South Catholic High School - Canticle Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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The Uncle Sam Chronicles 'Ynwtrr 1799. Jonathan Grout invents and installs a 90-mile semaphore signal system between Boston and Marthas Vineyard. A message and reply took ten minutes, but Grout kept getting a busy signal. March 4, 1801. Thomas Jefferson becomes president. April 3, 1803. United States purchases Louisiana Territory from France for S15 million. May 14, 1804. Lewis and Clark leave St. Louis for the Pacific Coast. July 4th, 1804. Nathaniel Hawthorne born. 1807. First soda pop. Townsend Speakman, great grandfather of the Pepsi generation, adds fruit juice to soda water and sells it as medicine. ' i 1 February 27, 1807. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born. August 7, 1807. Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont makes its first run on the Hudson River. August 29, 1809. Oliver Wendell Holmes born. December 13, 1809. Dr. Ephraim,McDowell June 18, 1812. United States declares war on Great Britain. August 19, 1812. First woman marine, Ruth Streeter fought aboard the USS. Const1'tut1'on. If anybody knew she was a woman at that time, he wouldn't admit it. December 1, 1813. British forces burn the city of Buffalo. August 24, 1814. British burn Washington. D.C. and the White House. December 24, 1814. The Treaty of Ghent concludes the War of 1812. The United States Army recorded 531.622 enlistments, but some militiamen enlisted as many as ten times. There was a bonus for enlistment. it January 8, 1815. British defeated at New Orleans . The war had been over for more than three weeks but neither side had heard the news. March 4, 1817. James Monroe becomes fifth president. July 12, 1817. Henry David Thoreau born. November 25, 1817. Senaa Samma of Madras swallows a sword at Washington Hall. New York. manufactured for him by William Pye. May 21, 1819. The first bicycle is ridden in New York City. Two months later, the city bans them on sidewalks, streets, and in public places. August 2, 1819. Charles Guiee makes the first parachute jump. Ascending in a balloon. he plummets 300 feet before his umbrella-like chute opens, then is put in a holding pattern by the l-aGuardiatower but is blown four miles out of New York. performs the first abdominal operation on Mrs. Jane Todd. She was 45 and lived to be 78. 1811. An anonymous taxpayer returns S5 to the government. which he said he had defrauded. In 1916 the government received an anonymous payment of 554,923.15 ,bull 'ln its mythology is the true measure ofa nations strength For what is notional character if not the sum ofthe people s hopes and dreams failures and triumphs? What does it matter. really, lf Johnny Appleseed lived or did not live Today, inthe Collective mind of the American people he is every but as real ond V human as Teddy 1 t May 12, 1820. Florence Nightingale born. October.24, 1820. Spain cedes Florida to the United States. April 27, 1822. Ulysses S. Grant born. December 2, 1823. Monroe Doctrine closes the Americas to foreign colonization. 1824. Natural gas is used to illuminate Freedonia, New York. X January 19, 1825. Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett invent the tin can. 1826. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is published. July 4, 1826. Thomas Jefferson dies. 1827. Harrison Gray Byar builds a two-mile telegraph system at Long Island City 65 years before Edison's patent. 1834. The New York Sun announces that an astronomer has sighted men on the moon. They are described as being four feet high and able to fly with their own wings. Shortly afterwards, the story was admitted to be a hoax. Circulation continued to increase after the admission. 1 1834. Friction matches are manufactured in Springfield, Massachusetts. November 30, 1835.Samuel Langhorne Clemens lMark Twainl born. as Roosevelt Charles Lindbergh, or X Donald Duck. lx 1836. Texas declares itself independent of Mexico. February 25, 1836. Samuel Colt invents 9 the revolver. April 16, 1836. Massachusetts passes the first child labor law. requiring all children to attend school at least three months a year. Six years later, children under 12 are prohibited from working more than ten hours a day. 1838. Pierre Maspero, a New Orleans saloonkeeper offers the country's first recorded free lunch. g A CE:

