Sources for every story in the 1900 number

The Galveston horror

1. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
2. NOAA, celebrating200years.noaa.gov
3. britannica.com/event/Galveston-hurricane-of-1900
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Cline
5. nps.gov/clba/learn/kidsyouth/chron3.htm
6. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/09/this-day-in-history-deadliest-hurricane-ever-strikes-galveston/
7. The San Francisco Call, 11 Sept 1900, p. 1 (Governor Sayers's appeal)
8. The Sun (New York), 11 Sept 1900, p. 1 (1,000 to 3,000 dead)
9. Evening Star (Washington), 11 Sept 1900, p. 1 (tugboats and refugees)

The weather

1. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

What happened next

1. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
2. NOAA, celebrating200years.noaa.gov
3. britannica.com/event/Galveston-hurricane-of-1900
4. nps.gov/clba/learn/kidsyouth/chron3.htm
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

McKinley again

1. Wikipedia, “1900 United States presidential election”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. New-York Tribune, 7 Nov 1900, p. 1 (headline stack)

Pekin relieved

1. Wikipedia, “Siege of the International Legations”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

76,212,168 Americans

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census
2. census.gov/about/history/stories/monthly/2024/november-2024.html

Roberts in Pretoria; the Boers fight on

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

The year at a glance

1. Refers only: each item's sources are listed under its own story in this issue.
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Also in the news

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_I_of_Italy
2. Wikipedia, “Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900”
3. Wikipedia, “Indian famine of 1899–1900”
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Standard_Act
5. Gold Standard Act of 14 March 1900, text, World Gold Council
6. Wikipedia, “Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

The Galveston horror, continued

1. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
2. NOAA, celebrating200years.noaa.gov
3. britannica.com/event/Galveston-hurricane-of-1900
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
5. nps.gov/clba/learn/kidsyouth/chron3.htm
6. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/09/this-day-in-history-deadliest-hurricane-ever-strikes-galveston/
7. The San Francisco Call, 11 Sept 1900, p. 1 (Governor Sayers's appeal)
8. The Sun (New York), 11 Sept 1900, p. 1 (1,000 to 3,000 dead)
9. Evening Star (Washington), 11 Sept 1900, p. 1 (tugboats and refugees)

Cline's warning

1. NOAA, celebrating200years.noaa.gov
2. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
3. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/09/this-day-in-history-deadliest-hurricane-ever-strikes-galveston/
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Cline
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

Miss Barton takes charge

1. nps.gov/clba/learn/kidsyouth/chron3.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
3. Clara Barton, A Story of the Red Cross (1904), ch. IX, Galveston, 1900
4. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/09/this-day-in-history-deadliest-hurricane-ever-strikes-galveston/
5. The San Francisco Call, 11 Sept 1900, p. 1 (Red Cross and the Governor's appeal)

How the news got out

1. Evening Star (Washington), 11 Sept 1900, p. 1
2. The Sun (New York), 11 Sept 1900, p. 1
3. New-York Tribune, 10 Sept 1900, p. 1
4. Evening Star (Washington), 10 Sept 1900, p. 1

The storm's long road

1. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
2. NOAA, celebrating200years.noaa.gov

Cotton rises on the storm

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 15 Sept 1900 (FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
2. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900

The vote by states

1. Wikipedia, “1900 United States presidential election”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Debs polls 87,945

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
2. Wikipedia, “Social Democratic Party of America”

The two conventions

1. Wikipedia, “1900 Republican National Convention”
2. Wikipedia, “1900 Democratic National Convention”

Burned in April, ready by July

1. Wikipedia, “1900 Democratic National Convention”
2. The Clio, "Kansas City's First Convention Hall (1900)"
3. Northeast News (Kansas City), Michael Bushnell, "Before Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City had Convention Hall"

Mark Twain comes home

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
2. Wikipedia, “American Anti-Imperialist League”

John Sherman is dead

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sherman
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Senator Davis is dead

1. Wikipedia, “Cushman Kellogg Davis”
2. Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Legislators Past & Present, Davis, Cushman Kellogg
3. National Governors Association, Gov. Cushman Kellogg Davis

Mrs. Catt succeeds Miss Anthony

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Chapman_Catt
2. Wikipedia, “National American Woman Suffrage Association”

The man who ran the campaign

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hanna
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan_1900_presidential_campaign

Platt's man who would not obey

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
2. Wikipedia, “William Jennings Bryan 1900 presidential campaign”

Plague in San Francisco

1. Wikipedia, “1900–1904 San Francisco plague”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Kinyoun

Riot in the Tenderloin

1. Will Mack, "The New York City Race Riot (1900)," BlackPast.org (2017)
2. untappedcities.com/today-in-nyc-history-the-story-of-nycs-tenderloin-race-riot-in-1900/

