Monday, July 31, 1911. End if the Porfirian legislature and of Standard Oil. Complaining Russians and Germans. First Black Boy Scouts.

The pre revolution Mexican legislature went out of session.  A new legislature was slated to be elected and convene in September.

Standard Oil announced its break up plan with November to be the date the company would become multiple companies.

Oh for the days the Government actually enforced the Sherman Anti Trust Act.  Looking at you Apple.

General Motors became the first automobile company to list its stock for sale on the New York Stock Exchange.

North Carolina saw the formation of the Elizabeth City Troop, the first chartered black Boy Scouts troop.  It wasn't the absolute first, as an unchartered one, which would later be chartered, had been formed in Brooklyn in August, 1910.

Russia's ambassador to Persia demanded the resignation of Treasurer General W. Morgan Shuster.  Shuster was an American businessman who had been hired by the Iranian parliament to manage the nation's finances. Germany made a similar demand the following day.

The British weren't very keen on Shuster either.

Akron Ohio, July 31, 1911.

Brady Lake, Ohio. July 31, 1911.

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Saturday, July 29, 1911. Trade reciprocity dissolves the Canadian parliament.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Army, Canada, Diplomacy, Francisco I. Madero, Industry, International trade, Iran, Maderistas, Magonistas, Mexican Revolution, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Washington

Friday, July 18, 1924. The Murder of Robert Imbrie.

US Foreign Officer Robert Whitney Imbrie was murdered in Tehran following injuries sustained when a crowd at a well where a miracle had been claimed to have taken place mistook him for being Bahai, apparently.  Feelings had been running high in Persia against the Bahai, which is the country it which the universalist religion had arisen in the 19th Century.

The incident was used by Reza Khan,  prime minister and minister of war, to declare martial law and consolidate power, and has been regarded by some as suspicious.  

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Thursday, July 17, 1924. Barracuda.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, 1940, 1940s, baseball, boats and ships, Missouri, Navy, St. Louis Missouri, World War Two

Tuesday, October 310, 1973. Sunday drivers.

 Netherlands banned private Sunday driving, with a start date of November 4, to conserve fuel.

The Judiciary Committee voted 21 to 17 to consider impeaching Richard Nixon.  The vote was split on party lines.

The Bosphorus Bridge was completed across the Bosphorus connecting Europe and Asia for the first time since Emperor Darius of Persia's pontoon bridge of 512 BC.

The bridge in 1973.

Tuesday, July 18, 1911. Premier game of the Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars

 

New warden Felix Alston organized the team following his appointment to the position in 1911. He chose  George Saban, convicted murderer from the Spring Creek raid, to be head coach and team captain due to their friendship.  The only team they played against was the Rawlins Juniors, which they played four times in 1911. They won all four games.

The team was comprised for the following members:

Coach: Saban, George.  Convicted of murder, he escaped and disappeared from history in December, 1913.

Cameron, Thomas Convicted of Sexual assault, his sentence expired in June 1912.

Pendergraft, Harry A.  Convicted of Larceny , he was granted parole in Jan 1912

C, RF:  Powell, James.  He had been convicted of rape.  Powell was black.  This was an integrated team.

1B: Rowan, Eugene.  He had been convicted of rape, and breaking and entering.  He was granted parole in Nov 1913.  Rowan was also an African American.

2B: Fitzgerald, Frank.  Breaking and entering.  His sentence expired in Dec 1911

SS: Guzzardo, Joe.  Manslaughter.  He was pardoned in July 1912.  Guzzardo had killed a woman in 1908 while shooting at a man who was threatening his life.

3B: Crottie, John.  Grand larceny. He was released in Nov 1911

LF: Carman, Ora.  Grand larceny.  He completed his sentence in Sept 1911.

LF: Stone, Earl.  Breaking and entering.  He completed his sentence in Sept 1911.

CF: Potter, Sidney.  Forgery.  He completed his sentence in June 1912.

RF, C, SS:  Seng, Joseph.  First-degree murder. He was hanged in May 1912

Their August 29, 1911 game was their last.

Contrary to a myth about the team, they were not all on "death row", and indeed only one of the men, Joseph Seng, was. Seng had killed his supervisor after he was fired from his job as a watchman in Evanston.  He was the first man to be executed at the Wyoming State Penitentiary.

Russian backed and equipped deposed Shah of Persia Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar landed at the Caspian Sea port of Astarabad with an army in an attempt to regain the throne that he had lost in 1909.

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Saturday, July 15, 1911. Unreasonable demands.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Africa, Agadir Crisis, Albania, French Empire, German Empire, Morocco, Ottoman Empire, Republic of Congo

Wednesday, February 8, 1911. Revolutions.

Fighting raged on in Mexico, notably by Juarez.

The civil war in Honduras ended with an agreement to free elections supervised by the United States.

Perhaps Honduras can return the favor and watch the 2026 elections which Trump might be planning to steal.

Nasir al-Mulk assumed power as the new Regent for the 12-year-old Shah of Persia.

A dedication was made in Tampa to the traitorous rebels of the 1860 to 1865 period.

S.S. Hamburg departing from Havana Harbor, February 8, 1911.

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Tuesday, February 7, 1911. Mexican Revolutions.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Battle of Smelter View, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco I. Madero, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico (Juarez)

Saturday, February 4, 1911. Deadlocks.

A Berryman cartoon for this day in 1911.

Persia's Minister of Finance, Sani al-Dowleh, was killed in Tehran by two Armenian assassins who were Russian subjects, and whose legation provided them with sanctuary.

Francisco Madero, who was still in Texas at the time, offered Dr. Ira J. Bush a commission as the chief surgeon with the rank of colonel, which he accepted.

Former Boer General Piet Cronjé and advocate of attrition warfare, died at age 74.  Because of his tactical viewpoints, he was shunned by the surviving Boer officers.  And, indeed, that was not a wise strategy, particularly for the Boers whose numbers and nature favored mobility.

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Friday, February 3, 1911. Dangers of nature.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, California, Finland, fishing, hunting, Kenya, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Subsistence fishing

Thursday, April 29, 1909. Tornado devestation.

Tornadoes killed 125 in the South East.

April 29, 1909 Tornado Outbreak

Russia invaded Persia and occupied Tabriz.  The incursion was in aid of hte Shah against constitutionalist rebels.

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Wednesday, April 28, 1909. Liberating the Harem.

1900s, 1909, Francis McCullagh, Ottoman Empire, Women, Young Turks

Wednesday, April 14, 1909. The Adana Massacre continues.

The slaughter of Armenian Christians by Ottoman soldier began in earnest in Adana, Ottoman Empire.

Tuesday, April 13, 1909. The Aadna Massacre.

The Adna Massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which would kill over 20,000 people, commenced.  Ottoman troops would participate in it.

Armenian orphans from the massacre.

The Armenians had the first Christian kingdom in the world, and have had a state of one kind or another since 860 BC.  Since the conquest of Anatolia by the Turks, they've been subject to repeated atrocities.

The Anglo Persian Oil Company was incorporated.  The company became a power in its own right, and extensively exploited what became Iran, setting the stage for what we have today, unfortunately.

Minnesota passed a law banning cigarettes, effective August 1.  Too bad that didn't stick.

Punch, April 14, 1909.

Sheep yards, Kirkland, Ill, April 14, 1909.

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Tuesday, April 13, 1909. The Aadna Massacre.

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