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.

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The Uncle Sam Chronicles As a young nation. America didn't have all that much time for fads and crazes. since most of us were more concerned with mundane things like clearing fields, building cabins. farming, raising children and working. When people did get together for a little fun. well. there were always witch trials. or killing buffalo from the observation car of a transcontinental train. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were patrons of cock fighting. and by the mid-1800's phrenology became popular. Generally. however. there just wasn't very much to do. Leisuie industries didn't boom until the 40 hour work'week became widespread. Cycling was introduced in the 1860's. The first were unicycles known as Flying Yankee Wheels. They were popularized by gymnasts. but sales dropped when people began to discover that it took a gymnast to ride one. High-wheeled bicycles followed, and the taller a rider was. the bigger a front wheel he could straddle. Short men took up tricycles. By the turn of the century the bicycle's back wheel was the same size the front and bicycling became the first true fad. followed quickly by roller skating. and then roller polo. which was a kind of ice hockey on wheels. When the Civil War ended. fighting men brought home a wide assortment of diseases. and an insatiable demand for remedies and patent medicines. Cures were invented for liver ailment, falling hair. tuberculosis. flabbiness. impotency. indigestion. cancer, polio. and warts. You could order any of them from a wholesale house in Chicago or St. Louis, for 250 plus postage and handling. Two reasons for the popularity of these remedies were the most common ingredients: alcohol and opium. Even if people weren't actually cured. at least they didn't care so much. Trading Cards swept the nation in the mid- 1880's, depicting baseball players. politicians. and music hall performers. Playing cards were circulated with caricatures of political figures. and there were even trading cards that pictured patent medicines. Jazz music's journey up the Mississippi from New Orleans to Chicago is well chronicled. but by the turn of the Twentieth Century it was another indigenous musical form. Ragtime. that was sweeping the country. Nothing remotely as popular appeared on the musical scene until Bill Haley. Fats Domino. Chuck Berry and their friends blew open the 1950's. AFTER THE MDA? June, 1888. George Eastman patents and registers his Kodak No. 1, a camera which uses roll film and does not require a tripod or table for support. 1889. Elizabeth Cochrane. a reporter for the New York World using the name Nellie Bly. travels around the world in 72 days. February 22, 1889. The Territories of North Dakota, South Dakota. Montana and Wyoming are annexed. 1890. There are 125,000 miles of railroads in the United States. July 10, 1890. Wyoming becomes the first state to grant suffrage to women. August 6, 1890. William Kemmler. the convicted murderer of Matilda Ziegler. becomes the first man to be electrocuted. The electrocution takes place at Auburn Prison, New York. October 14, 1890. Dwight D. Eisenhower born. September 28, 1891. Herman Melville dies. 1892. James Naismith introduces basketball at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The peach basket employed retains its bottom so that the ball must be removed by hand after each successful goal. 1893. The New York World publishes the first comic strip, entitled Hogan's Alley. The first successful serial strip, f'The Yellow Kid, follows. May 10, 1893. Locomotive 999 of the New York Central attains a speed of more than 112 miles per hour. Summer, 1893. The Chicago World's Fair. June 9, 1893. Cole Porter born in Peru, Indiana. 1894. Colonel Royal Page Davidson creates the first military bicycle corps at Northwestern Military Academy. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Sixteen cadets ride bicycles equipped with clips for carrying rifles. 1895. William George Morgan of the Holyoke. Massachusetts YMCA invents volleyball. May 6, 1896. Samuel Pierpont Langley's 26-pound, 16-foot airplane makes the first heavier-than-air propelled flight. Langley's airplane is powered by a one-horsepower steam engine. May 30, 1896. Henry Wells of Springfield. Massachusetts. driving a Duryea Motor Wagon strikes Evylyn Thomas. who is riding a bicycle. causing the first automobile accident. Wells is incarcerated overnight awaiting a report on Ms.Thomasis injuries.