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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated July 3, 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 3 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
1937 - July 2 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
STARTED JUNE 1 ON WORLD HOP 'JUST FOR FUN'
First Attempt at Hazardous Trip Halted by Accident
SWITCHED DIRECTION
First Plan to Fly Westward Changed to Eastward Itinerary
WASHINGTON, July 2 (AP) - Amelia Earhart, the first woman ever to be presented withe the gold medal of the National Geographic Society, lifted her Lockheed Electra monoplane off a run-way at Miami, Fla., June 1, on the first leg of her projected flight around the world.
The flight, she had said, was being made "just... Read MORE...
Valley Morning Star - Harlingen, Texas - July 3, 1937
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1863 - July 1–3 – American Civil War: Battle of Gettysburg – Union forces under George G. Meade turn back a Confederate invasion by Robert E. Lee in the largest battle of the war (28,000 Confederate casualties, 23,000 Union).
In July 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg marked a pivotal moment in the American Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania, hoping to shift the war's momentum away from Southern territory. Union forces, under the command of General George G. Meade, intercepted Lee near the small town of Gettysburg. What ensued over three days was a fierce and bloody conflict, ultimately becoming the largest battle of the war.
The battle began on July 1st... Read MORE...
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Morning Dress — The most suitable dress for breakfast, is a wrapper made to fit the figure loosely, and tho material, excepting when the winter weather requires woolen goods, should be of chintz, gingham, brilliante, or muslin. A lady who has...Read MORE...
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Newport, Rhode Island, USA
RELIANCE BREAKS A RECORD
This Is the First Time in the History of American 90-Footers That a Fatal Accident Has Occurred, Races Called Off.
Newport, R. I., July 2. - For the first time in the history of American 90-footers a fatal accident occurred today, Carl B. Olsen, a seaman on the old cup defender, Columbia, was washed from the bowsprit just before the yacht reached the first turn in today's race and was drowned. When the yacht lifted from the big wave into which she had plunged... Read MORE...
Anaconda Standard - Anaconda, Montana - July 3, 1903
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1903 - SEAMAN LOSES LIFE DURING YACHT RACES - EMMENSE WAVES SWEEP HIM FROM THE COLUMBIA.
RELIANCE BREAKS A RECORD
This Is the First Time in the History of American 90-Footers That a Fatal Accident Has Occurred, Races Called Off.
Newport, R. I., July 2. - For the first time in the history of American 90-footers a fatal accident occurred today, Carl B. Olsen, a seaman on the old cup defender, Columbia, was washed from the bowsprit just before the yacht reached the first turn in today's race and was drowned. When the yacht lifted from the big wave into which she had plunged... Read MORE...
Anaconda Standard - Anaconda, Montana - July 3, 1903
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Lake Placid, New York, USA
MISS QUINLAN RESCUED
Young New York Woman Was Overlooked at First, but Later Taken Down on a Rope - $180,000 Loss.
Special to The New York Times.
LAKE PLACID, N. Y., July 2. - One death and several narrow escapes from death are the result of the destruction of the second hotel by fire at this resort within the space of a few weeks. Albert Clapsaddle of Ilion, N.Y., an employe of the Hotel Ruisseaumont, who was badly burned when that hotel was destroyed by fire at an early hour this... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - July 3, 1909
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1909 - LIFE LOST IN BURNED ADIRONDACK HOTEL. Employe of the Ruisseaumont Went Back for His Watch - Dies of His Injuries.
MISS QUINLAN RESCUED
Young New York Woman Was Overlooked at First, but Later Taken Down on a Rope - $180,000 Loss.
Special to The New York Times.
LAKE PLACID, N. Y., July 2. - One death and several narrow escapes from death are the result of the destruction of the second hotel by fire at this resort within the space of a few weeks. Albert Clapsaddle of Ilion, N.Y., an employe of the Hotel Ruisseaumont, who was badly burned when that hotel was destroyed by fire at an early hour this... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - July 3, 1909
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Newark, New Jersey, USA
Box Containing Explosives Dropped by Baggage Handlers While Loading Car
Special to The Inquirer.
NEWARK, July 2. — A terrific explosion, followed by shrieks of agony, startled people in and near the Broad Street Station of the Central Railroad here at 11:20 this morning. The detonation shook buildings for blocks and was heard over a mile away. A thick cloud of smoke rose from the depot and crowds rushed up from every direction with blanched faces. At first they thought an engine had blown... Read MORE...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - July 3, 1898
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1898 - TORPEDOES EXPLODE IN RAILROAD DEPOT. One Man Fatally Injured and Combination Car Blown to Pieces. SEVERAL OTHERS HURT.
