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In 1903, Jones organized children who were working in mills and mines to participate in her famous "March of the Mill Children", a 125-mile trek from Kensington, Philadelphia, to the summer house (and Summer White House) of President Theodore Roosevelt on Long Island (in Oyster Bay, New York). They had banners demanding "We want to go to school ...
July 7 – "Mother" Mary Harris Jones starts a "Children's Crusade" ("March of the Mill Children") from Kensington, Philadelphia to Oyster Bay, New York, the hometown of President Roosevelt, with banners demanding "We want to go to school and not the mines!" [1] [2] July 23 – Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford ...
1903 program. After a three-month tryout beginning on June 17, 1903, at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, followed by a tour to several East Coast cities, the original New York production opened on October 13, 1903, at the Majestic Theatre at Columbus Circle in Manhattan (where The Wizard of Oz had played) and closed after 192 performances on March 19, 1904.
Every decade following 1870, the number of children in the workforce increased, with the percentage not dropping until the 1920s. [6] Especially in textile mills, children were often hired together with both parents and could be hired for only $2 a week. [7] Their parents could both work in the mill and watch their children at the same time.
Henri Bourassa and Olivar Asselin founded the Ligue nationaliste canadienne in Quebec, Canada. [1]23-year-old Hugh Guthrie Leighton, an electrical engineering student at the Armour Institute and former college football player at the University of Chicago, died of dilation of the heart at his father's home in Chicago.
23 November 1903 (United States) Colorado Labor Wars: Troops were dispatched to Cripple Creek, Colorado to defeat a strike by the Western Federation of Miners, [25] with the specific purpose of driving the union out of the district. The strike had begun in the ore mills earlier in 1903, and then spread to the mines.
Joseph Eloi Broussard (December 16, 1866 – October 6, 1956) was a pioneer rice grower and miller in southeast Texas. He was born and grew up near Beaumont, Texas.In 1892 he converted a grist mill into the Beaumont Rice Mill, the first commercially successful rice mill in the state of Texas.
It struck a cotton mill at 12:45 p.m. local standard time, ripping off the top floor where a number of children were working, many of them numbering among the fatalities. The power of the tornado ripped an iron cupola from an approximately 40-foot-wide (12 m) standpipe , crushing a number of people when it fell down. [ 11 ]