September 12, 1919. Colleges, cities and fields.

Cardinals Gibbons and Mercier at St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md., Sept. 12, 1919

Cardinal Mercier was a Belgian Cardinal and scholar.  Kept under house arrest by the Germans during the war, he was touring the United States at the time in a mission to raise fund to replace the library at the University of Leuven, which had been burned by the Germans during the war.

Winter Haven, Florida

Florida scenes were being photographed on this day as well.

Haines City, Florida

A victory parade was held in Washington D. C., with the President absent as he was touring the nation in support of the Versailles Treaty.  General Pershing again lead the parade on horseback.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that this may have been the last American victory parade lead by the commanding general of the American troops on horseback.

On an ominous note, Adolph Hitler achieved prominence on this day within the proto Nazi Party when he engaged in an argument at a meeting of the German Nazi Party with a visitor.  Hitler was at the meeting as an intelligence agent for the German Army, who was keeping tabs on radical parties.  By that time, however, he'd become radicalized himself and became upset when a visitor questioned the anti capitalistic theories of the party.  His speech impressed the party members who encouraged him to join which his Army superiors then ordered him to do.

The Gasoline Alley gang was fishing while on their vacation camping expedition.