Something to Ponder

Neat post. Made me wonder what people were thinking back then.

Mark Twain was still a celebrity. The War Prayer was published in 1905.

the Ladies Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post were popular.

The Teddy Roosevelt era had plenty of politics. Investigations into Food and Drugs, led to meat inspection and the Pure Food and Drug Act, and, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is dated 1906.

Panama Canal construction was underway. This was part of the Colonialism then practised by the big guys. As in deposing the Hawaiian monarch in 1893.

Nationalism was leading to WW one.

The Ottoman Empire was declining and reforms instituted were being reversed, leading to the Young Turks to revolt(1908). The Eastern Question arose about the future of the regions (Balkins), and the powers like Germany, Austria, and Russia armed themselves.

The Japenese defeated the Russians in the war from 1904-1905. Roosevelts actions led to a Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.

Banks were not tied into the FED.

Louis Sullivan's design for the Carson Pirie Scott building in Chicago was completed in 1904 and Frank Lloyd Wright was a Celeb of sorts.

Ragtime and Blues were showing commercial potential.

Picasso was in his Rose palette. Gertrude Stein was already in Paris and Alice B. Toklas may have been there by this time.

My Encarta says that by the late 19th and 20th centuries, scholars had begun to pose basic questions about the origin and developement of religious ideas, So, it seems that thought was ripe for Sadler's activities.

The Varities of Religious Experience was published in 1902.

Freud and Jung were exerting influence.

Einstein received his Doctorate from U of Z and published important papers.
From Encarta;
"In the spring of 1905, after considering these problems for ten years, Einstein realized that the crux of the problem lay not in a theory of matter but in a theory of measurement."

There was an "automobile" patent issued in the late 19th century that underwent litigation from 1903-1911. What if Ford had to license? Maybe no General Motors.

Motoring was still a sport.

By 1901 there was a transAtlantic Cable, 1902 radio across the Atlantic, and by 1905 ships were in radio contact with land.

By 1905 all electrical generating stations were AC, thanks to Tesla.
""Cloudborn Electric Wavelets To Encircle the Globe: This Is Nicola Tesla's Latest Dream, and the Long Island Hamlet of Wardenclyffe Marvels Thereat," New York Times, 27 March 1904."

Womens sufferage was twisting the arms of states, making them say "Uncle", or "Aunt" perhaps. But New Zealand had adopted the womens right to vote in 1893.

In 1903 the Wright Bros. had their Kitty hawk flights and by 1906 there were lots of new designs.

In 1905, Rasputin was presented to the Emperess Alexandra Fyodorovna in Saint Petersburg.

So, 100 yeas later, we still have a "(com)putin" and a "Putin".

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