April 11, 1919. Lens Destroyed, Trooping the Colors, Threatened Mutiny, Bandit(?) Zapata reported killed, Domestic discord.

All photographs of Lens, France, taken on April 11, 1919.

The disaster the war had brought to Lens, France, was the subject of a photographer's work on this day in 1919.  His images speak for themselves.

The British 78th Battalion was trooping the colors on the same day.

Elsewhere, the Casper paper was reporting on Emiliano Zapata having been assassinated in Mexico, using the pejorative "bandit" to describe him, which he certainly was not.  The press tended to term all Mexican revolutionaries with that term at the time, which was only somewhat true of Pancho Villa and not really even completely true of him.

The papers were also reporting on a near mutiny by American troops in Russia, who were conscripted soldiers who were growing weary of what seemed like a forgotten and endless commitment.  Apparently the mutiny did not fully develop, but clearly things were amiss.

The Munsell's, whoever they were, had the misfortune of having their divorce become front page news, something that would be pretty unlikely to occur now.

The Cheyenne paper made fun of the difficulties of office romance.  That may not seem remarkable at first, but if we consider that the introduction of women into offices was very recent. . . being a secretary had been a male job very recently, that cartoon memorializes an ongoing revolution that some like to claim came about after World War Two, but which had its roots much earlier.

Indeed, by this time, the female secretary was very much a common thing, which only shortly before, it had not been. Women in office work was now common.

And with alcohol now gone, there was a campaign against tobacco, coffee, and tea ramping up.