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 26, 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 26 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Spiced Beef - For ten or twelve pounds of beef take one tablespoonful of allspice, six cloves, a piece of mace, pound in a mortar; add a large spoonful brown sugar; rub well into the beef; then rub with saltpeter and salt; turn and rub daily...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., March 16, 1881
Rapid City, South Dakota, USA
Rapid City, June 25. - Five people are known to have been drowned in the terrible flood in the Black Hills last week, and it is greatly feared that others will be found when some of the ranches within a radius of thirty or forty miles of Rapid are visited. Word was received here Sunday that Clint Davis and his family have not been seen since the flood, and as the house has been carried down and cannot be found, it is feared that the family were in it. The ranch house of Eardly Ham was struck in ... Read MORE...
Aberdeen Daily American - Aberdeen, South Dakota - June 26, 1907
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1907 - FIVE DROWNED IN BLACK HILLS
Rapid City, June 25. - Five people are known to have been drowned in the terrible flood in the Black Hills last week, and it is greatly feared that others will be found when some of the ranches within a radius of thirty or forty miles of Rapid are visited. Word was received here Sunday that Clint Davis and his family have not been seen since the flood, and as the house has been carried down and cannot be found, it is feared that the family were in it. The ranch house of Eardly Ham was struck in ... Read MORE...
Aberdeen Daily American - Aberdeen, South Dakota - June 26, 1907
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
She who weds with one of an inferior rank in life has no right to expect that her friends will associate with her husband, or treat him with that respect which she may think his...Read MORE...
Letters to Young Ladies on Their Entrance into the World, by Elizabeth Lanfear, 1824
Staten Island, New York, USA
New York, (AP) - Two persons burned to death and 34 were overcome or injured yesterday in a nine-alarm, $2,000,000 blaze which engulfed Staten Island's St. George ferry terminal shortly after it had been emptied of 500 passengers.
The dead were MRS. CORNELIUS WHITE, a ticket agent, and Fireman HAROLD CLENDENING, 59. Both lived on Staten Island.
Sparks from a short-circuit on a Staten Island electric train started the fire, about 2 p.m., said Assistant District Attorney Herman... Read MORE...
The Post-Standard - Syracuse, New York - June 26, 1946
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1946 - 2 DEAD IN FIRE ON STATEN ISLE, LOSS 2 MILLION. 34 PERSONS HURT, ST. GEORGE FERRY HOUSE DESTROYED.
New York, (AP) - Two persons burned to death and 34 were overcome or injured yesterday in a nine-alarm, $2,000,000 blaze which engulfed Staten Island's St. George ferry terminal shortly after it had been emptied of 500 passengers.
The dead were MRS. CORNELIUS WHITE, a ticket agent, and Fireman HAROLD CLENDENING, 59. Both lived on Staten Island.
Sparks from a short-circuit on a Staten Island electric train started the fire, about 2 p.m., said Assistant District Attorney Herman... Read MORE...
The Post-Standard - Syracuse, New York - June 26, 1946
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Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Kansas City, Mo. - (AP) - Firemen and an army of workers from the street department Friday began searching the smoldering ruins of the Gillis theater for bodies of persons believed to have lost their lives when a fire and an explosion wrecked the theater and more than a dozen stores here late Thursday night.
Several hours after the search of the debris started no bodies had been recovered. The only known death to result from the catastrophe was that of JOHN HOGAN, fireman, who was killed... Read MORE...
LaCrosse Tribune - La Crosse, Wisconsin - June 26, 1925
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1925 - EXPLOSION AND FIRE WRECK KANSAS CITY PLAY HOUSE; NUMBER OF DEAD UNKNOWN. HUNDRED PEOPLE IN THEATER AT TIME OF DISASTER, BUT DEATH LIST CANNOT BE DETERMINED UNTIL SEARCH OF RUINS IS MADE; EXPLOSION BELIEVED DUE TO GAS LEAKAGE.
Kansas City, Mo. - (AP) - Firemen and an army of workers from the street department Friday began searching the smoldering ruins of the Gillis theater for bodies of persons believed to have lost their lives when a fire and an explosion wrecked the theater and more than a dozen stores here late Thursday night.
Several hours after the search of the debris started no bodies had been recovered. The only known death to result from the catastrophe was that of JOHN HOGAN, fireman, who was killed... Read MORE...
LaCrosse Tribune - La Crosse, Wisconsin - June 26, 1925
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Springfield, Illinois, USA
Springfield, Ill., June 25. - At a society circus, given last evening on the lawn of JAMES T. JONES, a section of the seats gave way and their occupants were thrown to the ground. MRS. J. L. HUDSON, suffered a broken leg, JAMES BRAINARD'S spine was injured, and MRS. BRAINARD had an arm badly lacerated. Ex-Adjt. Gen. ALFRED ORENDORFF and Postmaster R. M. RIDGELY each had a foot crushed. MISS CATHERINE T. WILEY of Fredonia, N. Y., who is visiting DR. and MRS. L. C. TIFFANY, had a bruised ankle,... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - June 26, 1896
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1896 - ACCIDENT AT A SOCIETY CIRCUS.
