MILESTONES: November 15, birthdays for Shailene Woodley, B.O.B., Lily Aldridge
ON THIS DAY IN 1860, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Last night the Wide Awakes gave vent to their enthusiasm at the recent victory of the party, for whose success they labored so earnestly, by a parade. The companies participating were the South Brooklyn Irrepressibles, Lincoln Battalion of the Rocky Mountain Club, Eleventh Ward Zouaves and Eleventh Ward Wide-Awakes. They formed on Montague Street about 8 o’clock, where they received the City Wide Awakes from New York. The line of march was then taken up through Henry, Union and Court streets, First Place, Clinton, Pierrepont, Hicks, Clark, Fulton, Tillary and Adams streets, Myrtle Avenue, Prince, Willoughby and Duffield streets, Fulton Avenue to the City Hall, where the procession was dismissed. The torches, the music, the steady bearing and the picturesque effect of the lights and the uniforms attracted a large crowd in the several streets through which the procession passed. Several banners were carried in the procession, one of which bore Jefferson’s apothegm — ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.’”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1889, the Eagle reported, “The World newspaper writer, who uses the pen name of Nellie Bly, and the book reviewer of the Cosmopolitan magazine, Miss Elizabeth Bisland, have become rivals in a novel task. The newspaper has started Nellie Bly around the earth eastward and the magazine has started Miss Bisland around the earth westward. The object of each is to accomplish the circuit of the globe in the shortest possible time, and each will be desirous of traveling more quickly than the other. Nellie Bly left on a steamer for Southampton yesterday morning. Miss Bisland left for the Pacific Coast on the Central Hudson express at 6 o’clock last night. The ocean voyager did not know the railway traveler was to undertake the trip, because arrangements for the latter were not made until the programme of Nellie Bly’s journey had been announced. Each is expected to arrive in New York about the 25th of January, the object being to ascertain if the journey can be made inside of 75 days.”