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COUNTRY’S MOST HEROIC DOG NAMED

Jacky helps protect TriMet’s riders and employees, as well as the wider Portland region, sniffing out potential danger.    (American Humane Hero Dog Awards)

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A Portland K9 officer has
been named one of the country’s most heroic dogs.

Jacky, a 6-year-old German shorthaired pointer, is a
semifinalist for an American Humane 2024 Hero Dog
Award in the “Law Enforcement and First Responder”
category.

Jacky and human Officer Charlie Berry are assigned to
TriMet’s Transit Police Division, where K9 Jacky helps
protect TriMet’s riders and employees, as well as the
wider Portland region, sniffing out potential danger.

Port of Portland announced Monday, K9 Jacky and
her handler Officer Berry have been selected to work
Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Feb. 11.

Portland Police K9, handler headed to the Super Bowl
Port of Portland Police Officer Charlie Berry and her K9
Jacky. (Port of Portland)

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MOVING ASSEMBLY LINE DEBUTED IN 1913

October 7, 1913 Moving assembly line debuts at Ford factory“For the first time, Henry Ford ...



For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park,
Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously
moving assembly
line when the chassis, the automobile’s
frame is assembled
using the revolutionary industrial
technique.          

       
A motor and rope pulled the chassis past workers and
parts on the factory floor, cutting the man-hours required
to complete one “Model T.”    

Within a year, further assembly line improvements reduced   
productivity effected by Ford’s use of the moving assembly
line allowed him to drastically reduce the cost of the
Model T.

History: Bottom Lines: Ford’s assembly line, 1913 style

This Day in History: Moving Assembly Line

On December 1st, 1913, the world's first moving assembly line debuted. - Survivalist Briefing

This Day In History: Henry Ford Introduces The Assembly Lines Into His Factory (1913)

 

      

 

 

        
        
       

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THE MOST ADVANCED CAR FOR 1953

1949 LINCOLN and LINCOLN COSMOPOLITAN - 1948 Vintage Print Ad | eBay

Packard (formerly the Packard Motor Car Company) was 
a
luxury automobile company located in Detroit, Michigan.

The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899,
and the last Packard’s were built in
South Bend, Indiana
,
in 1958.

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      James Ward Packard          William Doud Packard   
            (1863 – 1928)                         (1861 – 1923)

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‘’THE BAMBINO’’ SETS WORLD SERIES RECORD

Babe Ruth Hits 3-Home Runs "Johnny Sylvester" 1926 World Series Program

On October 6, 1926, Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit a record three
homers
against the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth game of the
World Series. The Yanks won the game 10-5, but despite Ruth’s unprecedented performance, they lost the championship in the
seventh game.

In 1928, in the fourth game of another Yanks-Cards World
Series, Ruth tied his own record, knocking three more
pitches out of the same park.

Babe Ruth 1926 World Series Photograph - Babe at Bat (PSA Type I)

Babe Ruth | Biography, Quotes & Death | Study.com
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
(February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)

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A MOVING TRAIN ROBBERY ON THIS DAY IN 1866


On October 6, 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno staged
the
first train robbery in American history, making off with
$13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson
County, Indiana.

Of course, trains had been robbed before the Reno brothers’
holdup. But these previous crimes had all been burglaries of
stationary trains sitting in depots or freight yards.

The Reno brothers’ contribution to criminal history was to stop
a moving train in a sparsely populated region where they could
carry out their crime without risking interference from the law
or curious bystanders.

The gang was broken up by the lynching’s of ten of its members
by
vigilante mobs in 1868.        
        
        
        

        
        
 A Holdup for the Ages - True West Magazine      
From left: John and Simeon Reno

Reno Brothers:

Highwaymen of the Railroad – Legends of America

This Day In History: The Reno Brothers Stage The First Train Robbery (1866)
Colt 45 the favorite gun of the train robbers.

       

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