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This is a straw man
The law is an ass but its still the law
Corporations have to enforce copyright or lose it, but are accused of being thugs when they do.
Is the term to long? Of course, it's insanely long, but changing the term to 5 years wouldn't stop people from warezing brand new movies, songs and video games.
The only copyrighted work that I can think of that should be out of copyright is "Time Fades Away" by Neil Young, released in 1973, long out of print.
But then every out of print album that hasn't been transferred to CD or other format should lose it's copyrights. Of course then the record companies would destroy the masters.
This raises an interesting question: Does increasing the copyright interval deny rights to people who had valid reason to expect public domain access to some product as of a certain time? If so, does this violate constitutional due process? And I wonder if there isn't some element of ex post facto law operating here. I believe in intellectual property rights, but the devil is in the details of how best to protect them.
It sounds rather like the too typical "Let's use a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito" response to a minor problem that the government is so fond of!
First, there is no such thing as "intellectual property". There is no property there and the term was invented to create the illusion that copyright infringement was "theft". It isn't.
Second, no, nobody has to protect copyright or loose it, that's trademark. Copyright was supposed to be the limited time monopoly right to distribute copies of a work in fixed form and to create derivative works from it. Since NOBODY creates in a vacuum, society at large is actually a co-creator of EVERYTHING, it was recognized that eventually society at large should gain copyright (i.e. public domain).
So, yes, ex post facto changing of the rules is denying the public of their rights. Sadly, copyright law changes are one of the few areas where the SCOTUS votes 8-1 and 9-0 and somehow all of them don't have a problem with defining 3 to 4 generations as "limited time".
..and according to George Carlin,there are still people in hell for that eating meat on Friday rap…
Would this mean the Feds will start enforcing ALL their laws?
The point of this cartoon is cleverly hidden in the background of the first panel in the bottom row. The question of whether the perp's act was moral or legal (or should be) is ancillary to the innocent bystanders bemoaning the loss of their home.
@drklassen – spoken like someone who isn't trying to make a living as a creative person. If I create something, I own it, and I alone have the right to decide who gets to use it for money, for free, however I choose. Nobody else has that right until I give it up. "Society at large is the co-creator of everything" – the most specious argument for theft EVER.
@drklassen — of course intellectual property exists. Many types of property are not physical objects. Yes, copyright infringement is theft.
The statement of the man in the comic is factually incorrect; in 1955, when "Lady and the Tramp" came out, the law at the time would have put it in the public domain after 75 years — which would be 2030. If he'd been downloading "Steamboat Willie", he would have had a point.
It is true that Disney, using its army of clean-shaven lawyers, its ranks of money-spending lobbyists, and Sonny Bono, got Congress to pass the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, and that there are good arguments that that act (CTEA) is unconstitutional. But Disney being greedy has no bearing on the validity and importance of copyright protection and intellectual property rights.
I'm pretty sure that the original argument was that a limited time monopoly on creative work would encourage the artists to produce more for the benefit of society. It was meant to be limited because society does not reap the full benefit until it passes into the public domain. One problem is determining what is a reasonable period for the duration of a copyright…. obviously twenty year old software is pretty much useless to the public even though it's still under copyright while a fifty year old novel may still be of great value to the writer. Another issue is the suitable punishment for infringement. Laws to protect the music industry were written at a time when recording and distribution of music required manufacturing facilities, warehouses and fleets of vehicles for distribution. The recording industry (not the artist) got the lion's share of the benefits and punishments were intended to be suitable for another company that had similar facilities… not for some kid running a world-wide distribution network from his bedroom.
Everything is free now,
That's what they say.
Everything I ever done,
Gotta give it away.
Someone hit the big score.
They figured it out,
That we're gonna do it anyway,
Even if doesn't pay.
- "Everything Is Free", © Gillian Welch
next mission for Godman: Tim Tebow is on his knees and wants another touchdown.
Godman to the rescue!
"First, there is no such thing as 'intellectual property'… Since NOBODY creates in a vacuum, society at large is actually a co-creator of EVERYTHING…"
That's hogwash, pure and simple. My idea is MY idea, until and unless I decide to share it, and then I will dictate the terms under which I will share it. Otherwise, I'll keep it to myself.
"It was recognized that eventually society at large should gain copyright (i.e. public domain)."
The key word is "eventually", and that's what the argument is about. "The creator's lifetime, plus 25 years", which I think used to be the standard, seems reasonable to me, but of course when you have a potentially-immortal "corporate creator" like Disney, that becomes problematic. I'm not siding with the corporate owners like Disney, but neither do I side with the "information wants to be FREE" dimwits. People who devote their lives to writing and playing music, or writing books, or painting pictures, or whatever, have a reasonable expectation of compensation for that (provided people actually LIKE what they create). Otherwise, go write your OWN songs and books.
so then fritz – after the creator dies WHY should a copyright continue? The COPY protection is applicable during the life of the creator but WHY should it continue? I agree with limiting the copy time associated with corporations to perhaps 50 years.
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I thought this quote from Good Morals and Gentle Manners for Schools and Families from 1873 was kind of cute in a smelly sort of way. Hail deodorants!
