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This week (January 7-13) in 1908
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Mark Twain was still alive and well. (He would live another two years). He has recently been to Chicago, and his quote about the city is famous and quoted often by Chicago residents: “She outgrows her prophecies faster than she can make them. She is always a novelty, for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through last time.”
Elsewhere this week in 1908...
The Panic of 1907 is starting to ease worries about the financial future of America. JP Morgan saved the country from bankruptcy in October of '07 when he gathered the top bankers in America, locked them into a library and wouldn't let them leave until they worked out a compromise. By Thanksgiving the panic was over, and by January, talk had begun that eventually led to the founding of the Federal Reserve.
Ray Bolger, the future Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz" turns 3. (Jan 10)
The Grand Canyon is designated as a national monument. (Jan 11)
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The Cubs will certainly not be on the radio this year. A long distance radio message is sent for the very first time, this week in 1908, from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. (Jan 12) It will be another sixteen years before a Cubs game is broadcast on the radio.
 Video: Fire tragedy on January 13, 1908 in Boyertown PA
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Price Check: A corset in the Sears catalog goes for 47 cents.
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If you travel back in time to 1908, here's some advice to help you blend in to 1908 society: Don't pack a bra. They won't be invented until 1913.
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