Thursday, February 9, 1911. Establishing the size of the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives approved the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, increasing the number of U.S. Representatives, beginning in 1913, from 391 to 435, the number that it has had ever since. 

This has created unequal representation and something really needs to be done to change it.

Voters in the Arizona Territory approved the proposed state Constitution.

Writer Jack London, who was a Socialist, came out in support of Socialist revolutionaries in Mexico.

The Army intended to deploy lighter than air craft near El Paso in an attempt to figure out what was going on in the revolution near there.

Indentured servitude for Chinese workers in British Malaya was abolished, effective June 30, 1914.

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Wednesday, February 8, 1911. Revolutions.

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To build a fire.

And all the while the dog sat and watched him, a certain yearning wistfulness in its eyes, for it looked upon him as the fire provider, and the fire was slow in coming. 

Jack London, "To Build A Fire"