ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 19-MARCH-1924 Chris and his Jazz Hounds ("Jazz Hounds" was a very popular name for jazz bands) were all Phoenix natives. In later years, they might have been called a territ...
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DAILY WORKER, 15-MAY-1924 I was interested to find an article about lynching in The Daily Worker. The Communist Party of the USA earned some credit with people for speaking out against lynchi...
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COVERBROWSER.COM Sgt Rock and Easy Company was a popular feature in DC's Our Army at War. Later the book changed its name to Sgt Rock. Artist Joe Kubert created the character with writer Rob...
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Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone. General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín led the Mexican army which defeated the French invaders at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. "The national arms have been covered ...
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PHILSP.COM The July, 1933 issue of Railroad Stories featured a 4-4-0 locomotive that appears to be going across "The Devil's Sinkhole."
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PERTH AMBOY EVENING NEWS, 27-MAY-1924 I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains. The skipper is upset that a woodpecker has made a home on the trolley but can't...
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WASHINGTON TIMES, 07-MAY-1924 I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Wealthy Mr Meeyowl's kitten is missing and he sends his secretary, Mr Fittts, to search for him. Krazy Kat has adopted the ki...
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UAW.ORG Today is International Workers' Day. With the support of the Biden Administration, unions are growing in strength. In April, the UAW organized a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee. This is...
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BALTIMORE SUN, 08-JUNE-1891 I just put the May 2024 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server: http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ It includes some new items: Picture of the Month: ...
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JAZZDAY.COM Happy International Jazz Day. HIROMI – I'VE GOT RHYTHM
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LISTAL.COM 125 years ago today, on 29-April-1899, Duke Ellington, America's greatest composer, was born in Washington, DC. Through his long career as a bandleader, he revolutionized American...
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cdc.gov Covid-19 trends continue to go down. My wife and I both got some horrible virus/bacterium that was not Covid-19. Iran launched an unprecedented attack directly on Israel. Israel has...
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LOS ANGELES EVENING POST-RECORD, 25-APRIL-1924 The Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals visited the Vernon Tigers at Washington Park in Los Angeles. Vernon is a suburb of Los Angeles, but...
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BALTIMORE AFRO-AMERICAN, 18-APRIL-1924 The Baltimore Black Sox were a Negro League baseball team which played in various leagues from 1913 to 1936. The Get-Together Dance sounds like fun.
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I took the photo on 07-April -2024.
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Kellie Talbot created this poster for the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. It shows the Dixie Cups, New Orleans ladies who had a hit with "Chapel of Love" in 1964. During the sam...
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PHILSP.COM The Black Cat Magazine was launched in Boston in 1895. It published short stories and was known for printing stories by new writers. This issue is labelled "5 -- Cleverest Stories...
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GLIDE.ORG Reverend Cecil Williams has died. He led a good life. May his memory be a blessing.
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LISTAL.COM Dickey Betts, one of the founders of the Eagles, has died. He was a heck of a guitar player and composer. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - RAMBLIN' MAN - 11/2/1972 - HOFSTRA UNIVERSIT...
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MOVEON.ORG Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was finally able to work around the Putin Caucus and get aid passed for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Johnson may lose his position, but in this ca...
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EARTHDAY.ORG I remember the first Earth Day in 1970.
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DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES, 07-APRIL-1924 "The Chrylster Phaeton is the culmination of all past experience in designing and building cars." A phaeton is an open-topped auto body without ...
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SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 26-NOVEMBER-1896 "The Golden Gate Was Filled With Grain Ships Yesterday, All Eager to Get to Sea on Their Way to Europe. In Consequence Nearly Every Tug in the. Port Was E...
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DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES, 07-APRIL-1924 The Chester Short Line was part of the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company's Red Arrow Lines, which provided fast electric interurban tra...
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SAN FRANCISCO CALL-CHRONICLE-EXAMINER, 19-APRIL-1906 Today is the 118th anniversary of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.
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