HISTORICAL DATA-1889:









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  •  APRIL:    On April 20 of this year Klara Hitler gives birth to a son who will be named Adolfus Hitler. He is born in the town of Braunau on the Inn, in Austria. His father is Alois Hitler, a lower-level official in the Austrian Customs Service.  (SOURCE:  Adolf Hitler, by JohnToland ((paperback)), page 7).

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  •  (WHOLE YEAR):    For this whole year in the United States of America, the railroads here have bought rolling stock valued at US$90.8 million.  (SOURCE:  The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition-John A. Garraty, pg. 88.)   

  •     Also for this whole year in the United States of America, the value of manufactured products in contemporary funds comes to US$ 9.3 billion.  (SOURCE:   The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition-John A. Garraty, pg. 85.)     

  • NO SPECIFIC DATE:    By this time, according to John A. Garraty, the bonanza days in the western United States of America are over in what he calls the Great West, which beckoned the ambitious and the adventurous with its promises of wealth, its sculptured beauty and its heroic size.  He adds that by now  most of the more easily-obtained   "windfalls" have already been claimed, and that now big companies are taking over all of the West's remaining resources.  (SOURCE:  The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition-John A. Garraty, pg. 83.)   

  • NO SPECIFIC DATE:     At some time during this year David A. Wells, a liberal economist, estimates that workers' purchasing power in the United States of America has gone up nearly 40% between 1850 and 1880.  (Source:  The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition-John A. Garraty, pg. 110.)      

  •  NO SPECIFIC DATE:    At this time in the United States of America, according to John A. Garraty, an unskilled worker still cannot maintain a family decently by his own efforts. He says this despite also citing economist David Wells' finding that workers' purchasing power has actually increased in the thirty years from 1850 to 1880.  (Source: The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition-John A. Garraty, pg. 110.)        

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