MAJOR
HAPPENINGS
Congress establishes the postal savings system in response
to public demand. The public has little faith in savings banks. The new
system will pay two percent interest. Fanny Brice is smash-hit
at the Ziegfeld Follies singing good-bye Becky Cohen.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr and Eleanor Alexander married in New York.
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SPORTING
EVENTS
THE FIRST SKATER to complete the Single Loop in official competition -
Werner Rittberger
Donau wins the Kentucky Derby.
Philadelphia beats Chicago 4 games to 1 to win the World Series.
Heavyweight champ Jack Johnson KO'd Jim Jeffries in 15 rounds.
Chicago is defeated by Philadelphia 7-2 in World Series. |

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything
if I had been one.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog, it's
too dark to read. |

Presents....the year
1910 |
Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced
to live on nothing but food and water for days.
Say anything that you like about me, execpt that I drink water.
Now don't say you can't swear off drinking, it's easy. I've done it a thousand
times. |
ENTERTAINMENT
Art- Amedeo Modigliani - The Cellist
Film - Lucrezia Borgia in Italy and Hamlet
in Denmark.
HIT SONGS
A Banjo Song - Howard Weeden Day
Dreams - Robert B. Smith The Chanticleer Rag - Edward Madden
Italian Street Song - Rida Young
TOP MOVIES
The Society Raffles - American
Mutoscope Company - Latina, Contortionist - American Mutoscope
Company
Duel scene, By Right of Sword - American Mutoscope
Company
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FAMOUS
PEOPLE BORN THIS YEAR
Art Tatum, American jazz pianist |
AVERAGE SALARY
$963.00 |
HOUSE
PRICE
$4,800.00 |
AUTO PRICE
$500.00 |