New Orleans, July 17. - Charles E. Rockel, runner for the Metropolitan bank, had just entered the bank today to begin his duties, when Englehart Biber, a discharged soldier, slipped up behind him, and taking deliberate aim, fired. The bullet struck the juncture of Rockel's suspenders and carried it into his back.
When the suspender was pulled out from the wound, the bullet came out with it. Biber says that when he went to war he gave his deposit book for $805 to Rockel and the latter drew... Read MORE...
The Atlanta Constitution - Atlanta, Georgia - July 18, 1899
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1899 - SUSPENDER SAVED HIS LIFE - Discharged Soldier Attempts to Kill a Bank Runner
New Orleans, July 17. - Charles E. Rockel, runner for the Metropolitan bank, had just entered the bank today to begin his duties, when Englehart Biber, a discharged soldier, slipped up behind him, and taking deliberate aim, fired. The bullet struck the juncture of Rockel's suspenders and carried it into his back.
When the suspender was pulled out from the wound, the bullet came out with it. Biber says that when he went to war he gave his deposit book for $805 to Rockel and the latter drew... Read MORE...
The Atlanta Constitution - Atlanta, Georgia - July 18, 1899
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1867 - Why Do German Women Make Good Wives
The culinary art forms a part of the education of women in Germany. The well-to-do tradesman, like the mechanic, takes pride in seeing his daughters good housekeepers. - To effect this, the girl on leaving school, which she does when about fourteen years of age, goes through the ceremony of confirmation, and then is placed by her parents with a country gentleman, or in a large family where she remains one or two years, filling what may also be termed the post of a servant and doing the work of... Read MORE...
Pittsfield Sun - Pittsfield, Massachusetts - July 18, 1867
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
A sensible woman, to preserve the peace and secure the affections of her husband, will often sacrifice her own inclinations to...Read MORE...
Letters to Young Ladies on Their Entrance into the World, by Elizabeth Lanfear, 1824
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Lincoln, Neb., July 17. - This afternoon four men lost their lives in this city under peculiar circumstances. A watch was dropped into cesspool and the men were endeavoring to recover it. They dug a large hole at the side of the cesspool, which was filled with water by the rain.
One man stood on a ladder above the water and made an opening into the cesspool; the foul air and gas rushed out and overcame him and he fell into the water. A friend went to give aid and was likewise overcome.... Read MORE...
Boston Daily Globe - Boston, Massachusetts - July 18, 1889
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1889 - FATAL CISTERN GASES. SUCCESSIVE RESCUERS DROP IN AND DROWN WITH FIRST VICTIM.
Lincoln, Neb., July 17. - This afternoon four men lost their lives in this city under peculiar circumstances. A watch was dropped into cesspool and the men were endeavoring to recover it. They dug a large hole at the side of the cesspool, which was filled with water by the rain.
One man stood on a ladder above the water and made an opening into the cesspool; the foul air and gas rushed out and overcame him and he fell into the water. A friend went to give aid and was likewise overcome.... Read MORE...
Boston Daily Globe - Boston, Massachusetts - July 18, 1889
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Michigan City, Indiana, USA
Flames Rage in Huge Lumber Yards - Dynamite and Salt Used to Stop Spread of Flames - Aid Summoned From Nearby Cities.
Michigan City, Ind., July 15 - This city suffered a property loss of over $1,000,000 on Saturday, when the huge lumber yards of the HASKELL & BARKER Car company burned. The blaze was seen by citizens of towns a hundred miles away. For a time it appeared that the entire city was doomed.
Appeals for aid were sent to nearby cities. Chicago rushed fire companies with their... Read MORE...
The Hamburg Reporter - Iowa - July 18, 1913
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1913 - FIRE PERILS TOWN. MICHIGAN CITY, IND., IS THREATENED BEFORE BLAZE IS UNDER CONTROL. LOSS PLACED AT $1,000,000.
Flames Rage in Huge Lumber Yards - Dynamite and Salt Used to Stop Spread of Flames - Aid Summoned From Nearby Cities.
Michigan City, Ind., July 15 - This city suffered a property loss of over $1,000,000 on Saturday, when the huge lumber yards of the HASKELL & BARKER Car company burned. The blaze was seen by citizens of towns a hundred miles away. For a time it appeared that the entire city was doomed.
Appeals for aid were sent to nearby cities. Chicago rushed fire companies with their... Read MORE...
The Hamburg Reporter - Iowa - July 18, 1913
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Marion, Massachusetts, USA
Picked Up After Being in Water Twelve Hours - Victims Were Prominent Citizens.
Marion, Mass. Four prominent summer residents of this town and Falmouth met death through an explosion on board a 45-foot launch off here Saturday night. Two survivors were picked up Sunday after having been in the water for 12 hours.
The dead: ROLAND WORTHINGTON, Boston; JOHN T. TRULL, Woburn; JOSEPH S. BEAL, Milton, and GEORGE SAVORY, Marblehead, captain of the launch.
