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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated May 29, 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 29 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
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Jersey City, N.J.
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November 1898
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Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Jacksonville, Fla. (AP) - Fire at sea followed the crash of a Navy jet plane aboard the aircraft carrier Essex on Thursday.
The pilot of the plane was killed, and an airman on the carrier deck burned to death.
Three men were critically injured and 18 hospitalized with minor burns or injuries.
It took nearly an hour to put out the flames that spread when the plane cartwheeled across the deck.
Six planes were destroyed or damaged. The carrier had considerable damage to its rear... Read MORE...
The Index-Journal - Greenwood, South Carolina - May 29, 1959
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1959 - PILOT KILLED IN JET CRASH ABOARD CARRIER.
Jacksonville, Fla. (AP) - Fire at sea followed the crash of a Navy jet plane aboard the aircraft carrier Essex on Thursday.
The pilot of the plane was killed, and an airman on the carrier deck burned to death.
Three men were critically injured and 18 hospitalized with minor burns or injuries.
It took nearly an hour to put out the flames that spread when the plane cartwheeled across the deck.
Six planes were destroyed or damaged. The carrier had considerable damage to its rear... Read MORE...
The Index-Journal - Greenwood, South Carolina - May 29, 1959
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Cream Cheese - Put three pints of milk to a half pint of cream, warm and put in a little rennett; keep it covered in a warm place till it is curdled, then put it in a mould with holes in it and drain about an hour. Serve with cream and sugar.
Knox's Gelatine
C. B. Knox, Johnstown, N.Y.
The Ladies' Home Journal
October 1898
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Elmira, New York, USA
ELMIRA (AP). - Flood waters six inches deep swept through Elmira's main business district today and Mayor Emory Strachen declared a state of emergency.
The rain-swollen Chemung River rose 18 feet, more than a foot above flood stage, overnight.
Fire Chief Louis Mosher broadcast an appeal for everyone "who can lift a shovel to get out and work."
NO CASUALTIES were reported. Woodrow W. Ott, manager of radio station said, "the city faces imminent disaster and the water is rising so rapidly ... Read MORE...
Syracuse Herald Journal - Syracuse, New York - May 29, 1946
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1946 - STATE OF EMERGENCY - Flood Waters Cover Elmira Business Area
ELMIRA (AP). - Flood waters six inches deep swept through Elmira's main business district today and Mayor Emory Strachen declared a state of emergency.
The rain-swollen Chemung River rose 18 feet, more than a foot above flood stage, overnight.
Fire Chief Louis Mosher broadcast an appeal for everyone "who can lift a shovel to get out and work."
NO CASUALTIES were reported. Woodrow W. Ott, manager of radio station said, "the city faces imminent disaster and the water is rising so rapidly ... Read MORE...
Syracuse Herald Journal - Syracuse, New York - May 29, 1946
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Avoid making any noise in eating, even if each meal is eaten in solitary state. It is a disgusting habit, and one not easily cured if once contracted, to make any noise with the lips when eating.
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
An accident of the most painful and alarming nature occurred between 5 and 6 o'clock last evening, at the Hoboken Ferry on the Jersey shore, by which the lives of some five hundred persons, men, women and children, were placed in peril. The ferry bridge, erected for the landing of passengers to and from Barclay street, New York, fell with a loud crash, while upward of 500 persons were standing on it, awaiting the arrival of the next steamboat. A wild cry of alarm arose, and at one time it was... Read MORE...
The New York Daily-Times - New York - May 29, 1854
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1854 - ALARMING ACCIDENT AT HOBOKEN. FALL OF THE BARCLAY STREET FERRY BRIDGE. ONE HUNDRED PERSONS THROWN INTO THE WATER - SEVERAL SUPPOSED DROWNED - MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF HUNDREDS ON THE BRIDGE.
An accident of the most painful and alarming nature occurred between 5 and 6 o'clock last evening, at the Hoboken Ferry on the Jersey shore, by which the lives of some five hundred persons, men, women and children, were placed in peril. The ferry bridge, erected for the landing of passengers to and from Barclay street, New York, fell with a loud crash, while upward of 500 persons were standing on it, awaiting the arrival of the next steamboat. A wild cry of alarm arose, and at one time it was... Read MORE...
The New York Daily-Times - New York - May 29, 1854
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Evansville, Indiana, USA
Evansville, Ind., May 29. -- A tremendous rain fall visited this city yesterday afternoon. The centre of the cloud-burst seemed within the territory bounded by Indiana and John Streets and Main Street and Garfield Avenue, and the streets and pavements in that district were covered with water to a depth of six inches. Cellars were flooded and many first floors of stores and residences were flooded causing heavy damage. Street car travel was suspended. The Evansville & Terre Haute passenger depot ... Read MORE...
Evening Observer - Dunkirk, New York - May 29, 1885
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1885 - EVANSVILLE, IND., FLOODED.
Evansville, Ind., May 29. -- A tremendous rain fall visited this city yesterday afternoon. The centre of the cloud-burst seemed within the territory bounded by Indiana and John Streets and Main Street and Garfield Avenue, and the streets and pavements in that district were covered with water to a depth of six inches. Cellars were flooded and many first floors of stores and residences were flooded causing heavy damage. Street car travel was suspended. The Evansville & Terre Haute passenger depot ... Read MORE...
Evening Observer - Dunkirk, New York - May 29, 1885
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Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA (Foxboro)
Foxboro, Mass., May 29. - The complete destruction of the Union straw works by fire caused a loss to the company of nearly $150,000, and proves a severe blow to the community, as the straw plalting was the only industry of this town. The fire started, probably, from what is known as the slug furnace in the center of the plant. The straw plant was probably the oldest of its kind in the country, having been started in 1856, and at the close of the war was doing a business estimated at $2,000,000... Read MORE...