Good health requires that the whole body be
frequently and thoroughly bathed, an operation that some persons neglect
entirely in winter. The skin is full of
minute pores or openings for the escape of insensible perspiration, and if
these are obstructed, they can not carry off that waste matter which should
pass from the body in this way. Not
only does the skin become rough, dry, harsh, and covered with pimples, but
unpleasant odors emanate from it. These
odors impregnate the clothing, and become very offensive. The remedy is the bath.
November 21, 2014
November 10, 2014
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard: Advocate for the Rights of Women and the Insane
|Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
In Illinois at that time, there were laws that required a hearing before someone could be declared insane.However, there was one exception: a husband could commit his wife without either a public hearing or her consent. Elizabeth was an inmate of the asylum for three years. An article in the Colorado Antelope, June 1882, summarized what happened next:
Finally, after public pressure, Mrs. Packard was brought out for a jury trial before Judge Starr of Kankakee City; the jury declared her falsely imprisoned, and she was released. In 1863, in part due to pressure from her children who wished her released, the doctors declared that she was incurable and discharged her.
Elizabeth headed home only to find that her husband had taken everything, including her children, and left the state. Women were considered the property of their husbands and had no rights of their own. Elizabeth filed suit (Packard vs. Packard) and in the jury trial that followed it took the jury only seven minutes of deliberation to declare in her favor - she was legally declared sane.
Following the trial, Elizabeth wrote several books and founded the Anti-Insane Asylum Society. In 1867, the State of Illinois passed a "Bill for the Protection of Personal Liberty" which guaranteed all people accused of insanity, including wives, had the right to a public hearing. She also saw similar laws passed in three other states.
Elizabeth was never formally divorced from her husband but they remained separated for the rest of their lives. She remained close to her children and retained their support.
References and additional reading:
August 19, 2014
Lost and Found: The Ripley Memorial Hospital
|Entrance to the former
Ripley Memorial Hospital
I really enjoy the PBS series "Lost Twin Cities" which highlights historically significant buildings that have been destroyed over the years. But there are still some important sites remaining - I will call them "Found Twin Cities."
In a previous post I talked about Dr. Martha Ripley who opened a maternity hospital in Minneapolis in 1887. Click here to read the previous post. Her mission was to "admit girls who have previously borne a good character, but who, under promise of marriage, have been led astray" and also to "care for destitute children born in the institution." The hospital grew to include a residence for unmarried mothers and an infants' home.
|The former Baby's Bungalow
The Ripley Memorial Hospital and many of the other buildings including the nurses residence and the baby's bungalow still stand today at 300 Queen Avenue North in Minneapolis. The buildings have been re-purposed as apartments under the collective title of Ripley Gardens.
June 25, 2014
Katie's Promise
While most girls her age are at home learning how to cook and sew, twelve-year-old Katie Klien is learning how to sneak on and off trains, hide in dark alleys and creep through underground tunnels. Katie is determined to keep the promise she made to her ma: that she will make sure her brothers and sisters are safe and loved. But how? She doesn't know where they are. It's 1898. With their pa in prison and their ma deathly ill, the six Klien children are lined up on the steps of the county courthouse and given away. Katie must live in a strict, loveless household. When she finds out that her older brother has died under mysterious circumstances and her little brother and sister are in an orphanage, Katie knows she must act. Using all of her wits and the help of a shy boy, Katie bolts. For in order to keep her promise, she must not only find the children, she must steal them away.
June 4, 2014
What is the Difference Between a Bride Price and a Dowry?
|Chinese bride courtesy of Wiki Commons
In the Western world, both practices have largely been abandoned except in the case of a uniquely American system of dowry practiced by the wealthy (See my post (click here) ). However, in some countries bride price or dowry are still is use today. Some countries practice both. Bride price is common in rural China, many other Asian countries, parts of Africa and some Pacific Island societies. Dowries are common for marriages in India and Pakistan.
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May 6, 2014
Pioneering Minnesota Women: Liang May Seen
|Liang May Seen with her son Howard
Liang May Seen (1871-1946) was born in China to an impoverished family. When she was fourteen, her parents sold her to a man who promised she would be married to a wealthy Chinese American businessman. Instead, she was sold to a brothel in San Francisco. After three years of servitude, she planned her escape. In 1889, Liang appealed to the Presbyterian Mission for help. She sneaked away from the brothel and was taken to the Mission Home. There she remained, learning a new religion and a new language.
In 1892, Minneapolis businessman Woo Yee Sing came to the mission looking for a wife. He chose Liang and together they returned to Minnesota. Liang May Seen was the first Chinese woman in Minnesota.
After 1900, more Chinese women arrived in Minneapolis. Liang was there, helping them learn English and adapt to their new home. This pioneering Minnesota woman died in 1946, a valued and respected member of her community.
References and additional reading:
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Minnesota Women by Bonnye E. Stuart. 2004; The Globe Pequot Press, pgs. 47-58
April 21, 2014
Breaking the Bathing Suit Barrier: Annette Kellerman
|Annette Kellerman
Annette Kellerman, a famous Australian swimmer, was arrested at Revere Beach, Massachusetts, in 1907. Why?
