[Newspaper Article Lucky-Dip Contents]
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In this episode we had 3 articles out the hat;
– A missing cat who returns.
– Boiler furnaceman takes unauthorised break.
– Express train wreck on the Pennsylvania line, Harrisburg, USA. Acts of heroism related. [Trigger warning for details of the injured and dead.]
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In this episode we had 3 articles out the hat, 1 of which was a 2-parter;
– King Edward has an accident with some “peasants.”
– Elderly man wants to die at his wife’s graveside.
– Reverend mountain climber has a crazy accident on Ben Nevis.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Vesuvius erupts.
– Man gets cholera because wife won’t feed him properly.
– Train gets caught in a tornado.
– Runaway tram cars in Glasgow.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Photo of 4 generations.
– Man attempts to murder woman who spurned his advances.
– Poisonous wallpapers and how to tell if your paper has arsenic included.
– Noted pedestrian “Blind Jimmy” is injured.
– Draper killed on a railway in a horrific manner.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Fife gunner injured in his face during a “sham fight.”
– A machinery operator escapes death in a crazy way.
– Express train runs into a crowd of people in the USA.
– Woman steals a child’s jacket right off his back in public.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Dr William’s Pink Pills for Pale People advertisement.
– Toy railway accident in the Isle of Man.
– Robbery in Linlithgow.
– Man enters strangers house and steals child in front of its mother.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Polish miner has explosives go off inside Glasgow train.
– Report of the total number of people killed/injured on US railways.
– Baron considers himself beyond the authority of others.
– Albino man killed in English railway station.
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In this episode we had 4 articles (technically 6) out the hat;
– Maid carelessly causes explosion of gunpowder.
– Paisley Engineer bites rescuer in the face.
– Stanley Condor embarks on perilous journey aged 10. Then again aged 11.
– Great Britain promotes and nurtures the opium trade.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Assault by an English soldier deemed a prank.
– Man has a portion of his spine replaced with that of a dog in Canada.
– Drowning boy rescued.
– Man swallowed up on English street.
– Train falls over embankment in Santa Barbara.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Little girl hits her head and dies.
– Woman falls down stairs and dies.
– Glasgow boy earns himself 4 years in reformatory for taking day trips through to Edinburgh.
– Archbishop of Canterbury has a lucky narrow escape.
– Crazy man drops boy head-first over wall 12 feet high.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– 5 childrens’ bodies found in Glasgow’s Southern Necropolis.
– 2 men fall 25 feet from scaffolding within a church.
– Man shoots his sweetheart twice in the face on a train, she survives. He shoots himself and succeeds.
– Young man has his hand removed by a circular saw while playing about.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Driver dies in terrible accident leaving runaway train driverless in New York.
– Constable in daring rescue of drowning man.
– Sad story of a comatose man and his wife in Germany.
– Correspondence by cheese.
– Dare Devils, specifically Looping the Loops.
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In this episode we had 3 articles out the hat;
– Car with 13yr old driver hit by train killing the passengers.
– Monkey causes chaos in Glasgow.
– Italian/Hungarian/Russian shoots, stabs, & assaults varying members of ship’s crew.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Lead actor of early cinema killed in train scene.
– Potato bugs numerous enough to stop trains.
– 2 trains collide causing a railway disaster, Wyoming, US.
– Eccentric old man and his doings in Greenock, up the Lyle Hill.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– How train drivers dealt with stray sheep/cattle in New Zealand.
– British colonialists treat those they shell like children.
– Sad story of Japanese etiquette.
– Tobacconist caught adding gunpowder to the cigarettes he sold.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Fears over reduced population (labouring workforce) due to increased emigration from Ireland.
– Iroquois Theatre burns down in Chicago killing hundreds in the rush to escape.
– Child found guilty, in court, of calling his teacher names.
– Scotsman awarded for rescuing the French wine industry.
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In this episode we had 4 (5) articles out the hat;
– War Correspondent outlines how girls are to be raised in order to be useful to society.
– Cartridge left on a boiler explodes in man’s hands.
– Sir Walter Scott Anniversary and the deficit of Scottish history taught in Scottish schools.
– Anyone employed in the Chinese military to be beheaded for opium use.
– Woman insists upon obtaining a small piece of the gallows to cure her son.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Outbreak of Mumps, German Measles, and Whooping Cough, keeps children from school.
– 10mph “Furious Driving” on the Gallowgate, Glasgow.
– Drunk train driver attacked by his fireman in order to evade accident in Copenhagen. 500 children onboard.
– Lamplighter cut in half due to the “culpable meddlesomeness of a passenger,” in Portobello.
– Illinois railway incident. 4 killed, 9 injured.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Poacher and “splendid athlete” escapes from Aberdeen jail.
– 5 out of 6 children burned to death in boiling tar incident within a home in Bristol.
– Man falls 50 feet in linoleum factory, Kirkcaldy.
– Fresh brown water.
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In this episode we had 3 articles out the hat;
– Carriages fall from New York’s elevated railway due to Pointsman’s error.
– Sea Serpent in the Highlands. (https://randomscottishhistory.com/202…)
– Man mistaken for Otter and shot.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– 3 men entombed in quarry accident in Longniddry.
– Airship trial goes wrong in New York.
– Darwin Award obtained by young man who accidentally shot himself.
