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May 7, 1912 - What's Going On?
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Around the world:
George V is King of England ( He will be the great great grandfather of Princes William and Harry;)
Tewfik Pasha is the Grand Vizier of Ottoman empire;
V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin are just getting to know one another;
R. F. Scott is leading an expedition to the newly discovered South Pole;
Some older Chinese women still have bound feet;
Karl Jung is working on his theory of psychoanalysis;
Picasso is painting in a new style known as "cubism;"
In the United States:
William Howard Taft is the 27th president (elected by men only);
Ragtime music is popular and people are very optimistic about the future;
Henry Ford is making black Model-T cars on his assembly lines;
Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost are young, modern poets;
Isadora Duncan is the most famous dancer;
The papers are still full of reports of the Titanic disaster which occurred on April 14;
In Pittsburg(h):
It's raining. The Pirates/Dodgers game at Forbes Field is rained out;
The skies at midday are black as night from the constant smoke and fire of the steel mills;
The average wage for a 12 hour shift in the mill is $3.50/day;
Andrew Carnegie's net worth is $500,000,000;
With one nickel, you can go to the moving pictures or buy a bowl of soup in a restaurant;
Mr. Frick is mining coal, Mr. Heinz is making ketchup,
Mr. Westinghouse is making machinery and Mr. Mellon owns the banks;
William A. Magee is mayor;
You can rent a modern, completely furnished house in Crafton for $35/month;
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