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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated May 16, 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 16 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Cornish, New Hampshire, USA
THREE OF THE DEAD, A MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN, WERE VISITING RESIDENTS OF ONE-ROOM HUT.
Cornish, N. H., May 15. - (AP) - Five persons lost their lives and another was seriously burned here today in a fire which destroyed a one-room cabin.
Officials investigating the happening believed that a kerosene explosion caused the fire.
The dead were:
MRS. WILLIAM GIBSON, 20.
Her daughter, ELIZABETH ANNA, 1.
MRS. BERTHA TALBOT, 29.
Her children, PAULINE, 7, and WILLIAM, JR., 3.
ROBERT FECTEAU,... Read MORE...
Joplin Globe - Joplin, Missouri - May 16, 1929
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1929 - FIVE LOSE LIVES, ANOTHER IS HURT, AS CABIN BURNS. BOY, 15, IS SERIOUSLY BURNED WHEN HE MAKES EFFORT TO RESCUE HIS SISTER FROM THE FLAMES. EXPLOSION BLAMED.
THREE OF THE DEAD, A MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN, WERE VISITING RESIDENTS OF ONE-ROOM HUT.
Cornish, N. H., May 15. - (AP) - Five persons lost their lives and another was seriously burned here today in a fire which destroyed a one-room cabin.
Officials investigating the happening believed that a kerosene explosion caused the fire.
The dead were:
MRS. WILLIAM GIBSON, 20.
Her daughter, ELIZABETH ANNA, 1.
MRS. BERTHA TALBOT, 29.
Her children, PAULINE, 7, and WILLIAM, JR., 3.
ROBERT FECTEAU,... Read MORE...
Joplin Globe - Joplin, Missouri - May 16, 1929
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Curtice Brothers Blue Label Soups
Curtice Bothers Co., Rochester, N.Y.
The Ladies' Home Journal
April 1898
Curtice Brothers, founded in 1868, by Simeon and Edgar Curtice, was one of the pioneers in the canning and preserving of food products...
The Curtice Brothers copartnership continued until 1889, when the business was turned over to a corporation, organized for that purpose, under the name of Curtice Brothers Company, which continued until 1901, when it was consolidated with the Curtice Brothers Canning Company, of Vernon N.Y. to form the present company... baybottles.com
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Waterbury, Vermont, USA
WATERBURY, Vt., May 16 (AP) - An acute milk shortage unless prices were advanced, was the prediction of representatives of 12 proprietary and three cooperative creameries, meeting here to discuss the current dairy problem.
The dairymen said the price of milk paid producers should be advanced one cent a quart at once, if the shortage was to be averted. Grain and feed prices have advanced, they said, and the milk production was under normal for this season.
The creamery representatives at... Read MORE...
The Telegraph - Nashua, New Hampshire - May 16, 1933
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1933 - Predicts Shortage of Milk in Vermont
WATERBURY, Vt., May 16 (AP) - An acute milk shortage unless prices were advanced, was the prediction of representatives of 12 proprietary and three cooperative creameries, meeting here to discuss the current dairy problem.
The dairymen said the price of milk paid producers should be advanced one cent a quart at once, if the shortage was to be averted. Grain and feed prices have advanced, they said, and the milk production was under normal for this season.
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The Telegraph - Nashua, New Hampshire - May 16, 1933
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA (Lackawanna)
Fire broke out in the works of the BLOOM CARRIAGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, on Eighth street, in Scranton, Penn., at eight o'clock in the evening and spread rapidly to adjoining property and destroyed eighteen private dwellings the pattern shop and boiler house of FINCH'S foundry and the screen works of BROOK & ROSS.
For two hours the fire raged with great fury, being fanned by a strong wind. Most of the families in the burned dwellings were able to move their effects, thus lessening the loss.... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - May 16, 1890
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1890 - A BLAZE AT SCRANTON About Forty Houses and Factories Destroyed by Fire.
Fire broke out in the works of the BLOOM CARRIAGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, on Eighth street, in Scranton, Penn., at eight o'clock in the evening and spread rapidly to adjoining property and destroyed eighteen private dwellings the pattern shop and boiler house of FINCH'S foundry and the screen works of BROOK & ROSS.
For two hours the fire raged with great fury, being fanned by a strong wind. Most of the families in the burned dwellings were able to move their effects, thus lessening the loss.... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - May 16, 1890
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1918 - May 16 - White Mountain National Forest is established as a result of the Weeks Act of 1911.
"Exploration of the White Mountains by Europeans began in the mid-17th century. In the late 18th century, after the Revolutionary War, settlers cleared forests for mixed agriculture and grazing, establishing farming communities with schools, stores, and mills. Many of these farms, and sometimes entire communities, were abandoned in the mid to late 19th century, as farming technology changed and people moved west or to cities for better economic opportunities. Large logging companies bought up... Read MORE...
