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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1999
Page
7
The record lists famous individuals with lifespan dates spanning 1910 to 1914 including Mark Twain who dies in 1910 in Danbury and Leo Tolstoy who dies in 1910 at age 82, alongside other entertainers politicians and scientists with birth or death dates through 1914.
Leon Leonwood Bean, a Maine merchant, invents the Maine Hunting Boot in 1912 after leaking boots spur him to improve design. Ninety pairs fail, he refunds customers and perfects the boot, which becomes central to his mailorder sporting goods business. Camel cigarettes debut in 1913, with iconic packaging based on a circus camel photo. Chaplin introduces the Little Tramp in 1914's Kid Auto Races at Venice, fueling later fame.
Chronology notes Hubert Latham tops 3,300 feet at Bouy on January 8 1910. Paris floods on January 26. Congress backs immigration reform March 26. National Negro Committee becomes NAACP May 1. Father’s Day first observed June 19. race riots July 4 after Jack Johnson’s title win. Edison unveils kinetophone August 27 aiming for talking pictures in cinemas.
A 1911 chronology notes a fatal Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City during work hours, killing 146 mostly female workers earning a dollar per ten hours, alongside other major 1911 events across the United States and world. The list includes early aviation deaths, the Standard Oil breakup, the first Indy 500, King George V’s coronation, Chinese revolution beginnings, and Marie Curie’s second Nobel Prize.
Chronology covers New Mexico and Arizona statehoods in January and February, Girl Scouts origin in Savannah, Fenway Park opening with a Red Sox win, Ty Cobb incident and first baseball strike, Jim Thorpe’s historic Olympic double gold, and Woodrow Wilson’s 1912 political rise with a note on his November victory.
Readers learn that Halley’s comet returns after 75 years stirring mass hysteria and scientific warnings. People from Berlin to New York fear a cyanogen tail poison as Earth is predicted to pass through it on May 18 19, with prayers and doomsday gatherings reported in major cities.
Dec 14 marks Roald Amundsen and four companions arriving at the South Pole after a race with Robert F. Scott's British team. The feat completes polar exploration at both ends of the Earth within under three years, following Robert E. Peary's North Pole reach in 1909.
The April 15 Star Telegram relays AP summaries of the Titanic collision with an iceberg, its afloat status and tow toward Halifax. It notes 1,500 plus deaths, 711 survivors, and the loss of prominent figures like John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, underscoring the crisis of modern technology.
A sweeping timeline outlines early 20th century upheavals from women’s suffrage gains in Arizona and Kansas to the Armory Show exposing modern art in New York. It covers the 16th Amendment, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring chaos, the Derby Day riots, McKinley ascent, Panama Canal opening, Mona Lisa recovery, Calumet tragedy, and Europe’s slide to war sparked by Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination and rising alliances.
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