Kellerman (1886-1975) was a strong advocate for the right of women to wear a one-piece bathing suit, a very controversial issue at the time. In the early 1900's, women were required to wear a cumbersome bathing suit composed of a dress in combination with pantaloons. While swimming at Revere Beach in her fitted one-piece bathing suit, she was arrested for indecency. But her one-piece suit became so popular that she launched her own line of swimwear called "Annette Kellermans".
In 1908 she was dubbed the Perfect Woman by a professor at Harvard University who found that her figure was similar to that of the Venus de Milo. Kellerman was portrayed by Esther Williams in the 1952 film Million Dollar Mermaid and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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April 14, 2014
Author's Notes: Pioneering Minnesota Women: Dr. Martha Ripley
Licensed to practice medicine in Minnesota in 1883, Dr. Ripley was among at least seven women doctors in Minneapolis and a total of twenty in the state. A highly successful obstetrician, she championed unwed mothers, arguing that they deserved medical care and should be helped, not punished. At that time, most births occurred at home which was frequently closed to erring daughters and hospital maternity facilities were limited. No city hospital would admit an unmarried woman for confinement.
Dr. Ripley opened a maternity hospital in Minneapolis in 1887 to "admit girls who have previously borne a good character, but who, under promise of marriage, have been led astray" and also to "care for destitute children born in the institution." The hospital grew to include a residence for unmarried mothers and an infants' home. The hospital closed in 1957, but the Ripley Memorial Foundation (http://www.wfmn.org/grant-opportunities/ripley-memorial-foundation/)continues to this day focusing on the prevention of teen pregnancy, a lasting legacy of this extraordinary pioneer.
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March 21, 2014
Here's a Fun Article!
16 Ways to Find Love in the Personal Ads (in 1900): Click here for link
March 17, 2014
Who Really Conquered the West?
|Homestead near Benson, Minnesota
American legend has it that the West was settled by sturdy young men. But that's not the whole story. Single women, either unmarried or widowed, made up a substantial number of frontier settlers.
In 1863, when the land offices opened for homesteading in Minnesota, one unmarried woman homesteaded for every four unmarried men. From 1863 to 1889, about 2400 women without husbands actively sought and farmed land by themselves in Minnesota. This was true across the West. Susan B. Anthony claimed that in the mid-1880's, one third of the land in Dakota Territory was owned by women. So let's change our perception of the frontier farmer to include single women, who, by themselves, played a significant role in the settlement of the West.
Reference and additional reading:
Forgotten Persephones http://www.mnhs.org/market/mhspress/minnesotahistory/xml/v50i04.xml)
February 18, 2014
The History of Ice Skating
With the Olympics in full swing, I'm loving the figure skating, especially the ice dancing. Here is a charming photo of two couples enjoying the ice back in 1910. But when did man first strap on a pair of blades and take to the ice?
The archaeological record documents ice skates made of bone found on the banks of Lake Moss, Switzerland, as early as 3000 BC . The first mention of ice skating was made by a monk in Canterbury . He talks about children on bone skates, carrying sticks, flying across the ice in the 1100's. The Dutch refined the sport, adding sharpened, steel blades in the 13th and 14th century. The design of modern ice skates is largely the same as that developed by the Dutch way back then. Jackson Haines is credited with the invention of figure skating. In 1864, he incorporated ballet and dance movements into his skating.
|From the Library of Congress
The archaeological record documents ice skates made of bone found on the banks of Lake Moss, Switzerland, as early as 3000 BC . The first mention of ice skating was made by a monk in Canterbury . He talks about children on bone skates, carrying sticks, flying across the ice in the 1100's. The Dutch refined the sport, adding sharpened, steel blades in the 13th and 14th century. The design of modern ice skates is largely the same as that developed by the Dutch way back then. Jackson Haines is credited with the invention of figure skating. In 1864, he incorporated ballet and dance movements into his skating.
February 10, 2014
How to Give Birth 100 Years Ago by Therese Oneill
|Image Credit: Getty Images
This article was reproduced with permission from the author: Therese Oneill. It appeared in Mental Floss, December 8, 2013 ( http://mentalfloss.com/article/54930/how-give-birth-100-years-ago)
Up until the mid-19th century, childbirth was something men avoided. Women had babies in a room full of other women, aided by female midwives and nurses. Then the profession of "doctor" began to mean more than "guy who waves burning sage over your head while draining your blood." Science entered the practice of medicine, and it became a respectable profession that was almost exclusively the domain of men.
Male doctors wanted everyone to know that their knowledge and abilities were far superior to that of a common grubby midwife. So they began writing books. They took childbirth out of the intuitive hands of midwives, and claimed it as their own.
Most of what they wrote was as scientifically sound as could be expected for the era. Still, some of it was egregiously puzzling. Here, we look at some of the stranger advice of the day.
