Saturday, December 4, 1915. The war concludes against Serbia.

 

The Central Powers took Debar, Serbia, ending the Kosovo Offensive and effectively eliminating the Serbian army

The original war aim, now hopelessly lost, was achieved.

The Pan American International Exposition closed.

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Friday, December 3, 1915. Mexican border situation serious.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Ireland, Moldova, Northern Ireland, Romania, Spain, Spanish Civil War

Wednesday, November 10, 1915. Staging on Hermosillo.

Leaving a force of 5,000 cavalrymen behind him to guard his rear, Villa moved his forces south to stage an attack on Hermosillo.

The Royal Serban Army took up positions for a final stand at Gijilan.

Italy launched an offensive with the aim of taking Gorizia.

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Sunday, November 7, 1915. Seas of blood.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1915 at the Movies, actors and actresses, Armenian Genocide, Battle of Krivolak, Constitutionalist Army, Emiliano Zapata, French Army, Macedonia, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Ottoman Empire

Saturday, October 9, 1915. Boosting Casper.

The Central Powers took Belgrade.

The French and British began a second campaign to take Jaunde, German Cameroon.

It was a Saturday.

The Casper Daily Press issued a huge Saturday edition, much of which featured the local economy and opportunities a region that was booming due to World War One, although the paper didn't categorize it that way.  It was too large to run the whole thing, so we'll just put a snippet of it up, with the pages in the original order even though some of that doesn't quite make sense, and although the entire paper was quite interesting, then and now, for what it portrayed.

Of course, it caught Game 2 of the 1915 World Series.

The paper also noted the impending U.S. recognition of Carranza as the de facto head of the Mexican government, even though that was still in contest.

It was 1917 that really saw the apex of the region's Great War oil expansion which made Casper what it is today, but it was starting by 1915.

Agriculture was still acknowledged to be vital to the region's economy, which sadly isn't a focus anymore, even though it's still there.  Agriculture would boom in the US, and the region, during the great war.

The Rhinoceros Hotel was located where a sushi restaurant now is on Center Street.  The building came down at some point and became Sunrise Sporting Goods, and then Dean's Sporting Goods, which is what it was most of the time I was growing up.

The Elkhorn Bar, which was a frequent advertiser, became the Wonder Bar later on, which it was for decades.  It's now Wyoming Rib and Chop, but it still has a full bar.  The bar isn't in the original location within the structure, however, as it was moved some years ago during reconstruction.

The Wonder Bar was where I had my first legal drink, a Budweiser, at age 19, which was the drinking age at the time.

And the paper covered development of the City of Casper, much of which isn't recognizable now, but some of which is.

Only one of the church's noted, St. Mark's, remains in the building depicted, even though the congregations remain.  After the war, and because of it, much more substantial structures were constructed.

Homesteading was of course still ongoing.

A major advertiser at the time wsa Casper Brewing Co., which offered Wyoming Light Lager.  The brewery hasn't been that for many decades, but its building is still there.  When I was a kid, it was a potato chip "factory" for Cooks Potato Chips.  The father of one of my friends owned it, but his parents were divorced and the mother remarried, so I can only recall meeting hom once.

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Friday, October 8, 1915. Game One of the 1915 World Series.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1915 World Series, Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, baseball, Montana, Sports, World War One

Wednesday, October 6, 1915. Central Powers invade Serbia.

German, Austro Hungarian and Bulgarian troops invaded Serbia.  The Central Powers forces were under the command of 66 year old August von Mackensen.

Mackensen had been born in Prussia and entered the German military in 1869.  He died in November 1945, having outlived the Prussian Empire, the German Empire, the Weimar German Republic and Nazi Germany.  He was not an active supporter of Nazism and did issue some post 1940 statements to associated expressing concern over the actions of German troops.

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Monday, October 4, 1915. Dinosaur National Monument Established.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Colorado, nature, Paleontology, Utah

Friday, September 24, 1915. More border violence, Zapata advances, Bulgaria mobilizes, Tragedy at the Fair.

 

And there was a terrible tragedy at the county fair.

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Wednesday, September 22, 1915. Rimma Mikhailovna Ivanova

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1940s, 1948, Antarctic, Imperial Russian Army, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Women, World War One

Saturday, September 11, 1915. Bulgaria mobilizes.

Bulgara, now in the Central Powers, began the mobilization of its forces.

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Thursday, September 9, 1915. Duma seeks resignations.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Art, Russia, World War One, Yeoman's Fourth Law of History

Monday, September 6, 1915. Labor Day.

Bulgaria entered the Central Powers.

Prototype tank Little Willie was completed.

It was Labor Day.

Labor Day Proclamation: As the world progresses in civilization and learning the appreciation of what Labor has done and can do, grows with us. We are coming to a better realization of the fact that without Labor, nothing would be possible. Our country and State would not have risen to the dignity of substantial commonwealths: our people would be still upon a par with the cave dwellers of prehistoric times. Law and order would be unknown and the great elements which the Creator has placed to our hands would yet exist as crude materials of unknown value.

