Kettle Falls High School - Review Yearbook (Kettle Falls, WA)

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Buck Rodgers Davy Crockett Johnny A ppleseed ,Tarzan Charles Lindbergh Wild Bill Hickock Martin Lutlzer King John Glenn Jim Thorpe Joe Louis Shirley Temple Tom Sawyer The Lone Ranger Dick Tracy John Bro wn Toni S wilt 'N 494 z 5Nxx l fi 254-'i tin-A ,foul to, ? 1839. First baseball game played at Cooperstown, New York. 1839. Charles Goodyear vulcanizes rubber. July 8, 1839. John D. Rockefeller born. 1840. 2,816 miles of railway are in operation in the United States. August 30, 1842. Congress levies a tax of 75 cents a pound on opium. It had previously been duty-free. ff f ,f The Uncle Sam Chronicles il fu-J ll PN? BIN ei QL 6-s AJ VW Little Orphan Annie Jean Harlow Jessie Owens Gibson Girl Kate Smith Superman Rudolph Valentino Clark Gable Paul Bunyan Humphrey Bogart Gary Cooper Neil Armstrong Marcus Garvey Daniel Webster John Paul Jones Robert E. Lee Mickey Mouse Will Rogers Annie Oakley Pocohontas Sergeant York Lassie Audie Murphy Andrew Jackson Babe Ruth Billy The Kid Uncle Sarn Betty Boop ,Sam Houston John Henliv Kit Carson Charlie Chaplin Howdy Doody Pecos Bill DearAbby Charlie Parker Mr. Natural Louis Armstrong Elvis Presley Billy Jean King December, 1842. Dr. Crawford Williamson Long of Jefferson, Georgia, uses anesthesia in an operation, removing a tumor from the back of James M. Venable. The bill for the operation was 52.25, including 25 cents for the anesthetic. November 23, 1844. James Polk defeats Henry Clay for the Presidency by 170 electoral votes to 105. ' March 4, 1845. Texas is annexed, triggering the Mexican-American war. Marilyn Monroe Daniel Boone July 1, 1845. David Levi Yulee of Florida becomes the nationls first Jewish senator. June, 1846. Brigham Young and the Mormons leave Nauvoo City on their way to the Great Salt Lake. June 14, 1846. 49th Parallel is established as the boundary between Oregon Territory and Canada. December 28, 1846. Iowa becomes a state. 1847. The Mormons found Salt Lake City. February 11, 1847. Thomas Alva Edison born. March 3, 1847. Alexander Graham Bell born. 1848. Tom Hyer becomes the first American R boxing champion. 1848. The first chewing gum is manufactured by John Curtison his Franklin stove. He called it The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum, but it didnit sell, so' he doubled his pleasure, doubled his fun and came out with some new flavors: Licorice Lulu, Yankee Spruce, and 200 Lump Spruce.

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The Uncle Sam Chronicles V June 18, 1812. United States declares war on Great Britain. 1 X August 19, 1812. First woman marine, November 25, 1817. Senaa Samma df Madras swallows a sword at Washington Hall. New ' York, manufactured for him b William P e. 1 1799. Jonathan Grout invents land 'installs as ,T 90-mile semaphore signal system between 'V Boston and Martha's Vineyard. A message and reply took ten minutes,Vbut Groutfkept .. getting a busy signal. VV t 1 , 8 March 4, 180l..Thomas' Jefferson becomes 1 president. 4 ' 5 1 April 3,'1803.i United iStatesVpurchases'vt V Louisiana Territory from France for S15 million. May 14, 1804. Lewis and Clark leave St. Louis for the Pacific Coast. . - -'-. if 11. f July 4th, 1804. Nathaniel HuwthurueVbSru. 4 ,December 24 41814. The Treat -,of Ghent 'Qaniiary 8, 1815. Bfirifihrieiieateu a.N,.ro.1a... . Ruth Streeter foughtsaboard the.VUS. S. Constitution If an bod knew she was a y y. woman atVthat, time, heg,wou1dn't admitit. ' 'December 1, 1813. British forces burn the at V uityeufauffuiu. a V August zli, 1514. British burn Washington. D.C. and the White House. i I , Y Y A cuueiudesfthi war of 1S12..The United stares Armyfsrecorcled'531',622jenlistments, but some militiamen enlisted-feasgniany as ten tirnesf 5 There wasf'asb'onus foi ten1istment.' Y Y irst bicycle ' . ' is ridden later, the city bans and in at t laces 1807. First soda pop. Townsend Speakman,1lg great grandfather of the Pepsi generation, - adds fruit juice to soda water and sells it as medicine. . -. ' . Thewar'.hadf,been.over for more than three, weeksubiit.-neither side had heard the news. -March 4, 1817., JamesiMonroe' becomes 'fifthfpresidentsve ' V t ' V ' February 27,11807. Henry Wadsworth Z iJiilyf12,Vi1817.VI-lenry David Thoreau burnt. 'Longfellow taurus V 1' August 7, 1807. Robert Fulton's -steamboat Clermont makes itsfirst runon the 1 - .Hudson River,-. . . ., ,,-V 'e . - August 29, 1809. Oliver Wendell 'Ho1mesVVbornV, December 13, 1809. Dr. Ephraim,McDawelh A performs the first abdominal operation on 1811. An anonymous taxpayer returns S5 the government. which he said he had I Mrs. Jane Todd. She was 45 and Vlived to be 78. ' defraudeil. In 1916' the government V Vi received an anonymous payment 1' . 8' of 554,923.15 8 V ' ln its mythology is . t the true measure ofa May 12, 1820. Florenbe. Nightingale bornl October.24, 1820. Spain cedes- Florida to the United States. ' April 827, 1822. Ulysses S. Grant born. . December 2, 1823. Monroe Docitrineicloses the Americas to foreign colonization. V , . , 1 1824. Natural gas is used to .illuminate . Freedonia,eNew York. ..,. , 1 January 19, 1825. Ezra Daggett and Thomas V Kensett invent the tin can. . 1 1826.8 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is published. July 4, 1826. Thomas Jefferson dies. X ' 1827. .Harrisoni Gray Byar builds a two-mile ' A f telegraph system at Long Island City 65 years f before Edison's pagent. Ve ' V Q I 1834. The New York Sun -announces thataan E astronomer has sighted men on the moon. They are described as being' four feet high f ' and ableto fly with their 'own wings. Shortly ' afterwards, the story wasadmitted to be a hoax. ' Circulation continued to increase after- 1 f the admission' 5 1 A 1834. Friction matches fare manufacturedgin, .. 2 Springfield, Massachusetts. E f November 30, 1835. Samuel lianghorne Clenrens if CMarkiTwainl born. V V 'V V' , fi nations strength. For what is national character if not the sum of the peoples hopes and dreams, failures and triumphs? What does it matter. really, if Johnny Appleseed lived or did not live. Today, in the collective mind ofthe American people, he is every bit as real and as human as Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, or Donald DUCK- 1836. Texas declaresjtseltf independent of Mexico? , is - ' 1 t- it t if if February 25, 1s36.2lsu1uue1'cu1t inveiits thefrevolverf QV ,V V V LV V I April 16, 1836. Massachusetts passestthe . ,l first child.1abor.law, requiring all-.children to. attend school at-rleast three months a year. Six years later, children under 12 are prohibited from working more-than ten hours a day.. 'V f 1838. Pierre,,,Maspero, Orleans . . V ,fsaloonkeegeg offers. the cQuntry's first recorded free lunchi . . V V, , . V, V, . .