Box Containing Explosives Dropped by Baggage Handlers While Loading Car
Special to The Inquirer.
NEWARK, July 2. — A terrific explosion, followed by shrieks of agony, startled people in and near the Broad Street Station of the Central Railroad here at 11:20 this morning. The detonation shook buildings for blocks and was heard over a mile away. A thick cloud of smoke rose from the depot and crowds rushed up from every direction with blanched faces. At first they thought an engine had blown... Read MORE...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - July 3, 1898
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Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
Exeter, N. H., July 3. - An investigation has failed to determine the cause of the fire that ruined the interior of the main building of Phillips Exeter academy, early today. The loss is estimated at $100,000.
Priceless portraits of the founder, instructors, eminent graduates and benefactors and numerous trophies and gifts of former classes were lost in the fire.
The school is closed for the summer and all of the officials were away. The building was beyond hope of saving when the firemen ... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Daily Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - July 3, 1914
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1914 - EXETER ACADEMY LOSES TREASURES. Fire Ruins Interior of Main Building of Famous New Hampshire Prep. School
Exeter, N. H., July 3. - An investigation has failed to determine the cause of the fire that ruined the interior of the main building of Phillips Exeter academy, early today. The loss is estimated at $100,000.
Priceless portraits of the founder, instructors, eminent graduates and benefactors and numerous trophies and gifts of former classes were lost in the fire.
The school is closed for the summer and all of the officials were away. The building was beyond hope of saving when the firemen ... Read MORE...
Fitchburg Daily Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - July 3, 1914
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Los Gatos, California, USA
San Jose, July 3. - Shortly before 8 o'clock this morning the large and handsome Elmonte Hotel at Los Gatos was discovered to be afire, and in spite of the efforts of the fire department it was a heap of ashes within an hour. The fire originated from a defective flue, and when the flames were discovered the inner side of the entire roof was ablaze. The manager, S. H. JOHNSON, and the guests managed to save the most of their personal belongings and the furniture. The owner of the hotel, W. W.... Read MORE...
Oakland Tribune - Oakland, California - July 3, 1907
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1907 - FIERCE FIRE REDUCES BIG HOTEL TO ASHES.
San Jose, July 3. - Shortly before 8 o'clock this morning the large and handsome Elmonte Hotel at Los Gatos was discovered to be afire, and in spite of the efforts of the fire department it was a heap of ashes within an hour. The fire originated from a defective flue, and when the flames were discovered the inner side of the entire roof was ablaze. The manager, S. H. JOHNSON, and the guests managed to save the most of their personal belongings and the furniture. The owner of the hotel, W. W.... Read MORE...
Oakland Tribune - Oakland, California - July 3, 1907
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Waterbury, Connecticut, USA (Waterville)
WATERBURY, Ct., July 2. - In confusion, piled up end over end, nearly all of 11 loaded freight cars blocked the Naugatuck track today at the turn out, two miles below Seymour. All day, until 3 P.M., transfers were made on all passenger trains, and there were none of them, but what were very late both ways. The accident was probably due to a broken wheel or a poor frog. The derailed train was the north-bound New Haven freight, due at Seymour at 4:58 A. M. At the time of the accident, a brakeman, ... Read MORE...
Worcester Daily Spy - Worcester, Massachusetts - July 3, 1889
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1889 - A BAD FREIGHT WRECK.
WATERBURY, Ct., July 2. - In confusion, piled up end over end, nearly all of 11 loaded freight cars blocked the Naugatuck track today at the turn out, two miles below Seymour. All day, until 3 P.M., transfers were made on all passenger trains, and there were none of them, but what were very late both ways. The accident was probably due to a broken wheel or a poor frog. The derailed train was the north-bound New Haven freight, due at Seymour at 4:58 A. M. At the time of the accident, a brakeman, ... Read MORE...
Worcester Daily Spy - Worcester, Massachusetts - July 3, 1889
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Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Fred Shaw, the swan boat man, had a narrow escape from drowning at the lake yesterday. He went out after lilies, and, while busily engaged in his work made a misstep and fell into the lake, where the water is about seven feet deep and the mud is of unknown depth. He found the bottom of the water and about two feet below it the surface of the mud, and if his companion had not been a remarkably strong man he would be standing there now. "Swannie" alone was unequal to the task of extricating his... Read MORE...
Worcester Daily Spy - Worcester, Massachusetts - July 3, 1889
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1889 - A NARROW ESCAPE.
Fred Shaw, the swan boat man, had a narrow escape from drowning at the lake yesterday. He went out after lilies, and, while busily engaged in his work made a misstep and fell into the lake, where the water is about seven feet deep and the mud is of unknown depth. He found the bottom of the water and about two feet below it the surface of the mud, and if his companion had not been a remarkably strong man he would be standing there now. "Swannie" alone was unequal to the task of extricating his... Read MORE...
