Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
OROZCO by SK GUNS and Pascual Orozco himself.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Thursday, April 9, 1914. Drama at Tampico.
Things really begin to go down the tubes between Gen. Huerta's Mexico and the United States when Federal authorities arrested 8 U.S. sailors from the USS Dolphin, assuming for some reason that they were Constitutionalist.
The sailors were released, but U.S. Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo demanded a 21-gun salute and formal apology from the Mexican government. Huerta gave a written apology instead but refused to have his forces raise the U.S. flag on Mexican soil to provide a 21-gun salute, for which he really can't be blamed.
US cries for intervention in Mexico, immediately followed.
On the same day, Captain Gustavo Salinas Camiña, flying for the Constitutionalists, piloted a Glenn L. Martin biplane loaded with explosives in an attack on Mexican Federal gunboats Guerrero and Morelos, which were blocking Tampico's harbor. Neither plane nor ships were hit. It was the first aerial attack on ships.
Last prior edition:
Tuesday, April 7, 1914. Last spike on the Grand Trunk Pacific
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Friday, February 27, 1914. The River of Doubt.
Mexican strongman Victoriano Huerta promised an investigation into the death of Clemente Vergara while, at the same time, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan announced that the Texas Rangers would not be allowed to cross into Mexico to arrest the suspect Mexican soldiers.
Theodore Roosevelt's and Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon's expedition team reached Caceres, Brazil, to begin exploration of the Rio da Dúvida, an event from which Roosevelt's health would never recover by the time it was done.
The Vanderbilt Cup race was held.
Locally, the news was asbestos, but not the way it hits the news currently.