Headland High School - Tartan Yearbook (East Point, GA)

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where they stay, in slums just as in the old countries. Also during this time the labor market starts to unionize. There are riots, and strikes throughout the land, calling for hetter working conditions, shorter hours and more pay. Thomas Edison receives his patent for the phonograph. This comes in a surge of new inventions that America is proud of and willingly shows the world. A975 ff W fa S T mi sae if Q H 1 .- I ' f. f , fr at .V I I Q xi ,, ' ,f liwiallllx 42 .. ? ff allay? Elf ATQTKY R . to

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1880 - The population reaches 50,155,783 Edison receives his patent for the incadescent hulh, which will prove to he one of rnan's greatest inventions. 1881 - james A Garfield hecomes twentieth president. He dies after six months and fifteen days in office. Ches- ter Arthur hecomes twenty-first presi- dent. 7- K'- ff' . si . X l i ma - iii' Q1 is Q, ii, ng e ,E Qu--fr' Q iff' IA.. :5 75 ' x. ' ' viii?-3