Lex Anteinternet: Stockton California

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Thursday, September 5, 2019

September 5, 1919. Stockton to Oakland California, 76 miles in 9.25 hours. The 1st Division arrives home.

The Motor Transport Convoy pushed on to Oakland California on this day in 1919, putting them just across the San Francisco Bay from their objective.

No bridges spanned the bay at the time. They were feted upon their arrival.

The Gasoline Alley crowd was debating their vacation.

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

September 4, 1919. Sacramento to Stockton on the Motor Transport Convoy, 48 mile sin 7.25 hours.

General Pershing and officers of a composite regiment aboard U.S. transport Leviathan, Sept. 4, 1919

On this day in 1919, the Motor Transport Convoy, near the end of its destination, went 48 miles in 7.25 hours.

The Cadillac was about worn out. And it seemed like the command was as well.

Maybe they needed a vacation, like the Gasoline Alley gang was contemplating.

Somebody who wasn't taking a vacation was President Wilson, who was touring the country promoting the Versailles Treaty.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Monday, April 26, 1909. The barbarity of the day.

Natural Bridge, Virginia, April 26, 1909.

California joined Indiana and Washington in providing a law to force the sterilization of mentally retarded persons.

A growing movement at the time, this is universally regarded as a horror now, but largely because the Nazis would adopt a policy to murder people in the same category, revealing such actions for what they are.

Stockton, California, April 26, 1909.

Transgender surgeries, particularly of minors, has been rightly compared to it, and will be regarded in the same fashion in the future.

Nogales, Arizona, April 26, 1909.

The Hungarian cabinet resigned in protest of the Austro-Hungarian Viennese government's lack of support for universal suffrage for Hungarians, use of Magyar in Army regiments, and Hungarian bank independence.

Harrison County, Texas, Deputy Sheriff Lewis Markham Huffman, age 27, was shot and killed investigating a railroad camp disturbance. His partner was shot but survived.The offender was lynched.

Last prior edition:

Saturday, April 24, 1909. Driving.

1900s, 1909, Equine Transportation

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