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

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1908. A lollipop manufacturing machine. capable of manufacturing 40 lollipops per second. is produced by the Racine Confectionaries Machinery Company. The manufacturer claims that the machine makes more lollipops in one week than can be sold in one year. 1908. .lack Johnson becomes the first black world boxing champion. 1908. Teddy Roosevelt sends The Great White Fleet around the world. July 8, 1908. Nelson Rockefeller born. 1 Ka UN Hitman Riglzts C!1lIll711'.S'.X'I-O11 from 1946-53. 10. Sofozirner Tlatlz was ti selfleclueatetl orator wlzo worked farblaelx freedonz in tlie 19111 Centurv. I1. Slzlrlewi' Cliisliolnz was tlie fiiirt black woman in CO114Lf1'U.X'.X' and to ran for preriilent. 12. Jane Addams 11JllIlL16 fl' Hull House, tlze first social .settlement in Ameriea. 13. Clara Barton ?.l'1LIb1l-.YIZCL1 Ilze International Real Croir. 14. Elizabeth Cacli' .Stanton organized tlie ,first Women fi' Riglitx Coni'ention in 1848. 15. Margaret Chase Smith from Maine became one ofthe most vrominent RepulJliean.v in tlze Senate. 16. Clare Booth Luce had careers' as Congre.s'.vwoman. August. 1908. Dr. Henry Herbert Goddard. director of the New Jersey Training School for Fccble-Minded Boys and Girls. introduces the first intelligence test. August 27. 1908. Lyndon Johnson born. November 3, 1908. William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan for President by 321 electoral votes to 162. 1909. Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Robie House. Chicago. 1909. Child actress Gladys Smith is transmogrified into Mary Pickford under the tutelage of D.W. Griffiths. N.. I i . x t t - N , I N ww, X 4 ' 1 l . .W --, ,, ' ...h , . l M, 1 if 'l5? W',f' an Xt M ' W . f 1 . If uf l711l'1'l1'l'1.lI1I1. tzntlrtmistalotz 17. Di.x'ie Lee Raj' ix a melnlrer ofthe Atoniit' 1111lL'1'IQ-l' C'on11r11'.x'x'1'o11. 18. Gertrucle Stein wax one of' tl1e most fanzoux' literari' fiiezirex of'tl1e 1ll2fIx. 19. Pearl 1111111 won a Nobel Prize fi1rl.ite1'at11l'e in I'l.?rY. 20. Margaret Sanger was failed in 1910 for opening Arnerieafx' first llirtlz Control t'linit'. 21. Altllil' Lyon founclecl tlte at1'i'a11eecl female .tL'Hl1IltI1i1' at 1111. llolvolce. .Mt1.x'.rt1e11llxettx. 22. .Miltlretl Babe Dl'C11'1li.S'l111 lvrolce -1 Oli'mpie l'L'L'U1'L1.X' in 19.12 tII1l!'j7l'1l'1Ic'll against the Brooklvn Datlgers, 23. Margaret Mead is it leading 211111 eenttiri' antliropologixt. 24. 1Tl'CI1IC'6'.X' Perlfinx was Frtirtlflin Roo.x'ei'eltls' ' I E The Uncle Sam Chronicles January 1. 1909. Barry Goldwater born. February 9. 1909. The first anti-narcotic law is passed in response to fears that as many as 1591. of the American population are hooked on opium-based medicines. 1910. The Rotary Club is organized. 1910. The first pinball machine is manufactured in Detroit. 1910. Mr. Wilson observatory installs a 100-inch reflecting telescope. February 8. 1910. The Boy Scouts of America are chartered in Washington. DC. Be Prepared. April 21, 1910. Samuel Langhorne Clemens tlV1ark Twainl dies. August 13, 1910. Florence Nightingale dies. November 8, 1910. W.lVl. Frost of Spokane. Washington. invents the insect electrocutor. 1135 ,., J. T Q Q? ax :. 2 1 Seeretari' of'Lalmr and the first woman to serve in a cabinet. 25. Helen Keller overcame blindness nncl clettfizexx to become a leading 63XSl1'l'l..YI, lL'l'Il11'U1' and eclueator, 26. Edna St. Vincent .Millay wav a leading American poet. 21 Margaret Fuller wax a tranxeentlentalist leader and autlzor. 28. lfluri' Ca.x'.xatt wax' tlie 171O.X'I famous American i11If'1l'L'.Y.9l'Oll1.X'ff7fllA1l1L'1'. 29. Plz-i'lli.x' Wheatley was a hlaelc poet of' tlze 18111 eentutjv. 30. Harriet Beeelter Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. 31. Suxan B. Antlzony was tlie early feminist movenzentlx' first ana' greatest activi.i't.

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The Uncle Sam Chronicles September 12, 1901. King Camp Gillette organizes a company for the manufacture of safety razors. In 1903 he sells 51 razors. October 24, 1901. A.E. Taylor becomes the first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. November 16, 1901. A.C. Bostwich drives 60 miles per hour at Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. December 5, 1901. Walt Disney born. December 16, 1901. Margaret Mead born. August 25, 1902. An Arabic daily newspaper, Al-Hoda is published in Philadelphia. 1903. New York Stock Exchange built. 1903. The Great Train Robbery is the first motion picture with a plot. lune 18, 1903. E.P. Fetch and Marcus Krarup leave San Francisco in a one-cylinder Packard. August 21, 1903. E.P, Fetch and Marcus Krarup arrive in New York City. December 16, 1903. The Majestic Theatre in New York employs usherettes. December 17, 1903. Orville Wright pilots a 745-pound airplane 852 feet in 59 seconds. Average speed is 31 miles an hour. January 9, 1904. George Balanchine born. May 4, 1904. Work begins on the Panama Canal. December 27, 1904. Marlene Dietrich born. 1906. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle exposes conditions in the Chicago stockyards and meat-packing plants. April 14, 1906. Teddy Roosevelt coins the term muckraker to describe Sinclair and his fellow crusading writers. April 18-19, 1906. San Francisco earthquake and fire kill 452. June 30, 1906. Pure Food and Drug Act passes. it it 7 !- . 4 1' t i wif October 11, 1906. The San Francisco School Board orders segregation of all Japanese, Chinese and Korean children into separate Oriental schools. 1907. There are 236,900 miles of railroads in operation in the United States. 1907. A.L.R. Locke is the first black Rhodes Scholar. 1907. Electric washing machine marketed is Chicago. January 23, 1907. Charles Curtis of Kansas is the first native American to serve in the Senate. March 9, 1907. lndiana enacts legalization of sterilization. 'YJ Not all the.se famous women play musical instrument. 'l 17 I. Marianne Mooi'e is considered the leading 5 4 woman poet. 2. Dorothea Dix awakened America to the plight ofthe mentally ill. 3. Amelia Earhart 5 i X A flew the Atlantic alone in 1932. 4- Louisa llflay Alcott 2 12 wrote Little Women. 5. Georgia OKeefe is a 3 H S leading abstract painter 6 llflaiia Mitchell D discoteicd a comet and was the lust woman 7 Lidia Marta Child was a miter who championed the abolztionist cause 8 Margaret Clapp won a Pulitzer Prize and was president of Wellesley I, 9 ' 1 A 4 2. A , '. - ' -I ' I ' D 3' elected Academy Sciences D Q 4 v , , . , . I A. l U I 7 College. 9. Eleanor Roosevelt was chairwoman of

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1111-1 l1k'lCS1ll1lcll1'UIllL'lUS May 27. 1911. Hnlvert 11lll11DhfCy horn. 1912. i'harles1':1tl1e protlnees the first nevv sreel. 1912. Tl1e Girls Scouts LIHK1 The Canipfire Girls are el1artere1l, 1912. Casiinir 1'iLll1C1K tliseoxers vitamins. February 16. 1913. lfith .1111e11t1n1ent to the Constitution authorizes the income tax. January 9. 1913. Riehartl Nixon horn. March 4. 1913. Woodroxt Wilson lI1LiL1gLlI'illCtl. October 1. 1913. A I11Ul1LlI11CTl1 to a seagnll is tletlieatetl in Salt Lake City. lftqth. December 21. 1913. The first crosswortl pnflle appears i11 the Nevv York World. August 15. 1914. 1J11I1lll11Ll Canal opened. October 28. 1914. Jonas Salk horn, February 2. 1917. lliplornatie relatio11s .1re SCVCFCL1XfNl1l1C1C1'111L1I'ty. April 6. 1917. Congress tleelares xv ar UI1f1Cl'1111l111f. Huy 29. 1917. .lohn Fitngerakl lsennetly lworn. 1918. llie Xelloxv 1..lg11llS11111'tKl1lCL'kl to Nevv York Citfs traffic signals. llie first xellon light is 141111 by Hector Ronnlatlla. .1 llronx x'LlNlsC1l111l1xC1'. on his XXL15 to tl1e World Series. 1anuary8. 1918. Mississippi is the first state to ratify the prohibition anientlnient lo 111C L'onstitt1tion. November 7. 1918. Billy Gr11l1an1 l1orn. November 11. 1918. Armistice of Worltl War 1 signed. 1919. 1l.L. Mencken publishes Hn' ,'1lH1'l'It'tlII l1lllALfl1tI!lJt'. lunuary 4. 1919. Teddy Roosevelt clies. September 2. 1919. Cornrnttnist Party ol Anieriea organized, V December 11. 1919. A l11Ul1L1111CI1l lo 11 holl tveevil is tletlieated in Enterprise. -Xla11an1.1. July 26. 1919. limit, Sel111el'ferol Sea Gate. Nevy York l11ll1TlL's 1.1. George Burgess of the Arrny Air Corps in .Ill airplane. 1111- lwritle 111111 3 groomarein 1 ITC plztne. the niinister i11 111111111611 V1-l1C' ceremony is lwroattlt-ast 111 ratlio to a grandstantl l1eIo11. lt is not reeortletl whether the l1ri11e tosses her lwonqttet 1.111111 tl1e cockpit. lanuary. 1920. Prol11l11tio11 l1eeon1es effective. August 26. 1920. lil1e Wonian Suffrage AI11Cl1L1l11Cl11 to the f'onstit11tio11 heroines Lau. D9C6m1J9f 10. 1920. Nolvel 1,1'll,L' for Peace avvardecl to Wootlrovs Wilson. 1922. Sinclair Lewis pnl1lisl1es lftlftftlll. Jannary 24. 1922. ills. Nelson patents 111C hvkznm Pun luly. 1922. Tl1e first tnlve 1101111 atlvertising si-tn appears in New York. August 1. 1922. Alewaritlet 111111111111 Bell tlies. 1923. Trzm' IITZTQLUIHL' is l5lll5llNl1Ckl lvy 11CI1Fy1..l1CC. BLACK S N The All T im1