Four days of mob rule in New Orleans

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charles_riots
2. 64parishes.org/entry/robert-charles-riots

Mob dynamites Akron's City Building

1. Wikipedia, “Crime in Akron, Ohio”
2. University of Akron, Rubber City Revisited, Akron City Prison after Riot of 1900

Fourteen dead in the St. Louis car strike

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_streetcar_strike_of_1900
2. St. Louis Labor Tribune, Wild West St. Louis: street railway employees fight for rights

Hawaii a territory

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Organic_Act
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_Hawaii
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census

Honolulu's Chinatown burned

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinatown_Fire
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

The Austin dam gives way

1. Wikipedia, “Austin Dam failure (Texas)”
2. Association of State Dam Safety Officials, The Great Granite Dam failure of 1900
3. The Austin Dam, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 40

A government for Porto Rico

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraker_Act
2. britannica.com/topic/Foraker-Act

Governor Goebel dies

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goebel
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

La Follette wins Wisconsin

1. Wikipedia, “1900 Wisconsin gubernatorial election”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette

North Carolina votes to bar Black voters from the polls

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_North_Carolina_gubernatorial_election
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aycock
3. ncpedia.org/disfranchisement

The Senate shuts the door on Quay

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Quay
2. Wikipedia, “1899 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania”
3. Morning Oregonian, April 24, 1900, p. 2 (Historic Oregon Newspapers)

New-York gives 120,000

1. New-York Tribune, 7 Nov 1900, p. 1
2. The Sun (New York), 7 Nov 1900, p. 1
3. Wikipedia, “1900 United States presidential election”
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Odell_(politician)

A Hall of Fame for Americans

1. Wikipedia, “Hall of Fame for Great Americans”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Reverse at Mabitac

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mabitac
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pulang_Lupa
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Two reverses in the islands

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pulang_Lupa
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mabitac

General MacArthur puts the islands under martial law

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War
2. Wikipedia, “Arthur MacArthur Jr.”
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalista_Party

Judge Taft's commission

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Commission
2. Wikipedia, “1900 United States presidential election”

Gold on the beach at Nome

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome_Gold_Rush
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

The flag goes up at Tutuila

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Tilley
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa

The canal treaty amended

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%E2%80%93Pauncefote_Treaty
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_Kingdom
4. Morning Oregonian, December 21, 1900, p. 1 (Historic Oregon Newspapers)

The nation in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_science
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_literature
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_music
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

Around the nation

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dewey
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_presidential_election
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Clark
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_American
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University
6. cmu.edu/about/history.html
7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

How the allies entered Pekin

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Peking_(1900)
2. Wikipedia, “Siege of the International Legations”

Fifty-five days under fire

1. Wikipedia, “Siege of the International Legations”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

Nine weeks in the North Cathedral

1. Wikipedia, “Church of the Saviour, Beijing”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_International_Legations

The German Minister slain

1. Wikipedia, “Siege of the International Legations”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

Legations are safe

1. Evening Star (Washington), 18 Aug 1900, p. 1
2. Wikipedia, “Siege of the International Legations”

Missionaries killed at Taiyuan

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiyuan_massacre
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

The Taku forts taken

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taku_Forts_(1900)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

The Empress Dowager in flight

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cixi
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

Seymour's column back

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Expedition
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

Tientsin taken

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tientsin
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Germany

The war in China

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

The Powers state their terms to China

1. Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay, No. 482, Pekin, Dec. 23, 1900, Foreign Relations of the United States 1900
2. Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay, No. 506, Pekin, Jan. 19, 1901, Foreign Relations of the United States 1901, China
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

Pekin under the allies

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_von_Waldersee
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
4. Chris' Curious Regiments, East Asian Cavalry Regiment

The south kept out of the war

1. Wikipedia, “Mutual Protection of Southeast China”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
3. Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay, No. 482, Pekin, Dec. 23, 1900, Foreign Relations of the United States 1900

Mr. Hay's open door

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Door_Policy
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

Russia holds Manchuria

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Manchuria
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

The year in South Africa

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Kruger lands at Marseilles

1. Wikipedia, “HNLMS Gelderland (1898)”
2. South African History Online, General South African history timeline 1900s
3. Wikipedia, “Kruger Millions”
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger
5. Dawlish Chronicles, The varied career of the Dutch Protected Cruiser Gelderland

"Bobs" comes home

1. Wikipedia, “Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

The loss of Spion Kop

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spion_Kop
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_Kingdom

Kimberley free

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kimberley
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

Cronjé surrenders

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Paardeberg
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Canada
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

Ladysmith relieved

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ladysmith
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Mafeking relieved

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

Botha fights on

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diamond_Hill
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bergendal
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

Canadians save the guns at Leliefontein

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leliefontein
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Dragoons

