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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 237th day of the year.
ON THIS DAY IN 1910, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Census Figures Show Ninety Million People.”
The article focused on the population of the U.S. growing from 76,303,387 in 1900 to around 90 million in 1910.
“Most of the large cities for which returns have been made public are disappointed over the results,” the Eagle reported. “St. Louis, for example, expected to exceed the 700,000 mark. Her population is 687,029 as compared with 575,238 in 1900. This is an increase of a little over 19 percent.”