Preparing for the birth
In the mid-1800s, many women went to the "lying-in" hospital to be attended by physicians for childbirth. (This practice often proved fatal, as doctors who had no concept of sterilization or contagion would transmit diseases from woman to woman with their own bare hands). But if a woman lived rurally or had enough money, she delivered in her own home. Preparing the birth-room was an important part of childbirth. Turn-of-the-century plumbing, for instance, was an evil in need of a good spackling, according to Henry Davidson Fry's 1907 book, Maternity:
Sewer gas in the room is dangerous; for that reason a communicating bathroom is objectionable. In such a case the communicating door should be locked and the key removed. For the same reason stationary washstands are undesirable. The outflow openings should be closed with plaster of paris. [Fry]
Preparing the patient herself was also important. Fry's desire that the patient be sterilized was admirable, albeit rather abrasive.
The nurse should give particular attention to cleansing and preparing the skin of the abdomen, thighs, and external genital parts. First scrub with warm sterile water and soap, then rub dry, and afterward bathe the parts in a bichloride solution 1-1000, or solution of Lysol, one percent. It is particularly difficult to render the external parts surgically clean. The hair around the genitalia should be cut short with scissors or shaved, scrubbed with hot sterile water, and bathed with bichloride solution. [Fry]
Shaved, scalded, and sprayed down with Lysol. Now you're ready for some real discomfort.
However, John Gunn's 1861 Gunn's New Domestic Physician had a gentler suggestion for preparing those sensitive areas for the task ahead:
The parts of generation during labor should always be well oiled or greased with lard, as it greatly assists and mitigates the suffering, and lubricates the parts of passage. [Gunn]
Candles, cooking, refurbishing, and greasing up the birth canal. What can't lard do?
Women today usually choose to give birth in as few clothes as their modesty (such as it is in childbirth) allows. In his 1907 book, Coming Motherhood, Louis A. Spaeth shows us that women 100 years ago felt the same way. Unfortunately, the popular sports bra and knee socks combination was apparently not an option back then.
Probably the best way to dress a woman for the lying-in-bed is in short undershirt or under vest, shirt waist (blouse) and a skirt or petticoat, warm stockings and bed-room slippers. The supreme advantage of this method of dressing lies in the fact of the easy removal of the soiled garments. When labor is over, the skirt or petticoat is removed over the feet, the shirt waist taken off, and a clean night gown put on. [Spaeth]
Just because you're pushing a bloody human being from your vagina doesn't mean you get to dress like a slob, Madam. Show some decorum and be grateful Mr. Spaeth doesn't recommend returning to corsets until after the birth is over.
Pain mitigation
A few decades make a world of difference in the popular methods of handling the pain of birth. Dr. Gunn's method is as natural and low-impact as his suggested use of lard. Just get yourself a nice towel.
A towel, sheet, or some convenient article, should be tied to the bed post, so that at each pain the woman may pull it, as it assists her very much in her efforts, and she derives great benefit and comfort from the support. [Gunn]
It was long believed that pain was supposed to be part of childbirth, and to try and cheat it was to cheat God. Fry tells of a story wherein a poor woman in 1591 was burnt to death in Edinburgh "for employing charms and other means to cast off the pains of labor." Fry explains why pain mitigation was unpopular for most of history.
The arguments against it were:
The relief of pain during childbirth removed the maternal instinct.
It was immoral because it produced a condition similar to intoxication.
Various ill effects were attributed to it — epilepsy, convulsions, and insanity.
The most powerful argument against the relief of pain was that it was sacrilegious to thrust aside the decrees of Providence. Woman had been sentenced to suffer the pangs of childbirth, and it would rob God of the deep, earnest cries which arise in time of trouble for help. [Fry]
It is amazing how attitudes toward childbirth can change, however, when the most powerful woman in the world has eight children. In 1853, Queen Victoria was chloroformed during the birth of Prince Leopold, and a new era of pain control was born. One Sir James Y. Simpson even helped convince the religious-minded that perhaps God did not insist on suffering in birth.
Says Fry:
The Scottish clergy reviled Simpson for his work in opposition to the primeval curse, "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." He turned their shaft to ridicule by reminding them that the first operation recorded in history was performed under anesthesia, since when God created Eve from one of Adam's ribs, he "caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam." [Fry]
Good enough for God, good enough for the Queen, good enough for you.
Of course there will always be women who prefer natural pain control to chemical. In 1907, Spaeth had a unique approach to dulling labor pains. Apparently, the nerves of the womb are directly connected to the clitoris. Ergo sum:
With our present knowledge of the nerve supply of the womb, we are enabled to lessen the pains of labor to a very marked degree. During the first stages, pressure is made with the fingers on the terminal filaments of the sympathetic nerves in and around the clitoris. The index and middle fingers are placed, one on each side of this organ, and firm, moderately hard pressure is made against the bone with the direction of the pressure upward toward the abdomen; this is done by the attending physician, the nurse, or by the woman herself. A reflex result occurs, in which contraction of the womb follows; its mouth dilates, normal propulsion pains ensue, and labor proceeds naturally, all unnecessary flying pains cease. [Spaeth]
I cannot speak against this method, as even though I have had two children, I have never tried it. And likely would have punched anyone who suggested I should.
