From left to right: Tirso Espinosa, Gildardo Magana, M. Mejia, Abram Martinez, Jesus Jauregui and Rodolfo Magana; seated: Eufemio Zapata,Emiliano Zapata and Proculo Capistran at the Hotel Coliseo, Mexico City on June 24, 1911.
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Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Monday, June 22, 2026
Thursday, June 22, 1911. Magonistas defeated.
Magonistas were decisively defeated in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
Pascual Orozco established his headquarters in Cuidad Chihuahua.
King George the V and Queen Mary were crowned at Westminster Abbey.
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Monday, June 19, 1911. Never going back to Mexico and La Agrupación Protectora Mexicana.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Crime, Ethnicities, France, La Matanza, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mutual Aid Societies, Porfirio Díaz, Texas
Friday, June 19, 2026
Monday, June 19, 1911. Never going back to Mexico and La Agrupación Protectora Mexicana.
Porfirio Díaz, now in exile in France, stated he would not return to Mexico even if asked to do so.
And in fact, he was never asked to do so, and he remains, now passed on, in Paris.
Antonio Gómez, age 14, was lynched in Thorndale, Milam County, Texas. The victim had killed a white Texan in an altercation. This particular murder was instrumental in the creation of the Mexican American mutual aid society, La Agrupación Protectora Mexicana.
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Sunday, June 18, 1911. Human remains on the USS Maine, Detroit Tigers make comeback.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
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Sunday, June 18, 1911. Human remains on the USS Maine, Detroit Tigers make comeback.
The Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 16 to 15 after coming back from being down 13 to 1 earlier in the game, a feat that has bee duplicated only twice, once in 1925 and once in 2001.
The ongoing efforts to recover the wreckage of the USS Maine resulted in water in the ship being raised lowering to the point where human remains began to be recovered.
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Wednesday, June 11, 1911. Not yet stars.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Wednesday, June 11, 1911. Not yet stars.
The West Point Class of 1915, "the class the stars fell on" took their military oaths. New cadets included:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
General of the Army Omar Bradley.
General Joseph T. McNarney.
General James Van Fleet.
Lieutenant General Henry Aurand.
Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon.
Lieutenant General Stafford LeRoy Irwin.
Lieutenant General Thomas B. Larkin
Lieutenant General John W. Leonard.
Lieutenant General George E. Stratemeyer
Lieutenant General Joseph M. Swing.
Major General John Stewart Bragdon
Major General Ralph P. Cousins
Major General William E. R. Covell
Major General Luis R. Esteves
Major General Vernon Evans
Major General Thomas J. Hanley Jr.
Major General Thomas G. Hearn
Major General Leland S. Hobbs
Major General James A. Lester
Major General Edwin B. Lyon
Major General Henry J. F. Miller
Major General Paul J. Mueller
Major General Vernon Prichard
Major General George J. Richards
Major General Charles W. Ryder
Major General Henry B. Sayler
Major General William F. Tompkins
Major General Albert W. Waldron
Major General Leo A. Walton
Major General Leroy H. Watson
Major General Douglas L. Weart
Major General A. Arnim White
Major General John B. Wogan
Major General Roscoe B. Woodruff
Brigadier General Herman Beukema
Brigadier General Carl C. Bank
Brigadier General Frederic W. Boye
Brigadier General Charles M. Busbee
Brigadier General John F. Conklin
Brigadier General John F. Davis
Brigadier General Michael F. Davis
Brigadier General Donald A. Davison
Brigadier General Benjamin G. Ferris
Brigadier General Adlai H. Gilkeson
Brigadier General Walter W. Hess
Brigadier General Clinton Wilbur Howard
Brigadier General Reese M. Howell
Brigadier General John Keliher
Brigadier General Pearson Menoher
Brigadier General Lehman W. Miller
Brigadier General Earl L. Naiden
Brigadier General Hume Peabody
Brigadier General Norman Randolph
Brigadier General John N. Robinson
Brigadier General Robert W. Strong
Brigadier General Victor V. Taylor
Brigadier General Clesen H. Tenney
Brigadier General Edward C. Wallington
Brigadier General Edwin A. Zundel.
The RMS Olympic departed Southampton, UK, on its maiden voyage.
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Monday, June 12, 1911. Madero meets Zapata.
Friday, June 12, 2026
Monday, June 12, 1911. Madero meets Zapata.
Madero met Zapata in visits Morelos, where Zapata was still under arms. Madero offered Zapata money to buy land, demanded disarmament, and promised Zapata the post as commander of the police in Morelos.
Grand Lake, Colorado, June 12, 1911.