Shots at the Prince of Wales

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Sipido
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII

King Umberto slain

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_I_of_Italy
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Bresci
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_III

A nation for Australia

1. Wikipedia, “Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Famine in India

1. Wikipedia, “Indian famine of 1899–1900”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Fifteen days at Palonegro

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Palonegro
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Days%27_War

The fort at Kumasi relieved

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Golden_Stool
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Cuba's convention meets

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_Constitution_of_Cuba
2. EcuRed, Constitución de 1901

Rabih killed at Kousséri

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kouss%C3%A9ri
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_France

The Crown takes the Niger

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate
2. Wikipedia, “Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard”

Uganda signs with Sir Harry Johnston

1. Wikipedia, “Buganda Agreement (1900)”
2. Library of Congress Country Studies, Uganda, The Colonial Era

Germany doubles her fleet

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Naval_Laws
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Bülow takes Hohenlohe's place

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_von_B%C3%BClow
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

"No quarter," the Kaiser tells the China corps

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun_speech
2. Wikipedia, “Siege of the International Legations”

Ito forms a party

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikken_Seiy%C5%ABkai

Japan's Crown Prince marries

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Taish%C5%8D
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

A railway to the holy cities

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejaz_railway
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hamid_II

New rules at the polls

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Belgian_general_election
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method
3. Wikipedia, “1900 Canadian federal election”
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Canada

Hull and a fifth of Ottawa burned

1. Wikipedia, “1900 Hull–Ottawa fire”
2. Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, Great Hull Fire of 1900
3. Glebe Annex Community Association, Ottawa's Great Fire of 1900

Earthquake shakes Caracas and the coast

1. Wikipedia, “1900 San Narciso earthquake”
2. Perfil, Terremoto de San Narciso: el histórico antecedente sísmico en Venezuela
3. Wikipedia, “Yellow House (Venezuela)”

Labour sends two

1. Wikipedia, “Labour Representation Committee (1900)”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. Wikipedia, “1900 United Kingdom general election”
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Hardie
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

Pan-African conference meets

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Pan-African_Conference
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

The twopenny tube

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_London_Railway
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_rail_transport

The world in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Japan
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Convention_(1899)

Round the world

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Spain
2. Wikipedia, “Treaty of Washington (1900)”
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Acre
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Brazil
5. Wikipedia, “Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov”
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Russia
7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Argentina
8. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_France

Nobel's millions go to work

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Foundation
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Russian to be the language of Finland's offices

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Finland
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Bobrikov

Britain in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_Kingdom
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

The Queen keeps Christmas at Osborne

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria
2. Wikipedia, “Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha”

France and Canada in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_France
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Canada
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_rail_transport

Germany in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Germany
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

King Alexander marries his mother's lady-in-waiting

1. Wikipedia, “Alexander I of Serbia”
2. Wikipedia, “Draga Mašin”

Italy and Ireland in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Italy
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Ireland

One civil law for Germany

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgerliches_Gesetzbuch
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Australia in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Australia
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Howse
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopetoun_Blunder

Plague in Sydney and Glasgow

1. Dictionary of Sydney, Plague (plaque and history notes)
2. Hektoen International, Plague in Sydney, 1900
3. Glasgow Life, Times Past: 1900 Bubonic Plague
4. National Library of Scotland, Plague in Scotland: last outbreak

A subway for New York

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRT_Lenox_Avenue_Line
2. Wikipedia, “Interborough Rapid Transit Company”
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_rail_transport
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

One block, 2,781 people

1. The Tenement-House Exhibition, Charities Review 10 (1900–1901), pp. 19–25, as transcribed at
2. Columbia University Libraries, The Tenement House Exhibit of 1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Veiller

New York passes 3,400,000

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

The ice trust and the Mayor's shares

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Morse
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anderson_Van_Wyck
3. Brownstoner, Walkabout: It's Nice to Be Ice, Part 3

Engineer Jones killed

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

Fire on the Hoboken piers

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Hoboken_Docks_fire
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Two hundred die in the mine

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Mine_disaster
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Smashed the saloon

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

Music free to all

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreckels_Temple_of_Music
2. The San Francisco Call, 10 Sept 1900, p. 1

Mail to the farm gate

1. about.usps.com/who/profile/history/rural-free-delivery.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Free_Delivery

Protection for game birds

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_Act_of_1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States
3. State Historical Society of Iowa, transcription of the Lacey Act of 1900

Birds counted, not shot

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Bird_Count
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chapman_(ornithologist)

Chicago turns its river around

1. Wikipedia, “Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River

A school for foresters

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_American_Foresters
2. Wikipedia, “Yale School of the Environment”

Ellis Island opens again, fireproof this time

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island
2. National Park Service, Ellis Island chronology

