100 - Mabel L. Rieben - Largo, FL
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N 27° 53.445 W 082° 45.149
17R E 327502 N 3086334
Located in the Mausoleum of Chapel Hill Memorial Park.
Waymark Code: WM5PR6
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2009
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History of 1908....
January 1st - 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
February 18 - 1st U.S. postage stamps in rolls issued
April 24 - Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across U.S. by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard and arrive in New York City in 32d-5h-25m
May 14 - 1st passenger flight in an airplane
August 25 - National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
October 1 - Henry Ford introduces Model T car
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The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republicans to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, as his successor. Having badly lost the 1904 election with a conservative candidate, the Democrats turned to two-time nominee William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley. Despite his two previous defeats, Bryan remained extremely popular among the more liberal and populist elements of the Democratic Party. Despite running a vigorous campaign against the nation's business elite, Bryan suffered the worst loss in his three presidential campaigns, and Taft won by a comfortable margin.
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