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Sunday, June 11, 1911. El Chamizal.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, 1960s, 1967, Baja California, baseball, Canada, Diplomacy, Magonistas, Marriage, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Rio Grande River, suffrage, United States, William Howard Taft, Women
Wednesday, June 12, 1901. Corrido de Gregorio Cortez
The 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, Australian troops, were attacked at Steenkoolspruit and sustained 18 men killed and 42 wounded, their biggest loss of life during the Boer War.
Cuba voted to become an American protectorate.
Gregorio Cortez shot and killed Karnes County Sheriff W. T. "Brack" Morris, who had fired in the gunfight first, after a gunfight erupted from a mistranslation of an interrogation between the two men over a missing horse, with the issue the Spanish distinction between a stud and a mare. Cortez fled on foot and later killed Gonzales County Sheriff Robert M. Glover and posse member Henry J. Schabel two days later.
He would later be captured thirteen days later and sentenced to life imprisonment. Some charges were reversed on appeal and he was pardoned in 1913. He became a folk hero in the region with both a song and a movie made about him.
Cortez would die in 1916 at age 40. He fought in the Mexican Revolution on the side of Huerta.
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
Sunday, June 11, 1911. El Chamizal.
Coming bizarrely right in the middle of a major change of governments for Mexico, the International Boundary Commission, consisting of representatives of Mexico, Canada and the United States, ruled that the 600 acre El Chamizal should see 437 acres transferred to Mexico.
The US, in US style, refused to concede, but would finally yield in 1967 at which time a canal was constructed to keep the Rio Grande from shifting, which is what had caused the dispute in the first place.
Mexican Federal irregulars murdered the Dr. Allen L. Foster; John D. Carroll, an American living under an assumed name who ran a supply store; Patrick Glennon, an Irish-American shopkeeper; and Constantin Dubois, a French Canadian vagabond in Baja California. Their offense was being foreigners in Mexico in a region in which foreigners had been a significant revolutionary force.
The Senate approved the 17th Amendment which provided for direct election of Senators.
The Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance opened in Stockholm, Sweden.
It was the Taft's 25th wedding anniversary.
The Cubs defeated Boston 20-2.
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Thursday, June 8, 1911. US grants permission for Mexican troops to transit U.S.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Aircraft, Arizona, Baja California, California, Magonistas, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Personalities, Science, Texas
Monday, June 8, 2026
Thursday, June 8, 1911. US grants permission for Mexican troops to transit U.S.
The U.S. gave permission to the Mexican government, now an interim government awaiting elecdtions, to transit 1,500 Mexican troops across the United States into Baja California. The troops were disarmed in Arizona where they were embarked and then given their arms and ammunition at their border crossing from California into Baja.
Glen Curtiss
Glen Curtiss received U.S. Pilot's License #1 from the Aero Club of America. The first first batch of licenses were issued in alphabetical order with Wilbur Wright receiving license #5.
Charles Post of cereal fame conducted an experiment in which kites were set aloft with dynamite charges to see if that would induce rain.
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Wednesday, June 7, 1911. Madero enters Mexico City.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, children, Disaster, Francisco I. Madero, Geology, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico (Mexico City), New York
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Wednesday, June 7, 1911. Madero enters Mexico City.
A crowd of 100,000 people turned out to watch Francisco Madero enter Mexico City.
An earthquake occurred at 04:26 local time (11:02 UTC) bear the coast of Michoacán, Mexico, killing at least 45 people. Due to the other events in Mexico on the day, it's sometimes called the "temblor maderista".
Orphans were taken for a visit to Coney Island.
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Tuesday, June 6, 1911. Advancing on Baja.
Labels: 1900s, 1908, 1910s, 1911, Baja California, children, Magonistas, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico (Chihuahua), Teenagers, tobacco, Weapons, Work
Sunday, May 31, 2026
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Saturday, May 23, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Railhead: The Nightcrawler. The train from Denver, Colorado, to Billings, Montana.
Railhead: The Nightcrawler. The train from Denver, Colorado...: I had no idea that this is what this train was called. Thanks go out to MKTH for letting me know! I've been looking into local passen...
The Nightcrawler. The train from Denver, Colorado, to Billings, Montana.
I had no idea that this is what this train was called. Thanks go out to MKTH for letting me know!
I've been looking into local passenger train travel as part of my efforts with a novel. What I found is that I knew very little about it. Probably more than your average bear, but that's about it. I'd long assumed that a person could board a train in Casper in 1916 and take the train to Douglas or Cheyenne, and then return that evening, but the more I looked into it, that was just an assumption.
I'm not the one who figured out how it really worked. That goes to MKTH. the result is fascinating.
It turns out I was right sort of. The Burlington Northern ran a train from Denver Colorado, to Billings Montana, and vice versa, daily. This article takes a look at it.
What I imagined, for novel purposes, was boarding in Casper, and traveling to Douglas. I may, as I work at it, make it Cheyenne.