The Rice millions and a misspelt cheque

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marsh_Rice
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_T._Patrick
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Thirty-four States choose governors

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_gubernatorial_elections
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

Two hundred Republicans for the next House

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

The legislatures choose their senators

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900–01_United_States_Senate_elections
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

The governors as the year ends

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_gubernatorial_elections

Exports beat all records

1. Morning Oregonian (Portland), 21 May 1900, p. 2, "How Trade Grows" (Oregon Historic Newspapers OCR text)
2. Total Exports for United States, monthly, millions of dollars, National Bureau of Economic Research series M07023USM144NNBR, via FRED

Iron booming, London jittery

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 3 Feb 1900 (FRASER)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spion_Kop

Wall Street's record weeks

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 10 Nov 1900 (FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
2. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 29 Dec 1900 (FRASER)
3. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 5 Jan 1901 (FRASER)

Gold is the standard

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Standard_Act
2. Gold Standard Act of 14 March 1900, text, World Gold Council
3. Wikipedia, “1900 United States presidential election”

The new law at work

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 17 Mar 1900 (FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Standard_Act

Hard coal miners out

1. Wikipedia, “Anthracite coal strike of 1902”
2. Morning Oregonian (Portland), 18 Sept 1900, p. 2, "Rock in Earnest", Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 17 (Oregon Historic Newspapers OCR text)
3. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 22 Sept 1900 (FRASER)
4. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 6 Oct 1900 (FRASER)
5. Morning Oregonian (Portland), 10 Oct 1900, p. 3, "Take It or Leave It" and "Left to the Miners" (Oregon Historic Newspapers OCR text)

Carnegie and Frick settle

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 24 Mar 1900 (FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay_Frick
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Steel_Company

Furnaces still blowing, but iron piles up

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 16 June 1900 (FRASER)
2. The Iron Age, weekly review of the hardware and metal trades, New York (CRL catalog record)

The year in trade

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 12 Jan 1901, citing R. G. Dun & Co. (FRASER)
2. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 29 Dec 1900 (FRASER)
3. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 5 Jan 1901 (FRASER)
4. Total Exports for United States, NBER series via FRED

Wheat jumps in June, corn climbs all year

1. FRED, Wholesale Price of Wheat, Chicago, Six Markets (NBER M04F1AUS16980M260NNBR)
2. FRED, Wholesale Price of Corn for Chicago (NBER M04005US16980M280NNBR)
3. FRED, Wholesale Price of Refined Cottonseed Oil, Prime Summer Yellow, New York (NBER M041AAUS000NYM267NNBR)
4. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1900 (FRASER)
5. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 16 June 1900 (FRASER)

Collis P. Huntington dies at his camp

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_News_Shipbuilding

Railways of the year

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_rail_transport
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

Clearings off, railroads strong

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 4 Aug 1900 (FRASER)
2. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 17 Mar 1900 (FRASER)

Over 5,700,000 farms

1. census.gov/about/history/stories/monthly/2024/november-2024.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census

Record clearings, and the strike's bill comes in

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 1 Dec 1900 (FRASER)
2. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 6 Oct 1900 (FRASER)

Miners go back Monday; gold comes in

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 27 Oct 1900 (FRASER)
2. Wikipedia, “Anthracite coal strike of 1902”

The Bell companies change hands

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 28 Apr 1900 (FRASER)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Corporation

Panic on the Berlin Bourse

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 7 July 1900 (FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
2. Wikipedia, “Siege of the International Legations”

A league for Black business

1. Wikipedia, “National Negro Business League”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington

The cloakmakers form an international union

1. New York Tribune, June 4, 1900, and Louis Levine, The Women's Garment Workers (1924), p. 103, as reprinted at
2. Kheel Center, Cornell University ILR School, ILGWU history
3. Wikipedia, “International Ladies Garment Workers Union”

Labor's year

1. Samuel Gompers Papers, University of Maryland, chronology 1900
2. Encyclopedia of Chicago, Building Trades Unions
3. International Socialist Review, Vol. 1 No. 1 (July 1900), The Great Chicago Building Trades Lock-Out, as reprinted at
4. Wikipedia, “International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers”

Business in brief

1. Wikipedia, “Firestone Tire and Rubber Company”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_S._Hershey
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Vehicle_Company
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Steel_Company
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

The year in the markets, month by month

1. FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, NBER Macrohistory series M13001USM156NNBR, Call Money Rates, Mixed Collateral for United States
2. FRED, NBER Macrohistory series M13002US35620M156NNBR, Commercial Paper Rates for New York, NY
3. FRED, NBER Macrohistory series M1125AUSM343NNBR, Index of All Common Stock Prices, Cowles Commission and Standard and Poor's Corporation (1935–1939 = 100)
4. FRED, NBER Macrohistory series M07023USM144NNBR, Total Exports for United States

