October 31 News - 1938 - Martian Men Attack U.S.! Thousands Flee in Panic!! But Twas Only Wells and Welles

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Dalton, Massachusetts, USA

1905 - DALTON MAN HIT BY CAR. Nelson Goodrow Killed Near Government Mill - Once Before Had Narrow Escape.

Nelson Goodrow of Dalton, a stone-mason was run over by an east-bound electric car and instantly killed last evening about 7 o'clock, at a point a short distance east of the government mill at Dalton. The car was in charge of Conductor Frank B. Ruff and Motorman Frederick You, and was runing slowly when the accident occurred.

Goodrow, according to the story told by the motorman and Peck Davin, a farmer living in the vicinity, was walking along the road toward his home, and suddenly... Read MORE...

Springfield Daily Republican -  Springfield, Massachusetts -  October 31, 1905
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Barre, Vermont, USA (Graniteville) (South Barre)

1889 - A DAY IN BARRE. Swanton Business Men Visit that Booming Town.

A number of business men from Swanton, mostly members of the local board of trade, took an outing yesterday for the puropse of sizing up the only town in Vermont that ever really boomed in true Western style. The returned home at night loaded with specimens of granite and pretty well satisfied that there are no flies on the granite town and nary a deserted farm in that vicinity. Through the courtesy of the Central road the party had a special train out of Swanton at 6.15, connecting with the... Read MORE...

St Albans Messenger -  St Albans, Vermont -  October 31, 1889
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1938 - October 30 – Orson Welles' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast, causing panic in various parts of the United States.

Martian Men Attack U.S.! Thousands Flee in Panic!! But Twas Only Wells and Welles

By Charles A. Grumich
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (AP) - A horrible fantasy of war waged on the United States by fearsome, space-conquering men from Mars brought near panic to that part of the nation's radio audience which was not tuned in last night on Charlie McCarthy's rival radio program.

In the double-quick tempo of the news broadcasters, the fiction of a Columbia program became so realistic that hysteria... Read MORE...

The Delta Democrat-Times -  Greenville, Mississippi -  October 31, 1938
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1913 - The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated. (October 31)

MANY STATES TO DEDICATE HIGHWAY
New Route Across Continent Will Be Inaugurated With Many Celebrations in Towns Touched by It.
New York, Oct. 31. - Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the new direct roadway through 13 states from coast to coast, will be made by local celebrations in all towns and villages along the route tonight. The Highway has been completed and will open to all with no toll charges. Motorists, particularly, will find it convenient, not only in transcontinental travel, but... Read MORE...

El Paso Herald -  El Paso, Texas -  October 31, 1913
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

Pie Crust Shortened with Beans - Boil white beans until soft, rub through a sieve and mix as much into flour as can be done and preserve sufficient tenacity in the dough. Add a little salt. This crust is used at "water cures," and makes a far ...Read MORE...



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Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

1949 - $200,000 Damage When Fire Sweeps New Brunswick Town

TRACADIE, NB. Oct. 31 - (CP) - Damage was estimated up to $200,000 last night after an early morning fire destroyed four buildings at Tracadie, facing the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the northeastern coast of New Brunswick.

Most of the loss was caused by destruction of a building containing the Capital Theatre, a large department store of the Tracadie Mercantile Company Limited, and an upstairs apartment occupied by the family of the theatre manager, Joseph McCalvy.

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The Ottawa Journal -  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada -  October 31, 1949
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men

It is extremely indecent to spit, cough, and expectorate, (as it were,) in company, as some hearty fellows are apt to do; and more so, when you have blown your nose, to draw aside and examine the contents of your handkerchief; as if you expected...Read MORE...



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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

1902 - BIG FIRE IN MINNEAPOLIS.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 30. - Fire to-night destroyed the six-story building occupied by the Minneapolis Paper Company and owned by J. C. Oswald & Co. The stock of the paper company, known also as Wright, Barrows & Stillwell, was consumed. The value of the contents is said to have exceeded $200,000. The total loss is $250,000.

Capt. George Smith of Engine Company No. 16 was leading a squad of men up a ladder on an adjoining structure in First Avenue, when the ladder broke, precipitating six men to ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 31, 1902
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L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

1826 - Strange Robbery Attempt

The editor of the Montreal Herald, has received an account of an attempt to commit a robbery at L'Acadie, but does not know the person who sent it, and therefore cannot vouch for it. The story is, that on the evening of the 8th, two men, with a weighty bag, called at Mrs. Le Roy's house, and asked for lodging, but she could not accommodate them. They then asked permission to leave the bag until morning, as they were much fatigued. To this she consented. The men carried the bag into a room where ... Read MORE...