Springfield, Ill., June 25. - At a society circus, given last evening on the lawn of JAMES T. JONES, a section of the seats gave way and their occupants were thrown to the ground. MRS. J. L. HUDSON, suffered a broken leg, JAMES BRAINARD'S spine was injured, and MRS. BRAINARD had an arm badly lacerated. Ex-Adjt. Gen. ALFRED ORENDORFF and Postmaster R. M. RIDGELY each had a foot crushed. MISS CATHERINE T. WILEY of Fredonia, N. Y., who is visiting DR. and MRS. L. C. TIFFANY, had a bruised ankle,... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - June 26, 1896
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Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
TEN ACRES OF BUSINESS AND DWELLING HOUSES SWEPT AWAY IN A FEW HOURS -ALL BUT THREE OF THE SHOE FACTORIES OF THE TOWN, THE PUBLIC HALL AND ARMORY, A CHURCH, AND OVER 70 SHOPS AND DWELLINGS DESTROYED - OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS LOSS, WITH HALF OF IT INSURED.
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
BOSTON, June 25. - Worse than the great fire of 1870 was to Chicago, or that of 1872 to Boston, or the last destruction at St. John, was the conflagration that swept through the historic town of... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - June 26, 1877
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1877 - DESTRUCTION BY FIRE. MARBLEHEAD, MASS., DEVASTATED.
TEN ACRES OF BUSINESS AND DWELLING HOUSES SWEPT AWAY IN A FEW HOURS -ALL BUT THREE OF THE SHOE FACTORIES OF THE TOWN, THE PUBLIC HALL AND ARMORY, A CHURCH, AND OVER 70 SHOPS AND DWELLINGS DESTROYED - OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS LOSS, WITH HALF OF IT INSURED.
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
BOSTON, June 25. - Worse than the great fire of 1870 was to Chicago, or that of 1872 to Boston, or the last destruction at St. John, was the conflagration that swept through the historic town of... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - June 26, 1877
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Alexander Rutstein Victim In Boston-Fire Wrecks Building.
Cambridge, Mass., June 25. - Alexander Rutstein of the Dorchester District, Boston, died at a hospital today as a result of burns sustained when a still exploded in a factory building in East Cambridge on Friday, resulting in fire which ruined the building. Two other men are still in the hospital suffering from severe burns.
The police said that in an ante-mortem statement Rutstein admitted that he had been manufacturing liquor... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - June 26, 1922
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1922 - Killed By Exploding Still.
Alexander Rutstein Victim In Boston-Fire Wrecks Building.
Cambridge, Mass., June 25. - Alexander Rutstein of the Dorchester District, Boston, died at a hospital today as a result of burns sustained when a still exploded in a factory building in East Cambridge on Friday, resulting in fire which ruined the building. Two other men are still in the hospital suffering from severe burns.
The police said that in an ante-mortem statement Rutstein admitted that he had been manufacturing liquor... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - June 26, 1922
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North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
NORTH ADAMS, Mass., June 26. - The President [McKinley] was met at 2:30 o'clock on Church street, by Sanford Post G. A. R. and a band, and was taken to a reviewing stand in Monument square, and from which he saw a pretty parade of 2000 school children and citizens of the city. After the parade had passed by, Mayor H. Torrey Cady made an address of welcome to the President.
At the close of the mayor's remarks, there was great cheering. The President stepped forward and expressed his feelings... Read MORE...
Lewiston Evening Journal - Lewiston, Maine - June 26, 1899
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1899 - VACATION AT AN END. The President and Party Leave Adams, Mass., for the Nation's Capitol.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass., June 26. - The President [McKinley] was met at 2:30 o'clock on Church street, by Sanford Post G. A. R. and a band, and was taken to a reviewing stand in Monument square, and from which he saw a pretty parade of 2000 school children and citizens of the city. After the parade had passed by, Mayor H. Torrey Cady made an address of welcome to the President.
At the close of the mayor's remarks, there was great cheering. The President stepped forward and expressed his feelings... Read MORE...
