| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Dvorak director of New York CityNational Conservatory of Music With less pomp and circumstance but destined to be of equal longevity the Happy Birthday song was first sung in 1893 while candles were being blown out on the cake of someone whose name has been lost to history Creators of the tune and lyrics have not been overlooked historically however They were Mildred and Patty Hill One of Americaproudest patriotic songs also emerged in 1893 from the mind of Katharine Lee Bates Wellesley College professor of English who was visiting Colorado Springs to teachsummer course Inspired by the vast Midwestern prairies through which shetravelled and then by the splen dor of the Rocky Mountains she penned beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountain majesties the lyrics of America the Beautiful Sometime later after the poem had been set to the music of an ancient hymn Materna she acknowledged her inspira tion wastrip by horse-drawn wagon to the 14 100-foot summit of PikePeak William Wrigley unveiled in 1893 his newest flavors Juicy Fruit and Spearmint Earlier heintroduced chewing gum to Americans thus assuring an inexhaustible supply of sticky globs on the underside of tables theater seats and shoe soles John Browning whose fame asgunsmith had spread worldwide from his Ogden Utah workshop was granted yet another patent in December 1893 This one was forsingle shot 22 calibre rifle Its mechanism was quite simple in comparison with others healready conceived but it was one destined to maintain high value in the marketplace for many years to come step of great importance to the newspaper industry also occurred in 1893 when American Newspaper Publishers Association composed principally of metropolitan daily papers agreed to give discounts to recognized agencies for advertising they placed It established the commission system which eventually came to be known as 15 and -15 of the billing for generating the advertisement and an additional if paid Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