New-York Daily Advertiser -  New York -  October 31, 1826
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1918  October 31 – The Hungarian government terminates the personal union with Austria, officially dissolving the Austro-Hungarian empire.

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1892  October 31 – The first collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is published in London.

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1868  A Watertown, N. Y., dispatch, October 21st says:
An extensive fraud is being perpetrated throughout the country, and especially in the West, by negotiating forged drafts purporting to be drawn by the banking house of Howard & Baker, of Watertown, and signed by C. E. Helmer, Cashier. The drafts are neatly engraved and executed. These drafts, to the amount of several thousand dollars, have been sent here for collection. There has never been any such banking house in this village.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 31, 1868

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1868  Hans Christian Andersen, the celebrated Danish poet, says he has never had an income of more than six hundred dollars a year.
So limited is the sale of books in Denmark that even the most successful works pay but little profit to their authors.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 31, 1868

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1891 Brick Works Burned.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 28.- The Liberty Manufacturing Company's brick works, forty-eight miles from here on the Savannah, Florida and Western railroad burned the day before yesterday. Loss $40,000; insurance $20,000.

The Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
October 31, 1891

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1891  Mangled to Death.
BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 29. - At the State Fair grounds today S. E. Gambee jumped from a dummy before it stopped. He slipped and fell between the car and the platform and was mangled to death in the presence of hundreds of people.

The Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
October 31, 1891

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1893  Fire
NEW-MILFORD, Conn., Oct. 30. - A large barn in Washington, owned by William Wadsworth of New York, was burned last night, with a ton of tobacco, farming tools, and hay. Loss, $3,000; building insured, contents uninsured.

The New York Times
New York, New York
October 31, 1893

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1836  Greatest Flour Manufactory
Rochester, New York, is said to be the greatest flour manufactory in the world. There are 21 mills, which require 20,000 bushels of wheat daily to keep them in operation. They can manufacture and put up ready for market, 5000 barrels a day.
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New Hampshire
October 31, 1836

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 May 28, 1830 - President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, which authorizes the forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River. By the late 1830s the Jackson administration has ...Read MORE...



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October 30 News -1886 - LIBERTY'S LIGHT. The Great Torch of the Goddess We Love. Imposing Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Bartholdi Statue on Liberty Island.

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Mayr's Laxative Powder No. 2
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

RAILROAD CAKE 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoonful of butter beaten to a cream 3 eggs beaten to a froth 1 cup flour 3 tablespoonsful sweet milk 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar 1/2 teaspoonful soda 1/2 teaspoonful salt (from an 1888 cookbook)

1886 - LIBERTY'S LIGHT. The Great Torch of the Goddess We Love. Imposing Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Bartholdi Statue on Liberty Island.

The Colossal Gift of a Sister Republic Gracefully Accepted by an Appreciative People.

The Metropolis of the Nation Overwhelmed by Throngs of Visitors.

A Mammoth Parade Reviewed by the President and His Cabinet and Our French Guests.

The Grand Naval Procession - Ceremonies at the Statue - Liberty Unveiled - Grand Pyrotechnic Display

NEW YORK, Oct. 28., - The rain, which fell almost continuously for thirty-six hours, did not cease until about daylight this morning. The sky did not... Read MORE...

The Herald-Dispatch -  Decatur, Illinois -  October 30, 1886
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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.

Kansas City, Kansas, USA

1889 - A BIG FIRE IN KANSAS CITY.

Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 29. - A fire which threatened to destroy the mammoth packing houses of Armour & Co. in Kansas City, Kan., was discovered in the fertilizer at 3 o'clock this morning. The fertilizer was the last of the buildings to the north, and was separated from the refinery works by only a narrow alley.

The fire started in the south end of the building and spread with amazing rapidity amid the inflammable contents. The firemen of Armour were quickly on the scene, and were soon... Read MORE...

New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 30, 1889
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

1892 - ACRES WERE SWEPT OVER NOTHING SPARED IN THE PATH OF MILWAUKEE'S FIRE.

UPWARD OF THREE THOUSAND PERSONS HOMELESS AND THE PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT $6,000,000 - REMARKABLE SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THE FLAMES SPREAD.

By The Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 29. - In the great fire which swept over this city for ten hours last night forty-six acres of business and residence property, valued at $6,000,000, were burned, upward of 3,000 persons were made homeless, and four lives were lost...

