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Your family collected many items from those first few weeks. Among them is a newspaper or magazine from the month you were born.
- Create the newspaper or magazine with news, editorial commentary, photos, drawings or maps from your birth month.
- Get detailed information about events in your month of birth from America 1900: The Turning Point by Judy Crichton (Holt, 1998), the PBS three-hour documentary of the same name, or from the accompanying timeline.
- Add other events using timeline and overviews resources.
- You may also create ads about clothing or items in the home, reviews of books or other entertainment.
Think about...
- In January the American Association of Baseball Clubs, later known as the American League, is formed.
- In July Democrats in North Carolina attempt to take the right to vote from African Americans.
- Between September and October John Mitchell led a strike which closed 90% of Pennsylvania's coal mines.
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Farm Journal, 1906 from Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
A characteristic sidewalk newstand [sic],
New York City c. 1903
from Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920