November 26: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

November 26, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1900, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The scanty water supply was somewhat replenished by the heavy rains yesterday and this morning. Complaints have been coming into the local water office in the Municipal Building from all parts of the city about the low pressure. The gradual decrease of the water in the reservoirs could be marked from these letters alone. At first they came principally from that section of the borough along Fourth Avenue, between Union and Thirty-ninth streets. From that section the complaints came by the score. In some houses the water pressure, which should be normally 35 pounds, was lowered in a number of cases to 5 pounds, and in a few cases to 3 pounds pressure. The highest pressure was only 22 pounds, and this was found only in one or two houses. As a consequence, water was not to be had above the first floor.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1916, the Eagle reported, “Thanksgiving turkeys will cost 40 cents a pound for first quality birds and from 30 to 38 cents a pound for the less desirable ones. This means that the average head of the house will have to spend, through his wife, practically one day’s earnings for the sacrificial bird. But he may rest assured that the turkey will not be from the cold storage warehouse. There are practically no cold storage turkeys for sale in the wholesale poultry markets of New York City. The supply of turkeys was eaten up last year and none was left to put in cold storage. ‘There will be no frozen birds sold in New York this Thanksgiving,’ said the head of one of the largest wholesale poultry houses, which is credited with doing an annual business of $12,000,000. ‘Last year the supply did not more than equal the demand, so that ever since, as fast as turkeys have been killed, they have been shipped direct to market.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1932, the Eagle reported, “WARM SPRINGS, GA. — President-elect Roosevelt’s disclosure that he has read 10 books on the Russian problem and is giving it considerable attention is regarded here as a definite trial balloon to test out the currents of present day opinion on the question of recognition of the Soviet regime. It is certainly obvious to those who have been following the situation that for the first time since the revolution a President of the United States will approach the situation in a sympathetic frame of mind. To say that the Governor favors or leans toward recognition is to go beyond what is warranted by the facts in the case, but it is becoming clearer every day that Roosevelt believes a definite stand on the question during his administration will be inevitable and that it will be impossible to fall back on the Hughes conditions to which President Hoover adhered. The President-elect’s conviction that he will have to meet the problem with a new approach is said to be based on the realization that the Soviet Government, born of revolution, will survive.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1951, the Eagle reported, “ROME (U.P.) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the North Atlantic Treaty Council today that he was counting on the new ‘baby’ tactical atomic bombs for the defense of Europe against Communist aggression. Addressing the Military Committee of the council, Eisenhower said, however, that even the use of such bombs would not remove the need for 60 to 70 divisions of ground troops for his Atlantic Treaty defense forces. Delegates from participating countries who are here to discuss defense problems met in secret today, but a spokesman disclosed Eisenhower’s speech. The Supreme Commander of the Atlantic forces said his Atlantic Treaty Command was ‘taking into account what new weapons might do to facilitate the task of building up strength in Europe … to face aggression.’ ‘New weapons,’ it was made known, mean the new small atomic weapons recently tested in the United States in sight of troops. They can be used on the battlefield for limited destruction in contrast to the mass destruction of the larger A-bombs.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1954, the Eagle reported, “CHICAGO (U.P.) — Color television will make the black and white family portrait ‘obsolete almost overnight,’ a prominent photographer predicts. Paul L. Gittings, former president of the Photographers’ Association of America, said ‘The viewing public will become so accustomed to color television so rapidly that the photographic industry will be hard pressed to keep pace with the consequent demand for color photos.’ Weddings and society functions in the future, Gittings said, ‘will be recorded exclusively in color. Direct color formal portraits of the bride and direct color or stereo-color candids of the ceremonies will be must items in the wedding budget.’”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include former CIA Director Porter Goss, who was born in 1938; comedian and impersonator Rich Little, who was born in 1938; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John McVie (Fleetwood Mac), who was born in 1945; Pro Football Hall of Famer Art Shell, who was born in 1946; Pro Football Hall of Famer Harry Carson, who was born in 1953; NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett, who was born in 1956; “NYPD Blue” star Garcelle Beauvais, who was born in 1966; “Unwritten” singer Natasha Bedingfield, who was born in 1981; and singer and actress Rita Ora, who was born in 1990.

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BY GEORGE: President George Washington proclaimed this day as Thanksgiving in 1789. Both houses of Congress, by their joint committee, had requested him to recommend “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity to peaceably establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

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IT’S THE GREAT CARTOONIST: Charles M. Schulz was born on this day in 1922. The Minnesota native created the “Peanuts” comic strip, which debuted Oct. 2, 1950 and chronicled the adventures of Charlie Brown; his sister, Sally; his dog, Snoopy; friends Linus and Lucy and a variety of other characters. Schulz’s last daily strip was published Jan. 3, 2000, and his last Sunday strip was published Feb. 13, 2000, the day after his death. “Peanuts” ran in more than 2,500 newspapers worldwide and was spun off into animated TV specials such as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965) and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (1966).

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.

Quotable:

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

— cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, who was born on this day in 1922