ENLARGE
Come with me to look at another year when President Wilson attempted to halt a strike of 50,000 firemen and engineers on 98 Western railroads.
This year the Assemblies of God Church was founded.
Gano-Downs at 16th and Stout Street in their greatest summer clearance sale, offered men’s and young men’s fancy three piece suits for $11.25. You could rent a piano at the Columbine Music Company, 920 15th street, for $2.50 a month.
Manfred von Richthofen who was called the Red Baron was a great hero for the German army. He was appointed commander of the German Flying Circus. Made up of Germany’s top fighter pilots, this unit was highly mobile and could be quickly sent to any part of the Western Front where it was most needed. Richthofen and his pilots achieved immediate success during the air war over Ypres during August and September. He also held strong opinions on aircraft design and was involved with Anton Fokker in the production of the Fokker D-VII.
The Red Baron was killed four years later when he was brought down by ground fire. Richthofen had been responsible for shooting down 80 allied aircraft, the highest score of any fighter pilot during the First World War.
Governor Ammons was scheduled to help celebrate Colorado Day. The celebration promised that men and women who had lived in the territory for several years before it became a state, would be present.
More than 1,000 Denver women were enrolled in the News and Times cooking classes at Elitch’s cooking and housekeeping school.
Work on the new business place of the McMurtry Manufacturing Company was nearing completion. The plate glass display windows were reported to be the largest in the city with a passenger elevator and other improved facilities for handling customers.
Well dressed robbers locked a man in a vault at the Cohan Theater and took $6,000 in box office receipts.
Jimmy Clabby, American Middleweight, knocked out Dave Smith in the first round at Sydney, Australia.
The Denver Bears beat St. Joseph in the first game of a double header and lost the second. One of the players became peeved because he had popped a foul ball and threw his bat into the grandstand, where it hit a woman. The woman’s husband chased the player with the bat.
The race course near City Park was becoming popular, with a half mile track and stables for the horses.
A group of men in uniform made their formal debut in a two reeler motion picture this yesteryear. “The Keystone Kops” would become famous as bunglers whose slapstick pranks focused on wild chases in an out-of-control paddy wagon using death-defying acrobatic stunts.
The Denver Gas and Electric Company offered 25 cents on your old flat iron towards an electric flat iron.
Cartoons this year were “Among the Best Families in Centerville,” “Big Fire on Milk Street,” “Captain and the Kids,” “Old Dock Yak” and “The Auto Thieves and Polly.”
War was declared by Germany on Russia as 100,000 Americans fled in panic. The President was reported ready to send transports to bring people trapped in Europe home. Big ships were ordered back to port by American offices. France hurriedly massed armies and England declared war on Germany. President Wilson declared U.S. neutrality in the war. The Austrian consulate issued a general call to Austrians to rally to the support of the Fatherland. Suffragettes ignored the war crisis and bombed the ancient cathedral at Lisburn, Ireland. In Holland, Queen Wilhelmina’s call to arms started a bank run in Amsterdam.
In Terre Haute, Indiana, the superintendent of Sunday Schools enrolled her baby when it was three seconds old.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company purchased $4 million in bonds that had to be sold before the Union Station improvements could begin.
The Denver City Commissioners okayed building of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle. Billy Sunday was a professional baseball player before he became a famed evangelist
Popular songs that year were “Let Me Call You,” “Sweetheart,” “Moonlight Bay,” “When I Get You Alone Tonight,” “You Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dawg Around,” “Peg O’ My Heart,” “Can’t Yo’ Heah Me Callin’ Caroline,” “Missouri Waltz,” “When you Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose,” “It’s All in the Game” and “When Irish Eyes are Smiling,”
The Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
Baseball legend Babe Ruth made his major league debut with the Red Sox.
British and German soldiers interrupted World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce. The truce began on Christmas Eve when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium, for Christmas. They placed candles on trees, then continued the celebration by singing Christmas carols, most notably “Stille Nacht” (Silent Night). The British troops in the trenches across from them responded by singing English carols. The two sides continued by shouting Christmas greetings to each other.
Soon there were calls for visits across the “No Man’s Land” where small gifts were exchanged — whiskey, jam, cigars and chocolate. The soldiers exchanged gifts, sometimes addresses, and drank together. The artillery in the region fell silent that night. The truce also allowed a breathing spell where recently-fallen soldiers could be brought back behind their lines by burial parties. Proper burials took place as soldiers from both sides mourned the dead together and paid their respects. At one funeral in No Man’s Land, soldiers from both sides gathered and read a passage from the 23rd Psalm.
Can you guess the year?
This year the Assemblies of God Church was founded.
Gano-Downs at 16th and Stout Street in their greatest summer clearance sale, offered men’s and young men’s fancy three piece suits for $11.25. You could rent a piano at the Columbine Music Company, 920 15th street, for $2.50 a month.
