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Classic headlineInclude Your Children When Baking Cookies
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OddlyTrue News Stand — April 25
One real weird headline, three odd happenings and a page from a 1917 newspaper. See the full Vintage News edition →
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Weird history on April 25
1643 First everFirst English Civil War: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army near Okehampton, Devon, at the Battle of Sourton Down.
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799 Oddly truePope Leo III was attacked by partisans of his predecessor Adrian I, but was rescued and taken to Charlemagne, as described in the epic Karolus magnus et Leo papa.
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1849 Oddly trueThe Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1917
Carolina watchman (Salisbury, N.C.), April 25, 1917
Page 6 · mentions "strange" · printed on this very day
“KAZAN The Story of a Dog That Turned Wolf By JAMES OLIVER CVRWOOD Copyright BobbsMerrill Co KAZAN EXPERIENCES THE JOY OF MATING AND HUNT ING GAME WITH THE WOLF PACK Kazan is a vicious Alaskan sledge dog onequarter gray w…”
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