Worcester Daily Spy - Worcester, Massachusetts - July 3, 1889
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Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Special to The New York Times.
WORCESTER, Mass., July 2. — Accidentally stepping on a bomb-jack, a large torpedo, Albert Childs, a clerk of the Nelson Five and Ten Cent Store, 526 and 528 Main Street, started a fire at 6:30 o'clock to-night which caused the explosion of $700 worth of fireworks and cut off forty customers and clerks from the only exit in the store.
Women and children were injured and suffocated by the smoke and were finally rescued from the cellar, where they had fled to... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - July 3, 1904
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1904 - Fireworks Explode in Store - Panic-Stricken Women and Children Rescued from Cellar of Burning Building
Special to The New York Times.
WORCESTER, Mass., July 2. — Accidentally stepping on a bomb-jack, a large torpedo, Albert Childs, a clerk of the Nelson Five and Ten Cent Store, 526 and 528 Main Street, started a fire at 6:30 o'clock to-night which caused the explosion of $700 worth of fireworks and cut off forty customers and clerks from the only exit in the store.
Women and children were injured and suffocated by the smoke and were finally rescued from the cellar, where they had fled to... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - July 3, 1904
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West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA (Arctic) (Natick) (Phenix) (Crompton)
Prominent liquor dealers in West Warwick are strongly opposed to the movement of brewers throughout the country to secure the privilege of manufacturing and selling 2.75 per cent beer and they say that the West Warwick Liquor Dealers Association will not in any way assist this movement.
'We want to sell real beer or none at all' is the reported declaration of the members of the association. Some of them assert that the whole scheme is cooked up by the big brewers so that grocers, ice cream... Read MORE...
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Pawtucket Times - Pawtucket, Rhode Island - July 3, 1919
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1919 - West Warwick Liquor Men Are Opposed to 2.75 Beer
Prominent liquor dealers in West Warwick are strongly opposed to the movement of brewers throughout the country to secure the privilege of manufacturing and selling 2.75 per cent beer and they say that the West Warwick Liquor Dealers Association will not in any way assist this movement.
'We want to sell real beer or none at all' is the reported declaration of the members of the association. Some of them assert that the whole scheme is cooked up by the big brewers so that grocers, ice cream... Read MORE...
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Pawtucket Times - Pawtucket, Rhode Island - July 3, 1919
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1822 Orphan Asylum Fire
Philadelphia, from 1790 to 1860, suffered severely by fires. The most lamentable of them all was the burning of the Orphan Asylum, which happened on a very cold night of January 23d, 1822, in which twenty-three poor orphans perished.
The Deseret News
Salt Lake City, Utah
July 3, 1861
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1812 More than three quarters of Moscow destroyed by fire
On the 14th of September, 1812, when Bonaparte entered the city, it was fired by the Russians, and continued burning for several days, destroying more than three-quarters of the city - then more than than twenty miles in circumference - compelling the French army to retreat from the flames. Thirty thousand sick and wounded perished in the flames.
The Deseret News
Salt Lake City, Utah
July 3, 1861
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1814 During the War of 1812, most of the city (Washington, DC) was burned to the ground.
In August, 1814, Washington city suffered much. The British army set fire to the President's House, the bridge over the Potomac, the Capitol, the dock yards and many private buildings. Great damage was sustained, and considerable loss of life.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
July 3, 1861
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Philadelphia, from 1790 to 1860, suffered severely by fires. The most lamentable of them all was the burning of the Orphan Asylum, which happened on a very cold night of January 23d, 1822, in which twenty-three poor orphans perished.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
July 3, 1861
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1812 More than three quarters of Moscow destroyed by fire
On the 14th of September, 1812, when Bonaparte entered the city, it was fired by the Russians, and continued burning for several days, destroying more than three-quarters of the city - then more than than twenty miles in circumference - compelling the French army to retreat from the flames. Thirty thousand sick and wounded perished in the flames.
The Deseret News
Salt Lake City, Utah
July 3, 1861
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1814 During the War of 1812, most of the city (Washington, DC) was burned to the ground.
In August, 1814, Washington city suffered much. The British army set fire to the President's House, the bridge over the Potomac, the Capitol, the dock yards and many private buildings. Great damage was sustained, and considerable loss of life.
