The Year 1903Sources
Sources for every story in the 1903 number
Every story and individual claim is checked against its sources before it goes to print. Here are the sources for all 299 stories in this number, 773 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
Hundreds die in theatre fire
Panama a republic
Massacre at Kishinev
Alaska line drawn
The year at a glance
- Refers only: each item's sources are listed under its own story in this issue.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903
Also in the news
More inside
- Teasers only: each item's facts come from its own story in this issue, whose sources are listed there.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_County_Council_Tramways
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Montgomery_Barr
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefunken
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrhyn_quarry
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902–03_Football_League
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_clock
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh_War
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew_Bridge
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team
A Kitty Hawk
Page A2
Men fly at Kitty Hawk, continued
How the machine is built
The bishop's boys
Printers and bicycle men
Three gliders before the motor
Langley's machine falls twice
A woman steers an airship
How the news got out
Six weeks of broken shafts
A Chicago
Page A2
Hundreds die in theatre fire, continued
Page A3
The newest theatre in Chicago
Rescued by a ladder across the alley
Theatre men under arrest
The worst theatre fire in the country
Scenes after the fire
A Panama
Page A3
Panama a republic, continued
The canal treaty signed
Colombia rejected the first treaty
On the Isthmus
A The Nation
Page A3
The Alaska award
A ninth Cabinet department
Page A4
Twelve young men eat borax for science
Rebates outlawed
A new law for the militia
The Army gets a General Staff
A refuge for the pelicans
The President camps with Mr. Muir
Guantánamo leased
Heppner swept away
The Kaw out of its banks
A tornado in a Georgia mill town
Troops at Cripple Creek
The mills of Kensington stand idle
The mill children march
Japanese and Mexicans strike together
Page A5
Riot at Evansville
The Fast Mail leaves the trestle
The miners get ten per cent.
Bribery in the Post Office
A woman founds a bank
Pepper and questions for Dr. Washington
A league for working women
Typhoid at Cornell
The St. Louis fair dedicated
The nation in brief
Uncle Joe Cannon is Speaker
A Mormon apostle for the Senate
Governor La Follette has his way
A mob burns a prisoner at Wilmington
Deaths of the year at home
Congress may break an Indian treaty
Page A6
Anarchists barred from the country
Congress may stop the lottery mails
A The World
Page A6
Three days of murder at Kishinev
Zionists debate an African refuge
An Irishman at Kishinev
The Kishinev trial behind closed doors
Gomel's Jews fight back
The Sultan of Aceh gives in
Page A7
King and Queen of Servia slain
Two years of plotting at Belgrade
Delchev is killed at Banitsa
Macedonia rises on St. Elias's Day
Ten days of the Krushevo Republic
Bombs at Salonica
Leo XIII is dead
Cardinal Sarto is Pope
Russian socialists split in two
Page A8
Troops fire on strikers in the Urals
General Bobrikov rules Finland
France turns out the teaching orders
Three million votes for the Socialists
Count Tisza takes office at Budapest
Mr. Chamberlain leaves the Cabinet
Chapels refuse to pay the school rate
Mrs. Pankhurst forms a women's union
Lord Salisbury dies at Hatfield
The King in Paris
The Durbar at Delhi
Colonel Younghusband enters Tibet
The British in Kano
Sokoto falls to the British
A British column cut to pieces
Page A9
The blockade of Venezuela lifted
Russia stays in Manchuria
Australia votes, and the women with it
Brazil buys the Acre
The world in brief
Holland's railway strikes
Fire in the Paris underground
Deaths abroad
The Irish Land Bill passes
Signor Giolitti forms a Ministry
The Commons on the Congo
Page A10
From the Far East
The Su Bao men on trial at Shanghai
Four million at the Osaka exhibition
Captain Scott's men stay a second winter
The Swedes saved by Argentina
A Scottish station in the Antarctic
A herring boat for the Northwest Passage
A mountain falls on Frank
A second railway across Canada
From the North and the East
A City & Country
Page A11
Elephant killed at Coney Island
Luna Park opens
Mr. Tilyou's park next door
The new East River bridge opens
A skyscraper of concrete
A garden city for England
Miss Cranston's newest tea room
City notes
The biggest football ground in the world
Mr. Frohman's new theatre
A stampede at Raymond
Tammany takes back the city
A cave becomes a national park
The President lays a stone at Yellowstone
The President unveils Dewey's column
A hotel where men may not sleep
New York's American League club gets a home
Page A12
Mr. Tata opens his hotel at Bombay
The new cathedral at Westminster
Twenty miles of parks for Seattle
An all-British colony on the prairie
The Prince rides the electric tram
Hollywood votes to be a city
Mr. Carnegie gives the Glen to Dunfermline
A clock made of flowers
The King opens the new bridge at Kew
Tokyo opens a park at Hibiya
In brief
House notice
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B Business & Money
Page B1
Mr. Ford tries again
The rich man's panic
The merger must let go
The shipbuilding trust goes to the receiver
Page B2
Mr. Morgan's fleet
The Ford car at $750
The car that sells
Cadillac and Buick
A motor bicycle from a Milwaukee shed
Numbers for English motor cars
Across the continent by motor car
A Packard across the continent
Page B3
Coast to coast on a motor bicycle
Wall Street's new house
A message around the world
B Science & Invention
Page B3
The President talks to the King by wireless
B Business & Money
Page B3
A razor with blades to throw away
A machine that blows bottles
Mr. Hershey builds a chocolate town
Wax crayons for the schoolroom
Page B4
Three articles in one magazine
A drug-store drink in bottles
The President's bear
The Teamsters unite
A palace of peace for The Hague
Business in brief
The Kaiser makes peace in the wireless
Three Glasgow works make one
The Penrhyn lock-out ends
Rails, ships and works
B Science & Invention
Page B5
A Nobel Prize for Mme. Curie
The other prizes
Radium gives off helium
A new ray from Nancy
Sparks from radium
A rocket to leave the earth
Page B6
A wiper for the street-car window
The heart writes its own record
Dogs that water at the sound of a bell
A big number is broken
Science and invention in brief
Men of science who died
More from the laboratory
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_in_science
