Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) What were the newspaper headlines the day one of your grandparents or great-grandparents were born?
2) Use any newspaper provider (Chronicling America (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) is FREE) to find the headlines.
3) Tell us who your subject was, when and where they were born, and tell us three or four headlines on the front page of the newspaper for that date.
4) Share your finds on your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or on your Facebook page. Please provide a link to your work as a comment to this post.
My great-grandmother, Clara L Scott was born on 30 June 1904 in Vestal, New York. There were multiple articles on the same day, so I choose the first one I saw.
A SUNDAY TRAGEDY LIFE BELTS BY EXPRESS
Body Steamboat Men Rush Preparations for Government Inspection
*NO ONE LEFT TO OPEN SAFE
Family in Whose Keeping Were Books Needed by Union All Killing in Slocum Fire
* "DAN" EMMETT DEAD
The Author of "Dixie" Passes Away
These are some of the articles in the newspaper.
Thanks for reading,
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