Detroit's first motor company stalls

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Automobile_Company
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

A horseless horse show at the Garden

1. aoghs.org/transportation/first-auto-show
2. info.mysticstamp.com/this-day-in-history-november-3-1900/
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

Count Zeppelin's airship flies

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_LZ_1
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

A new idea of energy

1. nbarchive.ku.dk/nba_calendar/1999-2011/100years_quanta/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law

Gliding at Kitty Hawk

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

No word from the sea

1. NOAA, celebrating200years.noaa.gov
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Fessenden
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Marconi patents a better wireless

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_science

Coils that carry the voice farther

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_coil
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihajlo_Pupin

Mendel's peas found again

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Landsteiner
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Vries

Army doctors and the yellow fever

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_William_Lazear

Malaria proved a mosquito disease

1. Encyclopedia.com, Manson, Patrick (Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography)
2. Obituary, Patrick Thurburn Manson, Journal of Hygiene (Cambridge University Press)
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Manson

A camera for a dollar

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(camera)
2. kodak.com/en/company/page/milestones/

A new Daimler for Nice

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_35_hp
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler, builder of motors, dies

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Stairs that climb themselves

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalator
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)

The Deutschland takes the record

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Deutschland_(1900)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Riband

The sun goes out over Wadesboro

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_28,_1900
2. Smithsonian Torch, "May 28, 1900" (2019)
3. North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, "Wadesboro: Prime Viewing for 1900 Solar Eclipse" (2016)

A voice kept on a wire

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphone
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_Poulsen

Radium gives off a gas

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ernst_Dorn
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon

A third ray from radium

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ulrich_Villard
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_science

Light pushes, a Moscow physicist finds

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Lebedev
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_science

The electron at work in radium and in metals

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_particle
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Becquerel
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drude_model
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Drude

Carbon with a hand free

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Gomberg
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_science

General Electric starts a laboratory for research

1. Wikipedia, “GE Global Research”
2. Wikipedia, “Willis R. Whitney”

Problems for the new century

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_science

Two clouds over physics

1. Oliver Passon, Kelvin's clouds, arXiv:2106.16033
2. Kelvin's clouds (Passon), University of Wuppertal
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin

The Navy's first submarine

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Holland_(SS-1)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Holland

Digging at Knossos

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Evans
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Cagni beats Nansen

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Cagni
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthest_North

Sponge divers find a sunken ship full of statues

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_wreck
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

A sealed library in the desert

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang_manuscripts
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_literature
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_International_Legations

Farthest south

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Expedition
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_science

Science and invention in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Deutschland_(1900)
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Wright_Glider
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_science

The harvest of 1900 in figures

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1900, Breadstuffs and crop summary (FRASER)
2. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1900, Statistics of the Principal Crops, pp. 753 ff. (Internet Archive)

Grain and flour at the year's end

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1900, Breadstuffs, pp. 1321–1322 (FRASER)
2. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1900, Statistics of the Principal Crops (Internet Archive)

Middling cotton near 9½ cents

1. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1900, Cotton, pp. 1320–1321 (FRASER)
2. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1900, Statistics of Cotton (Internet Archive)

The world's harvest

1. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1900, Statistics of the Principal Crops (Internet Archive)
2. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1900, crop summary (FRASER)

Jeff stops Corbett

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Jeffries
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Corbett
3. The Evening World (New York), 12 May 1900, p. 1

Lieut. Gibson, Derby record holder, dies under the knife

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Kentucky_Derby
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieut._Gibson

New York closes its rings

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Law
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Corbett
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_McCoy
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gans

Fitzsimmons stops Ruhlin and Sharkey in a fortnight

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fitzsimmons
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sharkey

A long shot takes the Preakness

1. Wikipedia, “Hindus (horse)”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preakness_Stakes
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildrim
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Stakes
5. Wikipedia, “Belmont Stakes top three finishers”
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Brooklyn's pennant

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Brooklyn_Superbas_season
2. baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1900.shtml
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle-Telegraph_Cup
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Major_League_Baseball_season

The National League's year in figures

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Major_League_Baseball_season
2. baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1900-batting-leaders.shtml
3. baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1900-pitching-leaders.shtml
4. baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1900.shtml
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodles_Hahn
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Nichols
7. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/July_7
8. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/July_12

Magnates turn down the players

1. sabr.org/journal/article/1900-1901-national-league-winter-meetings/
2. sabr.org/bioproj/person/harry-taylor-3/

Rusie traded for a college boy

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Mathewson
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Rusie

A wire under third base, and other odd days on the diamond

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_baseball
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Waddell
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Corcoran

White Stockings take the new league

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_League
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox

