History quiz
QUESTION: The Volstead act went into effect in 1920 nationally. What year did the Michigan ban on all alcohol sales go into effect? a. 1916 b. 1917 c. 1918 d. 1921 ANSWER B: 1917
National pastime – Early baseball in the Upper Peninsula
MARQUETTE — This evening’s Major League Baseball marquee matchup between the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants marks one of the earliest Opening Days in league history, which traditionally falls during the first week of April. But how did we get to this traditional celebration of spring and sport? Before it became America’s “National Pastime,” early baseball sports were variants of medieval bat-and-ball games that involved hitting, fielding, and sometimes base running, although the rules were few and flexible. By the mid-nineteenth century, two distinct versions of ...
National pastime- Early baseball in the Upper Peninsula
MARQUETTE — This evening’s Major League baseball marquee matchup between the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants marks one of the earliest Opening Days in league history, which traditionally falls during the first week of April. But how did we get to this traditional celebration of ...
History quiz
QUESTION: Prior to the 1937 Lumberjack Strike in Gogebic County, what were lumberjacks typically paid? a. $0.27-$0.33/hour b. $0.50-$0.55/hour c. $0.87-$0.93/hour d. $1.25-$1.35/hour ANSWER: A. For a lumberjack earning 30 cents an hour, if he worked 10 hours a day, six days a week for 52 weeks, he would have earned $936, minus about $291.20 for board, resulting in a net of $644.80 [approximately $13,295 today]! The previous year, the vice president of the Kimberly Clark Corp, William Bonifas was paid a yearly salary of $45,000 [approximately $927,525]. The strikers demanded ...