The first native Australian saint, St. Mary Helen MacKillop, the co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, died in North Sydney, Australia,
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Saturday, August 7, 1909. Going on vacaation.
Nearly the entire upper elements of the US Government went on vacation. President Taft arrived at the "Summer White House" in Beverly, Massachusetts. Vice-President Sherman went to his home in Utica, New York. House Speaker Cannon went home to Danville, Illinois.
Only two cabinet officers remained in Washington, D.C.
Oxnard California.
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Monday, August 2, 1909. Two firsts.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Scenes from days gone by.
A building in Deadwood South Dakota that was once a Hudson and Terraplane dealer, two extinct brands of automobiles.Interesting for a variety of reasons. One, the then existing variety of American automobiles. Two, that fairly small towns (although the area was fairly well populated, due to mining, at that time), with a fairly substantial automobile dealership.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Monday, August 2, 1909. Two firsts.
The United States Army accepted the delivery of a Wright Military Flyer.
Wright Model A.
The Wright brothers were hired at the same time to train the first two pilots, Lts. Frank P. Lahm and Frederick E. Humphreys
It was just six years after the first flight, and less than a decade before airplanes would become a major weapon of war.
Lincoln penneys went into circulation. The 1909 penny had the equivalent of $.35 spending power in contemporary dollars.
It replaced the Indian head penny that had been in circulation since 1859.
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Sunday, August 1, 1909. Semana Tragica ends.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Sunday, August 1, 1909. Semana Tragica ends.
The Tragic Week, "Semana Tragica" ended as the Spanish government restored order in Barcelona and other areas of Catalonia. The violent confrontations between the Spanish army and anarchists, freemasons, socialists and republicans of Barcelona and other cities in Catalonia, Spain were in opposition to the Second Rif War and the call up of reservists.
Called up reservists were often the only means of support for their families, whereas the wealthy could hire substitutes.
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Saturday, July 31, 1909. Zion National Park sort of established.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Saturday, July 31, 1909. Zion National Park sort of established.
President Taft established Mukuntuweap National Monument in what is now Zion National Park.
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Thursday, July 29, 1909. GM acquires Cadillac.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Thursday, July 29, 1909. GM acquires Cadillac.
General Motors acquired Cadillac.
Portuguese Colonial Minister, Manuel da Terra Vianna, barred recruitment of African chocolate workers by Cadbury pending an investigation, out of a fear that Angolans were being used as slave labor in the industry.
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Sunday, July 25, 1909. First flight records.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Sunday, July 25, 1909. First flight records.
Louis Blériot became the first person to fly an airplane across the English Channel and Charles K. Hamilton flew his airship across the Bay of Osaka in Japan.
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Wednesday, July 21, 1909. Baseball and a hurricane.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Wednesday, July 21, 1909. Baseball and a hurricane.
The first baseball game in Korea was held. It was a match between students and American missionaries. The students had learned the game in Japan.
Galveston's water front was heavily damaged by a hurricane.
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Tuesday, July 20, 1909. Clemenceau resigns.
Monday, July 20, 2009
More tiny, but viable, towns
The Casper Star Tribune ran an intersting article over the weekend about a town that's disappeared.
Commenting on this on SMH, I noted:
Commenting on this on SMH, I noted:
A Casper Star Tribune article that sort of sheds light on some of the topics discussed here:
http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/07/19 ... 0157b9.txt
This article discusses an entire town disappearing. But it misses part of the reason for that. The town was only a few miles from another, that being the town of Midwest. Midwest is just about four or five miles from another, Edgerton. And Midwest is only about 50 miles from Casper. So the town in the article was probably only about 30 or 40 miles from Casper.
When it was founded, travel conditions would have made the town probably both necessary and viable. But by the 30s, when it disappeared, it was really redundant and inefficient, it's role having been taken over by older and slightly larger Midwest.
Today, Midwest and Edgerton are sort of shadows of their former selves as well.
Tuesday, July 20, 1909. Clemenceau resigns.
Georges Clemenceau resigned as Prime Minister of France following a heated argument in the Chamber of Deputies with former Foreign Minister Theophile Delcasse.
A vote of no confidence followed, and the sitting government failed.
Clemenceau, of course, would rise again and return to office in 1917.
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Monday, July 19, 1909. Unassisted.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Monday, July 19, 1909. Unassisted.
Neal Ball of the Cleveland Indians made the first unassisted triple play in major league history.
July 19, 1909: Neal Ball’s unassisted triple play and homer propel Cy Young to win over former team
Ball played major league ball from 1907 to 1913, when he was returned to the minors in which he played until 1924. He died at age 71 in 1957.
The Hudson Terminal, the largest underground station in New York City, opened.
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Monday, July 12, 1909. Congress passes the 16th Amendment.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Monday, July 12, 1909. Congress passes the 16th Amendment.
The House of Representatives passed the 16th Amendment. The Senate had already done so.
Korea turned prison administration over to Japan in what was a step towards full annexation of the Hermit Kingdom.
President Taft withdrew and therefore protected the Oregon Caves National Monument.
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Saturday, July 10, 1909. An agreement on Chinese students.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Saturday, July 10, 1909. An agreement on Chinese students.
Two years before the fateful revolution of 1911, the United States and Qing China entered into an agreement which allowed select Chinese students to enroll at American universities.
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Flag of the Qing Dynasty.
The Qing Dynasty had been in existence since 1644. That would come to an end in 1912. China has pretty much been in some sort of political mess since then, although it certainly had plenty of problems before that.
A wreck on Long Island, July 10, 1909.
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Thursday, July 8, 1909. Night game.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Thursday, July 8, 1909. Night game.
