Posted on 08/26/2016 10:19:31 AM PDT by NRx
A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from today's date in 1896 (digitized).
(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov ...
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They probably didn’t take the Gandy bridge—oh, wait a minute...
Recently saw an exhibition about the Czar and Czarina...paintings, gowns, uniforms, military adornments, etc.
FYI that would be Nicholas II and Alexandria. Also, France and Russia signed alliance a few years ago that would be one of the dominoes starting the Great War.
Curious how Putin plans to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
He should invite ILLary & Co.
At the bottom of the second column there is an ad for $19 round trip from NYC to Indianapolis; $19 in 1896 is equivalent to about $550 today. A bus round trip today would be $140 for 11 hours each way, a train would be about $170 for a round trip 1.5 days each way, and by plane it would be around $300 for coach, 2-2.5 hours each way depending on the NYC airport. Taking your own car, it’s about 770 miles or 12 hours each way, at maybe 60 gallons of gasoline at $2.50/gal or $150, not counting all the other auto expenses.
And people in 1896 thought they were living in the brave new world, because of the newfangled technology that was available. If the world is still technologically progressing in 2136, the people living then will look back on 2016 and be astonished, not that we had so much technology available, but that we thought we were living in such a brave new world, with all the things we could not do in 2016 that will be commonplace in 2136.
This family was so beautiful. Such a tragic story, and that country and the world is still suffering from the Bolshevik’s and their damage.
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