On Sept. 1, 1875, writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, was born in Chicago. In 1878 the first female telephone operator, Emma Nutt, took over a Boston switchboard. In 1923 the Japanese ...
ST LOUIS- Grave robbers, a high profile whiskey scandal, and, for some reason, St. Louis had four mayors in one year. The year of 1875 was no ordinary year in St. Louis. Four men occupied the mayor's ...