The first baseball game played under lights happened in a match between the Grand Rapids Team and the Zanesville Team of the minor league Central League.
British Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone met with eight suffragist leaders by way of a request of King Edward VII.
"Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins farm, Rock Creek near Baltimore, Md. "I'm just beginnin'. Picked two boxes yesterday. (2 cents a box). (See my report July 10, 1909.) July 8, 1909. Location: Baltimore, Maryland."
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Wednesday, July 7, 1909. Lawrence goes to the Middle East.
Labels: 1900s. 1909, 1910, Agriculture, children, Maryland, MIddle East, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Syria, T. E. Lawrence, The Crusades
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Wednesday, July 7, 1909. Lawrence goes to the Middle East.
Undergraduate student T. E. Lawrence left Britain for his first trip to the Middle East, bound for Syria and Palestine to study the influence of the Crusades on European military architecture. The trip would later produce the book Crusader Castles, which came out the following year.
Some photos of agricultural child labor in Maryland were taken, captions are original.
Bertha Marshall a berry picker on Jenkins Farm, Rock Creek, near Baltimore, Md. Been at it 2 summers. Picks about 10 boxes a day. (2 cents a box). Photo July 7, 1909. Location: Baltimore, Maryland.
Johnnie Goldberg and father on a Rock Creek farm. Boy worked at Young Island, S.C. one winter. July 7, 1909. Location: Baltimore, Maryland.
Name: A four year old helper in the berry field Rock Creek, Baltimore, Md. Mother said, "He helps a little." July 7, 1909. Location: Baltimore, Maryland.
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Tuesday, July 6, 1909. Albert Einstein, quitter.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Tuesday, July 6, 1909. Albert Einstein, quitter.
Albert Einstein resigned from his job at the Patent Office in Zürich in order to pursue the full-time study of physics, proving that there are times in which you should indeed quit your job.
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Sunday, July 4, 1909. Independence Day.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sunday, July 4, 1909. Independence Day.
The Plan of Chicago, a long range plan for the city, was unveiled.
In Scanton, Pennsylvania, a 16 foot high (including an intricately carved pedestal) bust of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated. It was a gift from Italy.
It's now missing and nobody knows what happened to it . . .which is odd.
The French battleship Denton, the first battleship to have turbine engines, was launched. It was sunk on March 19, 1917.
The first fireworks display in Major League Baseball occured at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.
The Stanley Hotel opened in Estes Park, Colorado.
The Stanley was built by the inventor of the Stanley Steamer and was a luxury hotel. It's famous, probably unfortunately, for featuring in the movie The Shining, which I've never seen. I have stayed in the hotel, however, at which time it was under renovation.
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Saturday, July 3, 1909. Adulterated.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Saturday, July 3, 1909. Adulterated.
Federal charges were filed against Koca Nola, yes you read that right, after it was found to contain cocaine.
It was advertised, FWIW, as "dopeless".
It was the third most popular cola in the United States at the time, but would be bankrupt within a year.
Hudson debuted.
Hudson advertisement from 1910.
Hudson's were made until 1957, when the company merged with AMC. AMC would come to have substantial ownership by Renault and existed until 1987, when Chrysler bought the company's stock.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
1920, law, and the Geology Museum
I learned just the other day that the University of Wyoming College of Law was founded in 1920, and received ABA approval in 1923.
Shoot, that's a lot earlier than I thought. I had thought, for some reason, that the College of Law dated from after World War Two. It sort of redefines my concepts of what the university regarded as worthwhile or important early on. When the College of Law was founded, I think the school was about 30 years old.
In other news, the University has had to cut its budget fairly significantly due to the decline in mineral revenues. Nearly the entire state budget is funded through severance taxes, which have taken a real hit in the last year. The change in economic fortunes has been massive, due to the national slow down, and the regional decline in the value of natural gas. So, as a result, Gov. Freudenthal has ordered ever state agency to cut back, and also enacted a general hiring freeze.
The University has taken the ax to distance programs, I guess (I'm not really up on that). But as part of the cutbacks, the very old Geology Museum is being closed.
It's a shame. I'll admit that I find it sad, as I'm a graduate of the Geology Department. I hate to see it close. I don't know how old it is, but it's real darned old. I don't disagree with the need to cut back, but I find it very difficult to accept that a cut back in a feature of a hard science department is academically sound.
Shoot, that's a lot earlier than I thought. I had thought, for some reason, that the College of Law dated from after World War Two. It sort of redefines my concepts of what the university regarded as worthwhile or important early on. When the College of Law was founded, I think the school was about 30 years old.
In other news, the University has had to cut its budget fairly significantly due to the decline in mineral revenues. Nearly the entire state budget is funded through severance taxes, which have taken a real hit in the last year. The change in economic fortunes has been massive, due to the national slow down, and the regional decline in the value of natural gas. So, as a result, Gov. Freudenthal has ordered ever state agency to cut back, and also enacted a general hiring freeze.
The University has taken the ax to distance programs, I guess (I'm not really up on that). But as part of the cutbacks, the very old Geology Museum is being closed.
It's a shame. I'll admit that I find it sad, as I'm a graduate of the Geology Department. I hate to see it close. I don't know how old it is, but it's real darned old. I don't disagree with the need to cut back, but I find it very difficult to accept that a cut back in a feature of a hard science department is academically sound.
Friday, July 2, 1909. The 16th Amendment passes Congress
Congress passed the 16th Amendment allowing for an income tax, and it was sent to the states for ratification.
Fritz Haber and his assistant, Robert Le Rossignol, first demonstrated a nitrogen fixation process for synthesizing ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen, a process used for nitrate fertilizer.
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Monday, June 28, 1909. Al fresco.
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