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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated May 14, 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 May 14 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
The American Agricultural Chemical Company, Rutland, Vermont Office, 1907
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Maple Icing - For maple icing boil together half a cup of cream, one cup scraped maple sugar and one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Cook until it forms a a soft mass when dropped into cold water.
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Heroic Paulist Father Rushes Safely Through Flames In A Burning Church
Special to The Inquirer.
New Rochelle, N.Y., May 13.-With flames raging fiercely about him, Father Kennedy, a Paulist missionary, risked his life at a fire in the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in New Rochelle early this morning to save the blessed sacrament.
The priest was asleep in the rectory when the fire broke out at 1:30 o’clock, and he was awakened by the crackling of the flames. Without waiting to dress, he... Read MORE...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - May 14, 1904
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1904 - Risked Life To Save Sacrament
Heroic Paulist Father Rushes Safely Through Flames In A Burning Church
Special to The Inquirer.
New Rochelle, N.Y., May 13.-With flames raging fiercely about him, Father Kennedy, a Paulist missionary, risked his life at a fire in the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in New Rochelle early this morning to save the blessed sacrament.
The priest was asleep in the rectory when the fire broke out at 1:30 o’clock, and he was awakened by the crackling of the flames. Without waiting to dress, he... Read MORE...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - May 14, 1904
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon ; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel ; therefore pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage .
Washington, DC, USA
Washington, May 13.-Colonel Symons, in charge of public buildings and grounds, has reported to General Mackenzie, chief of engineers, that the Washington Monument was struck by lightning on the 27th ult., but was not greatly damaged.
The bolt entered at the top of the shaft, out the telephone there, passed down the iron framework in the elevator shaft to the lower floor, through the shaft alley to the motor room, where it burned out a relay coil on the switchboard, then passed along the... Read MORE...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - May 14, 1904
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1904 - Lightning Struck The Great Shaft. Bolt Entered Top Of Washington Monument And Followed Iron Work To Ground.
Washington, May 13.-Colonel Symons, in charge of public buildings and grounds, has reported to General Mackenzie, chief of engineers, that the Washington Monument was struck by lightning on the 27th ult., but was not greatly damaged.
The bolt entered at the top of the shaft, out the telephone there, passed down the iron framework in the elevator shaft to the lower floor, through the shaft alley to the motor room, where it burned out a relay coil on the switchboard, then passed along the... Read MORE...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - May 14, 1904
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Leominster, Massachusetts, USA
Leominster, Mass., May 13 – Eight buildings on fire at one time and the town threatened with destruction, gave the townspeople such a scare, this afternoon, as they never had before. Property valued at $60,000 was destroyed, one life was lost and many firemen sustained slight injuries.
Just after 1 o’clock an alarm was sounded for a blaze in the factory of the Se??ing [illegible] comb factory in the southern part of the town. Before the bells had ceased ringing the alarm, another alarm came... Read MORE...
Daily Kennebec Journal - Augusta, Maine - May 14, 1903
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1903 - LEOMINSTER’S BIG FRIGHT. A $60,000 Fire Loss and One Death by Accident in Smoke.
Leominster, Mass., May 13 – Eight buildings on fire at one time and the town threatened with destruction, gave the townspeople such a scare, this afternoon, as they never had before. Property valued at $60,000 was destroyed, one life was lost and many firemen sustained slight injuries.
Just after 1 o’clock an alarm was sounded for a blaze in the factory of the Se??ing [illegible] comb factory in the southern part of the town. Before the bells had ceased ringing the alarm, another alarm came... Read MORE...
Daily Kennebec Journal - Augusta, Maine - May 14, 1903
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Barrington, Rhode Island, USA (West Barrington)
Barrington, (Rhode Island) February 24.
There is now living in this town, Matthew Watson, esq. in the 105th year of his age, in pretty good health, and in the enjoyment of his faculties, except being blind. He was born in the county of Coleraine, in the province of Ulster, in the north of Ireland, in March A. D. 1696, from whence he, with his father and mother, four brothers and one sister, migrated, and arrived at Boston A. D. 1712, from whence he removed to and settled in Leicester, in the ... Read MORE...
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Georgia Gazette - Georgia - May 14, 1801
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1801 - Lived in 3 Centuries
Barrington, (Rhode Island) February 24.
There is now living in this town, Matthew Watson, esq. in the 105th year of his age, in pretty good health, and in the enjoyment of his faculties, except being blind. He was born in the county of Coleraine, in the province of Ulster, in the north of Ireland, in March A. D. 1696, from whence he, with his father and mother, four brothers and one sister, migrated, and arrived at Boston A. D. 1712, from whence he removed to and settled in Leicester, in the ... Read MORE...
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Georgia Gazette - Georgia - May 14, 1801
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1892 A prominent farmer of St. Antoine, Que., named Damose, has invented a novel and original method of suicide.
Becoming suddenly insane, he tied the end of a rope around a tree, and fastened the other end to his feet. Making a noose of another rope, he placed it around his neck, and fastened it to a whiffle? tree to which a team of horses was attached. He started the horses, and his head was torn from the body.
Vancouver Daily World
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 14, 1892
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1950 May 14 – The Huntsville Times runs the headline, "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."
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May 14, 1950
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1898 May 14 - A severe thunderstorm, with some hailstones up to 9.5 inches in circumference, pounded a four mile wide path across Kansas City MO.
