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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated May 22, 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 22 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Loss Variously Estimated at From One to Four Millions.
City Helpless Till Navigation Can Be Resumed - People in a State of Panic After the Fire.
SEATTLE, Washington, May 21. - The long-expected catastrophe at Dawson has occurred, and three-fourths of the town lies in ashes, while hundreds of miners and shop keepers, gamblers and saloon men, are living in tents, sleeping on the snow in blankets, or moving up the creeks into the settlements at the mines.
Stark Humes, son of Mayor T. J.... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - May 22, 1899
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1899 - DAWSON CITY BURNED. Entire Business Section Destroyed on April 21. 111 BUILDINGS IN ASHES.
Loss Variously Estimated at From One to Four Millions.
City Helpless Till Navigation Can Be Resumed - People in a State of Panic After the Fire.
SEATTLE, Washington, May 21. - The long-expected catastrophe at Dawson has occurred, and three-fourths of the town lies in ashes, while hundreds of miners and shop keepers, gamblers and saloon men, are living in tents, sleeping on the snow in blankets, or moving up the creeks into the settlements at the mines.
Stark Humes, son of Mayor T. J.... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - May 22, 1899
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1927 - May 20–21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, carried out from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.
PROUD AND HAPPY MOTHER JUST KNEW HE COULD DO IT
DETROIT, Mich., May 21. (AP) - "That's all that matters." In these words, Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, mother of Captain Charles Lindbergh, expressed her relief when informed that her intrepid son had arrived safely at Le Bourget flying field, France, after an epochal flight from New York.
Mrs. Lindbergh, who had been silently waiting since the take-off from New York yesterday morning, for the word of her son's safe arrival, allowed... Read MORE...
Times Signal - Zanesville, Ohio - May 22, 1927
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Vermicelli Pudding
Two ounces of vermicelli, three-quarters of a pint of milk, quarter of a pint of cream, one ounce and a half of butter, two eggs, one ounce and a half of sugar; boil the vermicelli in the milk until tender, then stir in the...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, November 9, 1881
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Fire In Atlanta Razes 100 Blocks; Loss $2,000,000
Wide Residence Area in Northeast Swept by Flames Starting in Storage Building.
Soldiers Called To Aid
Dynamite Used Vainly to Prevent Blaze Reaching Mansions on Ponce de Leon Av.
Firemen Finally Check It
Thousands Left Homeless, but City Cares for Them-One Woman Dies from Shock.
Atlanta, Ga., May 21. - Fire that started late this afternoon in an obscure negro section at Decatur and Fort Streets swept a broad path through the residential... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - May 22, 1917
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1917 - May 21 - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
Fire In Atlanta Razes 100 Blocks; Loss $2,000,000
Wide Residence Area in Northeast Swept by Flames Starting in Storage Building.
Soldiers Called To Aid
Dynamite Used Vainly to Prevent Blaze Reaching Mansions on Ponce de Leon Av.
Firemen Finally Check It
Thousands Left Homeless, but City Cares for Them-One Woman Dies from Shock.
Atlanta, Ga., May 21. - Fire that started late this afternoon in an obscure negro section at Decatur and Fort Streets swept a broad path through the residential... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - May 22, 1917
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Too steep a bank in a strong wind spun a plane to ground near Tulsa Wednesday afternoon and as it smashed Jimmy Youngblood of Dallas was fatally injured. He died as his wife was winging to Oklahoma having taken off soon after word of the accident reached Love Field.
Having unloaded Paul Vance, a companion pilot of the Southern Air Transport, Inc., after a ferry flight from Fort Worth, Youngblood was starting home. Five hundred feet up after leaving Garland Airport at Tulsa the plane was... Read MORE...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas, Texas - May 22, 1930
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1930 - Dallas Aviator Falls to Death - Workaday Crash Kills Airman of Fame in Flood and Fire.
Too steep a bank in a strong wind spun a plane to ground near Tulsa Wednesday afternoon and as it smashed Jimmy Youngblood of Dallas was fatally injured. He died as his wife was winging to Oklahoma having taken off soon after word of the accident reached Love Field.
