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

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Brigham Young, s clothing, f February '24, enerjghv, I1 U ' ' as te and 51011 rlz - The Uncle Sam Chronicles center. Called Zioni?-5Edope5ativeQfMercantile Institution. it consists of four stores selling dry goods and carpets. next vear he puts all four underfthe same roof. creating the first discount supermarket. against'President Andrewillohnson. He was impeached by the House and acquitted in the Senate by one vote. 1869. Bret Harte publisheskkflieMOurca.r1.v of Poker Flaz. 10, 1869. Uhi0rlfPaCifieiapd Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory. Utah. , as aidonkey. i.'.ppL4....t.LA Hafperlv Weekfi' and artist Thomas Nast entitles it sand J.A. Bailey open The Greatest Show on Earth in Brooklyn. New York. deprivingga citizen his vote because of race. color or previous condition of servitude. his employees Saturday .afternoons-off. 1872. 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 Walsh and Charles M. Colton are married in a balloon over Cincinnati. Ohio. Term Panic first depicts the Republican as an elephant. Q 4 1 the first book written on a typewriter. 1 K ' 5 .FP-.f,a.i1f,4 af 5ZeZi5itZ'.., 1876. The National Baseball League is formed. M Q. 3 Bell invents the telephone while Thomas Alva Edison is ' MNA . L ,M Alf .. - uv-H' 1877. Winslow Homer paints The Colton-Pickers. ' f 1,72 4 -, rf i. .3 1 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 Cabinu is playing. July 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. Benjamin 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 Huckleberzjv 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, lndiana, 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 presidential 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 Berlin born. November 20. 1888. William L. Bundy patents the time clock. Ross of Germantown. Pennsylvania. is the first child to be kidnaped for ransom.