Jim Kershner’s This Day in History
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From our archives, 100 years ago
Browne’s Addition was scheduled to get the latest in civic improvements: paved streets.
A bid was awarded for the largest paving contract ever attempted in the city, covering most of the streets in Browne’s and Cannon’s additions.
From the accident files: A 4-year-old child strayed too close to the cliffs at Chestnut Street above Hangman Creek (where Interstate 90 now crosses the creek), and fell to his death.
A horrified witness scrambled down to try to rescue him but was too late.
From the temperance files: The Anti-Saloon League announced that it was on the warpath against breweries and “demon rum.”
The superintendent of the league said his group intended a vigorous campaign in the state legislature for laws banning breweries and making the transportation of liquor across county lines illegal.
Washington would eventually enact Prohibition in 1916, four years before the nationwide ban.
Also on this date
(From the Associated Press)
1621: The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts on a monthlong return trip to England. … 1792: George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states. … 1988: A 15-day hijacking ordeal began as gunmen forced a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet to land in Iran.