Saturday, June 4, 1921. Aftermaths.

The Red Cross set up in earnest to provide relief to victims of the Pueblo, Colorado flood.

 

Menshevik forces, on this day in 1921, captured Omsk in far southern Siberia.  They'd already taken Vladivostok. The Japanese were aiding anti Bolsheviks by transporting additional anti Bolshevik forces to the Vladivostok region.

And the Saturday weekly periodicals hit the stands.  Rockwell illustrated two of them that week.

Friday, June 3, 1921. The Pueblo Flood

The devastating Pueblo Flood occurred due to two torrential spring cloudbursts in the region.  Hundreds, maybe over 1,000, people were killed and downtown Pueblo was destroyed.

The local paper reported no loss of life, but the worse, much worse, was yet to come.

On the same day,Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy,  was appointed Governor General of Canada.

Lady and Lord Byng.

He would hold the position until 1926 and famously refused a recommendation of Mackenzie King to dissolve the Canadian parliament in order to avoid a no confidence vote. At that time, the Governor General still retained a measure of authority that they'd later lack.

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September 25, 1919. Reporting on what had occurred and not knowing what was occurring.

On this day in 1919 Wyoming's newspapers reported on President Wilson's speech in Cheyenne the day prior. They commented, largely accurately, on it as well.

One of the Cheyenne papers reported the Cheyenne crowed as "cordial".  But that was perhaps a politic way of saying polite yet reserved. The other paper was likely more on the mark when it noted that a large crowd had gathered, but that crowd hadn't reacted with enthusiasm for Wilson's speech.

It would be worth noting that Cheyenne was the home of Wyoming Senator F. E. Warren, who was a prominent Republican Senator.  Wilson was, therefore, campaigning on hostile ground to a degree.

One Cheyenne paper noted that the President was weary.  He was.

From Cheyenne he went on to Pueblo Colorado.  During a speech there, he collapsed.  His speaking tour was over and the train commenced back to Washington D. C. with a little bit of a secret revealed.  The President was not a well man.

Boarding a train elsewhere, German citizens who had been interned in the United States during the war were being sent home.  Sent home with a new set of clothes from the looks of it.