Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10, 1919. The Yankee Division returns home while Americans in northern Russia couldn't figure out why they weren't home.

The Troop Ship Mongolia, the first American ship to have sunk a submarine during World War One, arrives in Boston.

The 26th Division returned to the United States on this day in 1919.  They arrived on the Mongolia, which had obtained a measure of fame early in the war by being the first American ship to sink a submarine, troop ship though she was.

On the same day, some Americans still overseas were questioning why they were.


Their question was logical enough.  They'd been conscripted for a war in Germany, not Russia.  Fortunately for them, a near mutiny was averted, but this certainly demonstrated that time was running out for the American mission in Russia.

Students at UW published what amounted to a late "April Fool's" issue, but in the spirit of the revolutionary times.


And Quebec, showing its Gallic roots, held a referendum that allowed for the sale of beer, wine and cider, overturning in their province a nationwide prohibition on alcohol.

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Blog Mirror: A Hundred Years Ago: Food-Related Humor a Hundred Years Ago

One of the things about looking at earlier eras that's hard to appreciate is the sense of things at the time.  The sense of the times themselves, the sense of prospective, and even a sense of humor.

The A Hundred Years ago site has taken a look at that in its most recent post:

Food-Related Humor a Hundred Years Ago

What do you think?  Are the jokes still funny, or not? I thought they were.