Elvira, as befitting one who represented a magazine, registered first and demanded a room and bath. She pronounced it "bath." The clerk seemed aghast at the request. However, in that hotel, any lady got whatever she asked for. It was her unquestioned right, as a lady. But there was no bath in the hotel, nor running water for that matter. The clerk faltered out something about a nice bowl and pitcher in every room, and said he thought they could provide a foot tub. He was sorry; there was no bath. Elvira couldn't grasp the situation. She thought the clerk was stupid--a hotel without a bath was a contradiction in terms. When she explained that she wanted something for complete immersion, the clerk seemed embarrassed. At his wits' end, he suggested (blushing like fire) that the colored boy could bring up the hog Calder.

— Beatrice Fairfax

Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---whose staggering wealth, incomparable ruthlessness and personal legends would seem to prove they are dominant species, but then one takes a look at their son, and doubts the theory of evolution entirely. -DR. Bertrand Legman Cooper, Problems of Science and Society, Posted by One Who Has Known Both, 1900

— Anna Godbersen

With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900s, very few people realize that a new era of sickness and disease was unleashed that are collectively called radiation sickness.

— Steven Magee