Having unloaded Paul Vance, a companion pilot of the Southern Air Transport, Inc., after a ferry flight from Fort Worth, Youngblood was starting home. Five hundred feet up after leaving Garland Airport at Tulsa the plane was... Read MORE...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas, Texas - May 22, 1930
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
Every man who has the use of his eyes and his right hand can write whatever hand he pleases.
Nothing is so ungentleman-like as a school- boy's scrawl. ...Read MORE...
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
Paulding, Ohio, USA
PAULDING, Ohio, May 22. - Earl Alspach, lineman for the Paulding Home Telephone company, met with an accident a few days ago that came near being fatal. Alspach was working on the lines with his bare hands when he grabbed hold of a guy line that had come in contact with a transmission line of the electric light system. With the other hand he grabbed a grounded wire, receiving a terrific shock. He held on for several minutes and called for help, but no one heard him. Becoming exhausted his hold... Read MORE...
The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel - Fort Wayne, Indiana - May 22, 1918
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1918 - Electrical Accident
PAULDING, Ohio, May 22. - Earl Alspach, lineman for the Paulding Home Telephone company, met with an accident a few days ago that came near being fatal. Alspach was working on the lines with his bare hands when he grabbed hold of a guy line that had come in contact with a transmission line of the electric light system. With the other hand he grabbed a grounded wire, receiving a terrific shock. He held on for several minutes and called for help, but no one heard him. Becoming exhausted his hold... Read MORE...
The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel - Fort Wayne, Indiana - May 22, 1918
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Greenburgh, New York, USA (Tarrytown) (Hartsdale)
A flat car loaded with dynamite and drawn by a construction engine was blown to atoms shortly before noon a few days ago, at a place about one and a quarter miles south of Tarrytown, N. Y., on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. A gang of workmen, chiefly Italians, were on the car, and of the number thirteen were killed, ten were injured and five, on the day after the tragedy, were missing. It was thought that the bodies of the latter were thrown into the river. Efforts were made to ... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - May 22, 1891
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1891 - DYNAMITE DISASTER - Frightful Explosion of Blasting Powder on the Hudson. -A Car Containing Thirty Laborers Blown of Atoms.
A flat car loaded with dynamite and drawn by a construction engine was blown to atoms shortly before noon a few days ago, at a place about one and a quarter miles south of Tarrytown, N. Y., on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. A gang of workmen, chiefly Italians, were on the car, and of the number thirteen were killed, ten were injured and five, on the day after the tragedy, were missing. It was thought that the bodies of the latter were thrown into the river. Efforts were made to ... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - May 22, 1891
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Buffalo, New York, USA
THE OLD STRUCTURE WAS PROPPED UP FOR REPAIRS, WHEN THE PROPS SUDDENLY GAVE WAY AND A SCORE OR MORE PEOPLE WERE CAUGHT IN THE TRAP.
NAMES OF THE VICTIMS.
Buffalo, May 22. - Yesterday morning the Seneca Street side of the Brown building formerly occupied by the Western Union Telegraph company collapsed and a score or more people were buried in the ruins. The building was filled with offices, almost all of which were occupied. The Western Union left the building a few weeks ago and the... Read MORE...
Evening Bulletin - Maysville, Kentucky - May 22, 1896
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1896 - BUILDING COLLAPSED. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED AT BUFFALO, N.Y. ALMOST CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS.
THE OLD STRUCTURE WAS PROPPED UP FOR REPAIRS, WHEN THE PROPS SUDDENLY GAVE WAY AND A SCORE OR MORE PEOPLE WERE CAUGHT IN THE TRAP.
NAMES OF THE VICTIMS.
Buffalo, May 22. - Yesterday morning the Seneca Street side of the Brown building formerly occupied by the Western Union Telegraph company collapsed and a score or more people were buried in the ruins. The building was filled with offices, almost all of which were occupied. The Western Union left the building a few weeks ago and the... Read MORE...
