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 30, 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 30 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Benson, Vermont, USA
Benson Landing, Nov. 27 - A. L. Hale, an aged resident here, is rounding out his 52nd year as postmaster at Benson Landing and says he believes he is one of the oldest, if not the oldest postmaster, in point of service, in Vermont.
Postmaster Hale went into office in 1870, under Grant's administration, and has been sorting mail and serving the needs of his patrons steadily ever since. Although now there are but ten or a dozen who call at the Benson Landing postoffice for their mail, things... Read MORE...
St Albans Weekly Messanger - St Albans, Vermont - November 30, 1922
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1922 - A. L. HALE IS 52 YEARS POSTMASTER. Benson Landing Man Went Into Office in 1870 Under President Grant
Benson Landing, Nov. 27 - A. L. Hale, an aged resident here, is rounding out his 52nd year as postmaster at Benson Landing and says he believes he is one of the oldest, if not the oldest postmaster, in point of service, in Vermont.
Postmaster Hale went into office in 1870, under Grant's administration, and has been sorting mail and serving the needs of his patrons steadily ever since. Although now there are but ten or a dozen who call at the Benson Landing postoffice for their mail, things... Read MORE...
St Albans Weekly Messanger - St Albans, Vermont - November 30, 1922
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Hemaboloids Arseniated
Made by The Palisade Manufacturing Company, Yonkers, NY
Hemaboloids arseniated (with strychnia) was a patent medicine used to treat people with anaemia (low red blood cell count). It contained 17% alcohol, and small amounts of arsenious acid (which contained arsenic) and strychnia (also known as strychnine), both of which were highly toxic in larger doses.
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Southeast, New York, USA (Brewster) (Doanesburgh) (Dykemans) (Tilly Foster) (Milltown)
Brewster, N.Y., Nov. 29 - This afternoon about thirty men were at work on the 400-foot level breaking ore and loading the cars sent down by the cable. About 3:30 o'clock the entire northwest wall, apparently containing over 100 tons of rock, fell into the pit, killing not less than eleven men, and inflicting serious injury upon nine others.
William Aspell and four others ran and escaped. Five Italians also got out alive. The cable and its car were not injured. Aspell and his companions, as... Read MORE...
The Sun - New York - November 30, 1895
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1895 - BURIED UNDER A HUNDRED TONS OF ROCK.
Brewster, N.Y., Nov. 29 - This afternoon about thirty men were at work on the 400-foot level breaking ore and loading the cars sent down by the cable. About 3:30 o'clock the entire northwest wall, apparently containing over 100 tons of rock, fell into the pit, killing not less than eleven men, and inflicting serious injury upon nine others.
William Aspell and four others ran and escaped. Five Italians also got out alive. The cable and its car were not injured. Aspell and his companions, as... Read MORE...
The Sun - New York - November 30, 1895
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Molasses Fruit Cake
Four cups of flour, one of butter, one of molasses, one of milk, four eggs, three teaspoonfuls of ginger, a teaspoonful of cloves, and nutmeg, half a pound of currants and raisins. Add the fruit last, and bake in pans in an...Read MORE...
The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, April 18, 1873
1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)
Really a Capital Production!
The celebrity of Gayett's Medicated Paper for the water-closet is rapidly being extended throughout the United States. It is one of the best articles ever put before the public. It obviates the use of chemically-poisoned white paper, and paper stained with pile producing printer's ink. It is as fine and light as bank-note paper, and as tough as stout paper. Nothing of more value and utility was ever before offered to the public. 1000 sheets cost only $1. 500 sheets ... Read MORE...
The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer - Wheeling, West Virginia - November 30, 1858
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Rose Imitation Vanilla Flavoring
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
DEATH TOLL JUMPS TO 477 IN COCOANUT GROVE DISASTER. BOSTON HOLOCAUST ONE OF NATION'S WORST FIRES - MORE THAN 300 OF THE DEAD NOW IDENTIFIED.
Boston, Nov. 30 (AP) - A tiny match flame in the hands of a 16-year-old busboy touched off a lightning-like fire that snuffed out the lives of 477 Cocoanut Grove night club merrymakers and injured more than 200 - many seriously - in one of the nation's worst holocausts.
Deputy Police Supt. JAMES R. CLAFLIN quoted the youth, STANLEY F. TOMASZEWSKI, as ... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - November 30, 1942
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1942 - November 28 - Cocoanut Grove fire: A fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston, Massachusetts, kills 491.
DEATH TOLL JUMPS TO 477 IN COCOANUT GROVE DISASTER. BOSTON HOLOCAUST ONE OF NATION'S WORST FIRES - MORE THAN 300 OF THE DEAD NOW IDENTIFIED.
Boston, Nov. 30 (AP) - A tiny match flame in the hands of a 16-year-old busboy touched off a lightning-like fire that snuffed out the lives of 477 Cocoanut Grove night club merrymakers and injured more than 200 - many seriously - in one of the nation's worst holocausts.