At 3 o'clock this morning the fire was under control and practically ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 30, 1892
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Sainte-Foy, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Foy)

1822 - Woman Thief

Many robberies have lately been committed in the Parishes of St. Foy and Cap Rouge, in Canada, and one or two buildings have been burnt. These depreditions are attributed to a notorious woman named Marie Lapointe, who leads a gipsey life, depending upon theft, and sometimes upon begging for subsistence. She is a very short, dark and sharp featured woman, generally habited in man's clothes, with a sash round her body; she is supposed to be aided by other offenders. A warrant has been obtained... Read MORE...

City Gazette -  South Carolina -  October 30, 1822
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1890  D.M. Davis of Northfield, a member of the Washington county bar, was severely injured on Thursday, being thrown from a wagon while getting in farm produce.


St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
October 30, 1890

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1890  The barns and out buildings belonging to Geo. Armstrong of Jay were burned the 22d. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lantern. Insurance $600.


St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
October 30, 1890

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1890  An Old Man Badly Burned
Cecil Graves of Waterbury, and old man quite deef and feeble was badly burned Friday by his clothing taking fire from an overturned kerosene lamp. His life was saved only by the great exertions of Henry Coburn and wife, who rushed into the roomjust in the nick of time and put out the fire. Mr. Graves is confined to his bed, but there is hope of his recover.

St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
October 30, 1890

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1890  Discouraged Farmers
At North Pawlet farmers are almost discouraged in trying to secure crops. There has been so much wet weather that nearly one-quarter of the potato crop in town is affected with the dry rot. Some who put the tubers into the cellar apparently sound for winter use have been compelled to remove the potatoes to the starch mills.

St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
October 30, 1890

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1893  October 30 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, closes.

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1869  It is said that 121 vessels were sunk or beached on the coat of new Brunswick and Nova Scotia by the recent tidal wave.


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Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 30, 1869

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1869  Detroit is the residence of an enterprising boy of six years, who can hardly speak, but has run away eight or ten times during the present year.
Several times he has reached a distance of one hundred miles from home, and was sent back by conductors.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 30, 1869

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1869  In 1868 there were 2,208 books published in the United States.
107 of them imported in editions. Ninety-one of these were subscription books, and thirteen were books of American genealogy.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 30, 1869

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1869  A well-known physician who had an extensive practice in Gloucester, (Mass.,) some forty years since,
used to say that roast beef, serenity of mind, cold water bath, and an amiable and pretty wife would make almost any man healthy, wealthy and wise.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 30, 1869

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1869  To do the thing properly in New York at a wedding, the bride must have eight bridesmaids, and a hundred-dollar poodle beside the one she marries.


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Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 30, 1869

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1869  The total amount of sugar now consumed by all nations may be estimated at 2,500,000 tons. America consumes about 530,000 tons.


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October 30, 1869

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1869  The recent earthquake at the East was very severe at Newburyport, Mass.,
shaking the doors and windows and many movable things in the houses. The people generally were awakened by the commotion. An old brick mansion, built seventy years ago, having the thick massive walls so common in those days, was shaken from the roof to the cellar, rattling the doors and windows and creating general alarm among its occupants. The people in their beds were very sensible of a vibrating motion beneath them.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 30, 1869

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1922  NEWS OF STATE What Is Going On in and About Old Vermont FACTORY DAMAGED BY FIRE Estimated Loss Not Yet Known
The Burlington fire department responded Saturday morning to an alarm from box 56, at the junction of South Union and Howard st., sent in because of a blaze in the factory of Henry Johnson and Lord in the rear of 204 Howard st. Four lines of hose were used in extinguishing the fire and the Seagrave pump was brought into action to furnish water to the top floor of the building. Frank P. Lord, treasurer and general manager of the concern, stated last evening that no estimate of the damage had...
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St. Albans Daily Messenger
St. Albans, Vermont
October 30, 1922

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1885  A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF THE VILLAGE DESTROYED.
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 29. - The village of New-Hartford, in Litchfield County, suffered severely from a fire which broke out in Patrick Myer's saloon at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. This building was totally and speedily destroyed, the fire then communicating with an adjoining wood structure occupied as a saloon and market with tenements overhead. The occupants lost substantially everything. The flames meanwhile swept north and south, destroying two dwelling houses north and enveloping the...
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The New York Times
New York, New York
October 30, 1885

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1874  New Railway
The new Sherbrooke (Canada), Eastern Townships and Kennebec railway shortens the distance from Quebec to Boston 39 miles, and from Quebec to New York, in comparison with the shortest existing line, 58 miles. The president of the new road is J. R. Robertson. The cost so far has been about $200,000 and the completed road will probably require an outlay of $1,906,500.

