Saturday, November 11, 1911. The Great Blue Norther

 A massive cold snap hit the Central US in what has been termed The Great Blue Norther.

Several states saw record monthly highs on November 10 and 11 and record cold monthly lows on November 12 and 13.  Oklahoma City went from 83F to 17F during the day.

The Whirlpool Corporation was founded.

Kaiser Wilhelm II transferred the Crown Prince to a job in Danzig for siding with the German opposition in regard to Germany policy in Morocco.

The storm, and the sack of Nanking made the front page news in Cheyenne.

The paper also had some dire domestic news, and the rival Cheyenne paper gave a glimpse of that, and how the law worked at the time.

Charles Young, at the time a Captain in the U.S. Army, came up in a meeting between the State Department and the War Department, which was effectively the equivalent of the modern Department of the Army.  Young was eligible for promotion to Major, which was a problem as he was a black officer and that would put him in charge of white troops in the cavalry, which he was part of.  

The decision was made to assign Young as a military attache to Liberia and act as a military adviser to the country.

Last edition:

Friday, November 10, 1911. Nanjing sacked, USS Florida's crew trains, Carnegie donates, Mexican protests, garbage strike.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Andrew Carnegie, boats and ships, China, China (Nanjing), Chinese 1911 Revolution, Ethnicities, Labor unrest, Mexico, Mexico (Piedras Negras), New York, philanthropy, Qing Dynasty, Texas (Eagle Pass), U.S. Navy