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Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

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Headline 20 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on September 18

1862 First ever
The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
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1879 First ever
The Blackpool Illuminations (example pictured) in the English seaside town of Blackpool were switched on for the first time.
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1875 Oddly true
The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after killing around eight hundred people in Texas.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1902

The Florence daily tribune (Florence, Colo.), September 18, 1902

Page 2 · mentions "bicycle horse" · printed on this very day

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Image and text from the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site.

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