With William Heelis acting for her she bought contiguous pasture, and in 1909 the Castle Farm across the road from Hill Top Farm.

In 1909, well before the Securities Exchange Act was passed, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a corporate director who bought that company ’ s stock when he knew it was about to jump up in price committed fraud by buying while not disclosing his inside information.

In 1909, Henry Clay Frick, a steel magnate, bought the present-day Iron Rail property so that his daughter Helen could create a vacation home for the mill girls throughout New England.

Julian Shakespeare Carr bought this and other nearby buildings in 1909, adding them to the network of mills that became the Durham Hosiery Mills.

The company was bought by the Philadelphia Company in 1906, later becoming part of the Pittsburgh Railway Company, linking through to Pittsburgh as part of their interurban service in 1909.

In 1909, Gallen-Kallela moved to Nairobi in Kenya with his family, and there he painted over 150 expressionist oil-paintings and bought many east African artefacts.

To increase sales, in 1909 he added a special offer, the Funny Jungleland Moving Pictures Booklet, which was made available to anyone who bought two boxes of the cereal.

In 1909 the Sundays bought an apple orchard in Hood River, Oregon, where they vacationed for several years.

Their first two ships ( Pakeha renamed Broderick, and Rangatira renamed Brodmore ) were bought in 1909, and the company registered on July 28, 1911 in London and Liverpool with a capital of 100, 000 pounds.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Bancroft played in minor league baseball from 1909 through 1914, at which point he was bought by the Phillies.

In 1941, after the Harbour Boards had ceased to exist, a contractor ’ s locomotive that had been used on the Foreshore land reclamation project in Cape Town, built in 1909 by Orenstein & Koppel and numbered 69, was bought by the SAR for use in Table Bay Harbour.

After the war, in 1897, the Ottoman Empire embarked on a program of naval expansion for its fleet and as a response to that, in 1909, the cruiser Georgios Averof was bought from Italy.

The park was built on a former city dump that Comiskey bought in 1909 to replace the wooden South Side Park.

The population of this sleepy little village mushroomed after Auguste Thyssen bought some land in 1909 and established a steel mill there.

In 1909, Dame Nellie Melba bought Coombe Cottage at Coldstream.

The university bought the house from the Symonds family in 1909 to create the first hall of residence for women in south-west England.

The specialist Royal Orthopaedic Hospital stands on the Bristol Road South, George Cadbury bought the Woodlands, as it was originally called, and gifted it to the Crippled Children ’ s Union in 1909 to be used as a hospital.

The hotel remained with the company until 1909 when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages.

There were many contests that these inspired balloon drivers entered, and Camillo was no different-he bought his own balloon and successfully took his balloon driver examination on 24 August 1909.

So in 1909 Friedenau bought a tract of land in Güterfelde ( today a component of Stahnsdorf ) as additional graveyard, with the first burial taking place in 1913.

In 1909, Lord Pirrie bought Witley Park, formerly the residence of Whitaker Wright.

He bought a small shop in Italian Harlem, once a very large Italian-American community, and ran the restaurant until his death in 1909.

The fair had achieved an international reputation by the early 20th century and a local newspaper report of 1909 states " The Banagher Great Fair was a huge success and among those present were Senor Gelline of Milan to make purchase on behalf of the Italian Government, while Mr. Rodzanko bought for the Russian Government.

The building was auctioned in public in 1906, and bought by Ugo da Como and his wife Maria Glisenti, who, conscious of the historical importance, called the architect A. Tagliaferri ( 1835 – 1909 ) to restore it.

The move to filming in California had begun when Selig, one of the MPPC companies, sent a production unit there in 1909.

From 1909 a small number of American films, and even one or two European ones, came to include a few dialogue titles, or " spoken titles " as they were called at the time.

It has also been demonstrated experimentally ( R. W. Wood, 1909 ) that a " greenhouse " with a cover of rock salt ( which is transparent to infra red ) heats up an enclosure similarly to one with a glass cover.

Iolanthe is one of a number of Gilbert's works, including The Wicked World ( 1873 ), Broken Hearts ( 1875 ), Princess Ida ( 1884 ) and Fallen Fairies ( 1909 ), where the introduction of men and " mortal love " into a tranquil world of women wreaks havoc with the status quo.

" Pickford appeared in 51 films in 1909 — almost one a week.

Peter Drucker ( 1909 – 2005 ) wrote one of the earliest books on applied management: Concept of the Corporation ( published in 1946 ).

* 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

In 1909, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, an astronomer with a reputation as an egocentric contrarian, opined " that there is certainly one, most likely two and possibly three planets beyond Neptune ".

Elia Kazan (; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003 ) was an American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as " one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history ".

* Geronimo, ( Goyaałé-" one who yawns "), ( June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909 ), warrior, medicine man of the Bedonkohe band

Fort wrote ten novels, although only one, The Outcast Manufacturers ( 1909 ), was published.

Émile Borel was one of the first mathematicians to formally address randomness in 1909.

In 1914 – 15, one section of the northern arm of the Red Main was straightened and widened after areas along the river had been flooded during a period of high water in 1909.

In 1908, Frankel sold the diamond for $ 400, 000 to a Salomon or Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector, reportedly in behalf of Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey ; however, on June 24, 1909, the stone was included in an auction of Habib's assets to settle his own debts, and the auction catalog explicitly stated that the Hope Diamond was one of only two gems in the collection which had never been owned by the Sultan.

* Harry Helmsley ( 1909 – 1997 ), real estate mogul who built a company that became one of the biggest property holders in the United States, and his wife Leona Helmsley ( 1920 – 2007 ), in a mausoleum with a stained-glass panorama of the Manhattan skyline.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

O ' Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909 to 1912, during which time they had one son, Eugene O ' Neill, Jr. ( 1910 – 1950 ).

On 12 April 1909, following an attempted robbery in which an Arab from Kfar Kanna was killed, Ben-Gurion was involved in fighting in which one of the watchmen and a farmer from Sejera were killed.

Mathewson was one of four brothers: one died in infancy, Nicholas killed himself in 1909 at the age of 19, and Henry died of tuberculosis in 1917.

From 1895 until 1909, Latrobe was the home of the Latrobe Athletic Association, one of the earliest professional football teams.

In March 1909, Charles H. Workman assumed control of the theatre, producing three new pieces, including one by Gilbert himself, Fallen Fairies ( music by Edward German ).

However, the print runs of these rather expensive albums did not come close to that produced in 1909 by the German publisher Karl Robert Langewiesche ( 1874 – 1931 ): His choice of watercolours, drawings and text by Carl Larsson, titled Das Haus in der Sonne ( The House in the Sun ), immediately became one of the German publishing industry's best-sellers of the year-40, 000 copies sold in three months, and more than 40 print runs have been produced up to 2001.

Throwing a pie in a person's face has been a staple of film comedy since Ben Turpin received one in Mr. Flip in 1909.