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On this day... 1837
Newspaper article titled "QUEER EXHIBITION": A somewhat novel exhibition was witnessed in our harbour yesterday noon, to wit that of a gentleman belonging to the theatre sailing in a washing-tub drawn by two geese! The web-footed towers did not seem to relish their harness, and even though in their proper element refused to move, save a yard or two immediately after the unsightly vessel was launched. The crowd of spectators was immense.
January 4, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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On this day... 1889
Newspaper article titled "A MAN EATEN BY CATS": A horrible discovery was made at Cariisle yesterday. A man named Thomas Birkett, who lived by himself, had not been seen for some days, and his room was entered by the police. His dead body was found, the flesh of the face, the nose, and ears having been completely devoured by cats, of which he kept several. Three of the creatures jumped out of the room when the window was opened.
December 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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On this day... 1879
Newspaper article titled "A FATAL CHRISTMAS DINNER": A FAMILY POISONED. On Christmas-day, the family of Mr. Lloyd, farmer, Brokenborough, near Malmesbury, were poisoned through eating deleterious roots in their Christmas dinner. Mr. Lloyd, his wife, and eldest daughter partook of a species of ranunculus known as monkwood or aconitum napellus, which had been mistaken for horseradish. They were seized with alarming symptoms, which increased in violence. Mrs. Lloyd soon succumbed, and Mr. and Miss Lloyd, notwithstanding that emetics were promptly administered, still lie in a precarious condition.
December 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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On this day... 1879
Newspaper article titled "STRANGE ENCOUNTER": The devil-fish has been creating some excitement at Belfast, Victoria. Mr. Smale, the Government diver, was working some twenty feet under water, when his left hand was suddenly seized bv a large octopus. Fortunately he was able to get hold of an iron bar with his right; but having to make back-handed strokes, it was with much difficulty that he succeeded in freeing himself from his frightful assailant after a twenty minutes' struggle. The animal was killed, and measured eight feet. Mr. Smale described the pain he endured from the action of the suckers as excruciating.
December 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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On this day... 1899
Newspaper article titled "A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY": ELEVEN CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. FIVE OTHERS FATALLY INJURED. New York, Saturday (Reuter). While the children attending the Parochial School at Quincy (Illinois) were rehearsing for a Christmas entertainment the dress of one of them caught fire at a gas jet. The flames spread to the clothing of the other children, eleven of whom --little girls about ten years of age -- were fatally burned, and died soon afterwards. While six sustained severe injuries, the injuries of five are such that there is no hope of their recovery. Several priests, sisters, and other persons sustained severe burns in endeavouring to save the children.
December 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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On this day... 1842
Newspaper article titled "AWFUL AND MELANCHOLY DEATH": On Tuesday, the 13th instant, D. G. M'Culloch, M.D., late of the royal navy, and 84th regiment, and R. Barr, Esq., M.D., were visiting a patient, a short distance from the town of Maghera, in the north, and on their return, feeling thirsty, they entered an hotel for the purpose of drinking some soda-water, when, melancholy to relate, whilst Surgeon Barr was in the act of uncorking one of the bottles, the cork flew and struck Dr. M'Culloch somewhere about the jugular vein, and he fell almost instantaneously. Medical assistance was promptly rendered, but in vain.
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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On this day... 1889
Newspaper article titled "FATAL TOY": A child of four years, named Charles Leonard Jones, met with a sad death at Chatham on Sunday. He found his way into a shed where a double-barrelled gun had been left loaded, and regarding the weapon, as a novel toy, began to play with it. Grasping it by the muzzie, he ran round the shed dragging it after him, until the trigger caught in some projection and one of the barrels was discharged. The charge entered the little fellow's heart, causing almost instant death.
December 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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On this day... 1886
Newspaper article titled "SHOCKING TRAGEDY": At Salford this morning, a middle-aged woman named Craen, who had been in an asylum, and was only liberated on Saturday, cut the throat of her daughter, three years old, and then cut her own throat. The child died immediately, and the woman is in a dangerous condition. When the husband went home to breakfast the door was opened for him by his wife, who was in her night dress, the front of which was saturated with blood.
December 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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On this day... 1882
Newspaper article titled "SHOCKING OCCURRENCE": Two men employed in a bacon-curing establishment at Limerick had a quarrel yesterday, and one of them threw the other into a vat of boiling water. He was taken out in a dreadful condition and removed to the hospital, but no hopes are entertained of his recovery. The man charged with the offence is in custody.
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM