Record of 1912 World Events and Affairs Summary
A compact chronicle of 1912 milestones including political shifts in China and the United States, imperial abdication, statehood, and presidential nominations. Notable items include Yuan Shih Kai’s presidency, Roosevelt and Taft political moves, Wilson’s rising candidacy, the Democratic and Progressive conventions, and multiple international developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Arizona
Yuan Shih
Roosevelt
Finnish Champ Wins Marathon at Edinburgh World Meet
January reports list Kodiemainen of Finland as marathon and world championship winner in Edinburgh with a 2 hours 32 minutes time. The page notes records across sports including skiing, discus, high jump, boxing, rowing, and Olympic events.
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Kodiemainen
Finland
Edinburgh
Barney Reilly
Milwaukee
George Donhag
New York
Pat Macdonald
atTeserd Pack
Kiev
Willie Moppe
George Sutton
C. Lawrence
Boston
Ambane
Attell
Los Angeles
Cal
Arthur Postle
Cammer
Oxford
Cambridge
Thames
Mike Ryan
New York Athletic
Tone
James Doncum
Kiviat
New York City
Tayale
Epsom
Mark S. Wright
Oswald Kirkby
Jerome D Travers
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Harvard
Yale
New London
Stockholm
Cornell
Poughkeepsie
May Sutton
United States
Mary Brown
Pittsburgh
Jack Johnson
Jim Flynn
East Las Vegas
N. M
Ad Wolgast
Joe Rivers
Jim Thorpe
Carliste
Ted Meredith
K. K. McArthur
South Africa
America
Sweden
England
Thorpe
Arthur Chappie
Brighton Beach
N. Y
Ernest Barry
Richard Arnst
Australia
Ralph Be Palma
Wauwatosa
Wis
Margaret Curtis
Manchester
Mass
Boston Americans
Joe Wood
New York Nationals
Boston Red Sox
New York Giants
Willie Kolehmainen
Newark
Balkan War and Global Weather Disasters Chronicle
Chronology of early Balkan War actions with Montenegro Bulgaria and Turkey including battles near Adrianople and Kirk Kilise. World weather disasters across the United States and abroad record tornadoes floods hurricanes typhoons and earthquakes with loss of life and extensive property damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balkan States
Turkey
Adrianople
Montenegro
Detchitch Mountain
Scutari
Bulgaria
Servia
Greece
Ferdinand
Kirk Kilise
Bulgare
Kirk Kutse
Kumanova
Pennsylvania
Gallipoli
Niles
Mich
Chekiang Province
China
Panhandle
West Virginia
Ohio
Green Bay
Wis
Japan
Timeline of world events from 1912 era notes
A digest of historical items listing various 1911 1912 events. Proclamations state New Mexico becoming a state, military movements in Asia and Europe, notable aviation and maritime disasters, labor strikes and settlements, and notable deaths and achievements.
Major U S and international accident totals from 1900s
A compilation lists numerous disasters and fatalities from mining, rail wrecks, fires, and other calamities across the United States and abroad. It notes specific incidents in Kemmerer Wyoming Kinmundy Illinois San Antonio Texas McCurtain Oklahoma City Osage Detroit and more with hundreds killed and many injured. It also records fires in Osaka Pittsfield Philadelphia Houston and other locations and includes a quotation about a plugged quarter and a brief astronomy remark on sun spots.
National associations meet in major cities this year
In December and May and throughout the year, groups including the United Mine Workers of America, American Academy of Political Social Science, Colonial Dames, United Confederate Veterans, Sons of the American Revolution, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Education Association, International Typographical Union, Spanish-American War Veterans, American Bankers Association, G A R national encampment, American Road Congress, International Conservation Congress, W C T U, American Federation of Labor, Daughters of the Confederacy, National Woman Suffrage Association, governors conference, American Association for Labor Legislation, and American Association for the Advancement of Science met or planned meetings in cities such as Indianapolis Philadelphia Washington Macon Boston San Francisco Chicago Cleveland Atlantic City Portland Rochester Richmond Boston Cleveland and other locales.
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Colonial Dames
Washington
United Confederate Veterans
Macon
Sons of the American Revolution
Boston
Atlantic City
N. J
American Bankers’ Association
Detroit
Los Angeles
Cal
American Road Congress
American Federation of Labor
Rochester
Daughters of the Confederacy
National Woman Suffrage Association
Philadelphia
Richmond
American Association For Labor Legislation
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Cleveland
Historic events recalled in a numbered list of 1910s milestones
A compiled chronicle lists events from 1910s to 1920s including Taft signing the Panama Canal tolls bill, Col. Roosevelt’s shooting, Vera Cruz rebellion, Becker’s murder verdict, a long Paris London aviation record, and other global incidents with dates and places such as Newtown Connecticut, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Madrid and Tunis. It notes anniversaries and key political moments like the Altoona 1862 governors meeting and the Panama Canal governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Indianapolis
Theodore Roosevelt
Milwaukee
John Schrank
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Madero
Felix Diaz
Diaz
Charles Becker
New York
Herman Rosenthal
New York City
Picardie
Stuttgart
Germany
Moscow
Russia
Quotations Theme: Age and Life's Burden
A brief note quotes George William Curtis on age as feeling not years and Browning on God granting each man a life with a measured oil lamp, framing reflections on time and purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George William Curtis
Browning
Blunt James I and the Baronet Fate
A historic quip shows James I promising to make a son of a nurse a baronet rather than a gentleman. He pioneered the baronetcy in 1611 and noted he could change peers but not the inner station of the wives of his lords.