Evening Bulletin - Maysville, Kentucky - May 22, 1896
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South Amboy, New Jersey, USA
South Amboy, N. J., (AP) - About twenty tons of phosphorus smoldered and flared on the waterfront last night as an aftermath of the South Amboy munitions disaster in which the official death toll is fixed at 27.
State Police Superintendent CHARLES SCHOEFFEL said the phosphorus was contained in about fifty drums on the grounds of the blast-shattered American Agricultural Chemical Company, right next to the spot where four munitions laden barges blew into the sky Friday night.
SCHOEFFEL... Read MORE...
The Troy Record - Troy, New York - May 22, 1950
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1950 - FIRE FLARES AFTER SOUTH AMBOY BLAST.
South Amboy, N. J., (AP) - About twenty tons of phosphorus smoldered and flared on the waterfront last night as an aftermath of the South Amboy munitions disaster in which the official death toll is fixed at 27.
State Police Superintendent CHARLES SCHOEFFEL said the phosphorus was contained in about fifty drums on the grounds of the blast-shattered American Agricultural Chemical Company, right next to the spot where four munitions laden barges blew into the sky Friday night.
SCHOEFFEL... Read MORE...
The Troy Record - Troy, New York - May 22, 1950
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Schenectady, New York, USA
Ringmaster Ready to Start Performance Before Vast Throng of Spectators When Fire Is Discovered - Audience Marches Out, Only a Few Being Scratched and Bruised.
Special to The Washington Post.
Schenectady, N. Y., May 21 - The "big top" or main tent of the BARNUM & BAILEY circus was destroyed by fire this afternoon. Many of the bleachers were burned. Although the tent was filled with people many of the crowd being women and children no one was seriously hurt.
The fire is supposed to have... Read MORE...
The Washington Post - Washington, D.C. - May 22, 1910
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1910 - BLAZE AT BIG CIRCUS. HUGE TENT BURNS, BUT 12,000 PERSONS ESCAPE UNHURT. PAGEANT ABOUT TO BEGIN.
Ringmaster Ready to Start Performance Before Vast Throng of Spectators When Fire Is Discovered - Audience Marches Out, Only a Few Being Scratched and Bruised.
Special to The Washington Post.
Schenectady, N. Y., May 21 - The "big top" or main tent of the BARNUM & BAILEY circus was destroyed by fire this afternoon. Many of the bleachers were burned. Although the tent was filled with people many of the crowd being women and children no one was seriously hurt.
The fire is supposed to have... Read MORE...
The Washington Post - Washington, D.C. - May 22, 1910
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1890 Robbin's Circus Wrecked in a Smash Up.
NASHUA, N. H., May 22. At 3 a. m. today, the Robbins circus train, en route to Epping where it was to have showed today was wrecked near the junction of the Nashua, Rochester and Lowell roads. One car full of carriages is a total wreck. Loss to the Robbins company will be heavy.
The Daily Herald
Grand Forks, North Dakota
May 22, 1890
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1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
THE RED CROSS SOCIETY
At a meeting this evening, largely attended by prominent citizens and those actively interested in beneficent organizations, a constitution was adopted as a basis of an organization to be known as the Red Cross Society. Judge Wm. Lawrence presided. Mrs. Clara Barton, prominently identified with sanitary and hospital work during the civil war, and conspicuous during the Franco-Prussian war as one of the Red Cross representatives, read a paper showing the scope and...
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Lawrence Daily Journal
Lawrence, Kansas
May 22, 1881
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1843 May 22 – The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
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NASHUA, N. H., May 22. At 3 a. m. today, the Robbins circus train, en route to Epping where it was to have showed today was wrecked near the junction of the Nashua, Rochester and Lowell roads. One car full of carriages is a total wreck. Loss to the Robbins company will be heavy.
The Daily Herald
Grand Forks, North Dakota
May 22, 1890
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1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
THE RED CROSS SOCIETY
At a meeting this evening, largely attended by prominent citizens and those actively interested in beneficent organizations, a constitution was adopted as a basis of an organization to be known as the Red Cross Society. Judge Wm. Lawrence presided. Mrs. Clara Barton, prominently identified with sanitary and hospital work during the civil war, and conspicuous during the Franco-Prussian war as one of the Red Cross representatives, read a paper showing the scope and...
