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Friday, December 18, 2015

Saturday, December 18, 1915. Wilson and Gait marry.


Woodrow Wilson married Edith Bolling Gait.  Both had lost their prior spouse to death.

Today In Wyoming's History: December 18: 1915 The Capital Avenue Theater in Cheyenne was destroyed by fire. Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

It was a Saturday.




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Wednesday, December 15, 1915. Leaving Gallipoli.

Friday, October 23, 2015

Saturday, October 23, 1915. Marching for the vote.



25,000 women marched, some on horseback, up Fifth Avenue in New York City to advocate for women’s suffrage.

In the UK, the Prime Minister intervened on behalf of women munitions workers:
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 23, 1915: It was not a mere co...: British Munitions Minister David Lloyd George says woman munitions workers will get equal pay for skilled work. Evidently the pope is prot...

And the controversy over the killing of Edith Cavell continued. 


The SMS Prinz Adablert was sunk by the HMS E8 with the loss of 672 men out of 675, the German Navy's single largest loss of life in the Baltic during World War One.

The British troopship Marquette went down in the Aegean with the loss of 167 lives.

Saturday magazines were out.



Members of American Iron and Steel Institute inspecting the ore docks, Cleveland, Oct. 23, 1915

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