Welcome to our blog, where we embark on a captivating journey through time, exploring the rich tapestry of history and genealogy.
In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated June 1, 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 June 1 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA (Esmond) (Georgiaville)
Smithfield Woman Asks $15,000 Damages - Hurt in House.
Jennie S. Plante of Smithfield filed in the Superior Court yesterday afternoon a suit for $15,000 against Henry F. Lippit of this city, allaging that Mr. Lippit as owner of a house in Georgiaville was negligent in allowing a plank to be so placed as to make the rear exit of the house dangerous, while the steps were removed for the purpose of making repairs and alterations.
Mrs. Plante and her husband became tenants of the house and... Read MORE...
The Evening Bulletin - Providence, Rhode Island - June 1, 1912
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1912 - SUES SENATOR LIPPITT
Smithfield Woman Asks $15,000 Damages - Hurt in House.
Jennie S. Plante of Smithfield filed in the Superior Court yesterday afternoon a suit for $15,000 against Henry F. Lippit of this city, allaging that Mr. Lippit as owner of a house in Georgiaville was negligent in allowing a plank to be so placed as to make the rear exit of the house dangerous, while the steps were removed for the purpose of making repairs and alterations.
Mrs. Plante and her husband became tenants of the house and... Read MORE...
The Evening Bulletin - Providence, Rhode Island - June 1, 1912
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Washing and Drying the Hair
National Labor Tribune
Pennsylvania
February 1, 1900
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1882 - Disappeared with the Company's Money
The Bel Air manufacturing company was greatly surprised this week by the disappearance of a clerk in their store, Timmerman by name, a German 35 years of age, who had been for a year employed in the store and for 8 years employed in the company's factory. It seems that on Monday he took the company's delivery wagon, ostensibly to deliver goods, and drove to New Lebanon, putting up at the Field house where he registered as John F. Martin. From New Lebanon he bought a ticket to Albany and this is ... Read MORE...
The Berkshire County Eagle - Pittsfield, Massachusetts - June 1, 1882
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Portland, Oregon, USA
Cracking under the weight of water covering flooded Vanport, the Denver avenue and Union avenue roadway dikes washed out Monday night and spewed a ghostly cavalcade of Vanport homes in a deluge acress the lowlands to the east.
All along the Columbia river hundreds of weary flood fighters appeared to be losing their battle as Portland and Vancouver braced for the crest of the flood Tuesday night.
The Denver avenue breach was believed to have claimed the life of one man in a car which slid... Read MORE...
Oregonian - Portland, Oregon - June 1, 1948
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1948 - FLOOD CRASHES DENVER, UNION AVE. DIKES - Water Spills Into Kelso, Woodland - Vanport Homes Swept Eastward in Low Area, Man Plunged to Death
Cracking under the weight of water covering flooded Vanport, the Denver avenue and Union avenue roadway dikes washed out Monday night and spewed a ghostly cavalcade of Vanport homes in a deluge acress the lowlands to the east.
All along the Columbia river hundreds of weary flood fighters appeared to be losing their battle as Portland and Vancouver braced for the crest of the flood Tuesday night.
The Denver avenue breach was believed to have claimed the life of one man in a car which slid... Read MORE...
Oregonian - Portland, Oregon - June 1, 1948
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Beef Olives.
Cut slices from a fat rump of beef six inches long and half an inch thick, beat them well with a pestle, make a forcemeat of bread crumbs, fat bacon chopped, parsley, a little onion, some shred suet, pounded mace, pepper and salt;...Read MORE...
The Virginia Housewife or Methodical Cook, 1828
Miss Agnes L Goddard, Principal, Ashland, Ky.
Ladies' Home Journal
February 1898
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
It is very rude, when at the table, to scratch any part of your body. It is also very indecent to rub your teeth with the tablecloth or napkin; and to endeavour to pick them with your finger is more...Read MORE...
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
The Tulsa race massacre took place May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US. Alternatively known as the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Greenwood Massacre, the Tulsa Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa race riot, it marks one of "the single worst incident(s) of racial violence in American history". The attack, carried out on the... Read MORE...
June 1, 1921
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1921 - May 31 - June 1 - Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma
The Tulsa race massacre took place May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US. Alternatively known as the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Greenwood Massacre, the Tulsa Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa race riot, it marks one of "the single worst incident(s) of racial violence in American history". The attack, carried out on the... Read MORE...
June 1, 1921
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Salamanca, New York, USA
Thomas J. Dotson, about 38 years old, of 263 Wildwood avenue, suffered a fracture of the skull when he fell about 12 feet from the top of a locomotive tender in the Erie railroad yards Sunday morning at 5:55.
Dotson, a fireman on the railroad, was on the tender alone while water was being poured into the tank. The locomotive had not moved, it is said.
Shopmen picked Dotson up and rushed him to the hospital.
Reports there today were that Dotson has only a small skull fracture and is... Read MORE...
Republican Press - Salamanca, New York - June 1, 1936
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1936 - T. J. DOTSON IS BADLY HURT - Suffers Fracture of Skull in Fall from Top of Locomotive in Yards Here.
Thomas J. Dotson, about 38 years old, of 263 Wildwood avenue, suffered a fracture of the skull when he fell about 12 feet from the top of a locomotive tender in the Erie railroad yards Sunday morning at 5:55.
Dotson, a fireman on the railroad, was on the tender alone while water was being poured into the tank. The locomotive had not moved, it is said.
Shopmen picked Dotson up and rushed him to the hospital.
Reports there today were that Dotson has only a small skull fracture and is... Read MORE...
