Can you guess the year that the Broadway Theater in Denver featured Henrietta Crossman in "The Real Thing," and the Iris Theater had motion pictures, featuring "The Coming of Columbus."

A tornado hit Greeley this year and just like Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz," who flew over the rainbow in a tornado, two hens got an exciting but frightening ride. Unlike Dorothy, who traveled with her home, the chickens didn't get to fly in their house. They also didn't go over the rainbow. When the roof of their coop flew off in the high wind the two setting hens were carried by the gusts on their nests for 20 feet. The newspapers reported "Hens get a free ride on Tornado Wings," but didn't elaborate on the emotional state of said hens. The two feathered ladies probably were glad they didn't go over the rainbow. They were reportedly happy to get back to earth and to rest in their coop and were heard to cluck "there's no place like home."

Daniels and Fisher stores in Denver had a sale of silk petticoats for $1.90 and sunbonnets for 25 cents. A girl could make $5.00 a week doing general housework.

You could go to California for $50 on the Rio Grande Western Pacific Railroad.

A car was held up and the crew robbed on an eastbound Larimer Street tram. The conductor was relieved of $50. The Moffat line was in receiver's hands because the road failed to meet notes, due to the big expense of snows on the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific and Denver Railway Securities.

The Wyoming Highway Department was trying to secure the right to run automobiles through Yellowstone Park. Authorities declared the roads were too narrow to allow both automobiles and wagons.

Jim Thorpe, American athlete, set records in winning the decathlon and the pentathlon in the Olympic Games. Thorpe, who was part American Indian, played football at Carlisle, Pennsylvania Indian School and was named All-American this year. The next year he was stripped of his gold medals when it was learned that Thorpe had earned money playing baseball.

Captain Robert Scott on his second expedition reached the South Pole on January 18 of this year, only to find that explorer Roald Amundsen had reached it a month before that. On the return journey two men were lost and Scott and the other two remaining members, unable to continue because of severe blizzards, died only 11 miles from their destination. Their bodies and records were found on November 12th of this year. His diaries were included in a two volume work called "Scott's Last Expedition."

A British passenger liner, the Titanic struck an iceberg off Newfoundland on April 14 and 15 of this year and sank. The ship was the largest, most luxurious ship ever built and it was on its first voyage from Southampton to New York with 2,200 people. About 1,500 people drowned. Determination was made that the Titanic was traveling too fast for known icy conditions. A nearby ship failed to respond to the distress signals and there were an insufficient number of lifeboats. Denver resident, Molly Brown helped to save many of the passengers and became a heroine. The shipwreck caused authorities to improve safety procedures at sea.

The first Titanic lawsuit was filed later in the year by a widow of the valet asking for $50,000 in damages.

A Denver man lost his life in a duel with a knife over a card game dispute.

The Methodist Episcopal Church Ministry in its meeting in Minneapolis was equally divided on whether church law forbids dancing, card playing, gambling, going to theaters, circuses and horse races.

Popular songs that year were "It's All in the Game," "When Irish Eyes are Smiling," from Isle O'Dreams by Chauncey Olcott, "Moonlight Bay, "When I Get you Alone Tonight," and "You Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Around."

Can you guess this year?

(1912)