Union Station, Denver Colorado
Union Station, Denver Colorado
Union Station as viewed from in front of Denver's Oxford Hotel.
Anyhow, this is a really interesting article and give a really good look at what traveling on the Denver to Billings night train was like, complete with stops for food, which is something I hadn't considered. It also picked up mail, and my source indicates, cream, something I also hadn't figured, but that may explain why the creamery my family owned was just one block from the Burlington Northern. In fact it probably does.
Jersey Creamery Inc.
The trip took 19 hours. It take 8 hours today by car, assuming good weather conditions, and not figuring in stops for food, etc. The train moved about 34 miles an hour.
We'll look at the return trip first. The train having come up from Cheyenne boarded there at 12:49 in the morning. Uff.
It got to Casper at 6:20 in the morning, having made a couple of stops along the way.
Burlington Northern Depot, Casper Wyoming
What I imagined?
Not really. And I also had no idea that there was a major cafe right off the railroad. This article deals with the early 1960s, but I can see that some variant of it was there decades prior. That makes piles of sense, really. Of course there would be. How else would people eat if they were making the long journey?
It simply hadn't occurred to me.
In my imaginary trip., that'd be it. If I stuck with the Douglas variant of this, my protagonist would be boarding the train in the early, early morning hours and get in a couple of fitful hours of sleep, probably interrupted by a stop in little Glenrock. Indeed, this train stopped everywhere to pick up mail, and a few passengers.
What about the other way around?
Well that was a day trip, but as we can see, the 19 hours the train traveled in total meat that it took a good 6.5 hours to travel just from Cheyenne to Casper. Going the other way would mean the same thing, and likely a bit in reverse. The 6.5 hour trip from Cheyenne to Casper was the second major leg of the trip (it'd still stop in numerous small towns in between), the first being Denver to Cheyenne. Going the other way around meant that the Cheyenne to Denver leg was about five hours. The article notes that the train actually arrived from Billings 40 minutes before its 7:00 p.m. departure. So it arrived, more or less, at 6:00 p.m. and changed crews. That would have meant that it left Cheyenne, on the way to Denver, at about 1:00 p.m. or so, which makes sense. Passengers traveling all the way to Denver would have eaten lunch there.
By extension, however, that meant that the train left Casper at about 6;00 in the morning, approximately.
These times are almost unimaginable now. When we had good air travel to Denver I'd frequently board United Express here about 6;00 a.m. and be in Denver about 8:30, and take the train downtown and be to work by 9. I'd be back in Casper on the redeye about 10:00, or if I was lucky, 6:00.
And when I go to Cheyenne, I drive. Normally that takes me a little under three hours. I haven't stayed overnight in Cheyenne for years, although I recently had an instance which should really cause me to.
Anyhow, if I'm looking at 1916, why not just drive?
Well, in 1916 most Americans, including most Wyomingites, didn't own automobiles, and those who did, didn't normally make long trips with them. They frankly weren't that reliable, even though they were simple. Roads also tended to be primitive, and not really maintained for weather. Could a person have driven from Casper to Cheyenne in a Model T, the most likely car they would have had? Yes, but it wouldn't have been any faster. It may well have been slower, quite frankly, as well as much riskier.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
In the event of conscription (and Trumpite insiders say the demented octogenarian is considering it) conscript ICE first, and then deploy them.
Chuck, Reid, John. . . history awaits.
There's precedent for it.
When Woodrow Wilson, after campaigning on keeping us out of war, committed us to the greatest one in the world's history at that time since the Napoleonic Wars, he was faced with the problem that his pacificist Attorney General was of the view that National Guardsmen could be Federalized only to spats within the United States. That's what kept them on the border, but not over it, during the Punitive Expedition.
But somebody came up with the brilliant idea that as the U.S. was introducing conscription, the entire Guard could just be conscripted. . . so it was, on August 5, 1917, specifically.
ICE already acts like an occupying military force, and it dresses like one. It's familiar with weapons, as we all know. If troops are needed for boots on the ground, draft them en masse.
I'm not joking. Those who signed up for ICE had to be comfortable with MAGA extremism. Let them go fight for MAGA. Draft them into the Army, and if boots are going in, send them.
I'll note I've seen a similar idea posted elsewhere:
Draft MAGA First for Trump’s war!
Go fight for their Trump!
I feel the same way here. I'm tired of the rah rah MAGAs who are were against war until Trump was for it, and support anything that Trump supports. Over half of the American public feels Donald Trump is a demented twat waffle. Let those who admire him go fight and if necessary die for their beloved. They portray Trump as a hero. . . well here's there very own chance to be one themselves.
