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Showing posts with label 1900s. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Thursday, May 17, 1900. The Siege of Mafeking broken.
The Siege of Mafeking was broken. It had started on October 13, 1899.
Robert Baden-Powell had lead the defense of the city. He'd shortly thereafter form the Boy Scouts.
Chinese Christians were murdered at Kaolo.
The first copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, came off the press. The first run of 10,000 copies had been sold prior to publication.
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Wednesday, May 16, 1900. Milk.
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Wednesday, May 16, 1900. Milk.
Chicago's Chief Milk Inspector, Thomas Grady, announced plans to ban dangerous additives from milk, including the preservative formalin.
"Formalin, the chemical used in milk preservatives, will kill a cat", he told reporters. "What will it do to a child?"
Prior to pasteurization milk posed significant health risks which have ironically been revived with the raw milk movement.
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Tuesday, May 1, 1900. Russian rumblings.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Arabia, Coal, Disaster, Kingdom of Hejaz, Labor unrest, Mining, Ottoman Empire, Puerto Rico, Railroads, Russia, Spanish American War, Syria, Utah
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Thursday, May 5, 1910. T.R. takes the prize.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, for 1909. He pledged to donate the money "as a nucleus for a foundation to forward the cause of industrial peace".
Cartago, Costa Rica, was destroyed by an earthquake which killed more than 1,500 people.
Seventy coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Palos Coal and Coke Company at Walker County, Alabama.
The town of Hillsborough, California, was incorporated.
The U.S. Weather Bureau, predecessor to the National Weather Service, set a standing record for the highest altitude achieved by a kite 23,826 feet.
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Wednesday, May 4, 1910. The Royal Canadian Navy came into being.
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Tuesday, May 1, 1900. Russian rumblings.
The first mass protest of Russian workers occurred in Kharkov.
Over 200 miners were killed in the Scofield Mine disaster in Utah.
US military governance of Puerto Rico ended.
Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid issued an imperial edict for the construction of the Hejaz railway, to link Damascus to Mecca and Medina.
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Monday, April 30, 1900. Casey Jones
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Disaster, Folk Music, Hawaii, Music, Personalities, Railroads, William McKinley
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Monday, April 30, 1900. Casey Jones
Illinois Central Railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones managed to slow a passenger train he was driving down sufficiently so that he was the only one killed in a collision with two stalled freight trains at Vaughan, Mississippi.
The event was memorialized in the Balled of Casey Jones.
From Uncle Mike:
April 30, 1900: The Legend of Casey Jones
President McKinley signed into law "An act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii" making citizens of Hawaii citizens of the United States.
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Sunday, April 29, 1900. Robbing the Tipton train.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Crime, Railroads, The Wild Bunch, Tipton Wyoming, Union Pacific Railroad, Wyoming
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Sunday, April 29, 1900. Robbing the Tipton train.
Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan, Ben “The Tall Texan” Kilpatrick and William Cruzan, all of The Wild Bunch, robbed the Union Pacific near Tipton, Wyoming.
This is not the more famous robbery that happened that same year in August.
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Friday, April 27, 1900. Root: You've got to fight, for your right, to . . . .
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Friday, April 27, 1900. Root: You've got to fight, for your right, to . . . .
United States Secretary of War Elihu Root predicted that the United States would go to war in a few years while delivering an address at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the birthday of the late General Ulysses S. Grant.
He stated:
The American people will, within a few years, have to either abandon the Monroe doctrine, or fight for it, and we are not going to abandon it. If necessary we will fight for it, but unless there is greater diligence in legislation, in the future than in the past, when the time comes it may find us unprepared.
The audience was stunned.
Newly appointed Governor of Puerto Rico Charles Herbert Allen arrived at San Juan on the USS Dolphin.
Sunday, April 22, 1900. Battle of Koussér.
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Sunday, April 22, 1900. Battle of Koussér.
The French defeated the forces of Rabih az-Zubayr after two years of war, bringing Chad under the jurisdiction of French Equatorial Africa.
The French were commanded by Major Amédée-François Lamy. Both he and Rabih were killed in what is known as the Battle of Koussér
Rabih's head displayed on a pole after the battle.
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Tuesday, April 17, 1900. Flat Nose Curry killed.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Tuesday, April 19, 1910. 606.
Paul Ehrlich announced his discovery of what was termed "606", the first medicine that could cure syphilis.
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The Philadelphia General Strike of 1910 came to an end.
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Thursday, April 17, 2025
Tuesday, April 17, 1900. Flat Nose Curry killed.
George "Flat Nose" Curry was killed by Sheriff Jessie M. Tyler while rustling cattle in Grand County, Utah. Curry was a member of the Wild Bunch (Hole in the Wall Gang).
Born to John and Nancy Ann (Macdonald) Currie in Prince Edward Island, Curry took up rustling as a young man while living in Nebraska. Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan avenged the death by killing Sheriff Tyler some time thereafter, after which he returned to the Hole in the Wall.
