The Year 1901Sources
Sources for every story in the 1901 number
Every story and individual claim is checked against its sources before it goes to print. Here are the sources for all 305 stories in this number, 786 in all, listed by section and by the page each story starts on.
A Front Page
Page A1
Inside to-day
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The weather
What happened next
The Queen is dead
A nation for Australia
Oil gusher in Texas
Peace signed at Pekin
The year at a glance
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- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901
Also in the news
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Steel
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine–American_War
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_Major_League_Baseball_season
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Gorgas
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Maass
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Labor_Party_(California)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blood_River_Poort
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bakenlaagte
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Titles_Act_1901
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_the_United_Kingdom
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Winston_Churchill
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(1910–1963)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Rule_Party_of_Hawaii
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_Canadian_census
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipations_(book)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%27s_Blue_Period
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Bogolepov
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_Province
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Tobacco
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_District_Railway
A Buffalo
Page A2
The President is dead, continued
Two shots in the Temple of Music
"The period of exclusiveness is past"
Surgery by reflected sunlight
Roosevelt takes the oath
The new President
Who the assassin is
Czolgosz put to death
Emma Goldman held, then freed
The nation stops for five minutes
Mrs. McKinley goes home to Canton
William McKinley, 1843–1901
A London
Page A2
The Queen is dead, continued
Page A3
The Queen is laid to rest
The King opens Parliament
The King at fifty-nine
The King's new title, and an old oath
Coronation fixed for June
Victoria, 1819–1901
The Empress Frederick dies
The Duke and Duchess come home
Britain in brief
Glasgow's great exhibition
Forty-one millions, and the poor of York
Page A4
The Lords rule a union may be sued
Lord Rosebery tells the Liberals to clean the slate
Young Mr. Churchill takes his seat
Scotland Yard opens a Fingerprint Bureau
A The Nation
Page A4
The new President's first message
Mr. McKinley's second inauguration
Six children in the White House
Senator Hanna's terms
"Speak softly and carry a big stick"
The Fifty-seventh Congress sits down to work
A City & Country
Page A5
Experts to replan the capital
A The Nation
Page A5
Booker T. Washington dines at the White House
Cuba writes its constitution
Cuba accepts the Platt Amendment
Cuba elects Estrada Palma
Mr. Root at the War Department
Women nurses enter the Army for good
The Constitution and the islands
Porto Rico's first civil governor goes home
A free hand for the canal
Secretary Hay stays on
Page A6
Aguinaldo captured
The man who took Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo, a prisoner at 32
Five hundred teachers land at Manila
A native police for the Philippines
A company cut down at Balangiga
Marines sent to Samar
Judge Taft the first civil governor
Alabama adopts a new constitution
The court finds against Admiral Schley
Galveston tries a new kind of government
Jacksonville burned
The great heat
Homesteads by lottery
Page A7
Benjamin Harrison dies
Philip D. Armour dies
Seventy-six millions
The steel strike fails
The nation in brief
Hawaii's first Legislature quarrels with the Governor
Mrs. Nation in Kansas City
A Bible school that spoke in tongues
Over Niagara in a barrel
Cavalry sent against the Creek "Snakes"
A new head of the Mormon Church
The Nome gold scandal
The Rio de Janeiro lost at the Golden Gate
A nurse held for murder
A The World
Page A7
Australia's first Parliament
Mr. Barton of Sydney
How Australia voted to unite
Page A8
A flag for the Commonwealth
Australia closes its door
Island labourers to be sent home
The terms of the Pekin protocol
A Chinese prince brings regrets to Potsdam
Li Hung-chang dies
The war in South Africa goes on
Blockhouses and barbed wire
