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 November 18, 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 November 18 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
SPECTACULAR BLAZE FOLLOWED BY CLOUDS OF SMOKE SEEN FROM CHATTANOOGA. TIMBER FIRES FEARED.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 17. - The famous old Lookout Inn on the crest of Lookout Mountain was burned to the ground this afternoon, together with all its contents, and also four cottages in close proximity to the hotel. The owners, MSSRS. JUNG and SHAMOTOULSKI, stated that a deal had just been consummated for the sale of the inn property for a consideration of $135,000, and but for the fire the deal... Read MORE...
The Galveston Daily News - Galveston, Texas - November 18, 1908
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1908 - FIRE DESTROYS LOOKOUT INN AND FOUR COTTAGES. NOTED HOTEL ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN GOES UP IN SMOKE.
SPECTACULAR BLAZE FOLLOWED BY CLOUDS OF SMOKE SEEN FROM CHATTANOOGA. TIMBER FIRES FEARED.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 17. - The famous old Lookout Inn on the crest of Lookout Mountain was burned to the ground this afternoon, together with all its contents, and also four cottages in close proximity to the hotel. The owners, MSSRS. JUNG and SHAMOTOULSKI, stated that a deal had just been consummated for the sale of the inn property for a consideration of $135,000, and but for the fire the deal... Read MORE...
The Galveston Daily News - Galveston, Texas - November 18, 1908
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Spring Bean Succotash
Take two quarts of beans, string, cut fine; boil two hours with water enough to cover without boiling dry; cut the corn from six ears and boil with beans twenty minutes; season with butter, pepper and salt; just before...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, August 11, 1880
Monroe, Michigan, USA
Monroe, Mich. - (UP) - Eight members of a railroad section crew were killed Friday when a New York Central passenger train demolished their work truck at a crossing seven miles north of Monroe.
Monroe County sheriff's deputies said it was possible a ninth workman died when the engine slammed broadside into the truck, which had just pulled onto the tracks.
Mutilated bodies were scattered three-fourths of a mile along the right-of-way.
Sheriff's deputies identified five of the dead as:
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Clovis News-Journal - New Mexico - November 18, 1955
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1955 - EIGHT OF RAIL CREW KILLED.
Monroe, Mich. - (UP) - Eight members of a railroad section crew were killed Friday when a New York Central passenger train demolished their work truck at a crossing seven miles north of Monroe.
Monroe County sheriff's deputies said it was possible a ninth workman died when the engine slammed broadside into the truck, which had just pulled onto the tracks.
Mutilated bodies were scattered three-fourths of a mile along the right-of-way.
Sheriff's deputies identified five of the dead as:
ROYAL... Read MORE...
Clovis News-Journal - New Mexico - November 18, 1955
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1890s
Horsfords Acid Phosphate
Rumford Chemical Works
Providence, R.I.
George Francis Wilson was a school teacher and principal of the Chicago Academy in Illinois who had a desire to enter industry. He moved back to his native town of Uxbridge, MA, in 1854. That same year he entered into business in Providence with J. B. Duggan and Eben Horsford selling chemicals. In 1858 he and Horsford moved the business to Seekonk, MA (now East Providence, RI) renaming the company the Rumford Chemical Works in honor of Horsford, a chemist, who occupied the Count Rumford Chair of Physics at Harvard University.... ephist.org
The Rumford Chemical Works established its presence in East Providence (moving from Providence) c. 1857, and eventually built an extensive complex of buildings centered on the junction of Newman and Greenwood Avenues with North Broadway... map.roadtrippers.com
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Marquette, Michigan, USA
Marquette, Mich., Nov. 17. - The steamer Arizona, of the Lake Superior Transit Line, was burned to the water's edge this morning. She left this port at 9 o'clock last night bound for Portage and carrying a full cargo of merchandise. When out of the city limits a heavy sea was encountered, and the boat was turned about to come back to Marquette. When she was still five miles out the boat commenced to rolling heavily, whereupon a tank of acid began leaking and set the boat on fire. Nothing could... Read MORE...
Aberdeen Weekly News - Aberdeen, South Dakota - November 18, 1887
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1887 - To The Water's Edge. The Steamer Arizona Is Set on Fire By Acids and Is Consumed.
Marquette, Mich., Nov. 17. - The steamer Arizona, of the Lake Superior Transit Line, was burned to the water's edge this morning. She left this port at 9 o'clock last night bound for Portage and carrying a full cargo of merchandise. When out of the city limits a heavy sea was encountered, and the boat was turned about to come back to Marquette. When she was still five miles out the boat commenced to rolling heavily, whereupon a tank of acid began leaking and set the boat on fire. Nothing could... Read MORE...
Aberdeen Weekly News - Aberdeen, South Dakota - November 18, 1887
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Denver, Colorado, USA
CURIOUS THRONG OF RELIC HUNTERS CARRY OFF GLOVES AND SPLINTERS PIERCING AVIATOR.
Denver, Colo., Nov. 18. - RALPH JOHNSTONE holder of the world's altitude record was instantly killed late yesterday afternoon when he dropped from a height of 800 feet to the Overland Park aviation field, on account of the breaking of a wing tip on his biplane. An instant after his fall the field was stormed by a crowd of the curious and the body of the young aviator violated by relic hunters.
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San Antonio Light And Gazette - San Antonio, Texas - November 18, 1910
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1910 - JOHNSTONE DROPS 800 FT. TO MEET HORRIBLE DEATH. HOLDER OF WORLD'S ALTITUDE RECORD KILLED WHEN WING TIP ON MACHINE BREAKS. HIS BODY VIOLATED.
