Drunk Driving Laws Date to 1910
New York led the way in passing the first laws against drunk driving. The year was 1910. At first, the methods used by a police officer to check for drunkenness […]
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Entrepreneurs & Inventors
Gus Arriola and The Comic Strip Character of Gordo
Gordo, the comic strip character featured in newspapers for 44 years, was created by artist Gus Arriola (1917-2008). In the cartoon, Gordo started out as a bean farmer in Mexico,
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First American Woman to Build a Cosmetics Empire: Harriet Hubbard Ayer
How many innovative and important women from the late 19th and early 20th century remain in the shadows of history?
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The Hunt for Amelia Earhart
Numerous efforts have been made over the years to locate where Amelia Earhart’s plane went down on July 2, 1937. But few people to day know how very seriously the
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A Dog Who Delivered the Mail
In the 1880s in San Bernardino county–just northeast of Los Angeles–the town of Calico, California, had an unusual mail carrier—a dog. Jim Stacy worked as postmaster in Calico and his
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Seeing Eye Dogs Brought to America in 1928
In the early twentieth century, those without sight were marginalized members of society. They had no job options and no mobility. They had to rely on the kindness of someone
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