Post-partum instructions
In 1835, postpartum care mostly involved holding very, very still for a ridiculously long time. After childbirth, women are particularly fragile in mind and body, and physicians were terrified important things would fall out of a lady if she jostled around too much. In his book The Home Book of Health and Medicine, William Edmonds Horner lays it out:
Rest and quiet should be strictly enforced; no visitors should be admitted for a fortnight or three weeks, both to secure the mother from fatiguing herself by talking, and from hearing anything that might agitate or distress her mind. [Horner]
In 1896's Preparation for Motherhood, Elisabeth Robinson Scovil agrees. Even if the new mother wants to talk, she's not allowed to.
After all that the newly made mother has undergone, she needs perfect quiet for several hours before she is permitted to see anyone. A five-minute interview with her husband is all that should be granted. However well she feels, quiet should be insisted upon. Excitement is dangerous and no visitors must be permitted to enter the room, nor should conversation be allowed, even if she wishes to talk. Neglect of this precaution may cause serious disaster, even when all seems to be going on well. [Scovil]
Fry details the amount of interaction and movement the mother is allowed in excruciating detail.
For the first two hours after labor the patient should lie upon her back with the lower limbs extended and her head low. She can then be changed to the side position when desired, but for the first four days she ought to lie upon her back most of the time. After the fourth day she should change to the side often, and it is desirable to lie upon the abdomen some. After the fifth or sixth day she may be propped up in bed with pillows behind her for one-half or one hour at a time. She should not sit up in a chair until the top of the womb has descended into the pelvic cavity — from the tenth to the fourteenth day. The first day that she sits up she should remain out of bed only one hour and must not stand upon her feet or walk until the middle or end of the third week. On the second day that she gets out of bed she can stay up one hour in the morning and one in the afternoon or evening. The length of time is gradually increased, but even during the third or fourth weeks she should lie down or recline upon a sofa much of the time. She should not get up early in the mornings, but have her bath, breakfast, and a rest before doing so. She should wear a wrapper and not go through unnecessary fatigue of dressing.
She should not go down stairs until the end of the fourth week, and then only once a day for the first three days. After that she can go down morning or noon and evening. At the end of the fifth week she can go out for a short walk or drive. Shopping and visiting should be avoided for some time longer.
Neglect of these precautions often causes backache, subinvolution, and displacement of the womb. [Fry]
Fry must have been writing for a very elite group of women who had the luxury of lying around all day. Today, we live in a world where pre-made clothes wash themselves in large whirring boxes, and meals come prepackaged in plates you can throw away, and I still don't know any woman who can spend six weeks not moving. One-hundred-fifty years ago, if the average farmwife took to her bed for that length of time, her family would starve, her animals would turn feral, and the dark forest would reclaim her homestead. Still, it's a lovely thought.
Aside from stillness, there are other precautions to consider. For instance, if you find your generative organs have been unduly tormented by the act of childbirth, Horner suggests milk and bread. Or leeches.
Great stretching of the parts. This occasions great soreness, and uneasy feelings, which are best removed by bathing with warm milk and water. If there be much swelling, an emollient poultice of bread and milk, or linseed meal, may be applied, and frequently renewed. If there be general uneasiness, with heat and throbbing pain in the part, leeches may be necessary. [Horner]
As for the rest of your general post-partum health, one of the worst things you can do, according to Horner, is to eat and drink. Which may not be all that bad, considering you're not allowed to move.
The diet of women, after delivery, should be particularly attended to. For the first five or six days, all heating and stimulant food, and in general all solid and animal food whatever, should be forbidden, as such diet is very apt to bring on inflammatory complaints.
If the woman is not to nurse, she should avoid liquids as much as possible, and rather take a little fruit, ripe or preserved, to quench the thirst. If she is to nurse, she may have a little tea and panado, or gruel for breakfast, and, after a few days have elapsed, a little weak chicken broth or beef-tea, with toasted bread, for dinner; but wines and malt liquors should be avoided. [Horner]
If you're not going to breastfeed, you haven't earned the right to eat your gruel. But you can have malt liquor.
Today, childbirth is slowly returning to the domain of the female attendant, with female doulas, midwives, nurse midwives, and obstetricians slowly outpacing their male counterparts. It is possible that the time in which men were the prime authorities on childbirth will prove to be but a small blip in history. Because, after all, women were made for it. Put humbly by Gunn:
That Women generally endure pain and sickness with more fortitude and patience than men, is evident. Looking forward with the pleasing hope of being the mother of a tender offspring, upon which she can lavish her affection and tenderness, sustains her in fulfilling the conditional requirements of Nature. Few men could be induced, for any consideration, to suffer in a similar manner. [Gunn]
January 29, 2014
Author's Notes: America in 1898
My next book is set in 1898. What was happening in America that year? McKinley was president, the Spanish-American war began and ended, and Hawaii was annexed, all well known events. But here are some rather amusing, little known happenings for 1898:
Jan 1st - Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY
Feb 1st - 1st auto insurance policy in US issued by Travelers Insurance Co
Mar 24th - 1st automobile sold
May 19th - Post Office authorizes use of postcards
Jun 18th - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
Jul 30th - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
Nov 26th - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
Dec 18th - Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
(Data from http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1898; click on the date to see other historical events for that day)
|Atlantic City as it looked in between 1890 and 1910 (photo from Wiki Commons)
Feb 1st - 1st auto insurance policy in US issued by Travelers Insurance Co
Mar 24th - 1st automobile sold
May 19th - Post Office authorizes use of postcards
Jun 18th - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
Jul 30th - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
Nov 26th - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
Dec 18th - Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
(Data from http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1898; click on the date to see other historical events for that day)
January 17, 2014
The Tragic Story of a Minneapolis Baby Farm
Reprinted with permission from the Alley Newspaper, October 6, 2009, by Sue Hunter Weir
"Bring a shawl and get a baby" from a 1908-09 Baby Farm
3341 Nicollet Avenue
|The babies were buried in unmarked graves in The Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
Between June 24, 1908 and September 6, 1909, 27 infants died at the same address–3341 Nicollet Avenue South. These babies (13 girls, 13 boys, and one whose gender was not recorded) were under the care of "Doctor" Hans Oftedal. As the quote marks suggest, Hans Oftedal was not a licensed physician; he was the proprietor of one of several "baby farms" operating in Minneapolis at the time.