Lowell Daily Citizen and News
Lowell, Massachusetts
October 30, 1874

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America - Did you know?

 May 14, 1804 - Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, Mo., on expedition to explore the West and find a route to the Pacific Ocean.

 

Quebec - Did you know?

 Quebec was almost an independent country. In 1995, a referendum was held to separate Quebec from Canada. The referendum was not officially legally valid and was only held in Quebec. The no camp won the referendum by 0.4%, which is still seen as a...Read MORE...



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October 29 News - 1870 - A lady in Fairhaven, Mass., in making a bed a few mornings since, after turning it over felt something move inside the ticking...

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J. R. Hewitt Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker.
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Manhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam) (Washington Heights)

1929 - October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).

In the 1920s, the stock market was rapidly growing. Many investors hoped to quickly get rich.

The Great Crash affected everyone, even those who had not bought stocks. People ran to their banks to get their savings, fearing the banks would run out of money.

Many banks had also invested in the stock market and lost money. W.W. Tarpley, a bank officer in Georgia, remembered the mob of people who came to his bank, fearful of losing everything, " . . . people were losing their homes and some... Read MORE...

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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

White Cake Two cups of pulverized sugar, one cup of butter beaten together, four cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream-tartar, the whites of eight eggs. Flavor with lemon.

This is where we manufacture Upholstery Hardware. Have you seen our line? The Turner & Seymour Mfg. Co., Torrington, Conn.
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Peabody, Massachusetts, USA

1915 - 21 Children Die In School Fire

Flames Sweep Through Peabody, Mass., Building, Turning Fire Drill Into Panic.
Pupils Heaped At Door
Little Cripple Trips and Comrades Fall Over Her-nearly All the Victims Are Girls.
Heroic Work By Sisters
Drop Their Charges Into Life Nets-Nearly 600 Saved-No Fire Escapes on Building.

Peabody, Mass., Oct. 28. Twenty-one children, most of them girls, ranging in age from 7 to 17 years, lost their lives today in a fire which destroyed St. John’s Parochial School. Many other children were... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 29, 1915
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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

1908 - CAR CLIMBS BUILDING NINE PERSONS NEAR DEATH JUMPS TRACK AND CRASHES INTO DRUG STORE, TERRIFYING PASSENGERS AND WAKING EVERY ONE IN NEIGHBORHOOD.

Nine persons escaped death in a manner little short of miraculous at 11 00 o’clock last night, when Garfield car No. 438 left the tracks at Lincoln lane and East street and crashed into the building occupied by John G. Pantzer’s drug store and Dr. M.O. DeVaney’s office. The entire front of the building was wrecked and the car was turned over on its side. Not one of the passengers or the crew of the car was injured.

Roy Martin, motorman of the car, bore two small cuts upon his face, which he... Read MORE...

The Indianapolis Star -  Indianapolis, Indiana -  October 29, 1908
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1727  October 29 - Severe earthquake in New England

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1892  NARROW ESCAPE OF A TRAIN. COACHES SCRAPE ALONG A WRECK NEAR COBLESKILL STATION.
BINGHAMTON, Oct. 28 - The Delaware and Hudson train No. 3, which leaves Albany at 4:25 P.M., narrowly escaped a wreck this afternoon near the Cobleskill Station. Engineer Whitaker had just pulled out of the station on time as a mixed freight and coal train bound east was drawing in. The freight, however, had broken in three sections. The middle section had been stopped half a mile west of the station and into this crashed the third section, which had whirled down the steep grade beyond the...
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New York, New York
October 29, 1892

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1945  October 29 - At Gimbels Department Store in New York City, the first ballpoint pens go on sale at $12.50 each.
On October 29, 1945, a significant moment in the history of writing instruments occurred at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. This was the day when the first ballpoint pens were introduced for sale to the public. Priced at $12.50 each, these pens represented a leap forward in writing technology, offering a more convenient and reliable alternative to traditional fountain pens and pencils.

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1870  A lady in Fairhaven, Mass., in making a bed a few mornings since, after turning it over felt something move inside the ticking.
She called for help, and found a large adder about two feet in length and an inch in diameter coiled away in it. The snake probably crawled into the house in the day time, and had been in the bed the previous night with the occupant.

