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NARRATIVE TO FIRST EDITION (Beginning 1900)
By Van J. Simmons, Jr.
1837 - 1901
Empress of India, Queen of Great
Britain: Alexandria Victoria ( Acc 1837)
1878 - 1903
Roman Catholic Pope Leo XIII
(Giachino Pecci) (Lumen in Coelo)
(Light in the Heavens)
1896-1987
Unexplained sightings of
"dirigible-like" mystery airships reported over wide
areas of the United States.
1901
1901-1910
Edward VII, King of the United
Kingdom, Great Britain, Emperor of India.
English influence throughout the world. Often accused
of imperial excesses in later years, the British
Empire of the times brought many backward nations to
enlightened and better living conditions where poverty
and ignorance had previously prevailed. Great
Britain's Navies ruled the seas, her Armies controlled
worldwide areas so that it was said that "The sun
never sets on the British Empire".
1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt elected to
Presidency of USA
Charles Fitzmorris completed a round-the-world trip in
60 days, 13 hours, 20 minutes. There was great
interest in world travel especially in the United
States where needs existed for long range transport
capabilities due to the vast distances covered by the
geographical boundaries of the nation.
1-10-1901
The Spindletop oil well in Texas
revolutionized the Petroleum Industry. Priduction
soared from 5 barrels per day to more than 84,000
barrels per day. The well went to depth of 1,029 feet,
about the maximum capability for drilling equipment
available. Independent entrepreneurs financed
"wildcat" operations in the oilfields of the time.
Great fortunes were made and lost by these oilfield
development pioneers, many of whom went on to become
the powerful industrial giants of the emerging
"Industrial Age" that petroleum recovery developments
made possible.
Howard Robard Hughes, Sr (1869-1924)a Harvard
trained lawyer from Lancaster, Missouri, came to Texas
and began a career in the oilfields. He engaged in
establishing leasing contracts between oil comany,
drilling and land owner interests. This placed him in
a uniquely advantageous position in all aspects of
operations in the fields of petroleum technology.
During the next several years he was to invent and
patent more than 70 important pieces of equipment to
make deep well drilling through hard rock formations
possible.
Elisha Gray (1835-1901) loser in Supreme Court patent
litigation in ruling Alexander Graham Bell the
inventor of the telephone.
Note: Bell's model used as evidence wouldn't work.
Sept 7, 1901 Janet Taylor Caldwell, popular
novelist, b. 08-30-85, died
1901 Alfred Nobel (Oct 21, 1833 - Dec 10, 1896),
first of Nobel Peace Prizes awarded.
1902
1902 Fantasy movie "Trip to the Moon" (G Mellies
fantasy)
1902 Paul and Fellix Warburg (European Bankers)
immigrated to the U.S.
1902 Cecil Rhodes began scholarship awards to support
Anglo-Saxon civilization's development of World Peace
Plans.
1903
1903 E. W. and Ellen B Scripps endowed Scripps
Institute of Oceanography in California
1903 William Ashley Sunday (1862-1935) ordained to
ministry in Presbyterian Church at age 41. Sunday had
been an orphaned professional baseball star, conducted
religious revival meetings throughout the United
States. Attendances estimated at MORE THAN
100-million. Known as "Billy Sunday" he was a
prominent leader in movement to enact prohibition laws
to prohibit sales of alcoholic drinks.
1903 - 1914 Roman Catholic Pope: Pius X (Giusepe
Sarto) (Ignis Ardens)
Mar 15, 1903 Roy Bean, "Judge-Law West of the Paecos"
died
1903 Popular Movie "Great Train Robbery" (Edison
Filming Company)
June 1903 Ford Motor Company organized (Henry Ford,
CEO)
Aug 01, 1903 Martha Jane canary (Calamity Jane)
(1852-1903) Folk heroine, star Hitchcock Wild West
Show, dead.
Dec 17, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright (bicycle
mechanics) conducted successful powered guided
aircraft flight at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina.
1904
1904 Russo-Japanese War began Feb 08, 1904; to end
Sept 15, 1905 with U.S. (President Theodore Roosevelt)
mediation.
