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120 Years Ago: DYNAMITE ASTRAY UPTOWN- 25 Sticks, Each Can Blow Up a House, Found With Small Boys
Library of Congress ^ | 07-29-1896 | New York Tribune

Posted on 07/29/2016 1:09:40 PM PDT by NRx

A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from Wednesday July 29, 1896 (digitized).

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My mother never let me have any fun like that. :-(
1 posted on 07/29/2016 1:09:40 PM PDT by NRx
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To: Mr. K; warsaw44; Entropy Squared; ADemocratNoMore; Nea Wood; Lee Enfield; ColdOne; GOPJ; ...

If you want on or off the ping list for the daily newspaper from 120 years ago, ping me.


2 posted on 07/29/2016 1:10:36 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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Which page was it?


3 posted on 07/29/2016 1:12:27 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: AFreeBird

Front page


4 posted on 07/29/2016 1:13:41 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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In my youth we always had school assemblies to warn us of stray blasting caps.
In 1953, dad found a stick in a house we had rented in Saguache, Colorado. Since he had been in the Combat Engineers he showed us how to dispose of it by shredding the stick with a knife.
Then around 1961, some teens found a stray stick of dynamite and set it off outside the high school in Carlsbad NM. Talk about the talk of the town! It was about a block from us!


5 posted on 07/29/2016 1:15:41 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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25 sticks missing and only one recovered. And the detectives didn’t have a “clew” (sic).

Most I ever got to pllay with was black cat firecrackers.


6 posted on 07/29/2016 1:18:38 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: NRx

Pennsylvania had a major flood,How did that happen without global warming?


7 posted on 07/29/2016 1:20:14 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: NRx

The Dog vs Rooster fight was pretty good (front Page)


8 posted on 07/29/2016 1:24:45 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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25 sticks missing and only one recovered. And the detectives didn’t have a “clew” (sic).

The kids sold it to some strangers passing through town. Don't know what they did with it...


9 posted on 07/29/2016 1:34:05 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: NRx

And who says kids had no fun in the olden days???


10 posted on 07/29/2016 1:34:24 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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Pennsylvania had a major flood,How did that happen without global warming?

Is the South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club at it again?

11 posted on 07/29/2016 1:47:39 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: NRx

Please add me to your One Pingy Dingy list. :-)


12 posted on 07/29/2016 1:48:18 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: NRx

In high school, some guys I knew found a case of dynamite at an old quarry. They carried it around in the trunk of a car until they realized it might be dangerous (!) and threw it in a ditch.


13 posted on 07/29/2016 1:49:45 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: AFreeBird

Done. That will be three cents please, and a nickel on Sundays.


14 posted on 07/29/2016 1:57:31 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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Whoa, 23¢ a week! That’s pretty rich.


15 posted on 07/29/2016 2:00:48 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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Houses were smaller back then. It would take more than one stick to blow up a house today. But...the DemocRats can blow up the entire housing market, using no dynamite at all. Progress? I think not.


16 posted on 07/29/2016 2:22:21 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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I'm old enough to remember dynamite sticks as "Redneck Fishin' gear). In fact, I can admit to tossin' a 1/4 stick or two myself! Tip..., just make sure if there is a current flowing you throw it DOWN-STREAM! Don't ask how I came by this bit of trivia!
17 posted on 07/29/2016 2:40:15 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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I had an uncle who didn’t know all the ins and outs about fishing with dynamite. As I said, “had and uncle”.


18 posted on 07/29/2016 2:44:44 PM PDT by B4Ranch ("The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.")
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To: NRx

Please add me to your ping list!


19 posted on 07/29/2016 3:04:21 PM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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Done.


20 posted on 07/29/2016 3:10:15 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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