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 29, 1870

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1912  FATAL STREET CAR WRECK.
SIOUX CITY, Ia., Oct. 28. - Charles Kemp, a street car conductor, was killed and 15 passengers injured tonight at Fourth and Division streets when a Burlington engine struck the car in the center. It turned over on its side and Kemp, who was standing on the rear platform, was caught and his neck broken. R. W. Henderson, a Morningside college student, was seriously injured, a deep cut being inflicted in his side. The others received minor wounds.

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Boise, Idaho
October 29, 1912

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 The Flying Canoe
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The American Metal Hose Company, Waterbury, Conn., 1921
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October 27 News - 1917 - Record Moose Head

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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Patriot Celt and Merchant Prince Who Financed George Rogers Clark

Oliver Pollock, Forgotten of History, by an Act of Generosity to the Famine-Stricken City of New Orleans, Won the Gratitude of the Spanish Governors and Amassed a Great Fortune Before the Revolutionary War

Not all the heroes who helped lay the foundations of the republic in the Revolutionary War wore continental uniforms, faced the foe in the "imminent deadly breach," or delivered patriotic utterances that stirred men's souls to action. There were some big forceful men in the background who... Read MORE...

The Delmarvia Star -  Wilmington, Delaware -  October 27, 1929
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Florence Manufacturing Company
110 Pine Street, Florence, Mass.

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January 1898

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1917 - Record Moose Head

The record moose head taken in the province of New Brunswick was taken a few days ago near Bathurst Lake by L.A. Russell of Tracadie, Gloucester county, word to that effect being brought to Fredericton by Charles Cremin, the guide near whose camp the animal was killed. The spread of horns is 72 inches, beting the widest spread previously recorded by 3 1/ 2 inches. Dr. W. L. Munro of Providence, R.I., held the record for getting the largest spread of horns in New Brunswick until the kill of Mr.... Read MORE...

Daily Kennebec Journal -  Augusta, Maine -  October 27, 1917
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1938 - Du Pont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon". (October 27)

The invention of nylon in 1938 ushered in a textile revolution for consumers and the military alike, ultimately helping the Allies win World War II...

Nylon’s characteristics made for an ideal material to suit any number of uses, but DuPont decided early on that it would focus on a single market: ladies’ full-fashioned hosiery...

Before DuPont could take its new miracle fiber to the public, however, its leaders had to decide what to call it... According to Ernest Gladding, manager of the ... Read MORE...

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1904 - October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.

On October 27, 1904, the first underground line of the New York City Subway system opened, marking a significant milestone in the city's transportation history. The line, known as the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), ran from City Hall in lower Manhattan to 145th Street and Broadway in Harlem, covering a distance of about 9 miles. The subway line was a response to the city's rapidly growing population and increasing congestion on the streets above.

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October 27, 1904
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Cream of Corn Soup - Score down the grains and press out the pulp from six good-sized ears of corn; add to this in a double boiler one quart of milk, a teasponnful of grated onion, not more than one-eighth of a teaspoonful of ground mace,...Read MORE...



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Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA

1921 - SOUTH FLORIDA COUNTS LOSSES. Gulf Hurricane Does Great Damage. TAMPA SUFFERS MOST. Gale Wipes Out Small Obstacles in Path but Few Lives Are Lost.

...Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 26. - The entire waterfront of St. Petersburg was wiped out by the gulf storm yesterday, the worst gale the city has ever expressed, according to a message received by the Times-Union tonight from Thomas W. Parking of St. Petersburg, deputy license collector of Pinellas county.

Passagrille was reported as wiped out, he said. His telegram follows.
"Came from St. Petersburg to Brooksville in Ford car; only means get wire connections. The city badly damaged and... Read MORE...

The State -  Columbia, South Carolina -  October 27, 1921
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A Good Cheap Desk
The Fred Macey Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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January 1898

The Macey Furniture Co. was founded by Fred Macey, who served as its first chairman along with his brother Frank, who also served as treasurer. In 1892 Fred began a mail-order business selling office desks made by other manufacturers, which were advertised in popular magazine as “the best $25 roll-top office desk in the world.” His hefty advertising budget made the company a quick success, and other pieces of office and library furniture were soon added to the mail-order line. But as his mail-order sales began to cut into the traditional sales through retailers, Michigan retailers pressured area furniture manufacturers to prevent them from producing finished goods for Macey. To get around this obstacle, Fred Macey invested his mail-order profits in the construction of his own factory. He also expanded his mail-order business, with a national system of warehouses for distribution.