Deputy Police Supt. JAMES R. CLAFLIN quoted the youth, STANLEY F. TOMASZEWSKI, as ... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - November 30, 1942
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Truro, Massachusetts, USA
THIRTY-FOUR BODIES OF PASSENGERS SO FAR RECOVERED.
NEWS TAKEN TO BOSTON BY A SPECIAL COURIER, TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BEING IMPOSSIBLE.
Boston, Mass., Nov. 29. - The steamer Portland, bound from Boston to Portland, went down off Truro, on the outside of Cape Cod, Sunday morning. Every man, woman, and child on board at the time of the disaster was drowned, in all 118.
The list of passengers was on board the vessel. The following list, however, has been compiled as accurately as possible ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 30, 1898
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1898 - THE PORTLAND SUNK; 118 LIVES LOST. STEAMER FROM BOSTON WRECKED SUNDAY OFF CAPE COD. WENT DOWN IN THE STORM.
THIRTY-FOUR BODIES OF PASSENGERS SO FAR RECOVERED.
NEWS TAKEN TO BOSTON BY A SPECIAL COURIER, TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BEING IMPOSSIBLE.
Boston, Mass., Nov. 29. - The steamer Portland, bound from Boston to Portland, went down off Truro, on the outside of Cape Cod, Sunday morning. Every man, woman, and child on board at the time of the disaster was drowned, in all 118.
The list of passengers was on board the vessel. The following list, however, has been compiled as accurately as possible ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - November 30, 1898
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Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
A portion of Whipple's Mill, Lowell, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night. The fire broke out in the card room of of Messers. A. & J. Cowley, manufactures of cotton and woolen goods, and the flames spread with considerable rapidity. The loss was from $10,000 to $12,000. Among the losers are O. M. Whipple, who owned the building; insured in the Home Office, New York, for $25,000, which covers his loss. The Messrs. Cowley, manufacturers of woolen goods, loss $3000 or $4000, insured for $2000... Read MORE...
The Farmers' Cabinet - Amherst, New Hampshire - November 30, 1860
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1860 - DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LOWELL.
A portion of Whipple's Mill, Lowell, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night. The fire broke out in the card room of of Messers. A. & J. Cowley, manufactures of cotton and woolen goods, and the flames spread with considerable rapidity. The loss was from $10,000 to $12,000. Among the losers are O. M. Whipple, who owned the building; insured in the Home Office, New York, for $25,000, which covers his loss. The Messrs. Cowley, manufacturers of woolen goods, loss $3000 or $4000, insured for $2000... Read MORE...
The Farmers' Cabinet - Amherst, New Hampshire - November 30, 1860
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
True love has ten thousand griefs, impatiences, and resentments, that render a man unamiable in the eyes of the person whose affection he solicits; besides that, it sinks his figure, gives him fears, apprehensions, and poorness of spirit, and often...Read MORE...
The Young Husband’s Book, 1837
Concord, New Hampshire, USA
WHITE'S OPERA HOUSE BLOCK PRACTICALLY DESTROYED THIS MORNING.
BULK OF LOSS FELL UPON E. J. GALLAGHER, PUBLISHER OF CONCORD DAILY PATRIOT.
Concord, N. H., Nov. 30. - Fire early this morning, practically destroyed White's Opera House block, with a loss estimated at $150,000. The bulk of the loss fell upon Edward J. Gallagher, publisher of the Concord Daily Patriot and owner of the block, but the Concord Chamber of Commerce, the Republican state committee, occupants of offices, Robert W.... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - November 30, 1920
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1920 - $150,000 FIRE AT CONCORD, N.H.
WHITE'S OPERA HOUSE BLOCK PRACTICALLY DESTROYED THIS MORNING.
BULK OF LOSS FELL UPON E. J. GALLAGHER, PUBLISHER OF CONCORD DAILY PATRIOT.
Concord, N. H., Nov. 30. - Fire early this morning, practically destroyed White's Opera House block, with a loss estimated at $150,000. The bulk of the loss fell upon Edward J. Gallagher, publisher of the Concord Daily Patriot and owner of the block, but the Concord Chamber of Commerce, the Republican state committee, occupants of offices, Robert W.... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - November 30, 1920
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Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)
WORCESTER HAS ANOTHER ARGUMENT AGAINST THE GRADE CROSSING.
Worcester, Mass., Nov. 30. - The most horrible accident which ever occurred in Southbridge happened there yesterday morning, and turned the day into one of sadness instead of thanksgiving, as the lives of two young men were shut out in a flash, two more were fatally injured and 18 others were more or less hurt, two of the latter not being expected to live.
The injured men are all members of the Southbridge Y.M.C.A., and were on... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - November 30, 1894
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1894 - DEADLY RAILROAD CROSSING. TWO KILLED OUTRIGHT AND MANY ARE INJURED.
WORCESTER HAS ANOTHER ARGUMENT AGAINST THE GRADE CROSSING.