Baby farms were essentially unlicensed boarding houses for infants whose parents were too poor to care for them. The parents surrendered their children to baby farm operators and paid a fee for the care that they believed their children would receive. In some cases, the parents intended to come back and reclaim their children, but in other cases they expected their children to be adopted by families who could provide for them. Adoption was unregulated at that time, and Minneapolis had the dubious distinction of being the baby-trafficking capitol of the Upper Midwest. The Minneapolis Tribune described the adoption trade in Minneapolis as one in which people could "Bring a shawl and get a baby."
In October 1909, "Doctor" Oftedal shut down his baby farm. He ordered the utilities turned off and abandoned five infants in the care of two teen-aged girls. The girls had no food or supplies with which to take care of the babies. Eventually staff from the city's Poor Department, as it was called at the time, got wind of what was happening and tried to take charge of the babies. At first the girls declined to give up their charges but eventually turned the babies over to city authorities. The good news was that all of those babies survived although three of them were in poor health. One of them was a five-month old child who had been one of the incubator babies successfully treated at Wonderland Park but who had lost considerable ground after being fed only skim milk while under Oftedal's care.
After he closed down his operation, "Doctor" Oftedal, his wife, and a woman identified in the press as Nurse Siegel, fled to Seattle, Washington. City officials did not track them down and prosecute them. Indeed, it is doubtful that anyone had any idea about the 27 babies who had died—at least none of the newspapers mentioned them. The babies died from a variety of causes, many of them from gastrointestinal problems or pneumonia. Two of them died from malnutrition. They ranged in age from two days to 18 months old.
The babies are buried in unmarked graves at various locations throughout the cemetery. Their names are Erma Amundson, Marian Bachler, Myrtle Bowen, Wesley Brown, Baby of Catherine Carroll, John Coade, Baby Boy Douglass, Montague Edwards, Henry Hanson, Florence Helmer, Freddie Helmer, Leroy Jackson, Mildred Kenney, Violet King, Baby Girl Lather, Allen Meyers, Francis Mieselt, Elmer Olson, Lucille Ormond, Baby Girl Ross, Luther Severson, Blossom Smith, Wanita Thomas, Twin Girls of Edward Thompson and Walter Wold.
In 1917 the Minnesota Legislature adopted a Children's Code aimed at regulating adoption and requiring that hospitals and boarding homes that took in homeless children be licensed. The bill was overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court on a technicality, but soon afterwards the flaws in the original bill were corrected and the provisions of the Children's Code were put into practice.
During the 1920s, Hans Oftedal returned to Minnesota. He was no longer a "doctor," but was listed in the City Directory as a carpenter.
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Margaret Waters: Infamous Baby Farmer
|The Execution of Mary Waters (from murderpedia.org)
Born in 1835, Margaret Waters took up baby farming to support herself after her husband died. She would take in other people's infants for money but she soon found it more profitable to drug the babies with opiates, (which suppress the appetite)and then leave the babies to slowly starve. To dispose of the babies, she would wrap their bodies in brown paper and dump them on the streets, a common site in Victorian Britain due to the high cost of burial. At the time of her execution, she was thirty-four years old.
She is believed to have killed up to nineteen children. Waters was charged with five counts of willful murder, neglect, and conspiracy, Her sister, Sarah Ellis, was convicted in the same case for obtaining money under false pretenses She was sentenced to eighteen months hard labor.
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December 1, 2013
Author's Notes: What was a Baby Farm?
A child's life saved: before(above)
and after (below) removal from a baby farm, 1917.
Photos from The Adoption History Project
My new book is entitled The Baby Farm, but what exactly was a baby farm?
The FreeOnlineDictionary notes two definitions:
1. a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
2. a residence for unwed mothers that also arranges adoptions.
The term "baby farm" was common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when illegitimacy was severely stigmatized, it was felt that unwed mothers should be punished, not helped, and pregnant unmarried women were refused admission to maternity hospitals.
Originally, a baby farm meant family day care, but soon developed a terrible reputation when horrific abuses and death traps were exposed. The scandals that resulted prompted the child welfare laws we have today.