In 1905, when the Wernicke Furniture Co. merged with the Fred Macey Co., Otto H.L. Wernicke became an officer of the company. In 1906 the Globe – Wernicke Co. of Cincinnati sued Macey for continuing to produce furniture using Wernicke’s patents. After years of litigation, Macey won, then counter-sued to recover its court costs. Following Fred Macey’s death from typhoid pneumonia in 1909, Otto Wernicke became company president, a position he held until his retirement from active involvement at Macey in 1916... furniturecityhistory.org

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1838  October 27 - Governor Lilburn Boggs issued the "Extermination Order" against Mormons living in Missouri, demanding that members of the Mormon church leave the state

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1893  Mrs. Parkhurst not guilty
The trial of Mrs. Hanna Mary Parkhurst, of Greenfield, N. Y., who was charged with murdering her 3-year-old son, ended yesterday in a verdict of not guilty.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 27, 1893

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 1971 - No Pig Greasing in Contests

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 A typical French-Canadian building is the farmhouse. It is based on structures in the French provinces of Normandy, Maine, and Anjou, where most of the French settlers in the St Lawrence valley originated. The typical house was made of wood and had...Read MORE...



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February 1898

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October 28 News - 1905 - It is suggested that the new tuberculosis sanatorium be located in Barnard "where there are no grave yards and where nobody ever dies"...

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1942 - October 28 – The Alaska Highway is completed.

The completion of the Alaska Highway on October 28, 1942, marked a significant milestone in North American history. The highway, also known as the Alcan Highway, stretched over 1,500 miles, connecting Dawson Creek in British Columbia, Canada, to Delta Junction in Alaska, USA. It was constructed in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, which raised concerns about the vulnerability of the US to potential invasion through Alaska.

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1919 - October 28 – Prohibition in the United States is authorized:

The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. (Wikipedia)

The President's message again makes clear his desire that Congress repeal "war-time" prohibition, but this Congress has refused to do. The situation, therefore, reverts to the status of the past few months. In the face of the unwillingness to Congress to repeal the legislation Attorney-General Palmer has held that the ban cannot be lifted until the peace treaty is ratified, and the President, ... Read MORE...

The Cincinnati Enquirer -  Cincinnati, Ohio -  October 28, 1919
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1868 - Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

In October 1868, while working in Boston, Thomas Edison obtained his first patent for an invention called the “electrographic vote recorder”. This device allowed legislators to cast instant votes by tapping one of two switches—either signifying a “yes” or a “no” vote. The information was then transmitted via electric current to a main recorder, which tallied the votes into separate columns1. Unfortunately, this invention didn’t gain much interest from Congress, but it marked the beginning of... Read MORE...

October 28, 1868
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Chow Chow

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The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, September 7, 1881

Waterloo Organs.
Best in the World
Manfd by Malcom Love & Co.
For Sale by
C. W. Blodgett,
Brockport, N.Y.

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Newark, New Jersey, USA

1905 - FIVE WOMEN BADLY BURNED. TWO OF THEM MAY DIE FROM THEIR INJURIES.

Newark, N.J., Oct. 28. - Five women were badly burned, two of them probably fatally, in a fire which destroyed the hardware factory of M. Gould Sons & Co. at night.

The injured are:
MINNIE GARRITY, aged fifteen.
CARRIE RUMMER, aged sixteen.
SADIE SCHAFER, aged eighteen.
MARY SCHWENCH, aged eighteen.
ANNA GLAZER, aged fifteen.

The fire started just as the factory was about to close, when one of the girls upset a candle in a pot of lacquer, causing an explosion which set fire to her... Read MORE...

Daily Telegram -  Eau Claire, Wisconsin -  October 28, 1905
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Great Falls, Montana, USA

1891 - FOUR KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION.

GREAT FALLS, Mont., Oct. 27. - A party who arrived in town from the end of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern brought the news of an accident there, the result of which is appalling. Four men are dead and two maimed for life by an explosion twenty-two miles west of the summit.

The men were killed last Wednesday in a rock cut on some work under Sub-contractor O'Brien. The hole in the rock containing some powder became choked with rock, and the foreman started to drill it out. About... Read MORE...

The Daily Inter Ocean -  Chicago, Illinois -  October 28, 1891
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies

If muscles and nerves are over-strained, learn to shirk, somewhat judiciously, but surely. Let reason come to your aid, and compel yourself to take a rest, even in a change of work. The acquiescence and approval of the mind is necessary to rest...Read MORE...