– 3 young boys from the Gallowgate, Glasgow, walk to Stafford to witness Palmer’s hanging. Only 1 comes back.
– Man throws himself out of Bournemouth train window. Tram driver cuts his own throat on train in Marske. Man shoots himself on Ilford to Fenchurch Street train.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Man suddenly shoots up a family funeral in Baltimore.
– Express trains collide in England, telescoping, & killing 3.
– 2 sisters fall from Loch-Nagar and have to wait hours for rescue.
– Child swapped for linen for a joke. Or was it..?
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Farmer finds corpse of wife he though was away seeing friends.
– University of Chicago professor makes his female students’ flesh creep.
– Spate of random, non-linked, jug attacks in Glasgow.
– Horrific tobogganing accident in Helensburgh.
– Passenger decides, in the face of opposition, to leave moving train.
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In this episode we had 5 (technically 6) articles out the hat;
– Multimillionaire overpays for lunch in the best of ways.
– 30 to 40 lives put at risk & 15 die attempting to save 2.
– Man blows up cashier & himself inside Philadelphia National Bank.
– Smoking husband sets wife’s dress alight, killing her.
– Bird goes straight through train windscreen into driver’s eye.
– An idea of the crimes that earned the criminal death in return.
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In this episode we had 4 (technically 6) articles out the hat;
– Unsuspecting teen & others blown up by explosive material left at a factory doomed for demolition.
– Snails make Algerian railway lines too slippery.
– Report of a 4 year old girl’s first and, sadly, last day of school as she was fatally knocked down on her way there.
– Englishman eaten by coyotes in Monterey, Mexico.
– Argyll & Sutherlandshire Highlander falls to his death from Stirling Castle.
– Intimation of the death of hardy George Watson.
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In this episode we had 3 (technically 4) articles out the hat;
– A series of “Hairbreadth Escapes” from around the world.
– Fitter killed in the horrific workplace accident when he got caught in “revolving shafting.”
– Colliery railway incident as workers embarked to head home after a night shift, with one man killed as a result.
– Another series, this time relating significant railway accidents in the UK between 18th of June, 1880, and the 28th of December, 1906.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Old woman found up chimney in someone else’s house in the Gorbals.
– Lions escape from a train in France. Even those remaining in their cages are shot and killed.
– Lad brings back a barrel of what he assumes to be butter and is more than shocked when a hot poker he uses to open it ignites the gunpowder within injuring the house occupants.
– Man without enough money to travel straps himself under a train for a 30 hour journey across Europe.
– Black Watch soldier dies after falling from Edinburgh Castle.
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In this episode we had 5 (technically 7) articles out the hat;
– Woman apparently jumps out a window to her death after being unable to get money from her husband for drink.
– Lad about to join the Irish Fusiliers misses his train and is found drowned.
– Lass gets her hair caught in machinery and dies of fractured skull in Leith.
– Cost to Leith’s Public Health Department due to a breakout of Bubonic Plague.
– 2 men charged with “furious Driving” on the Gallowgate.
– Royal Garrison Artillery gunner has his arms blown off during royal salute.
– Train disaster in Michigan when the driver of one of the colliding trains ignored the warning signals.
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In this episode we had 4 articles out the hat;
– Boy killed in Dunoon during the erection of a flag pole on the Castle Hill.
– A series of women who’d given birth to huge numbers of children, sometimes at once.
– General Baillond saved from a messy death on the railway in Montpellier.
– Gussy Loving, a young girl, attempts to stage her own train crash in Roanoke, Virginia.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Farmer, in Kirkintilloch, loses fingers in a machinery accident.
– Young woman throws herself in the Clyde & drowns after a “trifling dispute” with her boyfriend.
– A train derails off a bridge in Lispool, County Kerry, Ireland. No fatalities recorded.
– Lassie in Chicago sees off some attempted thieves due to having grown up with brothers.
– “Foul air” in a railway tunnel, between the US and Canada by the St. Clair River, kills 6 men.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Lady Dorothy Cuthbert accidentally shot by her husband.
– A locomotive goes missing in the south of England.
– 100 people drowned in a railway accident in the Cimarron River, Oklahoma.
– 7 killed and 25 injured in accident between a street car and a train in St. Louis.
– 14 month-old child run over and killed by an electric car in Aberdeen.
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In this episode we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Dunning’s Bell Woman retires after 35 years. (Photo Obtained)
– Man has his wooden leg run over in Victoria, Australia, by train.
– Wee boy falls into the North Sea, at Banff, and is rescued by his older brother and a passer-by.
– Rollercoaster of an event – wee boy survives falling out of a train only to be run over by another coming in the opposite direction – surprise ending!
– Electrical Engineer electrocuted by touching what he should have known not to touch.
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In this final episode, for series 1, we had 5 articles out the hat;
– Medical officer resigns over York’s insistence on holding a football match during a smallpox epidemic.
– Dog apparently commits suicide on the railway after having her puppies taken and drowned.
– Another American Railway Disaster. Near Pueblo, Colorado. Bad weather washes away the track. Approx. 100 killed, 25 rescued.
– Ms Dot Stephens, Music Hall artiste, has her feet almost amputated after falling out a moving train. Surgeons were able to not only save her feet but she was able to “walk without difficulty” afterwards.
– Edinburgh Detective apparently killed after having been struck by an “aerolite” or meteorite.
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