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James I
Local church notices and service times
Sunday school at 10 o clock and church service at 11 o clock. Wednesday evening service at 8 o clock. Reading room No 3831 Finch building open daily from 1 30 until 6 o clock except Sundays.
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First Street
Broadway
Finch Building
Train schedules and routes through Tacoma Seattle and Portland
Train No 366 to Tacoma Seattle Portland and Aberda times listed. Train 334 328 321 365 and 323 show departures from Seattle Tacoma Portland and Aberdeen with arrival times to Aberd n. Gasoline motor car service trains 351 352 run from McClery Elma Aberdeen and Elma with through Portland coach to Centralia.
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Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
Aberda
Aberd
Abacala
Aberdeen
McCle'ry
Elma
Centrala
Centralia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Baan Shih Kas
I Jwige Mahlon Pitney
United States Supreme Court
Who
State Department
Bennett H. Young
Christian X
Socialist National Convention
Eugene V. Debs
Emil Seidel
Taft
Cuba
Emicago
W. H. Taft
James 8. Sherman
Baltimore
Woodrow Wilson
Walmore
Thome
Marshall
United States Senate
United States Possessions
Cirease
Hiram John Sen
Chicago
Alfred Bo Iteers
Connecticut
G A. R
Alexis Carvel
Rockefeller Fustitute
Mary
Tripoli
Thomas R- Marshall
Indiana
Presi
Wilson
Rorsevelt
Wali
Debs
Great Britain
Congress
Staunton
Auckland
New Zealand
Mar
Jerome D. Travers
Oswald Arkby
Metropolitan Golf Association
Short Hills
N.S
Bel R. Kiviat
American Press Association
Gus T
Arthur Chapple
Brighton Hin
Jerome Travers
Charles Evans, Jr
Wheaton
Ill
Chicago Americans
New York Club
National Baseball League
Matt McGrath
Princeton
Soldiers’ Field
Wisconsin
Madison & Carlisle Indians
Army
West Point
Michigan
Carliste Indians
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Ann Arbor
New Haven
Willie Ritchie
Palm City
Saloniki
Constantinople
Balkan
Monastir
Durazzo
Adriatic Sea
Mississippi Valley
Kansas
Lakes
Missouri
Louisiana
Mississippi
Middle West
Atlantic Coast
Texas
South Atlantic Coast
Illinois
Oklahoma
Guanajuato
Regina
Wheat City
Saskatchewan
Denver
Mazuma
Seventroughs
Nev
Philippines
Jamaica
Pacific
St. Revere
Lake States
New Mexico
Manila
Charles W. Morse
Atlanta
Rutherford Page
Maine
Havana
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Jungfrau
Alps
Juarez
Amundsen
South Pole
Mil
Lawrence
Magss
Chicago Meat Packers
Calbraith P Rodgers
Atlantic
Long Beach
Southampton
Harriet Quimby
English Channel
Mackay Bennett
Halifax
Wilkesbarre
Philip O. Parmalee
North Yakima
Wash
President Taft
Fort Monroe
Va. C
Hudson
Capt
Dubois
Albert Peignan
Douai
France
Akron
Melvin Vaniman
Champlain
Crown Point
N.Y
Kansas City
Manassas
Russ
Black Sea
Aberdeenshire
Hazard
Isle of Wight
Cape Sable
Titanic
Isidor Straus
J. J. Astor
Gulf of Smyrna
Col. Astor
Vendematire
Saint Louis
Cherbourg
Centurion
Derna
Kemmerer
Wyo
Illinois Central
Kinmundy
J. T. Harahan
F. O. Melcher
Rock Island
E. B. Pierce
San Antonio
Tex
San Bois
McCurtain
Oxala
Jed, W. Va
Eagle Park
Grand Island
Niagara River
Delaware and Lackawanna
Gibson's Narrows
Ioe
Ligonier Valley
Wilpen
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Western Springs
Yazoo and
Montz
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Dresden
Equitable Life Assurance
Osaka
Academy of Music
Pittsfield
Downey
Lansing
Houston
Young's Pier
Damascus
Syria
North Adams
Thousand Island Park
Vancouver
B. C
Ocean Park
B. and O
United
States Arsenal
Benicia
Putnam
Conn
Liberty
Cincinnati
Mr. Witherson
Birmingham Age-Herald
United Mine Workers of America
American Academy of Political Social Science
General Federation of Woman's Clubs
San Francisco
The
National Education Association
International Typographical Union
L. International Conservation Congress
Ore
Sultan
Newtown
Marosuke Nog
Port Arthur
Tokyo
Altoona
Pulitzer School of Journalism
Columbia University
James Bryce
Spain
Canalejas
Madrid
J. A. Dix
A. T. Patrick
William Marsh Rice
Pacific Railway
L. Garros
Tunis
Davidson Bros
Gigantic Grocery
Grays Harbor
Chehalis County
White House
Yakima
Revere
Snyder
Columbia
K. C
East Heron St
Fielding
Jean Paul Richter
Christian Science Church
the Herald
BRN
D. M
Jaave
Aberdeen Ee
Particular Printers
Aberdeen Printing Co
East Wisbkah St
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