Monday, March 24, 2025

Saturday, March 24, 1900. No smoking.

Willis L. Moore, Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, issued Instruction No. 51 declaring that "The smoking of cigarettes in the offices of the Weather Bureau is hereby prohibited. Officials in charge of stations will rigidly enforce this order, and will also include in their semiannual confidential reports information as to those of their assistants who smoke cigarettes outside of office hours."

It's interesting that it seems to have been limited to cigarettes.

Press Clay Southworth, 14, shot the last wild passenger pigeon near his farm in Sargents, Ohio,

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Friday, March 23, 1900. Blood Types.

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