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Lexington, Kentucky, USA

1905 - TWELVE PERSONS ARE INJURED. RAILROAD TRAIN HURLED FROM A BRIDGE INTO A CREEK.

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 28 - Passengers on the Louisville Southern train No. 9, due here at 7 p.m., had a narrow escape when the train was hurled from a bridge seven miles from here into a creek forty feet below. Twelve persons were injured, but none was killed.
The seriously injured are:
W. L. HERNDON, mail clerk.
JOSEPH THOMPSON, express messenger.
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, conductor.
J. W. HUGHES, Lexington.
EDWARD DOWLING, Louisville.

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Daily Telegram -  Eau Claire, Wisconsin -  October 28, 1905
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Bristol, Connecticut, USA

1887 - A FATAL EXPLOSION

Three Men Killed, Two Wounded, and a Building Set on Fire.

E. C. WILSDON left his japan oven, at SESSIONS & SONS foundry, Bristol, Conn., in the room where a dozen men and boys were at work, to go to his dinner. He had but just gone out when the oven exploded with fearful violence, instantly killing one man and two boys, lacerating two others and setting the building on fire. It was some time before the flames were subdued, and then there were dragged forth the charred remains of the three... Read MORE...

The Cranbury Press -  New Jersey -  October 28, 1887
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Seattle, Washington, USA

1894 - MANY BURNED IN A HOTEL. NEARLY A SCORE OF DEAD IN THE RUINS AT SEATTLE.

Most of the Bodies So Charred as to be Unrecognizable-Thrilling Scenes as Guests, Awakened Shortly After Midnight, Leaped from the Windows -Pathetic Groups of Dead - List of Transient Guests, Some of Whom Perished.

SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 27. - A fire which resulted in the death of at least sixteen persons and the injury of three more started in the West Street House, at Columbia and West Streets, at about 1 A. M. At 3 A. M. the fire was under control, and an investigation of the ruins was ... Read MORE...

The New York Times -  New York, New York -  October 28, 1894
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1905  It is suggested that the new tuberculosis sanatorium be located in Barnard "where there are no grave yards and where nobody ever dies"...
When Ponce de Leon was fussing around in Florida looking for the fountain of youth he was really looking for Barnard. Now that the secret is out perhaps Barnard will open her gates, broadening the invitation to include others beside those strictly belonging in the tuberculous class. There may be a balm in Barnard for other ills.

St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
October 28, 1905

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1726  October 28 - "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London

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1858  October 28 – Macy's department store, founded by R.H. Macy, opens for business in New York.
Rowland H. Macy opened R.H. Macy & Co. as a dry goods store in New York City. First-day sales totaled $11.06.
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1875  The Butte (Cal.) Mercury tells of a band of sheep being brought down from the mountains and turned into a wheat field.
Over one hundred head died in one night from eating wheat and drinking water. The wheat swelled to such an extent that the stomach was completely torn apart.

Fayetteville Observer
Fayetteville, Tennessee
October 28, 1875

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1864  Disastrous Fire at Eastport, Me.
A fire broke out at half past 1, Sunday morning, on Union wharf, Eastport, Me., and continued until 8, consuming all the business part of the town. About fifty places of business were destroyed, including the best stores. The building containing the Frontier bank and telegraph office, &c., was burned. Loss estimated at $500,000.

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Brattleboro, Vermont
October 28, 1864

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 1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated members of the Underground Railroad.

 

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 The Loup-Garou
A staple of Quebecois folklore, the story of the loup-garou AKA werewolf goes something like this: A young man named Andre wants to become a hunter and trapper and unknowingly apprentices with a man who’s a werewolf. What’s more,...Read MORE...



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October 26 News - 1900 - FINLAND'S STAMPS VANISH - Amusing Method to Which the Stubborn Finns Have Resorted to Keep Them Current

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1900 - FINLAND'S STAMPS VANISH - Amusing Method to Which the Stubborn Finns Have Resorted to Keep Them Current

Finland is no longer a member of the international postal union, as by an imperial Russian ukase the Finnish postage stamp is withdrawn from use, and the Russian postage stamp substituted. While the Finnish postage stamp until a few weeks ago had no value in the eyes of stamp collectors, it has now at one jump reached to the head of the list, and will probably be the most valuable in the stamp collector's albums. The Finns are of course furious against Russia for this additional demonstration... Read MORE...

