Renville High School - Renvillon Yearbook (Renville, MN)

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 ANOREW CARNEGIE «as a giant the railroad « S ste«4 industries He believed that it an the duty ofa ikI) men to distribute his w«a»th durmg his lifetime To that end he established 2800 i brents and many cultural hails thioughout America Serving an unprecedented four terms as President ol the United States FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT «as a popular leader «mo made eitenvve use ot fireside radio chats to eipiom fus plans and (cneiate enthusiasm to push them throu(b Confess The cnppler poliomyelitis «as conquered by OR fONAS SALK m 19S3 after more than n years o research Poho «as reduced by % m less than ten years SALK s re search continues m California at (he Salk institute A lifetime passion tor machinery led HENRY FOND to Detroit «here n 18%. he completed ha first motor e hicle The Ford Motor Company manufactured the first Model r « 1909 ROBERT FROST » poetry «as dear understated «ell metered and told the stories of rural America He «as a tour time «inner ot the Pulitzer Pnzc and has been called America s poet laureate r One of the most elementary symbols of the American ■ay ot life «as established «hen I EDGAR HOOVER and h s Federal Bureau of Investigate G men set out to dean up the country Hrs career spanned over 40 years A plam. homely «oman «nth tremendous appeal to the masses «ho «as always m the thick of things de senbes EEUNOR ROOSEVELT and her Met,me ol po be lung beside her husband during his tour terms MARTIN LUTHER KING «as a leader m the cause of end rights He had been a pastor before turning to the cause of segregate H leadership earned him the Nob Peace Prize m !%4 He «as assassinated by James Earl Ray m 1968 lieutenant Colonel K)HN GLENN started America s trav ets to outer space «hen he became the first American to orbit the earth He had been an aviator m World War II and a test paol m peacetime The motion picture industry «as revolutionized in Ameei ca and DAVID NARK GRIFFITH became known as the “Father ot the Mm art and king ot directors ‘ for his part m this revolution His camera techniques «ere the pmneering steps ot the industry THURGOOO MARSHALL is the first Negro to serve as a justice ol the Supreme Court His law career «as a med primarily at owl rights cases GERALD R TORO the first President to achieve the of ( • wlhout an election 1« 1974 through a senes ot scandalous events the Nuon administration toppled and FORD reached the position through approval by Congress

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THEY MADE THEIR MARK Men and women who helped shape America's history THOMAS PAINI. t bantfupl Quaker corsetmaher some teacher preacher and {roctt wrote the most bn» hant pamphlet ol the America Revolution. Hu worth m Common Some rejected longings end aspirations.lhat have remjmed part ol American culture to this day Oel lustier JOHN MAKSHAU esUbHsMd fundamental principle Ol American constitutional law He is noted lor Ins precedent ! declaration ol a Concessional act » unconstitutional He served throofh (ne admmatra tmns, »rom 180! 1835 ' A OANKl WEBSTER chose low as a career and went on to become wen known m the courts and m politics He was fence Secretary ol State with an eye always to the Presi dency nh h eluded him Born a slave m Maryland FREDERICK DOUGLASS taught himself to read and write secretly and at 21. escaped to freedom He was an ardent aboMmnoi campaigning successfully tor Ne«ro suffrage and cnril rights DOROTHEA on worked her entire adult life for reform ol the ousting penal and mental institutions m the mid 1800 s The first stale hospital m the nalmn at Trenton. New Jersey was a direct result ol her efforts v . A The New Colossus a sonnet composed by EMMA LAZ- ARUS .n 1883 ft inscribed on a bronze tablet at the base o! the Statue ol liberty She organised relief lor Jews and helped fugitives Irom the Car s ghettos lo establish homes m America The creator of the Cherokee alphabet SEQUOYAH, was an artist writer and silversmith He used a simple 1821 English primer lo compose the characters The famous redwood trees ol the Pacif coast bear h«s name AMELIA JINKS BLOOMER best known tor a mode ol dress she adopted during her campaign lor equal rights lor women Though ridiculed until she gave up the cos turn the Term bloomer came to symbolice woman s hd lor individual freedom ABRAHAM LINCOLN epitomized the American dream of a humble young man ascending to the highest office ol (he land He was superbly shilled al analyzing com pin is- sues and translating them into meaningful words lor the PuMk He was devoted lo the preservation ol the Umon HARRIET BEECHER STOWE wrote Uncle Tom t Cabm m an effort to make the whole nation realm the mhumam ty ol slavery Her book resulted m one ol the most popu lar and controversial plays on the American stage The Cnnl War was hmdfed by' this work HORACE GREELEY'S admonition to Go West young man was a rallying cry o Ihe pioneers ol America He was founder and editor of the New York Tribune He was best known for his philosophy of social reform and ha unsuccessful fed lor the Presidency m 1872 JOSEPH PUUT2ER was the first lOurnMat to reach a tn hr massive audience Ha New You World newspaper was the symbol ol yellow fournaiam with its sensational am aimed at the common man

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Imagine buying that acre of land you have spotted for $1.25! Or. even at the higher price of $10. Those are the prices offered to our founding fathers to encourage set- tlement of the wilderness areas of this nation. A stage wasn't the most comfortable way to go. but you could get from city to city for as little as $3 — at the amazing pace of six miles per hour. Compare today's wages with a 12-hour day in the early 1800 s. A man earned 50c a day. Of course his dollar bought a little more than today's. Butter in 182b was about 5C lb. in the Midwest, eggs. 3c doz.; corn oc bu., wheat. 25c bu.; and a cow could be bought for $5 With travel becoming the American tradi- tion, you could choose train, wagon, horseback or the water. A canal ride, with bed and board included, averaged 3 or 4c per mile. And when you reached your des- tination, you could sit down to a 5. or even 10 course meal for 25c (Ladies 20c. in consideration of appetite.) Farmers in the early 1800's could own the famous McCormick Reaper for a mere $100 But the Civil War increased prices as the machine became the first item farmers could buy on time payments for the sum of $1,500 A good suit of clothes then might cost $1.95 and ladies waists (blouses) were marketed for 49c to $3.50 with a whole dress pattern priced at 15c. Cookstoves, quality-satisfaction guaran- teed.'' could cost you $29.25 at $4 per month and a dandy heating stove could set you back as much as $5.73 and up. The first electric refrigerator cost $900 — which might be enough to make you faint on your 1907 fainting couch that had cost a mere $7.85. Your new baby travelled in the height of fashion in a wicker sleeping coach (stroll- er) for the sum of $12.04 If you had $1,500 in 1903 you could show off in one of the first automobiles. Ah. those were the days. Some of the cur- rent prices are reminiscent of those days, but at frontier prices, which were a whole different story. Hardy pioneers had to pay $2 a pound for sugar, too. And the same for a pound of coffee or pepper. Those items were only 15c per pound back in civ- ilized St. Louis. Flour was marked up 100 times for sale to the frontiersmen and dur- ing the famous Gold Rush, that precious commodity went for $400 a barrel.