CURIOUS THRONG OF RELIC HUNTERS CARRY OFF GLOVES AND SPLINTERS PIERCING AVIATOR.
Denver, Colo., Nov. 18. - RALPH JOHNSTONE holder of the world's altitude record was instantly killed late yesterday afternoon when he dropped from a height of 800 feet to the Overland Park aviation field, on account of the breaking of a wing tip on his biplane. An instant after his fall the field was stormed by a crowd of the curious and the body of the young aviator violated by relic hunters.
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San Antonio Light And Gazette - San Antonio, Texas - November 18, 1910
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Stratford, Connecticut, USA (Putney)
Milford Man Seems Unhurt, Later Hospitalized in ‘Critical’ Condition
A Milford man who walked away from a four-car crash in Stratford yesterday without realizing he had been injured was reported in “critical” condition and on the danger list at Bridgeport Hospital last night.
Stratford police said Samuel P. Randolph, 42, of 53 Beach avenue, Milford, was one of the drivers involved in a collision on Barnum Avenue cutoff, near the Veterans’ of Foreign Wars hall, at 4:50 p.m.
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The Bridgeport Post - Bridgeport, Connecticut - November 18, 1956
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1956 - Driver Injured In 4-Car Crash
Milford Man Seems Unhurt, Later Hospitalized in ‘Critical’ Condition
A Milford man who walked away from a four-car crash in Stratford yesterday without realizing he had been injured was reported in “critical” condition and on the danger list at Bridgeport Hospital last night.
Stratford police said Samuel P. Randolph, 42, of 53 Beach avenue, Milford, was one of the drivers involved in a collision on Barnum Avenue cutoff, near the Veterans’ of Foreign Wars hall, at 4:50 p.m.
They said he and ... Read MORE...
The Bridgeport Post - Bridgeport, Connecticut - November 18, 1956
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
If you are ever caught in a shower, and meet a gentleman friend who offers an umbrella, accept it, if he will accompany you to your destination; but do not deprive him of it, if he is not able to join you. Should he insist, return it to his house or ...Read MORE...
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Handbook for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society... by Florence Hartley, January 1, 1872
Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
Fall River, Mass., Nov. 17. - Early this morning Borden City Mill No. 1 was totally destroyed by fire. It was a brick building, erected in 1872, contained 36,000 spindles, employed 450 hands, and was running full time. The theories as to its origin are as numerous as they are untenable. The explosion, as narrated by an operative who was in the mill when the fire broke out, is accounted for by gas, but this is equally lame, as the gas main is shut off every night and not opened till morning, and ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 18, 1877
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1877 - LARGE FIRE AT FALL RIVER. BORDEN MILL DESTROYED -- 36,000 SPINDLES STOPPED - THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE - THE LOSS AND INSURANCE
Fall River, Mass., Nov. 17. - Early this morning Borden City Mill No. 1 was totally destroyed by fire. It was a brick building, erected in 1872, contained 36,000 spindles, employed 450 hands, and was running full time. The theories as to its origin are as numerous as they are untenable. The explosion, as narrated by an operative who was in the mill when the fire broke out, is accounted for by gas, but this is equally lame, as the gas main is shut off every night and not opened till morning, and ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 18, 1877
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1928 November 18 – Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film and the first such film to be generally distributed.
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1871 November 18 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY
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1865 Fire At Corry.
On Thursday evening about 7 - o'clock, a car containing 62 bbls. of crude oil belonging to Van Syckles & Co., of Miller Farm, and consigned to Dean & Co., of Corry, became detached from the train and ran down the grade of the P & E Road at Corry, towards the depot, accumulating velocity as it went. Several efforts were made to stop it, but to no purpose, as the brake was not in working order. On coming to a point a little west of the depot, and when opposite Coburn's platform, it came in...
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Titusville Morning Herald
Titusville, Pennsylvania
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1871 November 18 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY
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1865 Fire At Corry.
On Thursday evening about 7 - o'clock, a car containing 62 bbls. of crude oil belonging to Van Syckles & Co., of Miller Farm, and consigned to Dean & Co., of Corry, became detached from the train and ran down the grade of the P & E Road at Corry, towards the depot, accumulating velocity as it went. Several efforts were made to stop it, but to no purpose, as the brake was not in working order. On coming to a point a little west of the depot, and when opposite Coburn's platform, it came in...
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Titusville Morning Herald
Titusville, Pennsylvania
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1904 Brewing Company Fire
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Nov. 17. - The malt house of the Frank Jones Brewing Company's immense plant here was ruined by fire to-day, entailing a loss of $150,000. The fire originated in a kiln room of the malt house. Aid was necessary from Newburyport, Dover, and the Navy Yard at Kittery before the blaze was under control. All the Jones property is protected by a blanket insurance.
The New York Times
New York, New York
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PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Nov. 17. - The malt house of the Frank Jones Brewing Company's immense plant here was ruined by fire to-day, entailing a loss of $150,000. The fire originated in a kiln room of the malt house. Aid was necessary from Newburyport, Dover, and the Navy Yard at Kittery before the blaze was under control. All the Jones property is protected by a blanket insurance.
The New York Times
New York, New York
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America - Did you know?
The streets in Virginia City, Nevada, were once unknowingly paved with silver ore. When the locals found out what it was, they tore up the streets in a frenzy in less than 2 days.
Quebec - Did you know?
It is said that on the stroke of midnight, farm animals acquired the marvellous and unusual gift of speech. Oxen, cows, horses, pigs, and poultry began to speak to one another and to exchange strange secrets about humans, particularly their masters. ...Read MORE...www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca
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