Republican Press - Salamanca, New York - June 1, 1936
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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
(From the Indianapolis Journal, May 30.)
Storms, like troubles, seem to come in crowds. Last week was full of them, and this week starts fair for a similar exhibition of elemental disturbances. Yesterday evening we were visited by the first tornado for several years, and it was accompanied by very much the same appearances, and marked by the same features, that distinguished the singular tornadoes that visited Illinois and New York a year or two ago. The day had been hot, but began to show... Read MORE...
Chicago Press & Tribune - Chicago, Illinois - June 1, 1860
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1860 - SINGULAR PHENOMENON. Water Spout and Tornado - Houses Blown Down.
(From the Indianapolis Journal, May 30.)
Storms, like troubles, seem to come in crowds. Last week was full of them, and this week starts fair for a similar exhibition of elemental disturbances. Yesterday evening we were visited by the first tornado for several years, and it was accompanied by very much the same appearances, and marked by the same features, that distinguished the singular tornadoes that visited Illinois and New York a year or two ago. The day had been hot, but began to show... Read MORE...
Chicago Press & Tribune - Chicago, Illinois - June 1, 1860
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1915 ST. IGNACE POSTMASTER IS HIT HARD BY FIRE
St. Ignace, Mich., June 1. - Fire of undetermined origin yesterday wiped out the Kruger block, a small annex and a building owned by Mayor Wing with a loss of $80,000, with very little insurance. The Kruger block was occupied by F. Kruger & Son as a grocery. Of all of Kruger's property, only part of his residence was saved. He has been postmaster here for 16 years.
Flint Journal
Flint, Michigan
June 1, 1915
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1779 June 1779 - Spain entered Revolutionary War in favor of Americans.
June 1, 1779
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1890 June 1 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to tabulate census returns using punched card input,
a landmark in the history of computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
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June 1, 1890
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St. Ignace, Mich., June 1. - Fire of undetermined origin yesterday wiped out the Kruger block, a small annex and a building owned by Mayor Wing with a loss of $80,000, with very little insurance. The Kruger block was occupied by F. Kruger & Son as a grocery. Of all of Kruger's property, only part of his residence was saved. He has been postmaster here for 16 years.
Flint Journal
Flint, Michigan
June 1, 1915
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1779 June 1779 - Spain entered Revolutionary War in favor of Americans.
June 1, 1779
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1890 June 1 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to tabulate census returns using punched card input,
a landmark in the history of computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
wikipedia.org
June 1, 1890
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1980 June 1 - A man from Falmouth ME was struck by lightning restoring his eyesight. The man had been blind and partially deaf since a truck accident in 1971.
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June 1, 1980
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1812 June 1 - Snow whitened the ground in Rochester NY
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June 1, 1812
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1812 June 1 - Snow whitened the ground in Cleveland OH .
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June 1, 1812
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June 1, 1980
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1812 June 1 - Snow whitened the ground in Rochester NY
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1812 June 1 - Snow whitened the ground in Cleveland OH .
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1812 Apple trees at New Haven CT did not blossom until the first of June, the latest such occurrence during the period beginning in 1794.
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June 1, 1812
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1878 A phenomenal spring is said to exist at Kittery, Me.
Whenever a drought becomes so severe that other springs go dry, this one bubbles up until rain enough falls to replenish the others, when it immediately subsides.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 1, 1878
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1947 June 1, 1947: Corning Glass Works in N.Y. announced the invention of photosensitive glass
The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
June 1, 1947
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June 1, 1812
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1878 A phenomenal spring is said to exist at Kittery, Me.
Whenever a drought becomes so severe that other springs go dry, this one bubbles up until rain enough falls to replenish the others, when it immediately subsides.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 1, 1878
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1947 June 1, 1947: Corning Glass Works in N.Y. announced the invention of photosensitive glass
The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
June 1, 1947
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1905 June 1 - Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
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June 1, 1905
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1911 June 1 - 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
June 1, 1911
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1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
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June 1, 1638
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June 1, 1905
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1911 June 1 - 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
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1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
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1774 June 1 - Boston Port Bill: British government orders Port of Boston closed
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June 1, 1774
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1882 Fell Under Wagon
V. V. Goddard, a brick mason, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, was instantly crushed to death yesterday morning, at South Hadley Falls, by falling under the wheels of a loaded brick wagon. Thomas Flattery and two other young men, whose names are unknown, were drowned in the river at Holyoke, Massachusetts, yesterday by the capsizing of a boat. Their bodies have not been recovered.
Reading Times
Reading, Pennsylvania
June 1, 1882
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1882 Fell Under Wagon
V. V. Goddard, a brick mason, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, was instantly crushed to death yesterday morning, at South Hadley Falls, by falling under the wheels of a loaded brick wagon. Thomas Flattery and two other young men, whose names are unknown, were drowned in the river at Holyoke, Massachusetts, yesterday by the capsizing of a boat. Their bodies have not been recovered.
Reading Times
Reading, Pennsylvania
June 1, 1882
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America - Did you know?
1831 - Nat Turner, an enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history. He and his band of about 80 followers launch a bloody, day-long rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. The militia quells...Read MORE...www.infoplease.com
Quebec - Did you know?
To beckon a waiter in Quebec, quietly to say "Monsieur" or "S'il vous plait. Say "Mademoiselle" to beckon a waitress. Never beckon a waiter or waitress by snapping your fingers or shouting.
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Delicious Bromose
The New Nut Food
A Perfect Food for Children
Sanitas Nut Food Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
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March 1898
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