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OddlyTrue News Stand — September 30

One real weird headline, three odd happenings and a page from a 1900 newspaper. See the full Vintage News edition →

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Classic headline

Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case

Source: Classic headline (CJR 'Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim' collections)View clipping source

Headline 5 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on September 30

1882 First ever
The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.
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1791 Oddly true
Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
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1888 Oddly true
Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1900

The Seattle post-intelligencer (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]), November 11, 1900

Page 25 · mentions "meteorite"

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