Manfred von Richthofen who was called the Red Baron was a great hero for the German army. He was appointed commander of the German Flying Circus. Made up of Germany’s top fighter pilots, this unit was highly mobile and could be quickly sent to any part of the Western Front where it was most needed. Richthofen and his pilots achieved immediate success during the air war over Ypres during August and September. He also held strong opinions on aircraft design and was involved with Anton Fokker in the production of the Fokker D-VII.
The Red Baron was killed four years later when he was brought down by ground fire. Richthofen had been responsible for shooting down 80 allied aircraft, the highest score of any fighter pilot during the First World War.
Governor Ammons was scheduled to help celebrate Colorado Day. The celebration promised that men and women who had lived in the territory for several years before it became a state, would be present.
More than 1,000 Denver women were enrolled in the News and Times cooking classes at Elitch’s cooking and housekeeping school.
Work on the new business place of the McMurtry Manufacturing Company was nearing completion. The plate glass display windows were reported to be the largest in the city with a passenger elevator and other improved facilities for handling customers.
Well dressed robbers locked a man in a vault at the Cohan Theater and took $6,000 in box office receipts.
Jimmy Clabby, American Middleweight, knocked out Dave Smith in the first round at Sydney, Australia.
The Denver Bears beat St. Joseph in the first game of a double header and lost the second. One of the players became peeved because he had popped a foul ball and threw his bat into the grandstand, where it hit a woman. The woman’s husband chased the player with the bat.
The race course near City Park was becoming popular, with a half mile track and stables for the horses.
A group of men in uniform made their formal debut in a two reeler motion picture this yesteryear. “The Keystone Kops” would become famous as bunglers whose slapstick pranks focused on wild chases in an out-of-control paddy wagon using death-defying acrobatic stunts.
The Denver Gas and Electric Company offered 25 cents on your old flat iron towards an electric flat iron.
Cartoons this year were “Among the Best Families in Centerville,” “Big Fire on Milk Street,” “Captain and the Kids,” “Old Dock Yak” and “The Auto Thieves and Polly.”
War was declared by Germany on Russia as 100,000 Americans fled in panic. The President was reported ready to send transports to bring people trapped in Europe home. Big ships were ordered back to port by American offices. France hurriedly massed armies and England declared war on Germany. President Wilson declared U.S. neutrality in the war. The Austrian consulate issued a general call to Austrians to rally to the support of the Fatherland. Suffragettes ignored the war crisis and bombed the ancient cathedral at Lisburn, Ireland. In Holland, Queen Wilhelmina’s call to arms started a bank run in Amsterdam.
In Terre Haute, Indiana, the superintendent of Sunday Schools enrolled her baby when it was three seconds old.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company purchased $4 million in bonds that had to be sold before the Union Station improvements could begin.
The Denver City Commissioners okayed building of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle. Billy Sunday was a professional baseball player before he became a famed evangelist
Popular songs that year were “Let Me Call You,” “Sweetheart,” “Moonlight Bay,” “When I Get You Alone Tonight,” “You Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dawg Around,” “Peg O’ My Heart,” “Can’t Yo’ Heah Me Callin’ Caroline,” “Missouri Waltz,” “When you Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose,” “It’s All in the Game” and “When Irish Eyes are Smiling,”
The Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
Baseball legend Babe Ruth made his major league debut with the Red Sox.
British and German soldiers interrupted World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce. The truce began on Christmas Eve when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium, for Christmas. They placed candles on trees, then continued the celebration by singing Christmas carols, most notably “Stille Nacht” (Silent Night). The British troops in the trenches across from them responded by singing English carols. The two sides continued by shouting Christmas greetings to each other.
Soon there were calls for visits across the “No Man’s Land” where small gifts were exchanged — whiskey, jam, cigars and chocolate. The soldiers exchanged gifts, sometimes addresses, and drank together. The artillery in the region fell silent that night. The truce also allowed a breathing spell where recently-fallen soldiers could be brought back behind their lines by burial parties. Proper burials took place as soldiers from both sides mourned the dead together and paid their respects. At one funeral in No Man’s Land, soldiers from both sides gathered and read a passage from the 23rd Psalm.
Can you guess the year?
Do you know what year these events happened? If you do, send your answer to the Fence Post Guess the Year Contest, P.O. Box 1690, Greeley, Colo. 80632.
The answer to last month’s Guess the Year Quiz was 1897. Congratulations to Bob Anderson of Bottineau, N.D., for being selected our prize winner. You can expect to receive $10 by the 20th of next month.
The answer to last month’s Guess the Year Quiz was 1897. Congratulations to Bob Anderson of Bottineau, N.D., for being selected our prize winner. You can expect to receive $10 by the 20th of next month.