1904 USA took on Panama Canal construction from
France. To be opened 1914.
1904 Mount Wilson Observatory, NW of Los Angeles, CA,
operated by Carnegie Institute (until 1989).
1905
1905 Marvin Hart won Heavyweight Boxing Championship
from James Jeffries.
April 04, 1905 Earthquake in India, 375,000 dead.
1905 Noah Dietrich graduated from Janesville Illinois
High School at age 17. He was to become a very
prominent figure in the Hughes industrial companies in
coming years. He was a first generation
German-American descended from Schlesweig-Holstein
(1863) immigrant family. His father was a protestant
minister. Noah grew up in environs of Mobster
controlled Chicago.
Sept 15, 1905, Russo-Japanese War ended following
Japanese navy's triumph in Tsushima Strait battles
against the Russian Fleet. U.S. President Theodore
Roosevelt mediated with the belligerent powers to end
the conflict. Japan became a major power in the
Pacific as a result of this victory. The Tsarist
government of Russia faced increasing disorder at home
because of this humiliating defeat by the Japanese
Imperial Navy.
Dec 24, 1905, Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., was born to
Howard Robard Hughes, Sr., and Mrs. Alene Gano Hughes,
in Houston, Texas. The child led a relatively
sheltered life as the only son of this socially
prominent Houston couple. His early life was spent in
an environment of exposure to his father's business
ventures in the Petroleum Technology Field; He
oftentimes accompanied his father on inspection visits
to oil well drilling sites where he displayed active
interest in the machine operations and the drill field
people that he met.
During this period of time the "Protocols of the
Elders of Zion" purportedly a revelation of Zionists
conspiracy to take over world rulership through
infiltration and violent overthrow of governments.
Investigations led to London Times reports that the
work was a hoax, perpetrated by Ant-Semites in France.
(1905)
Dr. Albert Einstein presented scientific Theory of
Special Relativity. (Note: The general Theory of
Relativity was not announced until 1916, while the
young Scientist was doing experimental laboratory work
in Switzerland). (1905)
1906
1906 Baron Admiral John A Fisher of Silverstone
(Great Britain) introduced revolutionary battleship,
the Dreadnought, converting British navy from coal to
oil burning fuel.
Tommy Burns won Heavyweight Boxing Championship.
Apr 08, 1906 Earthquake disaster, San Francisco,
California
8.3 Richter Scale; 700 people reported killed.
Harvey S. Firestone became principal supplier of tires
to Ford Motor Company.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Labor Organizer for IWW
(International Workers of the World) apparently at age
16. She became the first woman leader of the Communist
Party USA in 1961. (Born 1890, died Sept 5, 1964).
1906 Vitagraph introduced; early sound moving picture
development, (J. Blackstone's animated cartoon
"humorous phases of funny faces)."
1907
1907 Roman Catholic Pope Pius X issued "Lamentabili
"and "Pascendi" 65 propositions, warnings against the
developing modernistic movements being introduced into
the Church.
Immigration into the United States exceeded 1-million
for the year 1907.
Barnaby Campbell (Great Britain) round-the-world trip
in 42 days 8 hours 30 minutes. (Using trans-Siberian
rail transportation for part of the journey.
(1907)
J. Pierpont Morgan reportedly a key figure in causing
a national financial panic, designed to demonstrate
the serious need for a central banking system in the
United States.(1907)
Nov. 16, 1907 Oklahoma became the 46th state of the
United States of America. This territory had
previously been primarily reserved for settlement of
American Indians, displaced from their original
habitats.
1908
1908 Jack Johnson won Heavyweight boxing championship
from Tommy Burns. This distinguished Afro-American
held title until 1914.
1908 Ford Motor Company introduced the production
line assembled Model T automobile. 15 million of this
model were to be produced before the revised Model-A's
were to be introduced.
General Motors Corporation (GMC) was formed in 1908 by
William C. Drant.
1908 Howard Robard Hughes, Sr. invented, patented the
Hughes Roller Cone Drill Bit. This Rotary Drill Bit
made possible deep well drilling through hard rock,
economically.
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