What was it Like in the 1890s? |
| Music |
"Maple Leaf Rag", Scott Joplin
"Stars and Stripes Forever", John Philip Sousa
"The Nutcracker", Tchaikovsky
"Puccini: La Boheme", Turin
"Swan Lake", Tchaikovsky
"St. Louis Blues", Bessie Smith
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| Literature |
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
The Sea Gull, Anton Chekov
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| Entertainment |
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A Parisian theater hosts the first movie shown in a theater.
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| Average Salary: $644.00 |
| Cost of Living |
| Loaf of Bread: |
.03¢ |
| Gallon of Milk: |
.21¢ |
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| World Events |
Kaiser William II forces Bismarck to resign as Prime Minister. Germany initiates the world's first public pension system. The last of the Romanov Czars, Nicholas II, comes to power in Russia and Marxist Vladimir Lenin is arrested organizing strikes. Gottlieb Daimler invents the carburetor. Laos becomes a French protectorate. The X-ray is discovered by Bavarian physician Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity in uranium. The first modern Olympics is held in Athens. English physicist Joseph John Thomson discovers the atom's nucleus and electrons. Cuba gains independence from Spain. Count von Zepplin builds his airship.
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| U.S. History |
US soldiers massacre 300 Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee. Gold rush at Pike's Peak in  Colorado. James Naisfeld invents basketball in Springfield, Mass. Ellis Island becomes first stop for immigrants. Lizzie Borden took an axe, but the jury acquits her of killing her mother and father. The Hawaiian Islands are annexed. The first U.S. subway line opens in Boston. U.S. battleship Maine blows up in Cuba's Havana harbor, starting the Spanish-American War. Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Steel and consolidates after the Homestead Strike. Yosemite Park created by Act of Congress. Electric stove invented by Hadaway, USA. Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah admitted to the Union.
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| At Salem Normal School |
 The Commonwealth buys Osgood Farm at the intersection of Lafayette and Loring. Walter Parker Beckwith becomes the fourth president of Salem Normal School. The new building on Lafayette Street opens. Men are admitted for the first time.
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