On January 1, 1912, The Day Book, a Chicago newspaper, printed the following list of things that happened in 1911.
Here is What 1911 Saw
The coronation.
The yearly baby in Spain.
The Maine election.
Carnegie’s 20 best men.
Ballinger’s farewell.
No white man’s hope.
Taft’s long distance hike.
Doc Cook’s third vindication.
Doc Wiley’s beer puzzle.
Increased tax on whisky.
Rumpus in China.
Mon Lisa’s vacation.
Turmoil in Tripoli.
Some books about Bernard Shaw.
A new Chauncey Olcott song.
Persian pugnacity.
A spanking for the German crown prince.
Alexander’s Rag Time Band.
Gaby Deslys.
Mix up in Mexico.
The discomfiture of Muggsy McGraw.
Several banquets for the tariff board.
The death of Justice Harlan.
The centenary of Wenell Phillips.
The trial of the beef packers (continued).
The rusting of Rockefeller’s halo.
A monument for Robert G. Ingersoll.
The McNamara case.
One hundred and fifty burned to death in New York shirtwaist fire.
Narrow escape from war between France, Germany, and England.
House of lords gets a kick in the pants.
Proved that the Maine was blown up from the outside.
Source: The day book. (Chicago, Ill.), 01 Jan. 1912.