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cooper_Hewitt
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-vapor_lamp
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Chun
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joly
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_and_Flora_International
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Landau
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Leśniowski
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_in_the_United_Kingdom
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Walter_Campbell
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Runge
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_Man
A wireless that sends a steady wave
The largest dinosaur known
C Sports
Page C1
Boston wins the World's Series
The Series, game by game
Who hit in the Series
The eight games
How the clubs finished
Cy Young, still the master
The Flying Dutchman
Page C2
The Iron Man wins 31
Two minutes flat
Delahanty lost at Niagara
A balcony falls at Philadelphia
A stadium of concrete for Harvard
Peace between the leagues
Diamond notes
A mile a minute
Motor cars race on the sands of Florida
Garin wins the Tour de France
Page C3
The chimney sweep of Arvier
The race of death is stopped
The Gordon Bennett Cup in Ireland
Reliance keeps the cup
Jeffries beats Corbett again
Fitzsimmons wins a third title
Ring notes
Jack Johnson claims a title
Page C4
Judge Himes wins the Derby
Rock Sand wins the triple crown
Drumcree wins the National
Bury 6, Derby County 0
The Wednesday are champions
Three champions of the Home Nations
Ottawa holds the Stanley Cup
McGee of the Ottawas
Salchow champion at St. Petersburg
Cambridge by six lengths
Page C5
Anderson and Vardon win the Opens
The Old Man wins again
The Dohertys win everything
Lordan wins at Boston
Michigan and Princeton on top
Foster makes 287 in his first Test
Major Taylor in Australia
Lord Cardigan's Cup and Collingwood's flag
Scotland wins the Triple Crown
Sport in brief
Tarrasch wins at Monte Carlo
Page C6
The League tables
The county table
How the Tour finished
Michigan runs over Chicago in the snow
How the cars finished in Kildare
More sport in brief
Champions of 1903
D Life & Arts
Page D1
A train robbery on the screen
Alice in Wonderland on the screen
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_in_film
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_an_American_Fireman
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(1903_film)
- openculture.com/2023/05/the-first-ever-film-version-of-lewis-carrolls-tale-alice-in-wonderland-1903.html
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Hepworth
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_S._Porter
More pictures of the year
The new pictures, maker by maker
Page D2
A dog story for grown men
Dr. Du Bois on the color-line
Mr. James sends an ambassador to Paris
Mr. Shaw's comedy with a philosophy
Butler's last novel
A yachting tale with a warning
Page D3
Sherlock Holmes is alive
Books of the year
Miss Keller tells her own story
Mr. Kipling's new poems
Miss Potter's Christmas tailor
A girl of ten and two aunts
The Pit, and the man who wrote it
Page D4
Mr. London among the poor of London
A Kentucky boy in the war
A steamer in a typhoon
The Wizard of Oz on Broadway
Mr. Herbert's Toyland
In Dahomey goes to London
A new Irish play stirs Dublin
From Dublin and Llanelli
Page D5
Caruso sings at the Metropolitan
Parsifal in New York
Bruckner's last symphony is heard
Elgar's "Apostles" at Birmingham
Music in brief
A ragtime opera on the road
Mrs. Gardner opens her palace
A magazine for the camera as art
Señor Picasso paints in blue
Workshops for beautiful things
A new Salon for the autumn
Page D6
A paper for women, by women
Whistler is dead
Gauguin dies in the Marquesas
Others who died
Pissarro, father of the Impressionists
Herbert Spencer dies at Brighton
Olmsted, who made Central Park
D Home & Household
Page D7
New things for the home
Tea by the cup, in a cotton pocket
The great chef's kitchen book
The Gibson Girl
Coffee without the caffeine
D Almanac & Puzzles
Page D7
The 1903 quiz
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_Foster
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Tearooms
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Bruckner)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop_Park
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Home_Nations_Championship
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(1903_film)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_Cave_National_Park
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gurney_Cannon
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_World_Series
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Tour_de_France
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer
True or false?
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_Palace_Hotel
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampden_Park
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/István_Tisza
- cricketweb.net/statsspider/test/78.php
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruševo_Republic
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Cathedral
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Washington_Hotel
- hmdb.org/m.asp?m=133755
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_in_sports
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
Who was it?
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Cranston
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamsetji_Tata
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotse_Delchev
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McGee_(ice_hockey)
- cricmash.com/flashes-to-remember/ashes-1903-04-clem-hills-run-out-sparks-a-spate-of-barracking
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson_Jackson
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida_de_Acosta
The year in dates
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The year in numbers
Disasters of the year
Deaths of the year
D Life & Arts
Page D8
Firsts of the year
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_World_Series
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Tour_de_France
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Gordon_Bennett_Cup
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902–03_British_Home_Championship
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_U.S._National_Championships_(tennis)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_clock
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_County_Council_Tramways
D Advertisements
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