When Frank Knox was only six, his family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. At age eleven Knox got his first job delivering newspapers. He woke up at three in the morning to deliver the paper. At the age of fifteen Knox’s family was suffering financially. He quit high school to work as a shipping clerk at a wholesale book and stationary store in Grand Rapids. Despite being promoted to house salesman,...
In The Pickens Sentinel, the final construction of the State Industrial and Winthrop Normal College at Rock Hill is described in a board of trustees meeting. The board decided that the courses of study were to be designed to secure to all pupils, besides the opportunity of higher culture, the requisites of at least a sound English education and the concept of teaching as a subject were...
In 1893 the Reverend Robert Anderson began traveling throughout Georgia, Florida, and the North in order to sell his newly published book entitled Rev. Robert Anderson's Surpriser. Anderson's book consisted of his telling of his earlier years living in Georgia and working for several banks and how the officers of the banks placed their utmost confidence in him as an employee. Anderson's...
As read in The Sentinel, a crowd of men had set up a whiskey store in the area of Glassy Mountain. With sufficient evidence to investigate the situation, Chief Constable Fant and his men made their way down to the anti-Prohibition display. In order to find the hidden whiskey, an undercover man had to buy the liquor; a man then went into the swamp to fetch the alcohol. According to the testimony...
"But, oh master, thou hast given us one great enjoyment which man has never dream of before - a free church organ, so that we can take our shabby families to church to hear your great organ pour forth its melodius strains." The quote came from the 1894 prayers "A Workman." The satrirical prayers gave praise to Pennsylvania's powerful Andrew Carnegie. The steel giant had...
The Emergence of Oil
For several decades leading up to the 1900's, the coal and iron industries had grown to become the backbone of the southern economy. Places such as Luray, Virginia, located in Page County, and other Appalachian mining areas became large centers of industry, attracting workers, railroads, and Northern investors.
However, with the depression of the 1890's...
Yachting, in all of its splendor, has finally reached the mid-Atlantic and has spread quickly throughout the region in the late nineteenth century. The Baltimore Yacht Club, tracing its origins to 1891, was formed in Baltimore City where it is situated on Sue Island. To commence the building of a new yacht for Mr. J.D. Mallory, John Farlow, Percy Donaldson, and other members of the club, the B.Y.C....
The year was 1894, and the United States economy was in a state of depression. The large number of unemployed citizens needed a way to provide for ther families. They were able and willing to work, but opportunities were scarce. On June 8, 1894, The Detroit Free Press published a notice to the community that Mayor Hazen Pingree was to continue his plan to turn Detroit into an agricultural...
The July, 1894 conflict between the workers who made up the American Railway Union and their employers at the Pullman Company developed into a nationwide strike that affected emerging urban centers across the country. While the strike was originally centered in Pullman, Illinois, its effects quickly spread to the cities connected to Chicago by rail. On JUly 5, 1894, for instance, the normally uneventful...
In the Portsmouth Star, Superintendent John C. Ashton reported the public
school demographics for the year ending July 31, 1894. The school year was in session
for 195 days in three districts. There was racial segregation at this point with seventeen
schools for white children and seven for colored children. There were a total of 3,610
school-aged children and of...