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THOM ANDERSON: 1890s fires ravaged downtown

SCNOW Morning News 25 Dec 2025
It’s a little hard to imagine now, but during the 1890s, downtown Florence was hit by three great fires that swept through the business district ....
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Meet the obscure president from the 1890s who is the model for Trump's presidency

The Washington Times 24 Dec 2025
A controversial Republican president imposes stiff tariffs on America's trading partners, seeks to expand America's footprint abroad, keeps out immigrants he's deemed "criminals" and makes it easier to fire government employees ... .
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The 10 Most Remarkable U.S. Hotel Openings of 2025

New York Observer 22 Dec 2025
This was one of those years ... Opened March 2025 ... AJ Capital and Barry Sternlicht cover public spaces and rooms with archival landscape photography, vintage-style furnishings and fabrics pulled from Field & Stream patterns dating to the 1890s ... .
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10 incredible photos of iconic York locations dating from 1890s to 1930s

York Press 20 Dec 2025
This set of 10 archive photos of many of York's iconic and landmark locations take us back more than a century ... .
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Rebecca Yerger, Memory Lane: The Chrysanthemum Festivals of the 1890s

Napa Valley Register 06 Nov 2025
During the 1890s, Napans paid homage to the autumn blossom as the focal point of annual Chrysanthemum Festivals. Learn more in Rebecca Yerger's latest history column ... .
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Do you know the tale of DC’s ‘Jack the Slasher?’

Wtop 06 Nov 2025
It’s the bizarre, yet true story of a relatively unknown criminal from D.C.’s past who burst on the scene in the 1890s, cutting his way through the region — and striking fear into the hearts of the community ... realtor Joe Himali ... Source .
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Scene Calendar: Tom Petty Weekend, 1890s Festival, 'HADESTOWN' at the Phillips Center

The Gainesville Sun 05 Nov 2025
THIS WEEK. Tom Petty Weekend. The annual music event celebrating the life and legacy of Tom Petty is scheduled for noon Nov. 7-9 at Heartwood Soundstage ... Main St ... Nov. 7, 9 a.m ... 9 ... McIntosh 1890s Festival. The McIntosh 1890s Festival will be held from 8 a.m.
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Hedda is a wild reimagining of an 1890s play. Here are 11 more times Hollywood ...

CBC 31 Oct 2025
In the spirit of Nia DaCosta's reinvention of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, we’ve put together a list of other adaptations that changed their sources to make something radically different. Maybe not always radically better, but different ... .
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Questions over $20m redevelopment to 1890s building in Launceston

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 30 Oct 2025
A ratepayers' group is calling for an audit of a major heritage building's $20 million redevelopment for what it says are reported design flaws, rendering it "not fit for purpose" ... .
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Vintage Chicago Tribune: Remembering the macabre Whitechapel Club from the 1890s

Chicago Tribune 30 Oct 2025
You’ve probably heard of H.H ... His name. Jack the Ripper. The group. The Whitechapel Club. On Feb ... The tradition reached its zenith during the 1880s and 1890s, when the likes of writer and poet Eugene Field, columnist George Ade and “Mr ... 7, 1911.
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The Best Hotels in Savannah, Where History Meets Hospitality

New York Observer 20 Oct 2025
Housed in the former 1890s American Bank and Trust Company building in the downtown Historic District, the 50-room hotel retains much of its original character—the façade, entrance canopy and ...
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Editor’s Notebook: Local towns revealed by 1890s ‘Googles’

The Astorian 17 Oct 2025
There are too few newspapers today. More than half of U.S.
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Gillespie florists has been all about family since 1890s

IndyStar 16 Oct 2025
The family business started in the mid 1890s. Sarah Gillespie’s great-great-great Aunt Clara and Uncle Al Grande ran the John Grande Greenhouse on Grande Avenue in Indianapolis ... “I was born into it,” Sarah, current co-owner of Gillespie’s, said.
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Songbird heard for first time since 1890s in WA park

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 06 Oct 2025
The song of the noisy scrub-bird is being heard in WA's West Cape Howe National Park again, bringing joy to bird enthusiasts everywhere ... .
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Through the lens of time: Amherst exhibit juxtaposes 1890s photos with modern portraits of community life

Daily Hampshire Gazette 22 Sep 2025
AMHERST — At the entrance to the Grange Store on North Pleasant Street in the late 1800s, several young men in period clothing and wearing aprons, posed for a black-and-white photo, capturing a slice of work life from more than a century ago ... ....
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