In its extreme form, babies were bought and sold like any other product. The Adoption History Project (see reference below) notes: "Baby farmers sometimes profited on both ends of the adoption transaction, first extracting fees from desperate birth mothers and then demanding large sums from adopters." Often the homes combined an unlicensed maternity hospital, a brothel and a baby farm combined. Here is an example, again from The Adoption History Project, of such an enterprise: "The woman who operated this home made a specialty of taking in unfortunate girls for maternity cases, she then made inmates of them and charged them for the board of their children; or she would dispose of a child for the sum of $25.00 or more."
Lest we think that baby farms were confined to big cities like New York or Chicago, there were 40 baby farms operating in Minneapolis alone in 1905.
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Seventeen-year-old Hannah Winter is seven months pregnant and married… to the wrong man. When it appears that her true love has abandoned her, she is forced to marry a brutal man, for it's 1885, and her only choice is to marry someone, anyone, or give up her baby. But once her daughter is born, her cruel husband sells the child to a baby farm. Outraged, Hannah attacks him only to be beaten and imprisoned. Now it is up to Claire Sargent and the girls of the Secret Society of Sugar and Spice to plan a daring escape and spirit Hannah away to safety. But once rescued, Hannah won't leave without her daughter. Claire and the girls of the Secret Society face their most daunting mission yet, for not only must they find the baby girl, they must steal her away.
The Baby Farm is part of a series. The first book in the series is The Secret Society of Sugar and Spice. Get it online at the same websites.
Seventeen-year-old Hannah Winter is seven months pregnant and married… to the wrong man. When it appears that her true love has abandoned her, she is forced to marry a brutal man, for it's 1885, and her only choice is to marry someone, anyone, or give up her baby. But once her daughter is born, her cruel husband sells the child to a baby farm. Outraged, Hannah attacks him only to be beaten and imprisoned. Now it is up to Claire Sargent and the girls of the Secret Society of Sugar and Spice to plan a daring escape and spirit Hannah away to safety. But once rescued, Hannah won't leave without her daughter. Claire and the girls of the Secret Society face their most daunting mission yet, for not only must they find the baby girl, they must steal her away.
The Baby Farm is part of a series. The first book in the series is The Secret Society of Sugar and Spice. Get it online at the same websites.
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TEEN LIFE WAY BACK WHEN: The Foundation of Domestic Happiness
In 1898, what did men believe was the foundation of domestic happiness"? Here is one man's opinion (from Western Womanhood. A Journal Devoted to the Interests of Women. Fargo, North Dakota):
I am dumbfounded at the first reference to the dictionary that is beside me, wherein I find an expression that makes me weep over the opinions of the old as well as the present time. I find: The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman." (Hare.) I am pained to think that Mr. Hare was forced to make woman's virtue the sole ingredient of a foundation so imposing as that of domestic happiness. Being a man, I blush with shame that one of my own kindred should thus be compelled to make our record. "Domestic happiness" that boon to which the weary traveler returns after his day's work is done; to have it rest upon one-half of human life, and that half, so far as virtue is referred in the definition, the absolute slave of man, for there is no legal redress during coverture*, for the abuse of woman's sexual organs, not even if the man bring to her person the most infectious of diseases. By O.W.L. Feb. 1898, Vol IV, No. 8, pg 4.
*Coverture is the legal term whereby upon marriage, a husband and wife were said to have acquired unity of person that resulted in the husband having numerous rights over the property of his wife and in the wife being deprived of her power to enter into contracts or to bring lawsuits as an independent person (www.legaldictionary.com)
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TEEN LIFE WAY BACK WHEN: Courting Rituals in America, Part 3: A Uniquely American Dowry System
In the Gilded Age, fabulously wealthy Americans could have anything they wanted, except for one thing - a title. Thus developed a uniquely American dowry system. Rich American industrialists married their daughters to poor British aristocrats who had a title but no money. This raised the status of both the bride and groom and their families. In 1895 alone, nine American heiresses married members of the British aristocracy. They became known as the "dollar princesses".
The quintessential example of this was Consuelo Vanderbilt, one of the great beauties of her time. Daughter of the railroad millionaire, William Vanderbilt, she married Charles Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, on November 16,1895, becoming the Duchess of Marlborough. The marriage settlement was 2.5 million dollars of railroad stock, an estimated 61 million to 2.6 billion in 2012 dollars. Pressured into the marriage by her ambitious mother, the loveless union ended in divorce in 1921.
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When Even the Inanimate Seem to Rise and Fall With Breath
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Tim Howard likely to miss US qualifiersThe Associated Press | March 09,2013Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard has two broken bones in his back and likely will miss the Americans World Cup qualifiers against Costa Rica and Mexico this month.
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Howard was hurt Feb. 26 in an FA Cup win over Oldham and missed last weekends Premier League game against Reading. That ended his streak of consecutive league matches at 210, two shy of the Everton record set by goalkeeper Neville Southall from 1987-93.
Everton manager David Moyes said Howard will miss Saturdays FA Cup quarterfinal against Wigan and the March 16 match league match versus Manchester City, but could return March 30 against Stoke.