The saved: A. P. Tarbell, Marblehead... Read MORE...
The Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - July 18, 1908
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1908 - LAUNCH BLOWS UP FOUR MEN KILLED IN SAD ACCIDENT OFF MARION, MASS. TWO OTHERS ARE SAVED
Picked Up After Being in Water Twelve Hours - Victims Were Prominent Citizens.
Marion, Mass. Four prominent summer residents of this town and Falmouth met death through an explosion on board a 45-foot launch off here Saturday night. Two survivors were picked up Sunday after having been in the water for 12 hours.
The dead: ROLAND WORTHINGTON, Boston; JOHN T. TRULL, Woburn; JOSEPH S. BEAL, Milton, and GEORGE SAVORY, Marblehead, captain of the launch.
The saved: A. P. Tarbell, Marblehead... Read MORE...
The Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - July 18, 1908
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Milford, Massachusetts, USA
FRIGHT ADDED TO THEIR DANGER.
SOMEONE YELLED THAT THE ANIMALS WERE ESCAPING, AND IN THE STAMPEDE WHICH FOLLOWED WOMAN AND CHILDREN WERE TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT - NO ONE WAS KILLED, BUT MANY WILL CARRY SCARS.
(Special To The World.)
Milford, Mass., July 17. - The performance at W. H. Bristol & Co.'s circus had scarcely begun last evening when two sections of seats, with 600 people seated thereon, caved in, sending the audience pell-mell to the ground. Women shrieked and fainted, children... Read MORE...
The World - New York - July 18, 1889
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1889 - PANIC UNDER A CIRCUS TENT. HUNDREDS OF PERSONS INJURED BY THE SEATS FALLING DOWN.
FRIGHT ADDED TO THEIR DANGER.
SOMEONE YELLED THAT THE ANIMALS WERE ESCAPING, AND IN THE STAMPEDE WHICH FOLLOWED WOMAN AND CHILDREN WERE TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT - NO ONE WAS KILLED, BUT MANY WILL CARRY SCARS.
(Special To The World.)
Milford, Mass., July 17. - The performance at W. H. Bristol & Co.'s circus had scarcely begun last evening when two sections of seats, with 600 people seated thereon, caved in, sending the audience pell-mell to the ground. Women shrieked and fainted, children... Read MORE...
The World - New York - July 18, 1889
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Greenwich, Connecticut, USA (Glenville)
Telephone Girls Stuck to Their Posts and Sent Messages for Help While Phone Building Burned.
Special to The New York Times.
GREENWICH, Conn., July 17 - A fire, in which eight were injured and which did damage estimated at $250,000, destroyed much of the business section of the town to-day. Simultaneously fires sprang up in different sections of the town, so that at one time there were twelve different residences of Summer dwellers burning, some of them a mile from the scene of the big... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - July 18, 1908
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1908 - GREENWICH FIRE LOSS MAY REACH $250,000 Business Section of Connecticut Summer Town Swept - Started from Children's Bonfire. SUMMER HOMES DAMAGED
Telephone Girls Stuck to Their Posts and Sent Messages for Help While Phone Building Burned.
Special to The New York Times.
GREENWICH, Conn., July 17 - A fire, in which eight were injured and which did damage estimated at $250,000, destroyed much of the business section of the town to-day. Simultaneously fires sprang up in different sections of the town, so that at one time there were twelve different residences of Summer dwellers burning, some of them a mile from the scene of the big... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - July 18, 1908
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1908 July 18, 1908: Fireworks banned in Cleveland, Ohio
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July 18, 1908
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1968 July 18 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
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July 18, 1968
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1854 Fatal Railroad Accident.
Boston, Monday, July 17. At Danvers, this morning, as two young ladies, daughter of FREDERICK HOWES, Esq., of Boston, were attempting to cross the Railroad track in a wagon, the Manchester train came along, and dashed the wagon to pieces, instantly killing one of the ladies, and mangling the other so badly that she cannot survive.
The New York Times
New York, New York
July 18, 1854
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The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
July 18, 1908
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1968 July 18 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
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July 18, 1968
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1854 Fatal Railroad Accident.
Boston, Monday, July 17. At Danvers, this morning, as two young ladies, daughter of FREDERICK HOWES, Esq., of Boston, were attempting to cross the Railroad track in a wagon, the Manchester train came along, and dashed the wagon to pieces, instantly killing one of the ladies, and mangling the other so badly that she cannot survive.
The New York Times
New York, New York
July 18, 1854
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Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to run against a woman candidate, Virginia Woodhull, the “Equal Rights Party” nominee in 1872.
Quebec - Did you know?
On February 5, 1663, a great earthquake was felt throughout Northeastern North America. No deaths were recorded, but some people got the scare of their lives. For the clergy in New France, the cause was obvious. The earthquake was a sign of devine...Read MORE...History of Quebec for Dummies by Eric Bedard, published by John Wiley & Sons, Canada, Ltd.
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