The chiefs of Tutuila approved cession of the island to the United States.
Sunday, April 15, 1900. The Siege of Catubig.
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Sunday, April 15, 1900. The Siege of Catubig.
Nineteen U.S. troops were killed at the Siege of Catubig.
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Saturday, April 14, 1900. Racing.
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Clothing, then and now, and a lost manufacturing base.
derek guy@dieworkwear
at the turn of the 20th century, working class men had something like two pairs of pants, three shirts, and a pair of boots. middle class men wore detachable collars bc shirts were expensive. one man died bc he got drunk. his head drooped & he choked to death on his stiff collar
Very interesting, really, and not just in the context of the Very Stable Genius and his trade war with China, but in terms of the focus of this page.
I've discussed this before, but cheap clothing is a post World War Two thing. The entire series of jokes about people having vast numbers of shoes, or t-shirts that are decades old, reflects a bonafide change in how people live. I recall my father mentioning that at one time it was considered ideal to buy a suit with two pairs of pants, as you could stretch out the cleaning.
Clothing now costs less, and frankly it lasts a lot longer, than it once did.
Indeed, how often do you really wear out clothing? I'm do wear out shits, but waistline expansion over time is more likely to render my trousers unwearable than really wearing them out is. Granted, part of that is because I have a fair number of them. If I was wearing the same two or three pairs of trousers every day, the story would be different. But they also simply last longer than they once did.
This is really intended to be an observation on clothing, then and now, but a little remark about now is warranted.
I have a cotton Colorado Rockies kelly green baseball hat sitting here where I'm typing. If you look at the label, it's made in China. Lots of Levis are made in Vietnam. We have, truly, exported clothing manufacturing overseas, which is to say, the producers did. I do lament that, but do U.S. consumers want to pay more for clothing? I wonder.
I guess with tariffs, we'll find out.
I have, as readers here know, a fondness for M65 Field Jackets. I'd like to have an OG 107 one for every day wear. I thought one would be easy to find, but they aren't, so I ordered one, to my present regret, from Propper. It came Chinese made (of course) and the size is completely wrong. I should have sent it back, but I didn't, as my extreme introverted nature precludes me from doing so. I thought maybe I could shrink it, but it doesn't look like I'll be able to. Anyhow, it's just wrong.
I note this as US military uniforms are in fact made in the U.S., and indeed I believe there may be a statutory requirement to that effect. Some years ago there was a scandal when the US ended up with some berets that were made overseas. I've heard of the military actually checking to make certain that soldiers don't deploy with foreign made gear, but that must be tougher than ever, with the loss of so much of the US manufacturing base.
All of which is to say that I'm sympathetic with those who lament that loss. But the time to really address it came and went some thirty to forty to fifty years ago and, if could be addressed, which is a huge if, it can't be done all at once.
And, my Propper M65 Field Jacket aside, things made overseas are not, by and large, of cheap quality anymore. Some things surely are. The stuff you get at Harbor Freight might be second rate. . . or not. As overseas manufacturing has increased, quality has too.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Friday, April 13, 1900. Direct election.
The House of Representatives, for the fourth time since 1893, passed a resolution to provide for direct election of Senators.
The measure would fail the Senate.
I"m not completely certain, quite frankly, that the ultimate change in 1913 was a good one. It would, of course, require an amendment to the Constitution.
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Thursday, April 12, 1900. A U.S. civil government for Puerto Rico.
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Thursday, April 12, 1900. A U.S. civil government for Puerto Rico.
President McKinley signed the Foracker Act, establishing a civil government for Puerto Rico. Charles Herbert Allen was appointed Governor.
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Saturday, April 7, 1900. The US in the Far East.
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Saturday, April 7, 1900. The US in the Far East.
The USS Wheeling arrived at Taku Forts to reinforce the US presence in China.
General Arthur MacArthur, the father of Douglas MacArthur and a Civil War hero, was named to replace General Elwell Stephen Otis as military governor of the Philippines.
Over 100 people were killed near Austin, Texas, when the McDonald Dam burst.
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Saturday, March 31, 1900. Sanna's Post.
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Saturday, March 31, 1900. Sanna's Post.
Boer forces under Christiaan de Wet attacked at Sanna's Post, taking 400 British POWS and cutting off the water supply to Bloemfontein, which resulted in the spread of typhus.
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Friday, March 30, 1900. Child and Female Labor.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Friday, March 30, 1900. Child and Female Labor.
France, effective on this day, reduced the workday for women and children from 12 hours to 11 hours.
Current American Republicans would likely find that abhorrent.
The law provided further that on April 1, 1902, the workday would go to 101⁄2 hours and to ten hours by April 1, 1904.
Father Leonardo Murialdo, 71, founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph died.. He was canonized by Pope Paul VI on May 3, 1970.
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Tuesday, March 27, 1900. Gen. Joubert dies.
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