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l Tl 7The'Uncle Sam Chronicles , I 1848. All or pans New Mexico, Texas, California. Janugry 24,.1848. James W. July 19, 1848JAmelia Jenks Bloomer introduces 1 October 7, 1849. Edgar Allerl'Poe dies 1850. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet September, 1851. New York Times March 13, 1852. The first newspapervcartoon , March 20,f1854. The ,Republican Party July 25, 1854. Walter Hunt invents the paper November 5, 1855. Eugene Debs 1857. Joseph C. Gayetty of for 500 sheets, it claims to C February 14, 1859. Oregon August 17, 1859. The airmail to New York in a balloon piloted by-.John takeoff point. Wise later became the 'first of warfare by tossing dynamite sticks out ofa 1860. The United States has 30,600 November 6, 1860. Abraham Lincoln elected December 20, 1860. South Carolina February 4, 1861. Eleven Southern states convene at the Congress of under Jefferson Davis. February 5, 1861. Samuel D. Goodale patents the first peepshow machine. naming it the Mutoscope. April 12, 1861. 75 year-old Edmond Ruffin fires the first shot in the n Civil War at Fort Sumter. South Carolina. June 18, 1861. The first flycasting contest. held at Utica, New York2 is won by George Lennebacker. Arizona, Wyoming, first women's 1849. First 1862. The first organized football team is formed at Oneida, New York. ' They defeat every opponent from 1862 through 1865. and never allow an opposing team to cross their goal line. February 3, 1862. Thomas Alva Edison publishes a newspaper on a train and distributes it to towns between Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan. March 9, 1862. Monitor defeats Merrimac. July 1, 1862. The first income tax is imposed. It is rescinded in 1872. Creek, California. , September 22, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation declares that slaves are to be free on January 1. 1863. acquired from Mexico. York. York City February 17, 1864. The Hunley becomes the first submarine to sink a warship in combat, dispatching the USS. Husazonic to a watery grave with a torpedo. The wave generated by the explosion swamps and sinks the submarine, killing its crew. The hand-cranked craft makes four miles an hour and has no provisions for air. The Hunley sinks four different times, killing its crew on each occasion. April 7, 1864. First camel race in America held at Agricultural Park in Sacramento. California. May 19, 1864. Nathaniel Hawthorne dies at 59. April 9, 1865. Robert E. Lee capitulates at Appomattox. April 14, 1865. Abraham Lincoln assassinated. September 25, 1865. Langdon W. Moore. the first of the big time bank robbers, sticks up a bank in Concord. Massachusetts. and escapes with S310,000. November 2, 1865. Warren Harding born. 1866. Arthur Cummings introduces the curve ball to baseball. December 26, 1865. James H. Mason patents the coffee percolator. September 12, 1866. The first burlesque show, Black Crook . opens in New York and runs for 475 performances. 1867. William E. Lincoln of Providence, Rhode Island. patents the first moving picture projector. June 20, 1867. William Seward purchases Alaska from Russia for 57.2 million. 1868. The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball club. 1868. P.D. Armour's meat packing house opens in Chicago.