Thursday, April 17, 2014

Friday, April 17, 1914. Budweiser praising Bismarck. Emmer Breakfast Food.

Imperial Russia dissolved the Mongolian Uryankhay Republic in the Tannu Uriankhai and Mongolian Uryankhay Krai.

Russian expansionism at work.

A bomb went off in Great Yarmouth. Authorities suspected suffragists.  This was the second such incident they were suspected of in recent days.

In Casper, the paper issued what must have been, maybe, a real estate edition, as the paper was full of advertisements for lots, and this before the big World War One boom.

"Emmer" was to be used for cereal and manufactured in Wyoming.

It's a type of wheat.  I'm sure you've had a hearty bowl of Emmer Breakfast Food.

Here's a relatively recent article on Emmer, mentioning the cereal company:

Ancient grains a story of what once was old is new again


There was talk, as noted above, of a new rail line.

There was a terrible death in the jail of a man accused, seemingly with reason, of improper actions towards his adopted daughter.  Interestingly, maybe, based on the old statutes we recently put up, he would have been guilty of three crimes at the time, as opposed to one now, that one also being a crime then.

Perhaps a bit more remarkable, he appears to have been dead for hours when discovered to be so.

All that is interesting, but it's actually the following advertisement for Budweiser that caused me to link in this issue:


This was 1914.  Soon the world would be at war.  Bismarck probably didn't receive such high marks after that.

Last prior edition:

Thursday, April 16, 1914. Marines contemplating Vera Cruz, Fallout from scandal in Japan, Chinese troops prevail.


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