The cup series, game by game

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle-Telegraph_Cup
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Brooklyn_Superbas_season

The tennis cup stays home

1. Wikipedia, “1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Cup

Olympic games at the fair

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Summer_Olympics
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Americans take eight English titles

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_AAA_Championships
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Duffey

Kraenzlein wins four

1. Wikipedia, “Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Summer_Olympics

Paris results: the athletic games

1. Wikipedia, “Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Summer_Olympics

Beaten by a centimetre on a Sunday

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myer_Prinstein
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Kraenzlein

Swimming races in the Seine

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics
2. Wikipedia, “Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre obstacle event”
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arthur_Jarvis

American girl wins at golf in France

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Abbott
2. Wikipedia, “Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics”

France wins the rugby, an English club the football

1. Wikipedia, “Rugby union at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
2. Wikipedia, “Football at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
3. Wikipedia, “Polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics”

Vesper's eight wins on the Seine

1. Wikipedia, “Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
2. Wikipedia, “Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
3. Wikipedia, “Sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics”

Archers, gymnasts and a tug of war

1. Wikipedia, “Archery at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
2. Wikipedia, “Gymnastics at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
3. Wikipedia, “Tug of war at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
4. Wikipedia, “Equestrian at the 1900 Summer Olympics”

First lady champion

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Cooper_(tennis)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Summer_Olympics
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Doherty's fourth Wimbledon

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Wimbledon_Championships
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Doherty

Whitman and Miss McAteer national champions

1. Wikipedia, “1900 U.S. National Championships (tennis)”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

The Prince's colt takes the Leger

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Jubilee_(horse)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon_(horse)

The Prince of Wales wins the Grand National

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Grand_National
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Bury takes the Cup

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_FA_Cup_final
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_F.C

Aston Villa wins the League

1. Wikipedia, “1899–1900 Football League”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Rangers by seven points; another Celtic wins in Ireland

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899%E2%80%931900_Scottish_Division_One
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899%E2%80%931900_Irish_League
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Yorkshire unbeaten at cricket

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_English_cricket_season
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899%E2%80%931900_Sheffield_Shield_season

Wales takes the Triple Crown

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Home_Nations_Championship
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Sixth on the ladder, Melbourne take the premiership

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_VFL_season
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_VFL_grand_final
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Cambridge by twenty lengths

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_Race_1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_Race

Leander takes the Grand; Pennsylvania wins the college eights

1. Wikipedia, “Grand Challenge Cup”
2. Wikipedia, “Intercollegiate Rowing Association”
3. Wikipedia, “1899 America's Cup”

Devon wanderers win at cricket in Paris

1. Wikipedia, “Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Summer_Olympics

Vardon wins the Open

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_U.S._Open_(golf)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Vardon

Taylor's Open, Travis's Amateur

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Open_Championship
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Taylor
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Travis
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findlay_S._Douglas

Yale unbeaten in twelve

1. Wikipedia, “1900 Yale Bulldogs football team”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_college_football_season

Navy beats Army; the West has two champions

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Navy_Midshipmen_football_team
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Army_Cadets_football_team
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football_team
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Iowa_Hawkeyes_football_team
5. Wikipedia, “1900 College Football All-America Team”
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_college_football_season
7. Wikipedia, “1900 Yale Bulldogs football team”

Terrible Terry's year

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_McGovern_(boxer)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Erne

The welterweight title changes hands four times

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Matthews
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Ferns
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Taylor is sprint champion

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Taylor
2. Wikipedia, “1899 UCI Track Cycling World Championships”

Jacquelin is champion of the world

1. Wikipedia, “1900 UCI Track Cycling World Championships”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics

Charron wins the motor cup

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Gordon_Bennett_Cup
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

Steinitz, first champion of chess, dies poor

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Steinitz
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Paddy Ryan, the "Trojan Giant," is dead

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Ryan
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Lasker first at Paris

1. Wikipedia, “Paris 1900 chess tournament”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker

Sport in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports
2. Wikipedia, “1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge”
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Summer_Olympics
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_college_football_season

Wagner hits .381 to lead the league

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honus_Wagner
2. Wikipedia, “1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season”
3. baseball-reference.com/players/w/wagneho01.shtml

The Shamrocks keep the Stanley Cup

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_CAHL_season
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports

The sporting year, month by month

1. Dates and results as given, with their sources, in this section's articles: Jeff stops Corbett; New York closes its rings; A long shot takes the Preakness; Brooklyn's pennant; The National League's year in figures; The cup series, game by game; The tennis cup stays home; Paris results: the athletic games; American girl wins at golf in France; France wins the rugby, an English club the football; Vesper's eight wins on the Seine; First lady champion; Doherty's fourth Wimbledon; The Prince's colt takes the Leger; The Prince of Wales wins the Grand National; Bury takes the Cup; Cambridge by twenty lengths; Vardon wins the Open; Yale unbeaten in twelve; Navy beats Army; the West has two champions; Terrible Terry's year; Taylor is sprint champion; Charron wins the motor cup; The Shamrocks keep the Stanley Cup
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle-Telegraph_Cup

