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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated January 31, 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 January 31 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
Mooers, New York, USA
ALTONA, N.Y., Jan. 31. - Mrs Barcomb, of Mooers, locked her four children, the eldest being but seven years of age, in the house on Friday evening, while she went to the store for kerosene. After making the purchase and staring for home she discovered that her house was on fire. Help was immediately summoned, but on opening the door the flames rushed out so that it was impossible to enter. The charred remains of the little ones were found in a heap, and in such a position that one might suppose ... Read MORE...
Harrisburg Telegraph - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - January 31, 1881
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1881 - January 31 - A Mother's Fatal Error.
ALTONA, N.Y., Jan. 31. - Mrs Barcomb, of Mooers, locked her four children, the eldest being but seven years of age, in the house on Friday evening, while she went to the store for kerosene. After making the purchase and staring for home she discovered that her house was on fire. Help was immediately summoned, but on opening the door the flames rushed out so that it was impossible to enter. The charred remains of the little ones were found in a heap, and in such a position that one might suppose ... Read MORE...
Harrisburg Telegraph - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - January 31, 1881
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
To Toast Ham After boiling it well, take the skin off; cover the top with thick bread crumbs and brown it in the oven.
Hurlbut's High Grade Papers
Hurlbut Stationery Co., Pittsfield, Mass.
The Ladies' Home Journal
February 1898
In 1893, Arthur W. Eaton, then president of the Hurlbut Paper Manufacturing Company of South Lee, organized the Hurlbut Stationery Company, in association with William A. Pike of the firm of Hard and Pike, which conducted a modest manufactory of stationery in the city of New York. Pittsfield, rather than South Lee, was finally selected as the headquarters of the enterprise; and the plant of Hard and Pike was removed
from New York to the factory on South Church Street, which had been erected in 1883 for the Terry Clock Company, and had for a year been disused. The purchase of this building by
Mr. Eaton personally in 1893 probably caused the new industry to be established in Pittsfield. There, in August, 1893, the Hurlbut Stationery Company began its course.
History of Pittfield, Mass., 1916
1893 - Eli Terry Clock Co. Clock Tower building is bought by Arthur Eaton, founder of Hurlbut Stationery Co. It is the largest paper-converting plant for fine stationery in the world. Hurlbut later becomes Eaton Paper Co. berkshireeagle.com
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Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
SHOES, RINGS AND SCORCHED REMNANTS OF CLOTHING GIVE CLUES IN SEVERAL CASES.
WOMAN DIES IN HOSPITAL.
FLAMES BELIEVED TO HAVE STARTED IN ROOM SHORTLY AFTER COUPLE HAD GIVEN IT UP.
With twelve lives as the toll of the tragedy, an investigation was begun yesterday to learn the cause of the fire which swept the Hotel Colonial, 39-41 Newark Street, Hoboken, early yesterday. A second inquiry, to be conducted by Prosecuter of the Pleas PIERRE P. GARVEN of Jersey City will determine the manner in... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 31, 1921
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1921 - 12 DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE; TWO INQUIRIES BEGUN IN HOBOKEN. POLICE SEEK CAUSE OF BLAZE WHILE PROSECUTER INVESTIGATES CONDUCT OF HOSTELRY. SEVEN BODIES IDENTIFIED.
SHOES, RINGS AND SCORCHED REMNANTS OF CLOTHING GIVE CLUES IN SEVERAL CASES.
WOMAN DIES IN HOSPITAL.
FLAMES BELIEVED TO HAVE STARTED IN ROOM SHORTLY AFTER COUPLE HAD GIVEN IT UP.
With twelve lives as the toll of the tragedy, an investigation was begun yesterday to learn the cause of the fire which swept the Hotel Colonial, 39-41 Newark Street, Hoboken, early yesterday. A second inquiry, to be conducted by Prosecuter of the Pleas PIERRE P. GARVEN of Jersey City will determine the manner in... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 31, 1921
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Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Milledgeville, Ga., January 30. [Special.] - The Central railroad train due here at 2:20 this afternoon, happened to an accident about five miles below this city, in which several cars were badly wrecked and several people severely injured. The train was a combination of freight and passenger cars, and was made up of six freight cars, a mail and express, baggage and smoking car, and a first-class passenger coach.
The Trestle Gives Way.
The train had left the Stevens Pottery and was speeding ... Read MORE...
The Atlanta Constitution - Atlanta, Georgia - January 31, 1889
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1889 - The Camp Creek Wreck. Cars Wrecked And Passengers Injured. The Rails and the Train Rushes Down Into Disaster - The Number of Casualties Noted.
