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The End of the World, 1899

It all started at a barber shop at the corner of Eighth and Franklin streets in Manitowoc. In between the snips of his scissors, barber John Hoyer spread the news about the upcoming doomsday; October 13th, 1899. As townsman Fred Rouelle expressed, some folks were saying “we are all about to be blown to smithereens-right off the Earth.”

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