100 - Naomi May Wamser - Reading Cemetery - Reading,Ks
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N 38° 31.220 W 095° 58.230
15S E 241025 N 4267732
This Headstone is located towards the southwestern part of the cemetery. The Reading Cemetery is at the Junction of Road Y and Road 250 west of Reading, Ks.
Waymark Code: WM6Z3H
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 08/08/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member rogueblack
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Margaret would have witnessed the Spanish-American War, both World Wars, the Great Depression, Korea, Vietnam. She would have seen crank phones, party lines, push button phones, and cell phones. Kitchens wouls have wood burning stoves, gas ad electric ranges, and microwave ovens.

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Events in 1895:
The President is Grover Cleveland.
Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason.
Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" premieres.
1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minnesota Agriculture beats Hamline 9-3
Cuban War of Independence from Spain begins.
1st Sino-Japanese War ends.
1st commercial movie performance occurs.
1st auto race occurs.
1st female PhD (science) earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin.
Outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed in El Paso, Tx.
1st pro football game Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0.
Nobel Prize established.

Famous births in 1895:
J Edgar Hoover - FBI Director
Sir Hudson Fysh - aviator and founder of Qantas
John Ford - director
George Halas - coach and co-founder of the NFL
George Herman (Babe) Ruth - baseball player
King Vidor - director
George "The Gipper" Gipp - athlete
Arthur Murray - dancer
Jack Dempsey - boxer

Famous Deaths in 1895:
James Merritt Ives - lithographer
Frederick Douglass - anti-slavery leader
Louis Pasteur - scientist
Alexandre Dumas - writer
Chief Gall - Sioux Chief

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Events in 1995:
Bill Clinton is President.
WB Network premieres.
NHL hockey strike ends.
5100 are killed in an earthquake in Kobe Japan.
The OJ murder trial begins.
Steve Fossett flies a balloon over the Pacific Ocean.
Barings Bank collapses.
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City is bombed.
The longest sausage ever made at 2877 miles.

Famous Births:
Kelsey Lewis - actress
Prince Jospeh Wenzel of Liechtenstein
Princess Olimpia Preslavka of Bulgaria
Jessica Lunsford - kidnap victim

Famous Deaths:
Ron Luciano - umpire
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - mother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Donald Pleasance - actor
Doug McClure - actor
William Fulbright - politican
James Herriot - author
Selena - singer
Burl Ives - actor
Howard Cossell - sportscaster

Location of Headstone: Cemetery

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