Showing posts with label Red Scare of 1919. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Scare of 1919. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2019

October 5, 1919. No World Series Update?

Nope.

The game was called due to rain.



Readers of morning papers would still find themselves reading about the World Series which, just like today, would have been the news of the prior day.  This was the era, of course, if evening and morning newspapers, with the evening ones, now that wire services existed, reporting on the news of that day.  Many readers of this paper, therefore, would have already read about the fourth game in yesterday's evening paper.

The Casper Herald was unusual for a Wyoming paper at the time in that their was a Sunday edition.  Most Wyoming papers took Sunday completely off.

Grim news continued to come from the Mexican border and appear on the front page, but for some reason now war with Mexico seemed a lot less likely than it had previously seemed. 

A sort of war, however, seemed to be raging in a lot of American cities.

And the President was reported to be improving.  The conspiracy of silence around his real condition had very much set in.

Monday, June 3, 2019

June 3, 1919: Anarchists bombings and The 148th Field Artillery boards the USS Peerless. . .

bringing their service in the Great War and the following Army of Occupation to an end.


The USS Peerless was the former Steamship Eagle which had been brought into U.S. service as a transport during World War One.  In that capacity, she brought the troops of the 148th FA home to the U.S., including the Wyoming National Guardsmen that served in that unit, their role in the Great War now complete.

In September she'd be returned to her civilian owner, who once again returned her to her civilian name of Eagle.  She'd remain in service as a civilian transport until 1949, when she was scrapped.

The return of the 148th was big long awaited news for Wyomingites as it meant the return of the last of Wyoming's serving National Guardsmen. The news made the front page in Cheyenne, as did the proclamation of Boy Scout Week, if inaccurately, but another big event, a series of anarchist bombings the prior day, not surprisingly became the big headline.


The 1919 anarchist bombings would fuel the Red Scare of 1919 and lead to a rapid crack down on left wing activities in the United States.  Some date the event to the bombings, but it was already ongoing and the strikes of 1919 had already begun to fuel, along with other events, national and international.