Friday Farming. September 13, 1919. Gum and Global Commerce

Men with barge-loads of bundled blocks of chicle in Belize Harbor.  Scientific American, September 13, 1919.

Odd to think of in context.  Chicle is a constituent of chewing gum. And it grows in the tropics.  Here, in 1919, we see that already there was a global trade in agricultural products.

Of course, there had been for centuries, even millennia. Which makes pondering the cost of things, interesting.

Thursday, November 4, 1915. Villa withdraws.

 I don't think the withdrawal was puzzling anyone who knew what had happened at the battle.

The Third Battle of Artois concluded with the Allies having sustained major casualties and having failed to achieve their objectives.

The French pulled off at Karahojali and advanced toward Veles.

The British besieged a German position at Banjo, Kamerun.

The SM U-38 sank the French troopship SS Le Calvados off the coast of Algeria, killing 740 of the 800 on board..

A contingent of 129 Belizean men departed for the “great fight for civilization and freedom”  and British military service aboard the HMT Verdala.  

Last edition:

Wednesday, November 3, 1915. Wilson considers ordering troops into Mexico.

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