The first full year of World War One drew to a close, the conflict now being sixteen months old.
South of the border, Villa remained on the loose, but appeared defeated, his wife and sister in law having been sent to Cuba via the United States, where they planned to go on to Argentina.
Colorado was set to go dry at midnight.
Colorado's politics of the 1910s can't be squared with its politics today. Colorado was the first state in the Union to outlaw marijuana, which it had already done by this time, and it was adopting prohibition, as many states did, before the passage of the Volstead Act. It also had a very strong Ku Klux Klan at the time, which is definitely odd compared to today, and which oddly enough fits in with the support for prohibition, which the KKK backed.
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