Saturday, December 31, 1910. New Years Eve.

The first  year of the decade of the 10s came to an end.

New Years is big with sporting events, and was even in 1910.

December 31, 1910: Georges Vezina made his debut with the Montreal Canadiens.

The first year of the 1910s showed the hints, as indeed had all of the 1900s, of what was soon to be a great bloodletting, but the world was not there yet.  What was there, however, was the Mexican Revolution, which had  broken out and in which fighting was now pitched, even though the war had just begun.

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Friday, December 30, 1910. "Race Suicide".

Labels: 1910, 1910s, children, Maderistas, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Outer space, Pronatalism, Science, Sex, Theodore Roosevelt

Friday, December 30, 1910. "Race Suicide".

Cornell University Professor Walter F. Willcox delivered his address, "The Change in the Proportion of Children in the United States and the Birth-Rate in France During the Nineteenth Century", to a meeting of the American Statistical Association in St. Louis. In it, he posed as hyperbole that statistically if the trend continued, births would cease by 2015.

The paper variant:

This was taken for what it was, a statistical example, by listeners, but Theodore Roosevelt used the talk to boost his talking points on "race suicide", which essentially held that the WASP class was dooming itself to extinction due to its lower birth rate..  The concept, long held in repute, has revived during the Second Trump Administration, probably making this one of the very few points that MAGA and Theodore Roosevelt agree upon.  It's the basis, to some degree of the Pronatalist movement, which likewise holds that European American women are not having enough children.

Anglican minister and astronomer T.H.E.C. Espin became the first human to see the birth of the new star.

Rancher Luis Moya declared for Madero and began to assemble an armed force.

The New York Times reported that Federal troops had defeated Maderistas in battle the day prior.

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Thursday, December 29, 1910. Oklahoma City became the capital of Oklahoma, replacing Guthrie.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma (Guthrie), Oklahoma (Oklahoma City)

Friday, December 16, 1910. Battle at La Junta.

Maderistas defeated government troops at La Junta.

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Thursday, December 15, 1910. New parishes and missions.

Labels: 1902, 1910, 1910s, 1911, 1929, Catholic, Christianity, Personalities, religion, Smoking, The roles of men and women, Wyoming (Douglas)

Wednesday, December 7, 1910. Arresting your enemies.

Bolivian troops clashed with Peruvians in Guayabal, which was contested between the two states.

A headline in the New York Times:

MEXICO GETS US TO ARREST AZCONA; Enemy of Diaz Held Provisionally on Charge of Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses.

The headline referred to Juan Sánchez Azcona y Díaz Covarrubias 

Azcona would go on to become a Maderoist and Carranzista 

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Tuesday, December 6, 1910. Anti Trust.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Distributism, The written word, William Howard Taft

Sunday, December 4, 1910. Contesting forces in Mexico negotiate.

A peace commission in  Chihuahua, Mexico attempted to broker a truce between the Diaz government and the "Maderistas" who supported Francisco I. Madero.

Cynthia Ann Parker, captured by the Comanche as a child and then recaptured by the Texas Rangers unwillingly as an adult, was reinterred in Oklahoma.  She had passed away in 1870.

She was the mother of Quanah Parker.

Last edition:

Saturday, December 3, 1910. Neon.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Art, Automobiles, Christmas, J. C. Leyendecker, Posters, technology