Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- A Day in the Life

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing’s assignment for us this weekend:

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 mother-in-law, Thelma Marie (Nilsen) Gorrell, was born on 29 January 1926 in Hilmar, Merced County, California. The closest newspaper I found at Newspaper.com was the Modesto News-Herald. Here is the front page.

Some interesting items on the page:

• “Treasurer” When Ben H Urbahns was dying he asked the Governor to appoint his wife to his position as state treasurer when he dies. And the governor did.

•  “Pacific Ocean; Rain is General”  Rain was widespread in the west but the central valley got general rainfall.

• “Three More Modesto Bandits Jailed” Police found part of the “loot” taken from the Yancey store in the Modesto residence.

• “11 Fresno Ex-Police Acquitted of Rum Plot” One police officer was found guilty on two charges of conspiracy to violate prohibition law, and eleven other officers were acquitted.

The news on the front page was both local and national!

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