Tuesday, January 14, 1919. Papers, Boards, Decorations and Murders.

Photographer Herbert E. French buying a newspaper, January 14, 1919.

Members of the National War Labor Board, including former President Taft, on the steps of New York's city hall, January 14, 1919.  Note that Basil Maxwell Manly is smoking a cigarette, something that had only barely become acceptable for men to do, and which had become acceptable due to World War One.  A fellow in the background is smoking a cigar.  The fellow looking at Taft is wearing the new sporty Arrow collar and a shiny new fedora.

U.S. Generals, including some notable ones (Mitchell, Summerill), after receiving the French Legion of Merit).

Estonian Bishop Platon who was murdered by Russian Bolsheviks on this day in 1919.  The Estonian Bishop was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in exile, along with two fellow priests who lost their lives due to communist barbarism at the same time, and by the Greek Orthodox Church in 2000.  He became the first Estonian Orthodox saint.

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January 12, 1919. Laying down the law and up, up and away.

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