Botha strikes twice in the eastern Transvaal
The three generals of the veldt
Smuts rides into the Cape
Miss Hobhouse and the camps
Kaiser hit in the face at Bremen
Page A9
A son for the Crown Prince of Japan
Mr. Katsura takes office at Tokio
A member of the Diet stops the Emperor's carriage
Asia and Africa in brief
The railway reaches the great lake
The Iron Amir is dead
An expedition against the Mullah
Lord Curzon makes a frontier province
Canada and Australia in brief
New Zealand stays out of the Commonwealth
A Persian concession for Mr. D'Arcy
Canada counts five millions
A long toll bridge over the St. John
An American missionary held for ransom
Europe in brief
France makes a law on associations
The Church casts out Count Tolstoy
Russia's Minister of Education shot
"The Spark," a paper the Czar cannot stop
Page A10
The Pope on Christian democracy
A "moral obligation" in the Indies
New Prime Ministers at The Hague and Rome
Ashanti annexed to the Crown
The march on Arochukwu
Finland loses its army
Denmark's King gives way to the Left
Ireland in the year
Deaths abroad
A play sets Madrid in an uproar
Colombia's civil war in its third year
Chile buries a President and chooses another
Trains run across Manchuria
The end of the Caste War in Yucatan
The school children of Wreschen
Page A11
Sir Frederick Lugard rules the Niger country
A City & Country
Page A11
A new law for the tenements
Reform wins in two cities
Two mayors who defy the machines
Cleveland elects a millionaire reformer
Charleston opens its Ivory City
Lincoln laid in concrete at Springfield
Disasters of the year
Boston rides above its streets
San Francisco's long strike, and a labor mayor
Telluride miners win their strike
The Cherry Sisters lose in the Supreme Court
Page A12
Alfred Packer goes free
Yale keeps her two hundredth birthday
A The Nation
Page A12
Death of Hiram R. Revels, the first coloured Senator
Buffalo Bill's show train wrecked
Train robbers caught with the Great Northern's money
"Coin" Harvey opens a resort in the Ozarks
A sky-scraper for the flatiron lot
St. Louis has its fifteen millions for a world's fair
Twenty-four States change governors
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_the_United_States
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_gubernatorial_elections
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_United_States_gubernatorial_elections
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Samford
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rankin_Rogers
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57th_United_States_Congress
A Hall of Fame for twenty-nine Americans
Mr. Bryan turns editor
The long heat of the summer
B Business & Money
Page B1
The billion-dollar company
Mr. Carnegie retires, and gives
Panic on Wall Street
Hill and Harriman make peace
Page B2
The rush to Beaumont
Japan lights its first great iron furnace
The motor car for $650
A razor with a blade to throw away
The Mercedes car sweeps Nice week
Mr. Edison's new battery
The Victor company at Camden
The year of Mr. Morgan
Railway notes of the year
The Celtic, largest ship afloat
The fastest ship on the Atlantic shakes
Page B3
Business in brief
British tobacco makers combine against Mr. Duke
Mr. Yerkes takes up the London Underground
The Pennsylvania will tunnel to New York
B Science & Invention
Page B3
A signal across the Atlantic
The first Nobel prizes
Two Dayton men try to fly
Page B4
Round the Eiffel Tower
Professor Langley's model flies on petrol
The Navy's first submarine
A turbine steamer on the Clyde
A railway that hangs over a river
A new star in Perseus
The Discovery sails south
A German and a Swedish ship sail for the South Pole
Greek statues raised from the sea
Three kinds of human blood
Page B5
A machine that sucks up dust
A Liverpool clerk patents a toy for builders
Science in brief
Mr. Tesla builds a tower at Shoreham
Dr. Takamine isolates the gland principle
The mosquito convicted, and Havana cleaned
Mr. Rockefeller founds an institute for medical research
Page B6
Mr. Hewitt's mercury lamp
New species at a single step
Radium burns the men who study it
A parasite in the blood of a Gambia man
Medals for Professor Gibbs and four others
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copley_Medal
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Medal
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Medal
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaston_Medal
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_science
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Willard_Gibbs
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Downing_Liveing
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Ayrton
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Barrois
