In February 1838, William Huffington combined his interests in politics and literature by becoming the proprietor and editor of the first monthly magazine in Delaware, The Delaware Register and Farmers’ Magazine. The editor of The Native American (by native, they mean WASPs, not Indians) newspaper in Washington, DC immediately noticed. “This is a youthful periodical,…
In 1905 tuberculosis (TB) killed four times as many people nationwide as typhoid fever. It was more lethal than diphtheria. 56,770 Americans died from it that year, the highest rate of death for any one disease. In Wilmington, DE about 150-200 people died from it annually. There was a tremendous amount of misinformation about the…
Bethel wasn’t the only successful shipbuilding town in 19th century Delaware. Wilmington, Smyrna, and Milford could all lay claim to strength in that industry. But Bethel, thanks to its location on the Nanticoke River, had easy access to the Chesapeake Bay and its markets. Bethel was surrounded by more extensive stands of virgin oak and…
You’ve heard the name RCA Victor. It grew out of the Victor Talking Machine Company. The man behind Victor Talking Machine was not named Victor, however. So where’d the name come from? Before Victor, there is Emile Berliner. First person to bring to market Thomas Edison’s phonograph invention on a wide scale. Emile Berliner organizes…
