Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Friday, April 23, 1909. Lethal politics in Kentucky.
Governor of Kentucky, Augustus E. Willson, pardoned former Governor of Kentucky, William S. Taylor for assessor to the murder, which he denied, of William Goebel, who had been declared to be the lawful winner of the 1899 gubernatorial election.
Very MAGAesque.
Taylor had taken up residence in another state, where he practiced law, and he rarely returned to Kentucky.
The horrors taking place in Turkey were noted.
The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Reid.
Department of State,
Washington, April 23, 1909.
Referring to department’s telegram of the 18th, Mr. Wilson asks if a fleet adequate for the protection of foreign life has been sent to the disturbed regions in Turkey, and if American citizens are in jeopardy whether we can rely upon the doing of all that is feasible for their protection. Says, in view of the humanitarian concern felt by the President and because of the distressed interest of naturalized Armenians in the United States, the department would be glad to learn if possible what is being done under the Berlin act to check the massacre of Armenians in Turkey. Quotes telegram of this date from Turkey.
Gimbels signed a 105-year lease for property at New York Herald Square. This provided for $60,000,000 in rent until 2014.
The 1909 Benavente earthquake in the Santarém District of the Central Region, Portugal. Sixty people were killed in the incident.
Child labor was photographed in Lewiston, Maine.
Sunday, April 18, 1909. St. Joan d'Arc beatified.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Monday, March 31, 1924. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (actually III) and the Teapot Dome Affair, Making Working Girls Homeless, and the Start of the Fishing Season.
Democrats were attacking Theodore Roosevelt, Jr's supposed role in Teapot Dome. This Theodore Roosevelt was serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that position now effectively being a Roosevelt one, with he being the third Roosevelt to occupy it.
Wyoming doesn't have a fishing season per se now. You can fish all year around. Apparently, at the time, fishing opened on April 1.
Imperial Airways was founded by way of the merger of the Handley Page Transport, Instone Air Line, Daimler Airway and British Marine Air Navigation Co Ltd. airways.
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Sunday, March 30, 1924. Camp Carey
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Monday, July 23, 1973. Old Faithful Inn added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Today In Wyoming's History: July 23: 1923 1973 Old Faithful Inn was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Attribution: On This Day.President Nixon refused to turn over tape recordings to the Senate or special prosecutor.
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Sunday Morning Scene: Churches of the West: Christ Reformed Presbyterian Church, Torrington Wyoming
Christ Reformed Presbyterian Church, Torrington Wyoming
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Today In Wyoming's History: The Spring Creek Raid.
The Spring Creek Raid.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Monday, March 23, 1914. Doubts about Roosevelt's fate on the River of Doubt.
We just posted an item for 1909 on Theodore Roosevelt leaving the US for his legendary 1909, 1910 safari. Famously, after losing his effort to regain the Presidency in the three-way race in 1912, he embarked on the exploration of what was then known as the River of Doubt, or more officially the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition
That trip was plagued by horrific events, one of which was detailed in this edition of the Cheyenne based Wyoming Tribune.
It's often noted that Roosevelt never recovered from this trip, but that can be somewhat debated. It's true he was never himself thereafter, but Roosevelt had been a vigorous proponent of "the Strenuous Life" and had lived it. While this is fully admirable, and today would be cited to some degree as a life extending practice, Roosevelt had experienced ill health with asthma in his youth (as have I), and had been shot during the 1912 campaign. Four years of semi enforced idleness as Vice President and President had taken their toll as well, and by the time he left office in 1909 he was, in my view, beginning to significantly age even though he was not yet 60.
Having said that, he made a really dedicated effort to join the Army as head of an expeditionary unit during World War One, so he had plenty of vigor left, even after these ordeals.
It's also noteworthy how, just before World War One, there was plenty of exploration of the remote regions of the globe still going on. The era immediately before the war seems to have been the last great push in the age of exploration.
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March 21, 1914. Yo acuso
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Sunday, April 18, 1909. St. Joan d'Arc beatified.
St. Joan d'Arc was beatified by Pope Pius X before a crowed of 30,000 in St. Peter's Square.
Saturday, April 17, 1909. Soccer riots.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Saturday, April 17, 1909. Soccer riots.
Thousands of angry soccer fans attacked the stadium at Hampden Park after a replay of the Scottish Cup between the Rangers and Celtics ended in a draw.
Soccer riots aren't a new thing.
The Scottish Football Association did not award the prize cup to any team.
Helen and William Howard Taft opened West Potomac Park to the public.
Child laborers were photographed in Rhode Island on this day in 1909.
Wednesday, April 14, 1909. The Adana Massacre continues.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Wednesday, April 14, 1909. The Adana Massacre continues.
The slaughter of Armenian Christians by Ottoman soldier began in earnest in Adana, Ottoman Empire.
Tuesday, April 13, 1909. The Aadna Massacre.
The Adna Massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which would kill over 20,000 people, commenced. Ottoman troops would participate in it.
The Armenians had the first Christian kingdom in the world, and have had a state of one kind or another since 860 BC. Since the conquest of Anatolia by the Turks, they've been subject to repeated atrocities.
The Anglo Persian Oil Company was incorporated. The company became a power in its own right, and extensively exploited what became Iran, setting the stage for what we have today, unfortunately.
Minnesota passed a law banning cigarettes, effective August 1. Too bad that didn't stick.
Tuesday, April 13, 1909. The Aadna Massacre.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Tuesday, April 13, 1909. The Aadna Massacre.
The Adna Massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which would kill over 20,000 people, commenced. Ottoman troops would participate in it.
The revolution was backed by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who sought to regain the absolute power. It wouldn't go well for him.
What would become the University of North Carolina was photographed.
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Monday, April 12, 1909. Doc Powers falls ill.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Monday, April 12, 1909. Doc Powers falls ill.
Michael Riley "Doc" Powers, catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and a physician, became seriously ill during a game. He'd ultimately die of peritonitis a few days later, after three intestinal operation. He blamed his condition on earthing a cheese sandwich during the game, while some though he'd been injured straining to catch a foul ball, or by crashing into a wall during the game.
He was 38 years old at the time of his death.
I’m guessing the cheese sandwich was right. Having been a victim of the dreaded gasoline station sandwich, and having witnesses my son virtually rendered comatose due to one, I think Doc was right.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Sunday, April 11, 1909. Tel Aviv founded.
100 Jewish settlers living in Jaffa founded a 12 acre village located in sand dunes, dividing the property into 60 lots. It was called Ahuzzat Bayit, but only for a year, after which it was renamed Tel Aviv.
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