NATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS CONVENTION
Suffragist organizers held the first-ever National Women’s
Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts on October
23, 1850.
More than 1,000 delegates from 11 states arrived for the two-
day conference, which had been planned by members of the
Anti-Slavery Society.
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893)
Lucy Stone was one of many speakers who argued
for equal enfranchisement for women. “We want that
[women] should attain to the development of her
nature and womanhood; we want that when she dies,
it may not be written on her gravestone that she was
the [widow] of somebody,” Stone said in a speech.
Her speech and the convention’s proceedings were
recorded and sold after the event, helping the
movement gain international recognition.
‘’PRETTY BOY’’ KILLED ON THIS DAY IN 1934
Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot by FBI agents in a corn
field in East Liverpool, Ohio. Floyd, who had been a hotly
pursued fugitive for four years, used his last breath to deny
his involvement in the infamous Kansas City Massacre, in
which four officers were shot to death at a train station. He
died shortly thereafter.
Charles Arthur Floyd
(February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934)
F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover,declared Floyd to be "public
enemy number one."
JELL–O AT HALLOWEEN TIME, ANY TIME
In 1897, in LeRoy, New York, carpenter and cough syrup
manufacturer Pearle Bixby Wait trademarked a gelatin
dessert called "Jell-O". Wait and his wife, May, added
strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon flavoring to
granulated gelatin and sugar.
In 1899, Wait sold Jell-O to "Orator Francis Woodward",
whose Genesee Pure Food Company produced the
successful Grain-O health drink. Part of the legal
agreement between Woodward and Wait dealt with
the similar Jell-O name.
Pearle Bixby Wait (1873 – 1915)
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