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May 16, 1918
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Memere's Creamed Spinach
Ingredients
2 pounds fresh spinach, washed and tough stems removed
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/ 2 cup finely chopped shallots
1 teaspoon minced garlic
3/ 4 teaspoon salt
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Hornell, New York, USA (Hornellsville)
Hornellsville, N. Y., May 13 - A bad wreck took place on the western division of the Erie three miles west of here. Fast freight No. 92 was thrown in the ditch by a broken wheel, and ten cars were piled up in a confused heap. The accident occurred when the train was making fast time, and the cars were on that account completely shattered.
One of the cars that was in the wreck was from Mercer, Pa., and contained horses that were being taken east to enter the races. There were 18 horses in... Read MORE...
Ticonderoga Sentinel - New York - May 16, 1895
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1895 - FAST FREIGHT WRECKED - Three Men and Ten Valuable Horses Were Killed.
Hornellsville, N. Y., May 13 - A bad wreck took place on the western division of the Erie three miles west of here. Fast freight No. 92 was thrown in the ditch by a broken wheel, and ten cars were piled up in a confused heap. The accident occurred when the train was making fast time, and the cars were on that account completely shattered.
One of the cars that was in the wreck was from Mercer, Pa., and contained horses that were being taken east to enter the races. There were 18 horses in... Read MORE...
Ticonderoga Sentinel - New York - May 16, 1895
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Sen-Sen
Throat Ease
Breath Perfume
Sen-Sen Co., Rochester, N.Y.
The Ladies' Home Journal
May 1898
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Corry, Pennsylvania, USA
Spectators at Cole Brothers' Show Plunged Down When Benches Collapse
Babies and Women Lost in Confusion and List of Casualties May be Very Long
N. Y. Sun-Syracuse Herald - Special
Corry, Pa May 15 - During the evening performance of the Cole Brothers Railroad Circus in this city to-night a portion of the seats gave way and carried down with it a multitude of shrieking people, many of whom, it is feared have been seriously and perhaps fatally injured. A panic ensued among the performers ... Read MORE...
Syracuse Herald - Syracuse, New York - May 16, 1909
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1909 - CIRCUS SEATS FALL. Multitude of People Carried Down at Corry. Tent Catches Fire. A Panic Ensues an Several are Seriously Injured.
Spectators at Cole Brothers' Show Plunged Down When Benches Collapse
Babies and Women Lost in Confusion and List of Casualties May be Very Long
N. Y. Sun-Syracuse Herald - Special
Corry, Pa May 15 - During the evening performance of the Cole Brothers Railroad Circus in this city to-night a portion of the seats gave way and carried down with it a multitude of shrieking people, many of whom, it is feared have been seriously and perhaps fatally injured. A panic ensued among the performers ... Read MORE...
Syracuse Herald - Syracuse, New York - May 16, 1909
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
City Investigating Commission and State Fire Wardens Indicate Disaster Might Have Been Averted if the X-Ray Room Had Been Closed Off
Cleveland, O. - (AP) - The explosion that ripped through Cleveland clinic and generated gas fumes that killed 122 persons, was caused by spontaneous combustion that ignited celluloid X-ray plates in a sub-basement store room...
A faulty fire door was discovered today in the Cleveland X-ray room, the seat of the origin of the explosion that has resulted in... Read MORE...
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern - Oshkosh, Wisconsin - May 16, 1929
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1929 - Is Blamed For Clinic Tragedy at Cleveland
City Investigating Commission and State Fire Wardens Indicate Disaster Might Have Been Averted if the X-Ray Room Had Been Closed Off
Cleveland, O. - (AP) - The explosion that ripped through Cleveland clinic and generated gas fumes that killed 122 persons, was caused by spontaneous combustion that ignited celluloid X-ray plates in a sub-basement store room...
A faulty fire door was discovered today in the Cleveland X-ray room, the seat of the origin of the explosion that has resulted in... Read MORE...
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern - Oshkosh, Wisconsin - May 16, 1929
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Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
New York, May 16. - Chas. A Richardson, a millionaire manufacturer of Worcester, Massachusetts has been missing for five weeks. The police have searched for him everywhere without success. The story of his disappearance was made public Tuesday.
Richardson came here early in April and put up at the Waldorf Astoria with his wife. On April 11 he went out to attend some business and never returned. A year ago, Richardson, while suffering from too close application to work, disappeared in a... Read MORE...
The Marion Star - Marion, Ohio - May 16, 1900
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1900 - A Millionaire of Worchester, Massachusetts Is Missing.
New York, May 16. - Chas. A Richardson, a millionaire manufacturer of Worcester, Massachusetts has been missing for five weeks. The police have searched for him everywhere without success. The story of his disappearance was made public Tuesday.
Richardson came here early in April and put up at the Waldorf Astoria with his wife. On April 11 he went out to attend some business and never returned. A year ago, Richardson, while suffering from too close application to work, disappeared in a... Read MORE...
