The US occupation of Veracruz ceased.
Germans Escape After Being Surrounded Near Lodz
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Tuesday, September 15, 1914. Wilson: Vámonos. Beyers: Ek het opgehou.
President Wilson ordered American forces out of Veracruz.
The pro German Boer Maritz rebellion started in South Africa when Commandant General of the Union Defence Force Christian Frederic Beyers resigned from his commission in protest of the South African government's decision to provide military support to the British Empire.
Beyers, along with General Koos de la Rey then traveled to the armory at Potchefstroom to meet with commanding officer Major Jan Kemp. De la Rey was killed by police fire on the way.
Allied forces in France commenced digging trenches, the first ones dug in the Great War.
Gertie, the Wonderfully Trained Dinosaur, premiered.
Unlike the advertisements, it was in black and white.
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Sunday, September 13, 1914. Improved Allied Positions In The West.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Friday, May 8, 1914. Ag Extension comes into being. Dan Sickles passes on.
The Smith Lever Act went into providing for a national Cooperative Extension Service to be established.
This would allow university agriculture departments to offer rural education programs, which his a good thing.
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING EXTENSION
This is also an example of the American System of economics, which the current GOP detests. It'd be interesting to see what they'd feel about the introduction of such a program today.
An article about the act from another site in another state:
Maryland 4-H and the Centennial of Smith-Lever
On the same day, the 63d Congress also passed a joint resolution "designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and for other purposes"
A small magnitude earthquake, 4.9, hit Giarre, Sicily, and resulted in the destruction of 223 homes and 120 deaths, saying something about the condition in which people lived.
Coincidentally, or perhaps not, Mount Etna erupted.
This demonstrates, of course, how tectonically active Italy is, but also how poor it was. Since some point in the 1950s, it's been popular to depict Italy as glamorous, but in fact the country was desperately poor to a large extent prior to that time, and was "backward" by the standards of North Americans and northern Europeans. Living conditions recalled Medieval conditions in much of the country up until a post-war economic revolution in Europe changed things, something that also helps to explain the rise of fascism in the 1920s, the strong Italian communist party in the 20th Century, criminal organizations, and large-scale emigration.
The funeral of Daniel Sickles was held in New York.
Sickles was a controversial Civil War and early Reconstruction era U.S. Army general. A political figure, he was the only corps commander in the U.S. Army who had not been to West Point, something that didn't make him popular with Regular Army officers at the time, but then he was otherwise an aggressive figure who would have been unpopular no matter what.
Sickles controversially repositioned his command without authorization from Gen. Meade at Gettysburg, a move that proved to be a mistake. When Meade learned about this, he confronted Sickles but did not order him to withdraw, as it was too late to do so. Soon thereafter, Sickles was struck by a cannonball in the leg, which he survived of course, but which caused him to lose the leg and which ended his field career. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions at Gettysburg, in spite of his actions in repositioning his command.
Sickles was a lawyer by trade, and the son of a patent lawyer. His pre-war life was far from pacific. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and elected to the New York State Assembly in 1847. In 1852, he married Teresa Bagioli against the wishes of both families, at which time he was 32, and she was about 15 or 16 years old. While very young, she was reportedly sophisticated for her age, and spoke five languages.
Perhaps not too surprisingly, his wife in turn had an affair with the US Attorney for Washington, DC. Sickles shot him dead on the street, but was acquitted for the killing in the first use of the temporary insanity defense in the U.S.
His first wife died in 1867, having never really reconciled after the killing. They had one child. He remarried to Maria "Cooke", a Spanish woman, in 1871. She also predeceased him. They had three children. As his marriage to an Italian American and a Spanish woman would suggest, he was Catholic, although obviously not the most observant one at points during his lifetime. His funeral was held at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. He was 94 at the time of his death.
As a minor observation, because it extended year around at the time, Catholic observers of Sickles death who may have gone to post funeral receptions would have been restricted to meatless options, assuming there was no local dispensation.
While the controversial veteran of an old war was being buried, the Cheyenne paper was worrying about the possibility of a new one.
There was, of course, reason to worry, but that was no reason not to go watch a presentation about the Frontier wars that had followed the Civil War.
As was Pabst Blue Ribbon, which does not surprise me.
Budweiser was continuing with its European wars theme.
And there was a reason for Postum.
Paramount Pictures was formed through a partnership between Famous Players Film Company and the Lasky Feature Play Company.
The first French shipboard aircraft launch was made by René Caudron from a ramp constructed over the fore-deck of the seaplane tender Foudre.
The Caudron brothers, Gason and René, would go on to form an early aircraft manufacturing company, Société des Avions Caudron. Gaston Caudron died in an aircraft accident in 1915, but René carried on in aircraft manufacturing until the fall of France in World War Two. He died in 1959.
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Thursday, May 7, 1914. A Colorado murder is reported in Wyoming.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Thursday, May 7, 1914. A Colorado murder is reported in Wyoming.
Congress established Mother's Day.
Almost all the newspaper's in southern Wyoming were carrying stories about hotelier L.F. Nicodemus, who had run hotels in Laramie and Cheyenne, being shot and killed in Denver by James C. Bulger, who was universally declared to be a "soldier of fortune". He was also one of the founders of Larimer County and the brief town there, called "Bulger", which no longer exists.
