Thursday, November 28, 2019

November 28, 1919. The Union Pacific Gives Up, Mexico erupts, Ships launched and Heroines


The Union Pacific declared that it was giving up the search for Bill Carlisle on this post Thanksgiving Day (prior to it being Black Friday) and it was blaming Wyomingites for that.  It held that they were too sympathetic to the train robber and lambasted the state's residents for that in no uncertain terms.

Meanwhile, US trouble with Mexico continued on but Mexico itself was sliding towards yet another eruption of revolutionary violence.


Miss Margaret Ferrand at the launching of the Amcross

The Red Cross was honored for its role in the recent war by having a 9,000 ton merchant vessel named in its honor.  "Amcross" was the American Red Cross cable code during the war.






In Washington D. C. "Trixie" was honored for her role in stopping a crime.  Her barks had alerted her tailor shop owner of an attempted break in.

""Trixie" heroine of an attempted burglary upon the tailor shop of J.E. Chatard, Washington, D.C. "Trixie" warned her master of the presence of the would-be house-breakers and then assisted him in routing them." 

Margaret Simonds was also honored in the papers for having received a visit from the Prince of Wales while he was in the U.S.  The papers informed readers that she was well known on both sides of the Atlantic.






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