C A E Moberly Eleanor F Jourdain

The following events occurred in August 1901: == August 1, 1901 (Thursday) == A constitutional change that disenfranchised most African-American voters was approved in Maryland. W. F. Wright, a farmer and a former official with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, ended his experiment at bring a rainfall by firing cannons at a clear sky after two days. Starting the previous afternoon, Wright and his assistants lined up 24 mortars at his farm near Lincoln, Nebraska, loaded them with gunpowde…