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

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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 It is rescinded in 1872.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.

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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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1868. Brigham Young men's clothing, March 4, al' l 3 A Live 15 The Uncle Sam Chronicles f f tores sellin dry goods and carpets, first shopping center. Called Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. it consists o our s ' g BS drugs. The next year he puts all four under the same roof, creating the first discount supermarket. begun against President Andrew Johnson. He was impeached by the House and acquitted in the Senate by one vote. X 1869. Bret Harte publishes The Ouzcasts of Poker Flat. K May 10, 1869. Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory, Utah. , a donkey. It appears in Harpers Weeklv and artist Thomas Nast entitles it V and J.A. Bailey open 1872. of a The Greatest Show on Earth in Brooklyn, New York. a citizen his vote because of race,1color or previous condition of servitude. his employees Saturday afternoonstoff. Aaron Montgomery Ward founds the first mail order house af Chicago. George Greenwood of Farmington, Maine, invents earmuffs. and. reporter Alfred Ford attempt to fly across the Atlantic in a 300,000 leaves Brooklyn, New York, and flies four hours until running into a storm Germantown, Pennsylvania, is the first child to be kidnaped for ransom. nd Charles M. Colton are married in a balloon over Cincinnati, Ohio. erm Panic first depicts the Republican as an elephant. .i ft .Q K, ,O first book written on a typewriter 1876 The National Baseball League is formed .. , l , . . . ., 'tn -1,-4-. . f 5-1.:.4fHfe.4t Fix' k ,ff 1rrff'1l21gg-gfTflc'b,,, . ' ' ' . i .J is Bell invents the telephone while Thomas Alva Edison is - , V., . . . , :.2f '?25,g f tl ', . - . . l e a fy. , energy, Ju 1883. Benjami 1877 Winslow Homer paints The Cotton Pzclters 1, 1878. Emma M. Nutt is hired as a telephone operator. 1879. Mary Baker Eddy becomes pastor of a Church of Christ in Boston. May 28, 1879. Illinois prohibits the employment of women in coal mines. 1880. Former Civil War general Lou Wallace writes Ben Hur. 1880. The probation system is established in Boston. January 26, 1880. Douglas MacArthur born. March 10, 1880. The Salvation Army lands in New York City and holds services in front of Harryhills Gentlemen's Sporting Theatre where Uncle Tom's Cabin is playing. , ly 2, 1881. President James Garfield is assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker. Garfield is succeeded by Chester Arthur, the obscure. 1882. A ski club is formed at Berlin, New Hampshire. May, 1882. Chinese immigration is banned for ten years. n Franklin Keith opens the first Vaudeville show in Boston, called The Gaiety Museum. July 4, 1883. Buffalo Bill Cody opens his Wild West Show. 1884. Mark Twain publishes Huckleberry Finn. April 22, 1884. Thomas Stevens leaves San Francisco to bicycle around the world. May 8, 1884. Harry S. Truman born. 1885. A ten-story skyscraper designed by William Le Baron Jenney is completed in Chicago. 1885. Sylvanus F. Bowser of Fort Wayne, Indiana, manufactures the first gasoline pump and tank. The one-barrel contraption has marble valves. July 23, 1885. Ulysses S. Grant dies. November 11, 1885. George Patton born. 1886. Thomas Stevens rides into San Francisco after bicycling around the world. 1886. Carnegie publishes Triumphant Democracy. Marx publishes Das K apital. October 28, 1886. The Statue of Liberty, a gift of the French people, is unveiled, commemorating the 100th anniversary of American independence. May 1, 1887. The preside and growth ntial succession law is enacted to provide for succession in the event of death or discharge from office of both the president and vice-president. May 11, 1888. Irving Berl in born. November 20, 1888. William L. Bundy patents the time clock