News items from
The Vineyard GazetteTranscribed from microfilm photocopies by C. Baer, 1998.
Sorry if they're all a bit morbid.
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1 Aug 1851
Lightning Kills Francis Nye and Elwina Norris, Others Injured in Severe Island Thunderstorms29 Apr 1870
Joseph Dunham of Edgartown Shoots Wife, Captured7 Aug 1874
Samuel Eliot Shoots, Kills Caleb Smith in Oak Bluffs Tarring-and-Feathering Incident
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