Life — May 4, 1922 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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LIFE Aife’s Calendar £ a ay : By Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman 1—M.—First one-cent post card issued; | country dy sattmaster yokes nag. | Wt office gurated, 1873. Battle [oe of M Bay, 1898. 7 Four Presidents press buttons in White e, opening the Tennessee, American, and jana Purchase Ex- Positions, 1893, 1897, 1901, 1904. 2—Tu.—Stonewall Jackson service inaugurated in United States, 1918; ev ive a letter by it, 1922. Emil J. Newhaus, Akron, Ohio, first an to play _a_game of solitaire without overlooking moves, born, 1879. Ten million men who had put y last year's ‘straw hats take them out of the decide to buy new ones, 1 17—W.—Money Order System established by Congres Il post. offices ordéred to put money order ‘winde s possible from stamp windows, 1864. , Expert estimates that railroads annually waste "$892 ing “Not Good If Detached” on round trip t ybody closets 18—Th.— shot, 1863. First elevated train in New York; Mrs. Amos Blunt, 219 East 4th Street, first woman to adjust ‘omplexion in mirror of chewing ‘gum machine, 1878, First medical school established in America, 1765. Mrs. M. L. Image, Chiswick, England, strangled breakfast table by white’ mouse, thus accounting for fear of rodents, 1782. Eighteen English lady diarists refused permission to land at Ellis Island, month’s a having been completed, 1922. 4—Th.—Haymarket riot, Chicago, 1886. Ordinary veg- etable observed in window of delicatessen store, 1920. —Death of Napoleon, 1821. West Indian apartment house slave traffic begins, 1897. Some slaves establish permanent soviets, 1898, 6—Sa— © First flight of heavier-than-air flying ma- chine (Langley’s), 1896. Herbert L. Moist, inventor of silencer for street car and elevator whistlers, born, 1900. 7—Su.—Columbia River discovered by Captain Gray, 1792. Rex Beach begins counting the ‘salmon in it, 1899. Lusi tania torpedoed, 1915. Lid of roll top desk slides down without sticking, 1921. 8—M. —Battle of Palo Alto, 1846. Battle of Spottsylvania t House, 1864. | Hoste: _Dodge City, Towa, re mains perfectly calm when gue s back on Chippendale chair, 1919. Mayor Hylan begins annual spring attack on attackers, 1922. @ John Brown (of Ossawatomie) born, 1800. Harlem, New York, family passes entire evening at home without putting on the “Mother Machree” record, 1918. 10—W.—Ticonderoga captured, 1775. Record for number of side dishes in country hotel broken by McKinley House. St. Clair, Ohio, by introduction of individual containers for piccalilli, gherkens, and chow chow, 1899. 11—Th.—Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam, 1647. Minneapolis has weekless week, 1921, American Magaz: ru ticle about man who didn’t turn out to be successful, 1928. in Plymouth Colony Nihildren ropcsed for membership in Boston 1621. proper T. Lapelle, of N to be using Christmas gift pipe rack, 1903. 13—Sa.—J amestown, first English settlement in America, founded, 1607, Several’ members of colony complete | “My American Impressions,” 1608. U.S. declares war on Mexico, 1846. Photographs of ' Prince of Wales without an elephant again appear in rotogravure sec- tions, 1922. 14—Su.—Mothers’ Day. Convention to draft Constitution meets, Anti-Saloon League _ representative ing, fi fiye minutes too late, Citizen of Perth Hornet, ) discovered to be’ without radio outfit, 1923. 15—M.—Cape Cod discovered; Cod Liver Oil business in- corporated for $100,000,000, 1602. First regular aero mail 3—W.— 9g—Tu— possible ewing Circle, North Bedlam, Me., found ‘Il have to get a new hat 28—Su.—Harvey Schneide, of Wheeling, W. Va 29—M. — 30—Tu.—M International Peace Conference opens at The Hague; permanent Court of Arbi ne lished and_ nobody even smiles, 1899. Pre signs the Conscription Act, 1918. Entire day pas out new dentrifice being put on the market, 1921. . —Albert C. Walker, salesman in Duluth, Minn., re- ceives five-dollar bill from customer and fails to’ ask “Haven't you anything smalier?”—1918. Drama Lea indorses the Drama League, 1922. 20—Sa.—Death of Christopher Columbus, 1506. Idea of putting string into rock candy first conceived, 1833. Pa cup full of water successfully carried to woman dur intermission at theatre, 1920. 21—Su.—American Association of the Red Cross founded at Washington, 1881. Boy selling magazines on train ad mits that one’ of them is not “Just Out. To-day,” 1897 Piece of dairy lunch pie analyzed by chemist and found to contain nearly 17% pie, 1921. % Woman waiting for elevator, on ground floor of big office building, takes a long chance and does not ring for the elevator to stop; elevator starter faints, 1920. st National Convention of Workingmen in New York; Judge Gary Tal 1872. William Ran Iph Hearst demands the 24—W.—The Savannah, first steamship to cross the At- lantic, sails for Liverpool, 1819. first telegraph me Brooklyn Bridge can do about it, 1883. —Th.—Ralph Waldo Emerson born, 1803. Man who ts wrong number on telephone does not insist on know ing which wrong number it is, 1912. Last Confederate Army surrenders; scenario writers begin work on movies in. which Northern Lieutenant falls in love with proud Southern beauty, 1865 a.—Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt fortunes, born, 1794. Chambermaid in hotel in Templetor Pa, shot by guest who discovers that top of sheet is. three s from the edge of the mattress, 1901. John Golden admits he produces clean plays, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922. Samuel F. B, Morse sends e from Baltimore to Washington, 1844 1 despite everything that New York S believes a “Wet Paint” sign and does not touch the surface if it is really wet, 1914, 0 Wisconsin admitted to the Union, 1848. Man who purchased used car on May 14 observed in drug store buying carbolic acid, 1922. MORIAL DAY. Hall of Fame opened, 1901 loorwalker in New York department store describes lo- tion of glove counter in such a way that the customer is able to find it, 1907. 31—W. —Walt Whitman born, 1819. First photograph of man looking into fireplace, 1875. Johns- town flood, 1889. Seventeenth Amendment, __ fa- mous for being the one before the Eighteenth, adopted, 1913. comicbooks.com