Documents in Year 1924                     

Newspaper Clippings

Links of Interest:

• Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth U.S. President

(1923-1929)

• Gershwin's Modern Music

Feb. 12, 1924 - Rhapsody in Blue premieres in An Experiment in Modern Music Concert
Dec. 24, 1924 - Lady Be Good! premieres on Broadway with actors Fred & Adele Astaire

• Edward S. Curtis

(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

• Congress declares Native Americans to be U.S. citizens.

• The Popsicle - frozen fruit ice on a stick - is patented. Fruit, Garden, and Home, the magazine launched two years earlier in Des Moines, Iowa, changes its name to Better Homes & Gardens and soon becomes one of America's most popular magazines. Many of the recipes we now consider American classics were first published in "BH&G".
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 141