Our Town 100+ Years Ago... April 1900

Easter came a little later back in April 1900. By the 15 th of April that year, plenty of news had crossed the pages of the Jefferson Valley Zephyr. Iran (Persia back then) made the front page after the shah took a $6,000,000 loan from the Muscovites, which bumped Great Britain out of the race to control commerce in the country. Donations were being sought to help feed starving people in India – a one-dollar donation could feed a person for two months. The British government was said to be responsible "to a great degree for the awful sufferings from the famine, owing to unfair taxation and the...