The last bare knuckle boxing match in the US took place in Passaic, New Jersey, between boxers Leo Baker and Dave Smith. They fought 32 rounds without gloves, with the match ending in a draw.
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A grand jury in Newark, New Jersey indicted the National Packing Company and its subsidiaries, Armour, Swift, Morris, and G.H. Hammond of conspiracy to monopolize the nation's meatpacking industry. Executives were also indicted.
Funny. . . it's every bit as monopolized now. . .
The early 20th Century, of course, saw a dedicated effort to deal with the excesses of capitalism. Those efforts were, to a large degree, successful.
And forgotten.
Thomas Edison's electric street car was demonstrated in New York.
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France gave Morocco 48 hours to ratify an agreement to replay $12,000,000 owed as indemnities or face tariff forfeitures. Morocco, depending upon the tariffs, agreed.
It's almost like you shouldn't make your finances the captive of foreign nations. . . .
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Largescale working class protests occurred in Berlin over the Prussian three class franchise which gave the wealthiest 1/5th of German voters 2/3s of the seats in the German parliament. Bayonets were used on protestors, but nobody was killed.
This was part of the system which lead to the German revolution of 1918 which brought down the monarchy and lead to the end of World War One, something that our current political overlords may wish to remember, given the current oligarchic nature of the United States.
The name of San Pedro Bay was changed to Los Angeles Harbor.
I hate these geographic name changes.
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The Boy Scouts of America was founded.
Founded on the British example, which was spreading like wildfire, Chicago publisher William D. Boyce brought the organization to the United States. It grew at an enormous rate early on, and was a real powerhouse for much of the pre 1960s era, bringing in a youth movement based on the outdoors and muscular Christianity.
The organization, looking back, began to to take a hit into the 1960s, which was perhaps inevitable. Grounded strictly in manly virtues, the 1960s introduced a growing feminization in western males, something that the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory notes to be a reoccurring phenomenon. At the same time, the protestant churches began their decline, although it was not obvious at the time, and muscular Christianity declined with them. The organization attempted to adapt, but the trend was pretty set in.
Today the damaged organization still includes 1,000,000 youth, of which 176,000 are unfortunately female. 130,000,000 mostly male Americans have participated in its programs since 1910, including me, albeit only briefly, and not including my father or grandfather, although one of my cousins was an Eagle Scout.
There's a lot on this website about the BSA, which is probably odd for a website run by somebody whose has a thin association with them at best. But they were a major movement in American, and indeed Western, culture, and their demise is also telling.
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