Saturday, May 18, 2019

May 18, 1919. Recalling the recent war.


The war wasn't actually technically over, with the Peace Treaty not yet signed, and it certainly wasn't forgotten.  It figured prominently on the cover illustration for the New York Tribunes graphic issue for this day, which was a Sunday feature.

Ft. Riley and Camp Funston, May 18, 1919.  Camp Funston, the locus of the great Flu Epidemic, would soon cease to exist and just become the wooded lot near Ft. Riley that it is today.

 Organizations laying wreaths as a statute of Joan d'Arc, Paris, May 18, 1919.

Gatherings seemed to be going on this Sunday in Paris.

Red Cross Societies banquet, Paris, May 18, 1919.

And dramatic news was going on, concerning the advancement of aircraft across the Atlantic, and in general.


A Cheyenne paper gave banner headlines to the loss of one of the U.S. Navy seaplanes attempting to cross the Atlantic, but it was the weather item, the same today as it was a century ago, that drew my eye to this one.

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