On this day in 1919, the German government dissolved in protest over the Allied ultimatum to sign the Paris Peace Treaty.
The dissolution put the question of German acceptance of the treaty into real doubt in some quarters, as would soon be evident, but in the U.S. it was largely treated as a sign that the Germans were sure to sign.
The same newspaper brought a headline that the U.S. would face an inevitable war with Japan.
And a delegation from Villa's forces wanted to know why the U.S. had intervened in Juarez.
The news from Cheyenne was largely the same, except for the honoring of the 75th birtday of Francis E. Warren.
In Lodi, California, a California farming town, the firm that would become A&W was opened by Roy W. Allen as a root beer stand. The firm would be expanded into a restaurant in 1923 when Allen partnered with his employee Frank Wright.
Our town had an A&W the entire time I was growing up, but for whatever reason, my parents didn't frequent it and it wasn't until high school that I became very familiar with it. I never picked up a taste for it, probably due to that late exposure, even though I've always thought their root beer was pretty good. It had a very 1950s feel to it, as it featured the sort of drive up ordering spots common to drive ins of the 1950s.
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