North Adams Transcript - North Adams, Massachusetts - May 29, 1900
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1900 - STRAW WORKS DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Foxboro, Mass., May 29. - The complete destruction of the Union straw works by fire caused a loss to the company of nearly $150,000, and proves a severe blow to the community, as the straw plalting was the only industry of this town. The fire started, probably, from what is known as the slug furnace in the center of the plant. The straw plant was probably the oldest of its kind in the country, having been started in 1856, and at the close of the war was doing a business estimated at $2,000,000... Read MORE...
North Adams Transcript - North Adams, Massachusetts - May 29, 1900
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 28. - The Minister of Marine and Fisheries has received a dispatch from the agent of his department at Victoria, stating that the Government steamer Quadra had been washed off Queen Charlotte Island.
The Quadra left Vancouver ten days ago with Mr. Macown of the Geological Survey on board, bound for the American seal breeding grounds off the Pribilof Islands. Mr. Macown's object being to compare seal life on the islands this year with the season of 1891.
The Quadra is... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - May 29, 1892
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1892 - Wreck of the Quadra.
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 28. - The Minister of Marine and Fisheries has received a dispatch from the agent of his department at Victoria, stating that the Government steamer Quadra had been washed off Queen Charlotte Island.
The Quadra left Vancouver ten days ago with Mr. Macown of the Geological Survey on board, bound for the American seal breeding grounds off the Pribilof Islands. Mr. Macown's object being to compare seal life on the islands this year with the season of 1891.
The Quadra is... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - May 29, 1892
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1733 May 29 - The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
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May 29, 1733
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1914 May 29 – The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,012 lives are lost.
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1865 May 29 – American Civil War: President of the United States Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.
This amnesty included the restoration of property rights (except for slaves) and required an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and Union. However, legal proceedings related to property confiscation were exempted from this amnesty.
May 29, 1865
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May 29, 1733
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1914 May 29 – The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,012 lives are lost.
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1865 May 29 – American Civil War: President of the United States Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.
This amnesty included the restoration of property rights (except for slaves) and required an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and Union. However, legal proceedings related to property confiscation were exempted from this amnesty.
May 29, 1865
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1886 An old resident of Cromwell, Conn., has taken one hundred and eleven bodies of drowned persons from the Connecticut river in that vicinity.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 29, 1886
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1869 A young and pretty girl, a little proud of her good looks, had a quarrel with her lover, who reproached her for caring more for beauty than his love.
To prove to him how much she loved him she broke off her four front teeth, and, thus disfigured, cast herself at his feet. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to state that she lost her lover.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 29, 1869
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1869 A Mrs. Knight, of Rochester, N.Y., a few days ago, procured a boat and went to the rescue of a man who was struggling in the water about three hundred yards from the shore.
She grasped him by the hair of the head and managed with one hand to paddle the boat ashore. Mrs. Knight is a woman of a slight frame, and the man she saved from drowning weighs nearly 200 pounds.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 29, 1869
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 29, 1886
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1869 A young and pretty girl, a little proud of her good looks, had a quarrel with her lover, who reproached her for caring more for beauty than his love.
To prove to him how much she loved him she broke off her four front teeth, and, thus disfigured, cast herself at his feet. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to state that she lost her lover.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 29, 1869
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1869 A Mrs. Knight, of Rochester, N.Y., a few days ago, procured a boat and went to the rescue of a man who was struggling in the water about three hundred yards from the shore.
She grasped him by the hair of the head and managed with one hand to paddle the boat ashore. Mrs. Knight is a woman of a slight frame, and the man she saved from drowning weighs nearly 200 pounds.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 29, 1869
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1869 A few days ago, George Frost, of Lansingburg, N. Y., walked to Glens Falls, N. Y. and back, a distance of 104 miles,
in twenty-three hours and forty-five minutes, arriving in Lansingburgh at 12 o'clock noon, not all that tired. He finished the day working at his trade.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 29, 1869
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1922 East Hartford Has $50,000 Fire.
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., May 28. - Fire early today badly damaged the Garvan block here, with a loss estimated at $50,000. The building is owned by Crescent and Rebecca Lodges, I. O. O. F. The fire started in the rear of a grocery store. The Hartford Fire Department assisted in fighting the flames. Frank Driscoll, a volunteer fireman, was painfully injured.
The New York Times
New York, New York
May 29, 1922
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in twenty-three hours and forty-five minutes, arriving in Lansingburgh at 12 o'clock noon, not all that tired. He finished the day working at his trade.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 29, 1869
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1922 East Hartford Has $50,000 Fire.
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., May 28. - Fire early today badly damaged the Garvan block here, with a loss estimated at $50,000. The building is owned by Crescent and Rebecca Lodges, I. O. O. F. The fire started in the rear of a grocery store. The Hartford Fire Department assisted in fighting the flames. Frank Driscoll, a volunteer fireman, was painfully injured.
The New York Times
New York, New York
May 29, 1922
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America - Did you know?
Observation of foreign travelers to America: "Advertising prescription drugs. That was the weirdest one for me. "ask your doctor for brand x antidepressants" type commercials on TV. In the UK, your doctor tells you what drugs you should take, not...Read MORE...thoughtcatalog.com
Quebec - Did you know?
Have you ever wondered why there are often no very old tombstones in the cemteries of Canada/ New France? There is a good reason. Up until the mid to late 1800s, the deceased were buried around the church. It was the customary practice to do this as...Read MORE...La Nativité de Notre-Dame du Vieux-Beauport (www.fabriquelanativite.com)
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The Beautiful New Game of The Spider and The Flies
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The Ladies' Home Journal
November 1898
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