A hot wire, a dog's abdomen and two links of a protein
Watching birds instead of shooting them
"Father" Willis, the organ builder, dies at 79
Two Englishwomen in the learned journals
C Sports
Page C1
Two major leagues
Ban Johnson's league
McGraw's Orioles finish fifth
Ten runs in the ninth at Detroit
Lajoie hits .426
Pittsburg's first pennant
The Flying Dutchman
Page C2
Cy Young wins 33
Mathewson's no-hit game
How the clubs finished
Notes of the diamond
The minor leagues band together
Columbia keeps the Cup
Homestead's paid eleven unbeaten
Page C3
The yacht and the grocer
Jeffries beats Ruhlin
Young Corbett stops McGovern
Page C4
Gans fights his way back
Michigan scores 501 points
Harvard beats Yale, 22 to 0
Army beats Navy before the President
His Eminence wins the Derby
Page C5
Grudon wins in a snowstorm
The year on the English turf
The Cup goes south
Liverpool win the League
Hearts win the Scottish Cup
Anderson wins the Open
Travis wins the Amateur again
Gore beats Doherty
Larned is American champion
Caffery wins again at Boston
Major Taylor in Europe
Fournier wins Paris to Berlin
Page C6
Ford beats Winton
The Stanley Cup goes west
Oxford win the Boat Race
MacLaren's team in Australia
Sport in brief
Bowlers hold their first national tournament
The champions of 1901
The League tables in full
More of the sporting year
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Days_of_New_York
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Walthour
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_McEachern
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hilton
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Cricketers_of_the_Year
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_sports
D Life & Arts
Page D1
The Rainbow City closes
Sights of the Pan-American
A poet wins the first prize
Mr. Wells sends two Englishmen to the Moon
Page D2
Sherlock Holmes returns
Mr. Kipling's "Kim"
A Lübeck family in decline
A small book about a rabbit
Mr. Hardy's poems of the war
Page D3
The wheat and the railroad
Mr. Washington's life
Mark Twain against the empires
What the country read
Other books of the year
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mr. Hall Caine's novel of Rome
Mr. Wells foretells the coming century
Page D4
The national biography is finished
Chekhov's "Three Sisters"
Miss Barrymore is a star
Mr. Strindberg's marriage of hate
Miss Maude Adams in "Quality Street"
Mr. Gillette's Sherlock Holmes takes London
Page D5
Verdi is dead
Rachmaninoff's new concerto
Dvořák's "Rusalka"
Strauss's "Feuersnot" shocks Dresden
Naples is cool to Caruso
Page D6
Mahler's Fourth Symphony
Elgar's marches
Music in brief
Puccini's "Tosca" comes to the Metropolitan
Van Gogh shown at Paris
A young Spaniard turns to blue
Gauguin goes to the Marquesas
Pictures and statues of the year
A Paris weekly of pictures that bite
Page D7
The moving pictures of 1901
Notable deaths of 1901
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_literature
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_art
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_music
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_science
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_Germany
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Mary_Yonge
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhang
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlodwig,_Prince_of_Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Erik_Nordenskiöld
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_Princess_Royal
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Danforth_Armour
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_the_United_States
Toulouse-Lautrec dies at 36
Böcklin, Greenaway, Yonge, Besant and Spyri
D Home & Household
Page D7
New things for the home
A camera for two dollars
Plain furniture and a magazine for it
The way to a man's heart
A house that hugs the prairie
D Almanac & Puzzles
Page D7
The 1901 quiz
True or false?
Page D8
Who was it?
The year in dates
The twentieth century begins
The sky in 1901: two eclipses and a great comet
What the almanac holds for 1902
- https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE1901-2000.html: NASA, Catalog of Solar Eclipses 1901 to 2000 (entries 09285-09287)
- https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEcat5/LE1901-2000.html: NASA, Catalog of Lunar Eclipses 1901 to 2000 (entries 09422-09425)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_for_Easter
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901
Sums from the year's news
Doublets for the long evenings
Who said it?
D Advertisements
Page D8
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