LIFE 1894
Historical Highlights from 1894 :
- William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- The 5-month Cripple Creek gold miners’ strike of 1894 begins in Colorado.
- Milton S. Hershey establishes the Hershey Chocolate Company.
- Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
- Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.
- In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
- The first issue of Billboard magazine is published, then known as Billboard Advertising.
- Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the Osage the “richest group of people in the world”.
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