The Deseret News
Salt Lake City, Utah
July 3, 1861
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1869 Two citizens of Jackson, Miss., went out fishing, got fifty miles away from home, and out of money, and finally, as a last resort, went to the Sheriff of the county,
told him they were escaped convicts from the Jackson Penitentiary, gave themselves up, and were taken home without the expenditure of a cent. The Sheriff's feelings, on realizing the joke, may be imagined.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 A man in charge was explaining the working of the fire-alarm telegraph, in Indianapolis, on a recent Sunday evening,
and unconsciously sent an alarm, which soon brought the whole Fire Department to his box.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 An arch of a dry kiln, at Milwaukee, just being finished, gave way a few days ago,
burying three men beneath the ruins. Two of them - Fred Garside and August Doperfhul - were killed.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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told him they were escaped convicts from the Jackson Penitentiary, gave themselves up, and were taken home without the expenditure of a cent. The Sheriff's feelings, on realizing the joke, may be imagined.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 A man in charge was explaining the working of the fire-alarm telegraph, in Indianapolis, on a recent Sunday evening,
and unconsciously sent an alarm, which soon brought the whole Fire Department to his box.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 An arch of a dry kiln, at Milwaukee, just being finished, gave way a few days ago,
burying three men beneath the ruins. Two of them - Fred Garside and August Doperfhul - were killed.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 Emma A. Ridley, of Auburn, N. Y., was struck by lightning and instantly killed,
the other day, while standing at a table ironing. No injury was done to the house.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 In Taylor county, Ky., the other day, two young men were poisoned by eating hemlock root. It was thought one of them could not recover.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 Laura Cresswell, a teacher in one of the Brooklyn public schools, was burned to death the other night, by the explosion of a kerosene lamp.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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the other day, while standing at a table ironing. No injury was done to the house.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 In Taylor county, Ky., the other day, two young men were poisoned by eating hemlock root. It was thought one of them could not recover.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 Laura Cresswell, a teacher in one of the Brooklyn public schools, was burned to death the other night, by the explosion of a kerosene lamp.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 A fire at Detroit a few days ago destroyed the Fulton Iron Works. Loss $50,000. Ten firemen were injured while attempting to subdue the flames.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 Nashville, Tenn., was recently visited with a serious conflagration, which destroyed property to the extent of $235,000.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 A resident of Dauphin county, Penn., recently, within a week, lost five children by scarlet fever.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 Nashville, Tenn., was recently visited with a serious conflagration, which destroyed property to the extent of $235,000.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 A resident of Dauphin county, Penn., recently, within a week, lost five children by scarlet fever.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1869 A diamond ring, which had been lost since the fall of 1823, was found in a well in Oswego, N. Y., a few days ago.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1886 "Anna and Wendell Phillips" is to be the inscription on the tombstone of the famous Abolitionist and his wife, at Milton, Mass.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1886
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1852 July 3 - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
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July 3, 1852
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1869
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1886 "Anna and Wendell Phillips" is to be the inscription on the tombstone of the famous Abolitionist and his wife, at Milton, Mass.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 3, 1886
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1852 July 3 - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
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1911 BATTLE CREEK, MICH., HAS FIRE.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., July 1. - The McLean & Swift grain elevator here was destroyed by fire early today. The loss is estimated at about $100,000, half of which is on corn, wheat and oats stored in the building. The fire was attributed to electric wires.
The Duluth News-Tribune
Duluth, Minnesota
July 3, 1911
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1910 Eye Burned Out By Red Hot Iron. Blacksmith Cahill Victim Of A Serious Accident While At Work.
George Cahill, a blacksmith, living on Jefferson Street, met with an accident yesterday afternoon by which his eye was burned out. He was at work in Kroghan’s blacksmith shop on West Short Street on a small piece of red hot iron when it jumped from the anvil and struck him in the eye. After seeing a doctor, he went to St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Morning Herald
Lexington, Kentucky
July 3, 1910
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich., July 1. - The McLean & Swift grain elevator here was destroyed by fire early today. The loss is estimated at about $100,000, half of which is on corn, wheat and oats stored in the building. The fire was attributed to electric wires.
The Duluth News-Tribune
Duluth, Minnesota
July 3, 1911
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1910 Eye Burned Out By Red Hot Iron. Blacksmith Cahill Victim Of A Serious Accident While At Work.
George Cahill, a blacksmith, living on Jefferson Street, met with an accident yesterday afternoon by which his eye was burned out. He was at work in Kroghan’s blacksmith shop on West Short Street on a small piece of red hot iron when it jumped from the anvil and struck him in the eye. After seeing a doctor, he went to St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Morning Herald
Lexington, Kentucky
July 3, 1910
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America - Did you know?
1822: Denmark Vesey, an enslaved African American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a slave revolt with the intent to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina. The plot is discovered, and Vesey and 34 coconspirators are hanged.
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