Bulger was convicted of murder for the event. Apparently insanity was attempted as a defense, as the record of his appeal states:
There was evidence tending to show that defendant is of an adventurous spirit and roving disposition; that he had been a soldier in the United States army serving in the Philippine Islands, a ranchman, a land speculator in Colorado, a soldier in Central America, and an officer in Madero's army in Mexico; that his grandfathers had been addicted to the use of intoxicants; that his uncle was a heavy drinker, and that his father frequently had delirium tremens; that his mother, who at the time of the trial was approximately 60 years of age, was of a moody and melancholy disposition; that the age of defendant is 33 years, and for several years prior to 1912 he was of a cheerful temperament, neat in his appearance and friendly in his disposition, and was somewhat addicted to the excessive use of intoxicating liquors; that he left Denver in the summer of 1912, and shortly thereafter was shot in the head, where the bullet remained imbedded; that he returned to Denver in April 1914; that upon his return he appeared to be slovenly and careless of his personal appearance and dress, drank to excess, and was more nervous, excitable, and easily aggravated than before; that at times he was subject to certain delusions, and, in the opinion of some witnesses, including experts, was insane at the time of the homicide. There was evidence upon the part of the prosecution, including testimony of experts, tending to establish the sanity of the defendant. We will advert to other evidence in the discussion of some of the assignments of error.
An instruction upon delusional insanity, given to the jury over the objection of defendant, constitutes one of the principal grounds relied upon for reversal.
To flesh the story out, he'd been drinking at the hotel bar and got into an argument with Cheyenne rodeo cowboy Hugh Clark over a regiment Bulger was raising to fight in Mexico. Clark insulted him in the conversation and went and armed himself, but Clark disarmed him and hit him. Bulger then left the bar, hailed a taxi, and bought two new revolvers and ammunition and returned to the bar, but Clark had left. He confronted Nicodemus and demanded to know where Clark was, but Nicodemus said he didn't know, and turned from him, whereupon Bulger shot him.
Bulger would ultimately receive stays of execution six times before his sentence was commuted to life. He was released in 1961 at age 80, and then went to work at the prison as a gardener. He died in 1966 and is buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Denver.
US servicemen were flirting in Vera Cruz. That didn't take long.
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Wednesday, May 6, 1914. No votes for British women.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Wednesday, May 6, 1914. No votes for British women.
The House of Lords rejected the Women's Suffrage Bill. The vote was 104 to 60. A person has to wonder if the recent terror strikes by suffragist had a negative impact.
Cheyenne revealed that Gen. Funson was authorized to "extend his lines in Mexico", by which readers learned the paper was referring to Vera Cruz, not anywhere on the border.
While I was aware that the then legendary Gen. Frederick Funston was in command on the border, I wasn't aware that this extended all the way to Vera Cruz.
Cheyenne was wanting a railroad bridge at Guernsey repaired.
Schlitz took out a full page add in the same paper.
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
Monday, May 4, 1914. Gov. Ammon on the ropes.
The Boomerang was pondering Colorado Governor Ammon's fate. . . and war with Mexico.
In Mexico, Revolutionary and future president of the country Álvaro Obregón began a blockade around Mazatlán.
Ammons would survive the impeachment attempt, but he's seen the handwriting on the wall politically and made his current term, which expired in 1915, his last.
Suffragette Mary Ann Aldham slashed John Singer Sargent's portrait of Henry James as part of the ongoing suffragette campaign of terrorism that had been going on in recent weeks in the UK. The painting was on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
The victimized painting.
The attack is proof of a certain danger. Even really good causes attracts acts out of outright goofballedness.
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Saturday, May 2, 1914. National Suffrage Day
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Wednesday, April 29, 1914. The Ten Days War ends and the Coalfield War with it.
With Federal troops arriving, John R. Lawson of the United Mine Workers ordered miners to lay down their arms, which they did on this day, but not before an additional fifteen Colorado minders were killed.
Union representative John R. Lawson, who would be tried for murder in connection with the killing of a deputy sheriff during the Coalfield War, sentenced to a life of hard labor, but whose sentence was reversed by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1917. He became vice president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company in 1927, and served in that role until 1939. He passed away in 1945 at age 74.
Protests in support of the miners broke out in New York City.
Upton Sinclair made an appearance at the protests.
In Denver, not too surprisingly, the first several pages were dominated by the private war, as well as a looming potential one with Mexico.
And it was the opening day of minor league baseball in Denver.
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Tuesday, April 28, 1914. President Wilson orders Federal troops into the Colorado Coalfield War.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Sunday, April 26, 1914. No longer in doubt.
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition completed its exploration of the River of Doubt by reuniting with a relief party led by Lt. Antonio Pyrineus. The meeting had been prearranged.
Three men died during the expedition, and Roosevelt had come very close to doing so. His health never recovered, although he'd very soon be agitating for an American entry into World War One, and seeking appointment to a volunteer division for that effort.
The Cheyenne paper was predicting that was going to break out at any moment, but I mostly put this issue up for the interesting cereal and flour advertisement.
It is interesting that "The Girl I Left Behind Me" was still a popular military tune, apparently, at the time.
Post Toasties getting in the war mood, however, is a classic.
Apparently Cheyenne had its own brand of flour at the time.
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Friday, April 24, 1914. Occupying Vera Cruz.
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Friday, April 24, 1914. Occupying Vera Cruz.
Fighting in Veracruz ceased and the occupation of the city began.
Raising the flat at Veracruz, April 27, 1924.
35,000 obsolescent German, Austrian and Italian rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were smuggled into Ulster from Germany and distributed by automobile in the Larne Gun Running incident to Ulster loyalists in anticipation of fighting over the issue of independence, with the Ulster Volunteers opposed to it.
Captain Robert Bartlett and Kataktovik reached Emma Town having traveled 700 miles in their effort to secure relief for his stranded party. They secured passage there to Emma Harbour, a weeks journey, so that he could travel to Alaska by ship from there.
Emma Harbor, 1921.
The Brooklyn Federal League team was photographed.
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Thursday, April 23, 1914. Wrigley Field Opens, War Panic.
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