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5 episodes in which Rochester gets the best of his boss on The Jack Benny Show Gwen Ihnat look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. Alternately, they can offer up recommendations inspired by a theme. In this installment: In honor of Black History Month, we’re spotlighting five episodes of The Jack Benny Show
that featured Eddie “Rochester” Anderson.
There were Black characters on the air during the early days of radio, as the first mass broadcasting medium swept the country in the 1930s, though many of them were portrayed by white actors in what amounts to aural blackface. The most famous example was the popular program
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This Week in History: June 26-July 2, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
June 26
1721 – Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Massachusetts gives the first untested smallpox inoculation in America to his own son.
1797 – Charles Newbold patents the first cast-iron plow. He can’t sell it to farmers because they fear the effects of iron on soil.
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the U.S.
1900 – U.S. Army physician Dr. Walter Reed begins research that, in 1901, leads to the discovery of how to beat Yellow Fever. His experiments with other doctors in Cuba prove that mosquitoes transmit Yellow Fever.
Oskaloosa News Recap For January 12th, 2021
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Stocks dipped slightly on Monday to begin the new trading week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq shed 165 points, while the Dow fell 89 points and the S&P slipped 25 points.
There is ongoing concern that a market bubble is forming, and valuations are being artificially propped up with low interest rates and economic stimulus money. A striking example is Tesla which presently trades at more than 90-times cash flow.
Bitcoin was trading near $40,000 a unit over this past weekend, but has settled back down to around $33,000 on Monday.
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The man accused of going on a shooting spree in and around Chicago over the weekend has been identified as 32-year-old Justin Nightengale.