The Gasoline Automobile is Patented!… Not by Ford, but by George Seldon, a Patent Attorney
Visitors to Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., often remark on a simple tombstone bearing the name George Baldwin Selden. Below Selden’s name is his …
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Booker T. Washington: Address to the Atlanta Exposition
Booker T. Washington’s 1895 Address to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition is one of the most famous speeches in American history. The goal …
Dreyfus Affair (PsyOp): French Officer Alfred Dreyfus is Convicted of Treason by a Military Court-martial and Sentenced to Life in Prison
The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906) traumatized and transformed France. Edmund de Rothschild arranged for an innocent Jew, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, to be charged with spying. This …
Brooklyn Health Dept. Forces Small Business to Quarantine Because Healthy Employees Refused to be Vaccinated
On May 2, 1894, two health department vaccinators visited a livery stable in the Greenpoint neighborhood where William H. Smith operated an express delivery and …
Puck Magazine Prints Illustration Depicting Yellow Journalism / Fake News
Print shows a newspaper owner, possibly meant to be Joseph Pulitzer, sitting in a chair in his office next to an open safe where “Profits” …
Brooklyn Health Dept. Hires Medical Tyrant Taylor Emery to Solve Smallpox Breakout
When smallpox reappeared in Brooklyn in 1893 after an absence of several years, many health officials were frustrated that they had no legal authority to …
The Panic of 1893: Boosting Bankers’ Money and Power
The “opportunity,” referred to later by historians as the Panic of 1893, had its roots in Argentina. In the early 1890s, British investors became enamored …
Rain-Making Tests Unpopular in Washington after Bombardment of the Sky Kept People Up All Night.
Ref: “Rain-Making Test Unpopular in Washington” Boston Evening Transcript, November 3 1892 Source: https://weathermodificationhistory.com/1892-rainmaking-test-unpopular-washington/
Ellis Island Immigration Station Opens
In December, 1891 seventeen-year-old Annie Moore of County Cork, climbed aboard the USS Nevada, along with her two younger brothers, in Queensland, Ireland (now known …
Reno Evening Gazette Publishes Cartoon on the ‘Effects of Rain Making’
Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada) Sep 5, 1891 Uncle Sam’s Rain: Prosperity. Politician’s Rain: Office. Miser’s Rain: Money. Merchant’s Rain: Orders. Farmer’s Rain: Crops. Spinster’s …