A cool new search application just appeared in Google Labs. It’s called Google News Timeline and it shows you news stories realted to your query nicely displayed on a timeline. Fueld by my well known curiosity I couldn’t resist the tempation to try and find the first mentioning of the old “fam” in earth history. As it turns out, we made our debutant appearance in the late 1800s (try it yourself and set the “Show” value to “Decade”):
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The first ever news article in which we appear (note the good grammar as compared to the Obama campaign) puts us in Jonesville, AZ (now called Mesa, AZ) on June 7th, 1881. I’m not quite sure what we’re doing there and I didn’t have the endurance to read through the whole Deseret News article to find us. But I do wonder if this is in any way connected to my Dad’s inherent love for the desert. Yee-haa… I’m part cowboy!
Back to reality, the second entry is a bit more informative. Apparently, on November 18, 1883, a poor little 14-year old named Minnie Jacobs ran away after getting into frequent fights with her fellow employees at our store (Leventhal & Mandelbaum). Caring much less about poor little Minnie than about the fate of our store, I ran a new search, this time for Leventhal & Mandelbaum. As it turns out, we owned a millinery goods store on the corner of Grand and Eldridge, allbeit not a very good one. It failed in the summer of 1884. I wonder if little Millie had something to do with that…
