us hist section 4 mass culture pg. 292
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- Advertising: biggest number of advertising line:
- Patent medicines, then soaps and baking powders.
- Alexander J. CartWright
- Amateur baseball player; organized a club in New York City and set down rules in baseball that used aspects of an English sport called Rounders
- Ashcan School
- Painted urban life and working people with grity realism and no frills
- Black baseball:
- Negro National League and Negro American League
- F. W. Wooworth
- Created chain stores; sold items at a very low price and many people bought them
- First amusement park:
- Coney Island, made by George Tilyou
- First baseball World Series:
- 1903 Boston Pilgrims (win) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
- First ferris wheel located at:
- World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago 1893
- How did bicycles help women?
- Gave independence and gave them a new fashion style: abandoned corsets for looser clothing
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Bought 'New York World' in 1883, made the large sunday edition with comics, sports, and women's news
- Mark Twain
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens; wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Marshall Field
- Brought department store concept to Americans; "give the lady what she wants"; made barain basement: bargain goods "less expensive but reliable"
- Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck
- Brought retail merchandise to small towns; Ward's catalogue grew very big; Sears started his company and used catalogues
- People become big fans of spectator sports:
- Boxing & Baseball. 1st leisure then profitable business
- rural free delivery (RFD)
- Post Office introduced this system that brough pacakges directly to every home
- Thomas Eakins
- American artist who used realism
- What do newspapers do to attract readers?
- Make sensational headlines
- What snacks came about?
- Hershey chocolate bar (1900) and Coca-Cola
- What sport also came up as leisure for people?
- tennis
- William Randolph Hearst
- Tried to surpass Pulitzer, already owned 'San Francisco Examiner', filled the 'Journal' with exaggerated tales of personal scandals, cruelty, hypnotism, and even an imaginary conquest of Mars