Worcester, Mass., Nov. 30. - The most horrible accident which ever occurred in Southbridge happened there yesterday morning, and turned the day into one of sadness instead of thanksgiving, as the lives of two young men were shut out in a flash, two more were fatally injured and 18 others were more or less hurt, two of the latter not being expected to live.
The injured men are all members of the Southbridge Y.M.C.A., and were on... Read MORE...
Lowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - November 30, 1894
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Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
THE GREAT SHOW'S WINTER QUARTERS AT BRIDGEPORT, CONN., FURNISHES HIGH CARNIVAL FOR THE FIRE FIEND - MANY VALUABLE ANIMALS AMONG THEM THE SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT, CONSUMED - OTHERS ESCAPE, CREATING HAVOC IN THE STREETS.
Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 24. - The main building of Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" was entirely destroyed by fire last evening. About 10:30 o'clock an alarm was sounded, quickly followed by a general alarm, and thousands of people were drawn to the spot. In less than... Read MORE...
Waterloo Courier - Iowa - November 30, 1887
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1887 - BARNUM'S CIRCUS BURNED.
THE GREAT SHOW'S WINTER QUARTERS AT BRIDGEPORT, CONN., FURNISHES HIGH CARNIVAL FOR THE FIRE FIEND - MANY VALUABLE ANIMALS AMONG THEM THE SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT, CONSUMED - OTHERS ESCAPE, CREATING HAVOC IN THE STREETS.
Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 24. - The main building of Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" was entirely destroyed by fire last evening. About 10:30 o'clock an alarm was sounded, quickly followed by a general alarm, and thousands of people were drawn to the spot. In less than... Read MORE...
Waterloo Courier - Iowa - November 30, 1887
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1855 Amusing Incident
The Caledonian relates an amusing incident that occurred at the Island Pond, Vt. Passenger House, on the 31st inst. - Among the passengers on the Montreal train, was an extremely large personage in the shape of a female. Her head and shoulders, the Caledonian says, were covered with a large old-fashioned shawl fastened uner the chin, while from underneath the shawl hugn a large mass of uncombed black hair, completely covering the upper part of her face. On her left arm she carried a satchel...
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New Hampshire Sentinel
Keene, New Hampshire
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1896 November 30 - 'St. Augustine Monster': A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.
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1889 Accidentally Shot Dead
LYNN, Mass., Nov. 27. - William F. Sartelle, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a performer in a dime museum here, was shot dead last night. He was performing a trick with a rifle, which he apparently loads with leaden bullets, and then requests some one to shoot at him, appearing to catch the bullet in his mouth. This time he failed to substitute a pasteboard bullet, and William Flannagan, who fired the gun, shot Sartelle dead.
Tyrone Daily Herald
Tyrone, Pennsylvania
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The Caledonian relates an amusing incident that occurred at the Island Pond, Vt. Passenger House, on the 31st inst. - Among the passengers on the Montreal train, was an extremely large personage in the shape of a female. Her head and shoulders, the Caledonian says, were covered with a large old-fashioned shawl fastened uner the chin, while from underneath the shawl hugn a large mass of uncombed black hair, completely covering the upper part of her face. On her left arm she carried a satchel...
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New Hampshire Sentinel
Keene, New Hampshire
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1896 November 30 - 'St. Augustine Monster': A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.
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1889 Accidentally Shot Dead
LYNN, Mass., Nov. 27. - William F. Sartelle, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a performer in a dime museum here, was shot dead last night. He was performing a trick with a rifle, which he apparently loads with leaden bullets, and then requests some one to shoot at him, appearing to catch the bullet in his mouth. This time he failed to substitute a pasteboard bullet, and William Flannagan, who fired the gun, shot Sartelle dead.
Tyrone Daily Herald
Tyrone, Pennsylvania
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1906 Train Wreck
MERIDEN, Conn., Nov. 29.- Two light coupled engines, north-bound from New Haven on the main line of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, crashed into a stalled freight train above Yalesville this morning, demolishing the caboose, two box cars, and one flat car, which was laden with oil barrels. Eugene Fowler of Windsor Locks and a brakeman named Lee, who were in the caboose, were badly injured.
The New York Times
New York, New York
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MERIDEN, Conn., Nov. 29.- Two light coupled engines, north-bound from New Haven on the main line of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, crashed into a stalled freight train above Yalesville this morning, demolishing the caboose, two box cars, and one flat car, which was laden with oil barrels. Eugene Fowler of Windsor Locks and a brakeman named Lee, who were in the caboose, were badly injured.
The New York Times
New York, New York
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America - Did you know?
1839 - Apples and Apple Cider in New EnglandApple trees have been cultivated and apple cider produced in New England from early Colonial days, when the region's first apple orchards were planted. The American folk hero "Johnny Appleseed" (John...Read MORE...
Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839
Quebec - Did you know?
In France of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the chief officials of state, the seigneurs, the higher ecclesiastics, even the officers of the army and the marine, were always drawn from the nobility. In the colony this was very far from being ...Read MORE...Daily Life in New France (www.chroniclesofamerica.com/ french/ daily_life_in_new_france.htm)
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