Lewiston Evening Journal - Lewiston, Maine - June 26, 1899
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Spreading Rails Sends Two Immigrant Cars Into Ottawa River
OTTAWA, June 25, - Eight persons were killed and more than twenty injured this aternoon in a wreck of the westound Winnipeg Express on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Two colonist cars, crowded with Scotch immigrants newly arrived from Glasgow and en route for the West, skidded down the embankment and plunged into the Ottawa River. In these the eight known victims - four men, three women, and a child - met their death. Their bodies... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - June 26, 1913
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1913 - EIGHT DEAD IN WRECK
Spreading Rails Sends Two Immigrant Cars Into Ottawa River
OTTAWA, June 25, - Eight persons were killed and more than twenty injured this aternoon in a wreck of the westound Winnipeg Express on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Two colonist cars, crowded with Scotch immigrants newly arrived from Glasgow and en route for the West, skidded down the embankment and plunged into the Ottawa River. In these the eight known victims - four men, three women, and a child - met their death. Their bodies... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - June 26, 1913
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1907 TORNADO STRIKES PARK
Kills Man and Three Valuable Race Horses. Kalamazoo, Mich., June 25. - Three valuable race horses and a man were killed in a tornado which struck Recreation park early today. William Wiedmayer, aged 39, was found dead two hours after the storm had passed. He was killed by coming in contact with a telephone wire. The tornado came up without an instant's warning and lifted a long row of stalls carrying them over the fence.
Aberdeen Daily American
Aberdeen, South Dakota
June 26, 1907
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1888 June 26 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave.
Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of that year, which buried the city under nearly two feet of snow.
WeatherForYou.com
June 26, 1888
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1869 At St. Joseph, Missouri, the other day, a young man employed in a saw mill had helped put a log on the carriage while the circular saws were yet in motion,
when he was caught by the log, thrown against the saws and instantly killed. His body was cut completely in two, the pieces falling on different sides of the saws.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 26, 1869
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Kills Man and Three Valuable Race Horses. Kalamazoo, Mich., June 25. - Three valuable race horses and a man were killed in a tornado which struck Recreation park early today. William Wiedmayer, aged 39, was found dead two hours after the storm had passed. He was killed by coming in contact with a telephone wire. The tornado came up without an instant's warning and lifted a long row of stalls carrying them over the fence.
Aberdeen Daily American
Aberdeen, South Dakota
June 26, 1907
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1888 June 26 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave.
Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of that year, which buried the city under nearly two feet of snow.
WeatherForYou.com
June 26, 1888
Visit , New York, USA!
1869 At St. Joseph, Missouri, the other day, a young man employed in a saw mill had helped put a log on the carriage while the circular saws were yet in motion,
when he was caught by the log, thrown against the saws and instantly killed. His body was cut completely in two, the pieces falling on different sides of the saws.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 26, 1869
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1886 A young man in Sacramento went into a saloon, sat down, read a paper a few minutes, and fell to the floor totally blind,
It was found that the blindness resulted from inflammation of a near leading to the eye, superinduced by impure blood. - San Francisco Chronicle.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 26, 1886
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1886 Gingham was first manufactured in the United States by Erastus Bigelow, at Clinton, Mass., in 1846.
It was the first attempt to manufacture the fabric mentioned by machinery, and enabled the American manufacturers to compete successfully with those of England.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 26, 1886
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1945 June 26, 1945: United Nations charter signed, San Francisco, CA
The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
June 26, 1945
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It was found that the blindness resulted from inflammation of a near leading to the eye, superinduced by impure blood. - San Francisco Chronicle.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 26, 1886
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1886 Gingham was first manufactured in the United States by Erastus Bigelow, at Clinton, Mass., in 1846.
It was the first attempt to manufacture the fabric mentioned by machinery, and enabled the American manufacturers to compete successfully with those of England.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 26, 1886
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1945 June 26, 1945: United Nations charter signed, San Francisco, CA
The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
June 26, 1945
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1880 Huge Estate
The estate of the late Charles P. Williams, of Stonington, Conn., is appraised at $2,250,000, probably as large a sum as has ever been presented for probate in that State.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 26, 1880
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1870 June 26, 1870: The first boardwalk in the world was completed at the resort town of Atlantic City, NJ
The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
June 26, 1870
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The estate of the late Charles P. Williams, of Stonington, Conn., is appraised at $2,250,000, probably as large a sum as has ever been presented for probate in that State.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 26, 1880
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1870 June 26, 1870: The first boardwalk in the world was completed at the resort town of Atlantic City, NJ
The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
June 26, 1870
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America - Did you know?
The first face on The $1 bill was not George Washington. First issued during the Civil War in 1862, it was the face of Salmon P. Chase, who was Secretary of Treasury at that time and was also the designer of the country’s first banknotes.
Quebec - Did you know?
Quebec has a rich, distinctive French-Canadian cuisine. Popular dishes include tourtière (a meat pie), and ragoût de boulettes et de pattes do cochon (a stew made from meatballs and pigs' feet). Other favorites include French onion soup, pea soup,...Read MORE...Countries and Their Cultures - French-Canadians (www.everyculture.com)
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Congregational Church and Grange Hall
First Congregational Church of Buckland, Inc. UCC.
We are known as "The Mary Lyon Church" in honor of Mary Lyon (1797-1849) founder of Mount Holyoke College. Mary Lyon was a native of Buckland. She became a teacher here and was baptized here in our church in 1822... marylyonchurch.org