The champions of 1900

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Major_League_Baseball_season
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_college_football_season

How the elevens finished

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_college_football_season
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Western_Conference_football_season
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Southern_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association_football_season
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Yale_Bulldogs_football_team

Yorkshire unbeaten in twenty-eight matches

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_County_Championship
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_English_cricket_season

Strong at home, weak abroad

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Major_League_Baseball_season
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_baseball

The Exposition closes

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Opened unfinished

1. New-York Tribune, 15 Apr 1900, p. 1
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)

Wonders at Paris

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_M%C3%A9tro_Line_1
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_film
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cin%C3%A9orama

Glass, steel and a 60-meter telescope

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Alexandre_III
3. Wikipedia, “Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of 1900”

Black America at Paris

1. Wikipedia, “The Exhibit of American Negroes”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)

Paris goes underground

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_M%C3%A9tro_Line_1
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Guimard

A wizard from Chicago

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum

A novel nobody pushed

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Carrie
2. britannica.com/topic/Sister-Carrie

Books of the year

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Jim
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_literature
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interpretation_of_Dreams

What the country is reading

1. Wikipedia, “Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Holden
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_literature

Books of the year

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Johnston
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_and_Mr_Lewisham
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_on_the_Bummel
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_K._Jerome

More books of the year

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_That_Corrupted_Hadleyburg
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contending_Forces
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Chesnutt
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Behind_the_Cedars
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London

Tosca at Rome

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

"Louise" and a new singer

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_(opera)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Garden

Debussy's "Nocturnes," two of three

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes_(Debussy)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_music

Rimsky-Korsakov's "Tsar Saltan" in Moscow

1. Wikipedia, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan (opera)”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov

All of "Hiawatha" at the Albert Hall

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Coleridge-Taylor
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_music
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha_(Coleridge-Taylor)

A Neapolitan tenor at La Scala

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_music
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca

Gerontius at Birmingham

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_Gerontius
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_music

Finlandia at Helsingfors

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandia
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius
3. sibelius.klubi.fi/english/musiikki/ork_finlandia.htm

Philadelphia has an orchestra of its own

1. philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/philadelphia-orchestra-2/
2. yourclassical.org/episode/2012/11/16/the-philadelphia-sound
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Scheel
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Orchestra

Two million copies of a sad song

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bird_in_a_Gilded_Cage
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Von_Tilzer
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing
4. naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/lift-every-voice-and-sing

Sousa's band plays Lafayette into his place

1. United States Marine Band, The Complete Marches of John Philip Sousa, Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
2. United States Marine Band, Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa

The Vienna Philharmonic plays at a loss

1. Mahler Foundation, Visit 1 to Paris, Year 1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler

Mr. Belasco's Japanese tragedy

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly_(play)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Belasco

Professors protest Klimt

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Klimt)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt

A young Spaniard's autumn in Montmartre

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Casagemas
2. Wikipedia, “Le Moulin de la Galette (Picasso)”
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Rodin builds his own pavilion

1. boutique.musee-rodin.fr/en/content/39-chronology-of-auguste-rodin
2. universalis.fr/encyclopedie/rodin-en-1900-l-exposition-de-l-alma-rodin-et-l-italie/
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin

Lalique's jewels and Mucha's walls

1. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 'Dragonfly' corsage ornament
2. Sotheby's, René Lalique: 7 things you need to know
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Lalique
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Mucha
5. Mucha Foundation, Paris 1900

The stage and the concert hall

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_music
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_literature

Bernhardt plays Napoleon's son

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aiglon
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Bernhardt

"Sapho" acquitted in fifteen minutes

1. Wikipedia, “Sapho (play)”
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Nethersole
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_literature

"Florodora" reaches Broadway

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florodora
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Stuart

Mr. Shaw's new play given on a Sunday

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Brassbound%27s_Conversion
2. Wikipedia, “Incorporated Stage Society”

Pictures, still and moving

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_film
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_art
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)

American photographs divide London

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Holland_Day
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Pictorialism in America

Notable deaths of 1900

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_Kingdom
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Germany

Sir Arthur Sullivan dies

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan

Oscar Wilde dead in Paris

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

John Ruskin is dead

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

Stephen Crane dies at 28

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Crane

Frederic E. Church, painter of the Andes

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Edwin_Church
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Nietzsche dies at Weimar

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy, dies

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Boyd
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Two builders of the country

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Barnard
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_K._Holliday
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

