Post 100

This is the 100^th post for Jollett Etc.  It only took 6 months to the day, she said sarcastically.  I doubt it’s a record.  Anyway, to celebrate this milestone, I’m going to look at what was shaking in Jollett land 100 years ago in 1912.

My maternal grandparents were ages 13 and 8; paternal grandparents were 11 and 5.  All but one attended school that year.

 
All 8 great-grandparents were living.  Stephen Slade was a truck-farmer in Virginia Beach.  John Walsh was an ordinance man for the Navy Yard.  Walter Davis was working as a carpenter.  Joseph Rucker was a  railroad conductor.  Wives were all keeping house.

Only 4 great-great grandparents were living:  Julia Slade, James Franklin Jollett and George and Segourney Eppard.  It surprises and saddens me that my grandparents didn’t know their grandparents.

Famous people were born:

• Actor Danny Thomas
• Actor Jose Ferrer
• Perry Como
• Gene Kelly
• Dale Evans
• Minnie Pearl
• Vivian Vance
• Julia Child
• Art Linkletter
• Pat Nixon
• Lady Bird Johnson
• Woody Guthrie
• American artist Jackson Pollock
• Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun

 Celebrities:

• Al Jolson
• Mary Pickford

Inventions:

• The Life Saver candy
• Hellman mayonnaise
• Motorized movie cameras
• Neon signs
• Traffic lights
• Zippers for clothes
• X-rays discovered when doctors removed a nail from a boy's lungs

A year of firsts:

• Mail carried by plane
• Electronic Timing and Photo-Finish Equipment used in the Olympics
• Cherry trees planted in Washington DC
• Keystone Cops comedy

The political scene:

• The last emperor of China forced to abdicate
• Republic of China established
• Arizona became the 48^th state
• Alaska organized as a territory
• William Howard Taft was president until the election in November when Woodrow Wilson won as the first Democratic president in 20 years.

Disasters:

• The sinking of the Titanic   

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