Milledgeville, Ga., January 30. [Special.] - The Central railroad train due here at 2:20 this afternoon, happened to an accident about five miles below this city, in which several cars were badly wrecked and several people severely injured. The train was a combination of freight and passenger cars, and was made up of six freight cars, a mail and express, baggage and smoking car, and a first-class passenger coach.
The Trestle Gives Way.
The train had left the Stevens Pottery and was speeding ... Read MORE...
The Atlanta Constitution - Atlanta, Georgia - January 31, 1889
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
When the husband is driven from his home by a termagant, he will seek enjoyment, which is denied him at his own house, in the haunts of vice, and in the riots of intemperance.
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Atlanta (AP) - Flames billowed Monday where Hollywood's spotlight's once played on the ornate facade of LOEW'S Grand Theater, the site of the glamorous 1939 premiere of "Gone With The Wind." Awed Atlantians lined sidewalks for the landmark theater's spectacular last show.
The fire destroyed most of the top three floors of the 86 year old theater building and soared across an alley to several floors of a modern office building.
A doctor, his hair singed by the blaze, escaped along with his ... Read MORE...
Aiken Standard - South Carolina - January 31, 1978
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1978 - LOEW'S TOP THREE FLOORS MOSTLY DESTROYED IN FIRE.
Atlanta (AP) - Flames billowed Monday where Hollywood's spotlight's once played on the ornate facade of LOEW'S Grand Theater, the site of the glamorous 1939 premiere of "Gone With The Wind." Awed Atlantians lined sidewalks for the landmark theater's spectacular last show.
The fire destroyed most of the top three floors of the 86 year old theater building and soared across an alley to several floors of a modern office building.
A doctor, his hair singed by the blaze, escaped along with his ... Read MORE...
Aiken Standard - South Carolina - January 31, 1978
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Hamden, Connecticut, USA (Centerville) (Mount Carmel)
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 30. - The 5 3/ 4 P.M. passenger train from this city, for Northampton, on the New Haven and Northampton Railroad, was thrown from the track, at Hamden, about four miles from this city, this evening, by a broken rail. Sixteen persons were injured. A wrecking train was sent to the spot, and succeeded in clearing the track about midnight.
The following is a list of the injured:
DR. GEORGE R. SHEPPARD, of Collinsville, injured in the face.
THOMAS DOODY, of Southampton,... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 31, 1873
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1873 - SIXTEEN PERSONS INJURED IN CONNECTICUT.
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 30. - The 5 3/ 4 P.M. passenger train from this city, for Northampton, on the New Haven and Northampton Railroad, was thrown from the track, at Hamden, about four miles from this city, this evening, by a broken rail. Sixteen persons were injured. A wrecking train was sent to the spot, and succeeded in clearing the track about midnight.
The following is a list of the injured:
DR. GEORGE R. SHEPPARD, of Collinsville, injured in the face.
THOMAS DOODY, of Southampton,... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 31, 1873
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1890 Burglars
Burglars blew open the office safe at the Boston & Albany Railroad depot at Holliston this morning but obtained less than one dollar in money for their trouble.
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston, Massachusetts
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1949 January 31 - First TV Soap Opera Debuts. On Jan. 31, 1949, an NBC station in Chicago aired the first episode of Irna Phillips' “These Are My Children,” the first daytime soap opera on a major television network.
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1950 January 31 - President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949
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Burglars blew open the office safe at the Boston & Albany Railroad depot at Holliston this morning but obtained less than one dollar in money for their trouble.
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston, Massachusetts
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1949 January 31 - First TV Soap Opera Debuts. On Jan. 31, 1949, an NBC station in Chicago aired the first episode of Irna Phillips' “These Are My Children,” the first daytime soap opera on a major television network.
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1950 January 31 - President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949
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1949 January 31, 1949 - Helena MT reached 42 degrees below zero.
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1949 January 31, 1949 - The temperature at San Antonio, TX, plunged to a record low of one degree below zero.
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1911 January 31, 1911 - Tamarack, CA, was without snow the first eight days of the month, but by the end of January had been buried under 390 inches of snow, a record monthly total for the U.S.
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1949 January 31, 1949 - The temperature at San Antonio, TX, plunged to a record low of one degree below zero.
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1911 January 31, 1911 - Tamarack, CA, was without snow the first eight days of the month, but by the end of January had been buried under 390 inches of snow, a record monthly total for the U.S.
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America - Did you know?
The last shot of the Civil War was fired in the remote region of the Bering Sea. The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah fired on a Union whaler on June 22, 1865, not knowing the war was over.
Quebec - Did you know?
Before Vermont became a state they tried to become part of Quebec, but Quebec refused so Vermont joined the United States instead.
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July 4th Celebration on Main Street (around 1900)
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Racine Feet, 10 Cents
Racine Knitting Co., Racine, Wis.
The Ladies' Home Journal
March 1898
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