Welcome to the history tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show. It's a little tricky. This is not. in fact, the expected Althea Gibson part two because a lady named Courtney and the fine folks at the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis invited us to give a 1984 World's Fair adjacent show in one of their

auditoriums and putting live shows on the feed it gets very awkward we made a lot of references to

slide shows that are just not present in an audio format and audience reaction to

things like hand gestures and funny looks come off weird too. So we just

decided that we were going to re-record this in our usual format and present it to you and

then Althea Gibson part two will be our next episode. So without

further ado on with the show. And here's your 30 second summary.

According to Jesse Tarbox Beals, the first woman news photographer in the world, the key to success is mostly hustle.

In her case, it looked like this.

Arrive, set up your dark room, canvas, ingratiate yourself, snap, snap,

develop, print, deliver, catch the train just as it's pulling out of the station.

Be in the right place at the right time.

Make your own opportunities.

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

The end. Let's talk about Jesse Tarbox Beals.

But first let's drop her into history in 1904.

Alihoo Root, then United States Secretary of State, retired and was replaced by Governor General of the

Philippines William Howard Taft. Baseball player Ty Cobb played his first professional ball game.

Modeled after the Academy of Arts and Letters was formed.

The St. Louis Police Department became the first in the nation to establish a fingerprint bureau for solving crimes.

Mary McLeod Bethune opened what would become the Daytona, Normal and Industrial School in Daytona, Florida.

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