Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- The Day Your Paternal Grandmother Was Born

It's Saturday Night - 

Time for more Genealogy Fun! 

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing’s mission today is:

1) What happened in the world on the day your maternal grandmother was born?  Tell us the date, the place, and find a newspaper page for that date, ideally from the place she was born.  What are some of the headlines?  What was the weather?  

2) Tell us in your own blog post, or in comments to this post, or in comments on Facebook.  As always, please leave a link to your work in Comments.

My response:

Well, on 30 June 2018, we had the choice of doing this for either grandmother, and I had done my maternal grandmother at that time here. So, this week, I will do the same for my paternal grandmother.

Anna Marie Sullivan was born on 15 October 1892 in Anaconda, Deer Lodge Co, Montana. Her parents were John H. Sullivan and Anna Marie Gleeson.[1]

I found The Anaconda Standard on Newspapers.com and there was an issue on 15 October 1892.[2] It was a daily newspaper of eight pages, with mostly national news on the front two pages and more local news on the rest.

The top half of the paper had mostly national news:

• There was a big meeting of democrats in New York City before the presidential election.
• A Columbian Show was happening in Chicago. The Manufacturing Building would hold 60,000 persons seated and room for 200,000 in the aisles. 230 arc lamps of 2,000 candle power each were suspended from the roof.
• A mineralogist and geologist, F.B. Schermerborn reported on rocks and fossils he collected from Lembi and Custer counties.

The lower half had shorter news bits:

• The World’s Fair Commission of Japan arrived in San Francisco from Yokohama on the steamer Oceanic.
• Several residences were burned in Idaho City, and the business blocks in Kingsburg, California, were destroyed by fire.
• The Greenock cereal mill burned in Greenock, Scotland.
• Prairie wildfires were burning in the western half of the Alberta ranching district.

The weather the previous day was at 4 p.m. 67 degrees. No mention of clouds or rain. With all of the wildfires, it was probably very dry.

Three days later, a newspaper notice appeared about the birth of my grandmother:[3]

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[1] St. Paul's Church, Anaconda, Montana, Baptism of Anna Marie Sullivan (certificate copy), certificate dated 1953.

[2] The Anaconda Standard, 15 Oct 1892, p. 1, digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspaper.com : 18 July 2020).

[3] "About the City," he Anaconda Standard, 18 October 1892, birth of daughter to Mr & Mrs JH Sullivan; online images, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.org/ : accessed 25 December 2015).

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