Let the Trumps go first. Barron is of military age and, based on the life history of his family, is more likely to be a boil on the butt of humanity than something benefitting it. Service would do him, and his two brothers, and heck his sisters good. Maybe the Trump family will pull itself out of the world it lives in and inflicts on the rest of us if they see a little of the rest of it that isn't so rich and gaudy.
Let them go fight, and if necessary die, in their father's war.
And the same for Wyoming mega MAGA Trumpites. Chuck Gray is still young enough to serve and hasn't had a real job a day in his life. He's not married and doesn't have any dependents either. Here's his chance. He can come back a veteran, maybe a hero, or, if in a body bag, well, there won't be a widow or orphan. Reid Rasner already has the crewcut, and he's single too. Let him go put his life on the line for Donald. He talks might big, let him put his mouth, and his body, where his words are. Yes, there's risk involved, but if that risk isn't accepted, well the words were just that.
Chuck and Reid, a recruiting station is a near as the mall.
And then there's all the "I'm a veteran" candidates out there who on the far right in Wyoming. Well, if there's one thing being a veteran qualifies you for its military service. Brent Bien. . . your chance to show us your mettle once again awaits. . .
Shoot, let non veteran John Barrasso go. Heck, make him go. He's been practicing the Patton "war face" for years. Yes, he's a geezer, but I'm confident if he asked Donny, Donny would let him go and shortly forget who he was.
Most Americans didn't want this war. Most Americans shouldn't have to fight in it. Perhaps only those who are willing to volunteer for it within the service right now should have to. We let servicemen with moronic objections to vaccinations out of the service during the Biden Administration. We should let those who have no desire to fight and die for whatever we're fighting and dying for now get out, if they don't want to serve. Their ranks can be filled by MAGA, ICE, and Trumps.
But it won't happen.
ICE will simply carry on as it is, until 2027. MAGAs will continue to support any dumbass thing Trump spews out of his decaying brain. People who have connections with Epstein Island will go on doing what they do.
And if we're still in it by fall and its turning to shit, well 9 out of the 10 "Trump was always right" crowed will deny they ever saw anything in him. They knew, they'll claim, he was a fraud all along.
Only the dead, Santayana tells us, have seen an end to war. It's a pretty good guess that no Trumps and no fire breathing MAGA politicians are going to see war at all. They're okay with Trumps war, but not so much that they'll ever seek out to fight in it.
Not that this is a surprise. Trump has always felt that servicemen are schmucks. He's loyal to no one other than himself, and perhaps to those who have something over him. The dead, well, you know, that just happens.
Monday, March 9, 2026
Thursday, March 9, 1916. Germany declares war on Portugal,
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Germany declared war on Portugal.
The Germans attacked the commune of Cumières-le-Mort-Homme from Béthincourt, France.
The Italians launched an offensive around Gorizia and Tolmin.
The Western Frontier Force left Sidi Barrani and marched to capture Sollum, Egypt from the Ottoman Empire and their Senussi allies.
Arnold Spencer-Smith of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition died while en route to Hut Point for medical treatment for exhaustion and scurvy.
And peace was about to end for the United States:
Thursday, March 9, 1916. The Raid On Columbus New Mexico.
And with this entry, the day to day tracking of events from January 1, 1914, up to the this date in 1926, is complete. There won't be any daily updates for 1916 hereafter, as we've already done that.
Anyone tracking this in the future will note that our styles changed over time. Indeed, considerably. For one thing, on later posts you can always look back and see the post right before it in a link. When we started these daily entries in 2016, that wasn't the case. In some instances, however, that feature has been later added.
Additionally, as with the entries from March 9, 2016, we often did more than one, if there was more than one thing to feature for the day. At some point we stopped doing that.
You'll still find, for the time being, daily updates, when there's something worth noting, for 1876. We're unlikely to carry that past the summer, however, as the 1870sn are really outside the focus of the blog. I've thought about stopping it earlier, and may do that.
You will likely still see events carrying forward from 1901, which started with 1900. This is backfill, frankly, for the 1910 to 1920 period that is the focus of the blog. The same is true for the 1911 entries, which are backfilling up to 1914. As 1911 is already within the Mexican Revolution period, that will carry on, even though the first decade of the 20th Century may very well not.
We don't post many entries from the 1920s now that we're up to 1926, although we do occasionally. This is really outside the focus period of the blog and by 1926 the country was on to a new era. The same is true for the 1940s, now that we're past the Second World War, although we still post a few. The fifty years ago entries, now into 1976, are few and far between as well as there just aren't that many things I find interesting from that period, historically, which of course I have a personal memory of.
Anyhow, I hope the readers enjoyed reading the daily entries from March 9, 1916 up to March 9, 1926, and enjoyed the backfill that brought in the rest of World War One and the daily happenings as it was going on. The immediate prewar era, 1910 to the end of 1913, will still be getting backfilled, which we hope you also enjoy.
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