A surgeon general and a Russian mystic

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Hammond
2. Wikipedia, “Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)”
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

The author of "Lorna Doone," a poet of the nineties and a Hungarian painter

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Blackmore
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Dowson
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mih%C3%A1ly_Munk%C3%A1csy
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Mary Kingsley dies nursing Boer prisoners; Max Müller, the Sanskrit scholar

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kingsley
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller

What a dollar is, and what it buys

1. Gold Standard Act of 14 March 1900, text, World Gold Council
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Standard_Act
3. kodak.com/en/company/page/milestones/
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)
5. Mastheads: New-York Tribune, 11 Sept 1900 (loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1900-09-11/ed-1/?sp=1&st=text); Evening Star, 11 Sept 1900 (loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1900-09-11/ed-1/?sp=1&st=text); The Sun, 10 Sept 1900 (loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-09-10/ed-1/?sp=1&st=text)
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreckels_Temple_of_Music
7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Cup

Home and family in figures

1. "Trends and Differentials in the American Age at Marriage," Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Table 1
2. National Center for Education Statistics, 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait (1993)
3. CDC, "Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Control of Infectious Diseases"
4. Tavia Gordon, "Mortality in the United States, 1900-1950," Public Health Reports 68:4 (1953)

Madame Paquin dresses the Exposition

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Paquin
2. fidmmuseum.org/learn/articles/jeanne-paquin
3. artherstory.net/jeanne-paquins-belle-epoque-parisienne/
4. Wikipedia, “1900s in Western fashion”

Miss Farmer's cook book

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Farmer
2. Wikipedia, “The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”
3. Fannie Merritt Farmer, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, revised ed. 1910 (copyright notices 1896-1906), Project Gutenberg

A free book for the hungry motorist

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide
2. guide.michelin.com/kr/en/article/features/history-michelin-guide
3. oldclassiccar.co.uk/guide-michelin-1900.htm

Eggs dearer at Christmas than at Easter

1. fred.stlouisfed.org/data/M0443AUS000NYM263NNBR
2. fred.stlouisfed.org/data/M0441AUS000NYM275NNBR
3. fred.stlouisfed.org/data/M0430AUS000NYM267NNBR
4. fred.stlouisfed.org/data/M0419AUS000NYM053NNBR
5. fred.stlouisfed.org/data/M04061USM350NNBR

The 1900 quiz

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census

Who did it?

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Cup
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Cooper_(tennis)
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Expedition
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taku_Forts_(1900)

The sporting quiz

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_sports
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Major_League_Baseball_season
3. Wikipedia, “Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics”
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Open_Championship
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_CAHL_season
6. Wikipedia, “Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre obstacle event”

Match the book to its author

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_literature
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Holden

True or false?

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_London_Railway

Where was it?

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

Who was it?

1. Answers drawn from the sourced articles in this issue: The Powers state their terms to China; Kruger lands at Marseilles; The fort at Kumasi relieved; Cuba's convention meets; Rabih killed at Kousséri; Uganda signs with Sir Harry Johnston; The cloakmakers form an international union; Gliding at Kitty Hawk; Two clouds over physics; Digging at Knossos; Sponge divers find a sunken ship full of statues; A sealed library in the desert; Sousa's band plays Lafayette into his place; American photographs divide London
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
3. Wikipedia, “Buganda Agreement (1900)”
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang_manuscripts

The storm, hour by hour

1. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
2. NOAA, celebrating200years.noaa.gov

The year in dates

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Glider

No February 29 this year, and the new century waits

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year
2. Wikipedia, “Old Style and New Style dates”
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century

The great sieges

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kimberley
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ladysmith
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking
4. Wikipedia, “Siege of the International Legations”

Disasters of the year

1. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-hurricane-of-1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Mine_disaster
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Hoboken_Docks_fire
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Australia
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_Kingdom
7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Italy
8. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Hull%E2%80%93Ottawa_fire

The ten largest states

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census
2. census.gov/about/history/stories/monthly/2024/november-2024.html
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Territory

The fifteen largest cities

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

The Exposition in figures

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900

Notices from the Courier

House notice: no outside sources.

Who rules where at the close of 1900

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_the_19th_century_(1851–1900)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_Kingdom
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Germany
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_France
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Italy
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Spain
7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Portugal
8. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Japan
9. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Denmark
10. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Sweden
11. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Romania
12. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_I_of_Italy

The first year of the new century

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_18,_1901
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_November_11,_1901
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census
6. Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1900, crop summary (FRASER)

The other thirty-five States, and the Territories

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

The next thirty-five cities

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_census
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_the_United_States

Crowns and chairs

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_the_19th_century_(1851–1900)
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Germany
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Spain
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_in_Japan
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_I_of_Italy