John Bos II Part 8, 1920s 12 sept

John Bos II Part 8 1920s

John Bos II mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com

1920 age 65 

Federal Census

John & Wilhelmina Bos 1920 census
Oak Harbor, Island County WA

In this census, we find John R. Bos and his wife Wilhemina living in Oak Harbour.  He is age 65, she is 71 years old, living with their single son Peter, age 34.  Again, the date of immigration for both is 1882, they are both naturalized in 1900.  The census indicates none of them have any occupation, but that seems hard to believe.  There were many dairy farms in Oak Harbour, I wonder if they considered farming an occupation?

Oak Harbor, Island County WA
Google Maps
The red arrow points to Swantown area of Oak Island
The yellow circle is Seattle.

1920s Toys

The first twenty years of the 20th century saw the introduction of the Teddy Bear, the Raggedy Ann Doll, and Crayola Crayons, merely advancements of existing popular toys, dolls and drawing materials. Parents who had grown up in the waning years of the 19th century still handed down handmade dolls and wood toys to their children, so companies merely thought of exciting new ways to present them.

In the 1920s, it was more of the same. However, something else happened midway through that prosperous decade. Technology and Pop Culture exploded beyond the scope of anything anyone else had ever seen, making it possible for everyone in the country to listen to the same show on the radio or watch the same stars in film, or drive the same vehicle down the road.  The toys reflected the boom. Die cast metal cars and the first mass produced airplanes and cars for young boys were spreading rapidly, while the Raggedy Ann doll was introduced in 1918 and became immensely popular before being surpassed by Madame Alexander dolls in 1929.  That's not to forget the novelty items that seem to stick around longer than anything else, such as the Yo-yo, also introduced in 1929, and mini-golf which first struck the tiny green lawns behind shopping structures in 1926 (Pearson, 2017).  

 (Pearson, 2017)

January 1920

The Yankees bought Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox (Pearson, 2017). 

Palmer Raids Round up 4,000 Radical Leftists in the United States  (Pearson, 2017). 

Prohibition takes effect stopping the sale and consumption of alcohol when the 18th Amendment went into effect (Pearson, 2017).

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Ratified guaranteeing women the right to vote (Pearson, 2017). 

Air mail service opens between U.S. and Canada (Pearson, 2017). 

1921

Warren G. Harding becomes the 29th President of the United States

He served from 1921 until his death in 1923.  He was a Republican.  At that time, he was one of the most popular US Presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under his administration, and an affair eroded his popular regard.  Harding is often rated among the worst US Presidents (Wikipedia -- Harding, 2018).

 (Wikipedia -- Harding, 2018)

Quote:  "We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation" -- Warren G. Harding (AZ Quotes -- Warren G. Harding, n.d.).

In Other News 1921

Emergency Quota Act -- The Emergency Quota Act was passed into law which limits the number of immigrants admitted into the US (Pearson, 2017).

Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics (Pearson, 2017).  

1922

8 February 1922

White House Radio

President Warren G. Harding has a radio installed in the White House (Pearson, 2017).

In Other News 1922

Mailboxes -- The US Postmaster General orders all homes to get mailboxes (Pearson, 2017).
Lincoln Memorial -- The Lincoln Memorial built to honor Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States, is dedicated by Former President William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C.  (Pearson, 2017).
King Tut -- British archaeologist Lord Carnarvon and the American archaeologist Howard Carter enter King Tut's tomb. The burial chamber is opened 16 February 1923  (Pearson, 2017).

1923

Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States from 1923 to 1929

He was a Republican, Massachusetts governor, and Vice President, becoming President with the death of Warren G. Harding in 1923.  He was elected in his own right in 1924.  He said very little, although he had a rather dry sense of humor (Wikipedia -- Coolidge, 2018).

(Wikipedia -- Coolidge, 2018)

President Coolidge Quote -- "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity" -- (Coolidge, 2018).

Grover Cleveland Stamp
(Wikipedia -- Coolidge, 2018}

In Other News 1923

First TIME -- The first issue of the weekly periodical, "TIME" appeared on newsstands (Pearson, 2017).

Insulin is first used (Pearson, 2017).

Readers Digest was first published  (Pearson, 2017).

1924 age 69

In other news, 1924

• First Winter Olympics games took place in the French Alps (Pearson, 2018).
• Calvin Coolidge Gives First Presidential Radio Address  (Pearson, 2018).
• J. Edgar Hoover is appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to be the Sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) name changed in 1936 to the FBI  (Pearson, 2018).
• The Indian Citizenship Act is passed in Congress  (Pearson, 2018).

22 November 1924

Death

John Bos died 22 November 1924 in Oak Harbor Washington when he was 69 years old.  He is buried at Maple Leaf Cemetery, Oak Harbor, Island County, Washington.

You can visit his Find a Grave memorial here.  

John Johannes Bos 1924 grave stone
Maple Leaf Cemetery
Oak Harbor, Island County, Washington

His wife Minnie would die about a year later and is buried in the same plot.  You can visit her Find a Grave memorial here.

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Resources

Dayspringacres. (2019). John Johannes Bos II mini-pedigree. Retrieved April 6, 2020, from Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14582634/person/293717283/story

Coolidge, C. (2018). Calvin Coolidge Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/calvin_coolidge

Harding, W. G. (2018). Warren G. Harding Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/warren_g_harding

OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/ 

Pearson, S. (2017). 1880 The People History. Retrieved December 30, 2016, from 1880 to 1889 Important News, Significant Events, Key Technology: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1880to1889.html

Wikipedia -- Coolidge. (2018). Calvin Coolidge. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge

Wikipedia -- Harding. (2018, May 26). Warren G. Harding. Retrieved May 27, 2018, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding

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