060: Very Unkind of Those Canadians

An old Standard Oil Company sign.

William Howard Taft takes another stab at tariff reform, a Federal anti-trust suit breaks up the Standard Oil Company, and Irving Berlin publishes “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.”

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The Twentieth Century Rag

“Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
Composed in 1911 by Irving Berlin. Public domain.

Overture to Treemonisha
Composed in 1910 by Scott Joplin. Public domain.
Performed by L’Orchestra dell’Università di Firenze, and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Source.

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Except when otherwise indicated, the contents of this podcast are © and ℗ 2016, 2017 by Mark Painter, all rights reserved. Some sound effects used by arrangement with Pond 5. Photograph by Pat Hawks, used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license.

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