With the growth of civilization, there comes a desire to better regulate Labor, to lay down rules so that man who earns his bread by his brawn will have a just number of stipulated hours for work; rules so that women and children cannot be imposed upon by the more powerful who control their exertions. There also comes a desire to recognize the splendid part which those who labor play in the advancement and up-building of the world, and bring to the attention of the people as a whole and in the most forceful manner possible. the high regard in which such men and women are held by society. With this end in view, one day in each year has been set apart as Labor Day. THEREFORE, I John B. Kendrick, Governor of the State of Wyoming, do designate Monday, September 6, 1915 Labor Day And request that the citizens of the State observe the day to the fullest extent, so as to increase the respect in which Labor is held, and show due regard for those who toil. Let the day be observed as a holiday: let all business be suspended, insofar as it is practical, and let a friendly word be spoken on all hands in honor of those upon whom the material progress and success of our state and nation depend.

In witness whereof, I have here upon set my and caused to be affixed the great seal of the State of Wyoming.

Done in the city of Cheyenne, this twenty-fifth day of August, A.D. 1915. John B. Kendrick, Governor. By the Governor Frank L. Houx, Sec. Of state.

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Sunday, September 5, 1915. Cooking with electricity.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Casablanca, Czar Nicholas II, Electrical Power, French Empire, Labor Day, Mexican Border War, Morocco, Russia, Russian Army, Texas, Texas (Brownsville)

Saturday, July 31, 1915. The Russians.

The Russians, heavily reinforced by Cossacks, defeated the Ottomans in the Battle of Kara Kilisse.

The Russians also clashed with the Polish Legions in the Battle of Jastków.

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Friday, July 30, 1915. First Australia Day, First use of the flamethrower.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenian Genocide, Australia, Australia Day, boats and ships, Food, German Army, German Kriegsmarine, Holidays, Ottoman Empire, Weapons

Thursday, July 22, 1915. The Great Retreat.

The Imperial Russian Army began The Great Retreat on the Eastern Front.  The Central Powers crossed the Vistula.

The British government introduced the Elections and Registration Act which required all British citizens aged 15 to 65 to be registered by August 15.

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Wednesday, July 21, 1915. "Deliberately unfriendly".

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Alberta, Alcohol, Diplomacy, Germany, Labor unrest, New Jersey, Prohibition, RMS Lusitania, United States, Woodrow Wilson, World War One

Tuesday, July 13, 1915. Internment.

The Castle Mountain Internment Camp for Canadian enemy aliens was established in Banff National Park, Canada.

The Central Powers renewed their Eastern Front offensive and pushed the Russians back to the Bug.

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Sunday, July 11, 1915. Garza enters Mexico City. Revolutionary ambush in Brownsville.

Labels: Battle of Rufiji Delta, Constitutionalist Army, German East Africa, German Kriegsmarine, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico City, Plan of San Diego, police, Royal Navy, Sedicionistas, Texas, Texas (Brownsville)

Monday, June 28, 1915. Huerta busted, Recreation vital.

 

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Sunday, June 27, 1915. Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate: All-Time Record High Temperature Anniversary. Huerta and Orozco prevented from entering Mexico.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Alaska, Blog Mirror, El Paso Texas, law, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pascual Orozco, Texas, Texas (El Paso), Victoriano Huerta, Weather

Tuesday, June 22, 1915. Zapatista advances.

Career Army officer and ally of Zapata, General Rafael Eguía Lis, a Conventionist supporting the sitting government defeated Carrancistas attempting to reach Los Reyes and San Cristóbal.  The Zapatistas, on the other hand, were entrenched in Cerro Gordo, using the Grand Drainage Canal as a defensive line.

German and Austro-Hungarian forces captured Lemberg, restoring Galacia to their control.

A large earthquake occured in the Imperial Valley, California.

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Sunday, June 20, 1915. South Omaha.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Nebraska, Nebraska (Omaha)

Sunday, June 13, 1915. Fighting in what became Poland, and is now part of Ukraine. There's a reason for Grape Nuts.

The Central Powers attacked Lemberg, which became Polish after the war as Lviv, and which is now part of Ukraine as Lvov.

A Polish squadron of 70 uhlans fighting for the Austro Hungarians charged Imperial Russian Army positions at Rokitna on this day, taking the positions, but sustaining heavy casualties.

Foreign powers were replying to notes and the British were buying horses.

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Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Africa, Armenian Genocide, Cameroon, Christianity, French Army, German Empire, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, Second Battle of Artois, Turkey, World War One

Sunday, May 16, 1915. Armenian casualties.

The Central Powers established bridgeheads over the San.

Ottoman soldiers killed 6,000 Armenians by artillery fire while covering the evacuation of Turkish women and children from Van.

The Royal Naval Air Service intercepted two Zeppelins, badly damaging one.

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Saturday, May 15, 1915. Night attack.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Art, Battle of Festubert, British Army, Fortunino Matania, Indian Army, Singapore Mutiny, World War One