Staffing shortage, DOGE-led cuts halt Cheyenne’s around-the-clock weather monitoring

Staffing shortage, DOGE-led cuts halt Cheyenne’s around-the-clock weather monitoring: The forecasting area covers two busy interstates that frequently see extreme weather.

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.

Labels: 1900s, 1910, Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy

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.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Health, Medicine, Satire, Science