The Marion Star - Marion, Ohio - May 16, 1900
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
Tell stories very seldom , and absolutely never but where they are very apt, and very short. Omit every circumstance that is notmaterial, and be ware of digressions. To have frequent recourse to narrative, betrays great want of imagination...Read MORE...
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.L
Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Nantucket, Mass., May 16. - The 43,000-ton liner Olympic, groping its way through a heavy fog, crashed broadside into the Nantucket Lightship Tuesday. Seven of the lightship's crew were either killed outright or were missing. The lightship sank.
Three men found by the Olympic's lifeboats died of their injuries. Four others were missing.
Coast Guard reported those dead as:
W. W. PERRY, Reading, Mass., engineer.
A. MONTELRO, New Bedford, cook.
J. RICHMOND, Boston, oiler.
The missing men... Read MORE...
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg, Manitoba - May 16, 1934
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1934 - SEVEN SAILORS PERISH IN COLLISION OF LINER WITH LIGHTSHIP DURING THICK FOG.
Nantucket, Mass., May 16. - The 43,000-ton liner Olympic, groping its way through a heavy fog, crashed broadside into the Nantucket Lightship Tuesday. Seven of the lightship's crew were either killed outright or were missing. The lightship sank.
Three men found by the Olympic's lifeboats died of their injuries. Four others were missing.
Coast Guard reported those dead as:
W. W. PERRY, Reading, Mass., engineer.
A. MONTELRO, New Bedford, cook.
J. RICHMOND, Boston, oiler.
The missing men... Read MORE...
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg, Manitoba - May 16, 1934
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Auburn, Maine, USA (Danville)
Auburn, Me., May 16. (AP) - Restoration of a gaping hole in its New Auburn section where 248 buildings including the homes of one-twelfth of the city's population were destroyed by fire yesterday with loss exceeding $1,000,000 was the problem facing this city today. The homeless most of whom were of foreign extraction - workers in the mills of Lewiston, across the Androscoggin River - were estimated by City Manager Frederick Ford to number approximately 1500.
The section of the city thickly... Read MORE...
Portsmouth Herald - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - May 16, 1933
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1933 - 1500 HOMELESS AT AUBURN; FLAMES DESTROY 248 BUILDINGS IN MAINE CITY
Auburn, Me., May 16. (AP) - Restoration of a gaping hole in its New Auburn section where 248 buildings including the homes of one-twelfth of the city's population were destroyed by fire yesterday with loss exceeding $1,000,000 was the problem facing this city today. The homeless most of whom were of foreign extraction - workers in the mills of Lewiston, across the Androscoggin River - were estimated by City Manager Frederick Ford to number approximately 1500.
The section of the city thickly... Read MORE...
Portsmouth Herald - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - May 16, 1933
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1985 May 16 - Hole in Ozone layer is discovered by British scientists
The discovery of the annual depletion of ozone above the Antarctic was first announced in a paper by Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan Shanklin which appeared in Nature (magazine) on May 16th 1985.
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May 16, 1985
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1910 PLACERVILLE, CAL., FIRE.
Placerville, Cal., May 16. - Fire which broke out in a barn in the center of town last night, destroyed the courthouse, and several business houses, entailing a loss of about $100,000.
The Ogden Standard
Ogden, Utah
May 16, 1910
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1862 Brothers Drown
Two young men, brothers, by the name of Wilcox, belonging in Tiverton, while crossing the river in a leaky old boat, from Rhode Island to Tiverton, at a late hour Saturday night, the 26th ult., were drowned.
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Barre Gazette
Barre, Massachusetts
May 16, 1862
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The discovery of the annual depletion of ozone above the Antarctic was first announced in a paper by Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan Shanklin which appeared in Nature (magazine) on May 16th 1985.
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May 16, 1985
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1910 PLACERVILLE, CAL., FIRE.
Placerville, Cal., May 16. - Fire which broke out in a barn in the center of town last night, destroyed the courthouse, and several business houses, entailing a loss of about $100,000.
The Ogden Standard
Ogden, Utah
May 16, 1910
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1862 Brothers Drown
Two young men, brothers, by the name of Wilcox, belonging in Tiverton, while crossing the river in a leaky old boat, from Rhode Island to Tiverton, at a late hour Saturday night, the 26th ult., were drowned.
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Barre Gazette
Barre, Massachusetts
May 16, 1862
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America - Did you know?
1839 - Hats and Hat Making in New EnglandEarly New England, and early Massachusetts in particular, was a center of American hat-making. Many New England towns had small hat-making factories, and many hat-makers in New England specialized in...Read MORE...
Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839
Quebec - Did you know?
Around 1825, La Cuisinière Bourgeoise, was written as a guide for those employed in the service of middle class households. This volume was one of the first in Canada to address the subject in a comprehensive manner. It includes information on basic ...Read MORE...www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca
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Sacred Heart, Polish Church, 1910
