1900–1919 Popular Music: Ragtime, Broadway Songs, Patriotic Music, Irish Ballads, Early Blues, Tin Pan Alley, and Songs Before Radio Took OverPopular music from 1900 to 1919 lived in a different world than the hit songs that came later. Before commercial radio became part of everyday American life in the 1920s, most people heard songs through […]
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1908 History, Facts, and Trivia Quick Facts from 1908 Popular Songs: Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Shine On, Harvest Moon, and By the Light of the Silvery Moon Most Famous American: Henry Ford, by October 1 The Conversation: Did you hear about this new Ford automobile? 15,000 orders placed within two days of
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Samuel L. Clemen’s notice for his next burglarSeptember 9, 1908NOTICE.To the next Burglar.There is nothing but plated ware in this house, now and henceforth. You will find it in that brass thing in the dining-room over in the corner by the basket of kittens. If you want the basket, put the kittens in the brass
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John Swain’s Letter to his son, who was entering Yale University ~1908 My Dear Son: I am writing a few things I meant to say to you when we took our last walk together, the day before you left for Yale. l intended to say them then and I will even confess that l shamelessly
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