August 3, 1919. Slow moving in Nebraska, dramatic events in Arkangelsk.

The 1919 Motor Transport Convoy was plagued by horrible road conditions again on this day, July 3, 1919. Once again, only about 30 miles of progress was made, and much of that was done under tow.

The convoy made it to North Platte, the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska.  

North Platte is the first of the cities and towns mentioned on this trek where I've stayed overnight.  I've traveled the entire path of the modern I 80 through Nebraska, but I've stopped and overnighted, years ago, in North Platte, before driving south into Kansas the next day.

In Arkangelsk in far northern Russia, the Allies were withdrawing. The city had been the base of operations for the Allied expedition to Russia but its position had become tenuous in the Spring.  On this day there occurred a claimed Marian apparition to a group of children.

There are a series of Marian events claimed for the teens, with this one being the third one of which I'm aware, if a person considers the series of apparitions at Fatima to be one single event rather than a collection.  The apparitions at Fatima are the most well known and by far the best documented.  Those events are an approved apparition in the Catholic Church.  Much less known is the discovery of the icon Our Lady Derzhavnaya in Russia that same year.  The event on this day is likely even less well known, but was commemorated locally in Arkangelsk a few years ago.  Of interest, all three events, including the one in Fatima, Portugal, are tied to events occurring in Russia at the time.