St Albans Daily Messenger -  St Albans, Vermont -  October 26, 1900
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The Grandest toilet Soap Made
Nothing Else Like It
10 Cents a Cake
$1.00 a Dozen

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December 1898

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1881 - October 26 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurs in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which took place on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona, is one of the most famous Wild West shootouts in American history. The confrontation involved lawmen, Wyatt Earp, and his brothers, along with Doc Holliday, facing off against a group of outlaws known as the Cowboys. The conflict stemmed from a long-standing feud between the Earps and the Cowboys, fueled by personal and political tensions.

The shootout lasted only about 30 seconds but resulted in... Read MORE...

October 26, 1881
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Jelly Cake

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Farnham, Québec, Canada (Saint-Romuald-de-Farnham)

1916 - HOSPITAL FIRE FATAL TO ELEVEN. ST. ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL AT FARNHAM, QUEBEC, DESTROYED. FIRE ESCAPES INADEQUATE.

INVESTIGATION WILL START IMMEDIATELY TO DETERMINE RESPONSIBILITY - TWENTY-FIVE CHILDREN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN LEAPING FROM THE BUILDING.

Farnham, Quebec, Oct., 26. - (AP) - Six adults and five children, at least, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the St. Elizabeth's hospital here today. This forenoon the ruins still were blazing and it was impossible to approach them to search for from 15 to 25 persons reported missing.

Farnham, Que., Oct. 26 - (UP) - Five persons are known to be... Read MORE...

Sheboygan Journal -  Sheboygan, Wisconsin -  October 26, 1916
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500,000 Ladies are using The Rushforth Hair Curling Pins
The Rushforth Pin Co., Lawrence, Mass.

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November 1898

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Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA (Esmond) (Georgiaville)

1853 - Steam-Boiler Explosion - Two Lives Lost, Several Wounded.

Special Correspondence of the N. Y. Daily Times.

PROVIDENCE, Tuesday, Oct. 25.- The steam-boiler in SCHROEDER'S Print Works, in Smithfield, burst about 8 o'clock this morning, with a terrible explosion, instantly killing two operatives, and wounding the engineer and several other persons, probably fatally. The boiler and engine house were shivered to pieces and entirely destroyed. One half the boiler was sent crashing through the bleach-house and dry-house.

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1825  October 26 - Erie Canal completed
The work completed. - This is the day, and 10 o'clock the hour, when the first boat from Lake Erie enters the Grand Canal and proceeded to the city of New York; a distance of 500 miles. - All doubts, the New-York Advocate confesses, are at an end. "The great work, (says he,) has been accomplished by the freemen of this state, by their own hands, and with their own means and in the 50th year of American independence. Those who, in the incipient progress of the work, pronounced it wild and...
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October 26, 1825

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1888  September 4 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
Wannamaker's Philadelphia, Friday, October 26, 1888. The Kodak Camera is the latest photographic novelty; 100 pictures without a stop. Anybody can do it. To-morrow (Saturday) from 2 to 5 P.M. we shall show how easy it is for a novice to take photographs. Bring your friends. Ask at Optical Goods counter. Juniper street entrance.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 26, 1888

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1861  The Pony Express announces its closure. (October 26)
ATCHISON - Oct. 19. - Orders have to-day been issued by the President of the Pike's Peak Express Company at this place to stop the running of the Pony Express as soon as the California line is completed, which will probably be early next week. It is, therefore, probably that not more than one pony will run.

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Nashville, Tennesee
October 26, 1861

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1852  Fire at Burlington, Vt.
BURLINGTON, Monday, Oct. 25. A fire broke out here at 12 o'clock last night, destroying Weaver's clothing store, Barrow's dry goods store, Stephens & Durkee's drug store, and S. M. Weed's dwelling. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.

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October 26, 1852

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1865  Drowning
Mr. Ephraim Crosby, a son of Rufus Crosby of Milford, was drowned last week. He was subject to fits, and having gone out for chestnuts, stopped at a brook, and probably in a fit fell in and was drowned. His age was twenty-five years. - Farmer's Cabinet Newspaper

New-Hampshire Sentinel
Keene, New Hampshire
October 26, 1865

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 Pioneer Remedies - Coughs Put some cow dung in water and bring it to a boil. Gargle the water three times a day.

 

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 In New France, on the week-days of summer every one wore a straw hat which the women of the household spent part of each winter in plaiting. In cold weather the knitted "tuque" made in vivid colors was the great favorite. It was warm and...Read MORE...



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Omo Dress Shield
The Omo Mfg. Co., Middletown, Ct.

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October 1898

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