We are not sure how long Tim will be out for because, obviously with a goalkeeper, he has to dive around and hit the ground, Moyes said Friday, according to the teams website. If everything goes well, he misses next weeks game, as well, and then because of the international break he might be close after the rest because that would be four weeks.
Howard, 34, was the U.S. starter at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and has played in all seven qualifiers for the 2014 tournament in Brazil.
He has two fractures, but they are not bones that are supporting anything, Moyes said. It is off the spine. They are not weight-bearing. It just needs a bit of healing time. It is not like a pure fracture where you need to wait to look at it. It is a question of whether he can cope with the pain. The bones will heal themselves, but its not good.
Guzan won Villas starting job from Shay Given early this season. He has 20 international appearances and a 3-1-1 record in qualifiers, with two wins over Barbados in 2008 and one over Guatemala, a loss at Trinidad and Tobago that year, and a draw the following year at El Salvador. He also played in the 3-0 win over Egypt at the 2009 Confederations Cup.
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After joining one of the most recognized labels in all of hip-hop, your first single has to be something spectacular—even biblical. Fittingly then, My God is Clipse founder Pusha T's first solo effort since signing to Yeezy's G.O.O.D. Music last September. Respecting G.O.O.D's signature vintage sound, producer Hit-Boy crafts a beat complete with warm brass sections and colorful organ licks. The beat chugs along to a military-style drum cadence as Pusha talks himself up, awed by his own talent: "Bear with me as I unveil this instant classic / yes, my God." As mentioned, the song "chugs," and whether it was Pusha's unchanging flow (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) or the overall tempo, I found my attention drifting off at times. Then again, I could just need a Riddlin re-up. As always, we'll let the Booth debate the quality of God, our first glimpse into the VA emcee's upcoming project Fear of God, dropping soon. It's no doubt a good look to be a part of Kanye's dream squad, brushing shoulders with Cudi and Big Sean, but I wouldn't start using the lord's name in vain just yet.
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We are experiencing the new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by Wikipedia and del.icio.us, Web 2.0 environments are turning people into social information foragers and sharers. Users interact to resolve conflicts and jointly make sense of topic areas from "Obama vs. Clinton" to "Islam." PARC's Augmented Social Cognition researchers -- who come from cognitive psychology, computer science, HCI, sociology, and other disciplines -- focus on understanding how to "enhance a group of people's ability to remember, think, and reason". Through Web 2.0 systems like social tagging, blogs, Wikis, and more, we can finally study, in detail, these types of enhancements on a very large scale. In this talk, we summarize recent PARC work and early findings on: (1) how conflict and coordination have played out in Wikipedia, and how social transparency might affect reader trust; (2) how decreasing interaction costs might change participation in social tagging systems; and (3) how computation can help organize user-generated content and metadata.
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The issuance of commemorative coins has apparently been an ongoing problems for a number of years. A number of years ago Congress read a scathing report on a number of abuses associated with the issuance of commemorative coins and attempted to remedy the situation.
Commemorative Coins Versus Commemorative Stamps
Stamp collecting and coin collecting have at least one thing in common, commemorative items. Commemorative stamps generally get a good reception in the stamp collecting community. However, commemorative coins seem to be more controversial to coin collectors.
Consumer Groups Are Pushing For More $1 Coins
Despite the unpopularity of $1 coins with the public, believe it or not, there are some consumer groups that are still trying to pressure the Federal Government to circulate moreâmany more $1 coins. Groups like Citizens Against Government Waste, are getting very aggressive in there efforts to pus
Cost To Produce Cent And Nickel Drops
The good news is that the Mint has been able to reduce the cost to produce the cent and the nickel. The bad news is that it still costs more to produce both coins than their face values.
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Daniel Boone Half Dollar Commemorative
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Debasing Our Currency
When the federal government gets in to a financial bind it does what many governments have historically done, it prints more paper money. This was the Continental Congress answer to a financial crunch in the 18th century, and it is still the most popular economic fix on Capital Hill today.
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Las Vegas, NV (June 18, 2008) âTelemetrics, Inc. is featuring their recently introduced touch screen remote control panel controller designed specifically for use with Canonâs pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras here at InfoComm 2008. The Telemetrics RCP-TS Camera Control System (BU-45H/NU-701) seamlessly interfaces with the new Canon BU-45H remote-control pan-tilt HD camera and the standard-definition NU-701 remote-control pan-tilt camera to provide advanced camera control automation. It can control up to 16 cameras/devices via a TCP/IP connection for remote operation.
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Using standard off-the-shelf network infrastructure, the RCP-TS Control Panel controls the Canon BU-45H camera via an Ethernet 10/100/1G connection for use in such applications as POV (point-of-view) cameras for traffic and weather monitoring, houses of worship, legislative chambers, high-resolution outdoor security installations, remote-controlled Web cameras, and more. The camera is equipped with three 1/3-inch CCDs, a genuine Canon HD zoom lens with 20X optical zoom ration and a remote-control ND filter. It also offers Canonâs auto focus function and its sophisticated image stabilizer technology.
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