South-facing windows were broken in nearly every house in central and eastern parts of the city, and several persons were injured. An even larger hailstone was thought to have been found, but it turned out to be a chunk of ice tossed out the window of a building by a prankster.
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May 14, 1898
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Becoming suddenly insane, he tied the end of a rope around a tree, and fastened the other end to his feet. Making a noose of another rope, he placed it around his neck, and fastened it to a whiffle? tree to which a team of horses was attached. He started the horses, and his head was torn from the body.
Vancouver Daily World
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 14, 1892
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1950 May 14 – The Huntsville Times runs the headline, "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."
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May 14, 1950
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1898 May 14 - A severe thunderstorm, with some hailstones up to 9.5 inches in circumference, pounded a four mile wide path across Kansas City MO.
South-facing windows were broken in nearly every house in central and eastern parts of the city, and several persons were injured. An even larger hailstone was thought to have been found, but it turned out to be a chunk of ice tossed out the window of a building by a prankster.
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May 14, 1898
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1870 Thirty per cent of the population of France can neither read nor write.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 14, 1870
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1870 In Ireland landlords are often "warned" now-a-days by finding graves dug in their front yards.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 14, 1870
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1607 May 14 - Jamestown Was Established
The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition: sail to the new, mysterious land, which they called Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, and begin a settlement. They established Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America.
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May 14, 1607
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St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 14, 1870
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1870 In Ireland landlords are often "warned" now-a-days by finding graves dug in their front yards.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 14, 1870
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1607 May 14 - Jamestown Was Established
The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition: sail to the new, mysterious land, which they called Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, and begin a settlement. They established Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America.
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May 14, 1607
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1804 May 14 - Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
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May 14, 1804
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1896 Mangled By A Trolley Car. Miss Masie Todd, Cousin of Robert Todd Lincoln, Killed.
Lexington, Ky., May 13.-Special Telegram-An electric street car ran down and killed Miss MASIE TODD, who was attempting to cross in front of it on her bicycle on South Broadway, at 6 o'clock this evening. She was horribly mangled, one wheel passing over her body. She was 20 years old, the youngest daughter of the venerable Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd. She was a cousin to Robert Todd Lincoln of Chicago. Her brother, Lee Todd, and sister, Mrs. Nellie Baldwin, live in Boston, from which city she...
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The Daily Inter Ocean
Chicago, Illinois
May 14, 1896
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1880 Strange Series of Misfortunes
Daniel Cornwall, of Auburn, New York, was the victim within the twenty-four hours ending at noon yesterday, of a singular series of misfortunes. On Wednesday evening he was severely injured by the upsetting of a load of hay. At midnight of Wednesday, his house and barn, with all his furniture, hay, grain, horses and cattle, were destroyed by an incendiary fire. Yesterday morning his ice wagon was demolished by a runaway accident.
Delaware County Daily Times
Chester, Pennsylvania
May 14, 1880
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May 14, 1804
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1896 Mangled By A Trolley Car. Miss Masie Todd, Cousin of Robert Todd Lincoln, Killed.
Lexington, Ky., May 13.-Special Telegram-An electric street car ran down and killed Miss MASIE TODD, who was attempting to cross in front of it on her bicycle on South Broadway, at 6 o'clock this evening. She was horribly mangled, one wheel passing over her body. She was 20 years old, the youngest daughter of the venerable Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd. She was a cousin to Robert Todd Lincoln of Chicago. Her brother, Lee Todd, and sister, Mrs. Nellie Baldwin, live in Boston, from which city she...
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The Daily Inter Ocean
Chicago, Illinois
May 14, 1896
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1880 Strange Series of Misfortunes
Daniel Cornwall, of Auburn, New York, was the victim within the twenty-four hours ending at noon yesterday, of a singular series of misfortunes. On Wednesday evening he was severely injured by the upsetting of a load of hay. At midnight of Wednesday, his house and barn, with all his furniture, hay, grain, horses and cattle, were destroyed by an incendiary fire. Yesterday morning his ice wagon was demolished by a runaway accident.
Delaware County Daily Times
Chester, Pennsylvania
May 14, 1880
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1938 New Mask Invented - His Face Is Dirty
His Face Is Dirty - Seeking to combat silicosis, lung malady suffered by those who work in dust, researchers for the American Optical Company of Southbridge, Mass. have developed a mask. Its efficacy is demonstrated by the laboratory worker above, who has taken off the mask, after emerging from a chamber flooded with carbon black. Nose and lips were not blackened.
The Citizen Advertiser
Auburn, New York
Saturday, May 14, 1938
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His Face Is Dirty - Seeking to combat silicosis, lung malady suffered by those who work in dust, researchers for the American Optical Company of Southbridge, Mass. have developed a mask. Its efficacy is demonstrated by the laboratory worker above, who has taken off the mask, after emerging from a chamber flooded with carbon black. Nose and lips were not blackened.
The Citizen Advertiser
Auburn, New York
Saturday, May 14, 1938
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America - Did you know?
Going to see the Elephant. (1860s)On the California Trail, the elephant was a metaphor for the exotic sights that travelers expected to see once they reached California. As the journey began, "seeing the elephant" was a positive allusion. As...Read MORE...
Mormon Station State Historic Park. Genoa, Nevada
Quebec - Did you know?
It is the old custom in French Canada (originating in Europe) to bury the dead in the church cemetery. After a period of time, if donations stop coming from the family, the stone is removed to make room for a new burial. This is why you will almost...Read MORE...Findagrave.com
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