Google Skills Stink--Need News of Interest 1909

http://www.hisdates.com/years/1909.html

you may get a popup.

You could ask Ol' Fashioned Girl what happened that year!




;-)

Just kidding!

I don't think the Bob Evans birthday cards - Remember when or whatever they're called - still go back that far, but I suspect they might have when they were first out. You might try tracking those cards to see who puts them out and whether they had a 1909 - if they did, I suspect they'd be tickled to help you.

If you have a specific locality you're looking at, you could put the locality name and state within quotes and the year in a Google search to see what you find. Google also has an archive of old news articles. Doogs posted it in the historical genre forum with the link within the last several (to 6) months, so you might see if you can find that post and take a look.

Our newspaper sometimes has a "on this date in history" filler - you might check your newspaper to see if they have access to that information and where you could look to find the "mother lode".

Hope these suggestions help a bit. Puma

alleycat said:

You could ask Ol' Fashioned Girl what happened that year!

;-)

Just kidding!

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Been nice knowing you, AC.

Hound, you might try typing in Today In History 1909.

Bayou Bill

eta: Yep, that done did it. Here are Jan and March

Jan 1st - Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4)
Jan 1st - Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
Jan 2nd - 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50)
Jan 5th - Colombia recognizes Panama's independence
Jan 9th - Ernest Shackleton reaches 88°23' south
Jan 14th - Coöp. Far. Central Management forms
Jan 16th - British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
Jan 16th - David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
Jan 19th - Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC
Jan 22nd - Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich
Jan 23rd - 1st radio rescue at sea
Jan 25th - Richard Strauss' premier of "Elektra" in Dresden
Jan 27th - The Young Left is founded in Norway.
Jan 28th - US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
Feb 1st - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
Feb 2nd - Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
Feb 8th - France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
Feb 9th - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
Feb 9th - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
Feb 12th - National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
Feb 12th - Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
Feb 12th - Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
Feb 16th - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
Feb 16th - Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
Feb 18th - Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
Feb 20th - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
Feb 21st - John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London
Feb 22nd - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
Feb 23rd - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
Feb 24th - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.

alleycat said:

You could ask Ol' Fashioned Girl what happened that year!

;-)

Just kidding!

Click to expand...

Been nice knowing you, AC.

Hound, you might try, Today In History 1909. http://www.historyorb.com/date/1909

Bayou Bill

alleycat said:

You could ask Ol' Fashioned Girl what happened that year!




;-)

Just kidding!

Click to expand...

I'll be watchin' you!

Check out the Chronicling America website:

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

It has digitized newspapers from 1860 to 1910. You can search by location as well.

100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, America got a Lincoln-head penny to commemorate it.

Down in...

Genres Historical there is a sticky called Resources by Era.

There are a lot of resources there you could use.