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Lawrence Daily Journal
Lawrence, Kansas
May 22, 1881
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1843 May 22 – The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
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1880 Ladies who wear sealskin sacques are very liable to not wear them,
for in Belgium rabbit skins are successfully prepared to resemble sealskin, and thousands of rabbits are annually killed in England whose pelts go to Belgium, and leave that country as genuine sealskins.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 22, 1880
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1920 PLANE HITS POLE, TWO ARE KILLED
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 21. - Lieutenant Alvin M. St. John, of Memphis, Tenn., and Private Carl L. Cubler, of Elgin, Illinois, were instantly killed this afternoon when a plane they were flying crashed into a flagpole and then into a building at Kelly field.
Billings Gazette
Billings, Montana
May 22, 1920
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1906 BIG FIRE IN ONEONTA. TWO BUSINESS BUILDINGS DESTROYED AND TWO FIREMEN HURT.
Utica, May 22. - Fire which broke out in Oneonta at 5:30 this morning and was not controlled until 8 o'clock, destroyed two business buildings, one of which included the Wilber bank, owned by G. I. WILBER, State Fair Commissioner, and the Delaware & Hudson railroad dispatcher's office. The contents of the bank vault are believed to be unharmed.
The Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York
May 22, 1906
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for in Belgium rabbit skins are successfully prepared to resemble sealskin, and thousands of rabbits are annually killed in England whose pelts go to Belgium, and leave that country as genuine sealskins.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 22, 1880
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1920 PLANE HITS POLE, TWO ARE KILLED
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 21. - Lieutenant Alvin M. St. John, of Memphis, Tenn., and Private Carl L. Cubler, of Elgin, Illinois, were instantly killed this afternoon when a plane they were flying crashed into a flagpole and then into a building at Kelly field.
Billings Gazette
Billings, Montana
May 22, 1920
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1906 BIG FIRE IN ONEONTA. TWO BUSINESS BUILDINGS DESTROYED AND TWO FIREMEN HURT.
Utica, May 22. - Fire which broke out in Oneonta at 5:30 this morning and was not controlled until 8 o'clock, destroyed two business buildings, one of which included the Wilber bank, owned by G. I. WILBER, State Fair Commissioner, and the Delaware & Hudson railroad dispatcher's office. The contents of the bank vault are believed to be unharmed.
The Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York
May 22, 1906
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1902 SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN DERAILED AT RENO
Reno, Nev, May 21.-The east-bound flyer on the Southern Pacific jumped the frog at Chestnut street crossing in this city. The engine and the baggage and mail cars were derailed. The engine ploughed into the ground, the drivers being covered, and is badly wrecked. Fireman Walker jumped as the engine careened over, badly spraining his ankle and wrist. Mrs. J. G. Putnum, a passenger, was injured about the head and back.
Idaho Daily Statesman
Boise City, Idaho
May 22, 1902
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1909 Baby Incubator Kills Child.
A baby incubator proved fatal to the two-months-old infant of Richard De Spain, a young inventor of Long Beach, Cal. Soon after the baby had been placed in the incubator a cork blew out of a hot water bottle and the baby was scalded to death.
Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
May 22, 1909
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Reno, Nev, May 21.-The east-bound flyer on the Southern Pacific jumped the frog at Chestnut street crossing in this city. The engine and the baggage and mail cars were derailed. The engine ploughed into the ground, the drivers being covered, and is badly wrecked. Fireman Walker jumped as the engine careened over, badly spraining his ankle and wrist. Mrs. J. G. Putnum, a passenger, was injured about the head and back.
Idaho Daily Statesman
Boise City, Idaho
May 22, 1902
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1909 Baby Incubator Kills Child.
A baby incubator proved fatal to the two-months-old infant of Richard De Spain, a young inventor of Long Beach, Cal. Soon after the baby had been placed in the incubator a cork blew out of a hot water bottle and the baby was scalded to death.
Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
May 22, 1909
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America - Did you know?
July 26, 1908 - Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is established.
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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