"MARCH" "COAL STRIKE SETTLED" "REPORT" "DE-LIGHTED!- "1903 in Review (Bob Satterfield cartoon) (cropped)
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Pictorial representation of various important events that happened in 1903 -- one in each month.
January: the election to the US Senate of Reed Smoot
February: the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor
March: Arbitrators in the Pennsylvania anthracite miners' strike find in favor of the miners.
April: in Northern Securities Co. v. United States, the United States Supreme Court rules that the Northern Securities Company is an illegal monopoly.
May: Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania imposes limits on freedom of the press.
June: King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia (or "Servia") are assassinated in the May Coup.
July: Pope Leo XIII dies.
August: General Nelson A. Miles is forced to retire due to his age.
September: Joseph Chamberlain resigns from the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
October: the Alaska boundary dispute is resolved.
November: Theodore Roosevelt recognizes the independent government of Panama.
December: Christmas
Robert William Satterfield, also known as "Sat", was an American cartoonist known for his editorial cartoons; he also created the comic strips The Family Next Door, Oh Thunder, and The Bicker Family; as well as the daily panels Sat's Bear and Days We'll Never Forget, as well as Bizzy Bear. Robert "Bob" Satterfield, born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, entered the creamery business and developed his artistic work in idle moments. His cartooning career began when he sold a cartoon to Robert F. Paine, editor of The Press in Cleveland in the 1890's. He became a political cartoonist with the Binghamton Sun, Cleveland Press, Cleveland News, Sandusky Register, and Kansas City World.
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