Yesteryear's News Today
Summary: A weekly podcast where we discuss the weeks news events, from years long past. Beginning with the week of January 1st, 1901, and working our way through the next century one year at a time. Each week, a new year.
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It's Friday the 13th, and we take a look at one of the harshest incidences of bad luck in the old west, The Tragic Expedition of The Donner Party. If you want to know more about their story, read the books Desperate Passage, by Ethan Rarick, As either an audio book: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/audiobook/desperate-passage-donner-partys/id348050073?uo=4&at=1l3vvUA Or in text form: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/desperate-passage-donner-partys/id774951552?mt=11&uo=4&at=1l3vvUA And Eliza Donner's memoir (as mentioned in this episode) found here https://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/expedition-donner-party-its/id889468781?mt=11&uo=4&at=1l3vvUA
This week we have the Idaho coal miners strike, the Dynamite Express, and the events that led to the murder of senator Steunenberg as a result. Then, Shane recounts the story of the (phony)Lord Barrington, and we discuss the introduction of the Federal Prison System in America. And born this week, Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto and called for a serious scientific investigation into U.F.Os. We also catch up with Albert Hunter and take a look at some odd stories that made the papers this week. Show notes can be found here: http://yesteryearsnewstoday.tumblr.com/post/110247349346/episode-06
In our fifth episode, we talk about how a peaceful protest quickly turned into a horrific massacre in Russia, the surprisingly interesting history of the Cullinan diamond, the quest to break the land speed record; and the mysterious lights that hovered over the towns of Egryn and Harlech in Wales, for several months in 1905. Show notes can be found here: http://yesteryearsnewstoday.tumblr.com/
In which we discuss the tragic Harwick mine disaster and a great fire in Norway. The birth of wrestling, the 'one time' national sport of America, and it's decline after the battle between George Hackenschmidt and Frank Gotch, and how it evolved into the rasslin we know today. We also discuss one of the Hollywood greats born this week.
It's January 16th, 1903, and racial tensions are high in Mississippi after the unfair firing of Minnie M. Cox, Thomas A. Edison's film "Electrocuting an Elephant was released on the 12th, and Houdini has been demonstrating his prison escapes in Amsterdam. We also discuss some more cannibalism, a brief history of the Cony Island amusement parks and Senator Tillman shooting his political rival Narcisco Gener Gonzales
In the second episode of Yesteryear's News Today, We're covering the tragic train crash at Park Avenue, the first international hostage crisis for America, a grizzly murder in Australia, and a horrifying case of premature burial in Paris. Just some of the news as it was this week, in 1902.
Right in time for the New Year, here is the first episode of "Yesteryear's News Today", In which our hosts recount what might have been making the headlines this week in January, 1901.