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1' I.. the indomitable American Spirit. the eternal veritiesi' Nlaybe. but you won't find those here. either. Keep looking somewhere else if you're interested. What we have for you is an America that is usually' forgotten. sometimes not even remembered. occasionally best left undisturbed beneath its rock. Your history books have given you the hopes. dreams. promises and realizations of America. For our Ztltlth birthday. we give yott a second look. And we give it to you one year early. ' - f'I. f' 1, ., f,. . , ,L, .. -. . ..: - 1785. Dr. John Greenwood introduces the first porcelain false teeth to America and the world. One of Greenwood's first customers is George Washington, October 26. 1785. George Washington imports first jackasses from Spain. 1787. Levi Hutchins invents the alarm clock. Once set. the time ofthe alarm cannot be changed. September 17, 1787. Constitution is signed. September 13. 1788. New York named capital of United States. April 30. 1789. George Washington inaugurated. John Adams is Vice President. Thomas Jefferson Secretary of State. Alexander Hamilton Secretary of Treasury. September 15, 1789. James Fenimore Cooper born. 1790. James Dearham becomes first black doctor. 1790. George Vancouver explores the Pacific Northwest coast. 1790. John Carroll is consecrated as Bishop of Baltimore. first Catholic bishop in the United States. 3 939 326 March 1. 1790. First census records 3.939.326 Americans. April 17. 1790. Beniamin Franklin dies. 1791. Washington. D.C. is platted. March 4. 1791. Vermont becomes a state. 1792. First Conscription Law passes. Every white male between 18 and 45 is ordered to enroll in the militia and to provide his own weapon and cartridges. No punishment is specified for non-compliance. The l'nclc Sam Chronicles ,R stti ' GJ: ,N L4 1 'tgy t 'Q Nu Bcniamin Frank turkey dinner in Philadelphii ' ig the eye tty letter: 'k ck' -di' '---ricsio .M L . . . .. . . :gt . t . 1 1 'c'z at We drank ' X 'r N 1 b tint ' d'scht rge ' g i' 'c ec 'i va tery. 'i 's yt e ' g Q- t ' rofligt r tts X of elec r' ' pow r' w A iericans. a custom that contintted unreyersed until 1973. The turkey was seryed well done 'z kee Doodle was writ en in l755 V' Dr. Richard Shuckburgh at Albany. New York. tp z down of stragg y '- -'Q , . z cr ' so ig was played at the surrender of Corny alli: at Yorktown. By the time of independence. N 'w York had t i' z ver of 'wmmerce.z t oo .1 a medical college: mustard was being manufactured in Philadelphia. and an inclined railway had been constructed in Lewiston. New York. Two days before independence. B7 7 XX I 72' .fl i '7 X! A. f Ne I 1- 'H ' X , I f X if-' 1 lin conducted the first electric 3 t t in l'4'7. ' n H X lltl cy is Xe' tb ille lor out dinner by the clctt l ck 5. to tsttd by the clcttrit tl tick. before a fire dled by the electrified bottle: when thc W- 1 lic lths of tll the famous electricians in 61 ln ltnd lloll md l-1 inte md Ci im my tr- J lol in electrified umpcts lcr fi tht 1 1 r ol uns from tht l ti fied l t lhi y ts th be mntn ol 7Uy-ars X X of p ite c tit ci ly . f' n .W , I Y m t by l ts tput I tcdct tls Lit the d 1 y s X f 2.X L tl h tml Ct lll1N sch l md , l i New .Jersey became the first colony to grant suffrage to women. Later New' Jersey rescinded the law. declaring in 1807 that only free. white male citizens could vote. April 9. 1792. First maeadam road between Philadelphia and Lancaster. April 16. 1792. First ehuckhole. May 17. 1792. New York Stock Exchange meets at the Merchants Coffee House. October 13. 1792. Architect James Hoban lays cornerstone for White House. June 20. 1793. Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin. September 18. 1793. Cornerstone of Capitol layed. Architect is William Thornton. Capitol completed in 1830. June. 1798. Oliver Evans manufactures the first practical steam engine. December 14. 1799. George Washington dies. December 15. 1799. The Bill of Rights. the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. is passed. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Century.

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