Ty Cobb stole second, third, and home on three consecutive pitches by Harry Krause of the Philadelphia Athletics.
Au Sable, Michigan was destroyed by a forest fire in day two of horrific forest fires occurring in Michigan.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Sunday, July 9, 1911. Partido Constitucional Progresista
Francisco I. Madero issued a manifesto changing the name of his movement the Progressive Constitutionalist Party (Partido Constitucional Progresista).
France and Germany agreed to negotiate an end to the Agadir Crisis.
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Saturday, July 8, 1911. Aspinwall rides into New York.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, 62nd Congress, Art, children, entertainment, Equine Transportation, New York, Weather, William F. Cody, Women
Friday, July 8, 2011
Saturday, July 8, 1911. Aspinwall rides into New York.
Nan Aspinwall arrived in New York City, making her the first women to cross the United States by horse.
She was a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and made the trip after a bet with Buffalo Bill Cody.
It was a Saturday, and on the East Coast, a hot one.
Vice President James S. Sherman broke a Congressional tradition by bringing an electric fan into the Senate Chamber.
Members of Congress followed his example that very day.
Burbank California was incorporated.
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Friday, July 7, 1911. Fur seals, heat wave.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, children, Conservation, Diplomacy, East Coast, Environmentalism, Ireland, Monarchy, United Kingdom, Weather
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Friday, July 7, 1911. Fur seals, heat wave.
The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan signed the Convention on the International Protection of Fur Seals, prohibiting hunting of the endangered animals in the North Pacific Ocean.
Populations rebounded by 30% within six years.
King George V and Queen Mary arrived in Dublin for a visit of Ireland, of which they were its monarchs.
The North American East Coast was in the grips of a terrible heat wave.
Thursday, July 6, 1911. Taft saves from mining.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Thursday, July 6, 1911. Taft saves from mining.
Labor unrest resulting in the National Guard being called out in Colorado.
Publisher Charles Curtis debuted a new version of the farmers' magazine Country Gentleman.
The magazine, whose covers have often appeared here, had declined down to 2,000 subscribers at the time.
An arbitration treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom was signed.
President Taft created the Devils Postpile National Monument in Madera County, California. His doing so saved it from mining companies that were set to demolish the pillars in order to build a dam.
The current administration likely wouldn't lift a finger.
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Monday, July 3, 1911. Panther arrives.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Monday, July 3, 1911. Panther arrives.
The SMS Panther arrived off of the coast of Agaidir.
A British merchant marine strike with the strikers largely prevailing in their demands.
Lightning struck the south-west comer of the Anglican Christ Church Cathedral in Fredericton, New Brunswick, rusling in a major fire doing damaged to the structure and causing its bells to fall.
It was restored.
William Howard Taft visited Marion, Indiana.
Gen. José González Salas, who had served in Diaz's army, was appointed Secretary of War and Navy of Mexico.
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Sunday, July 2, 1911. Krazy Kat debuts.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Sunday, July 2, 1911. Krazy Kat debuts.
Krazy Kat debuted as a spinoff from The Dingbat Family, which it would supplant.
The United States broke diplomatic relations with Colombia over an ongoing dispute about the US's role in severing Panama in 1903 from the country, which was a fairly stinky thing for the US to do. It was based on our desire to see the canal built on the Isthmus of Panama. The US was attempting to repair the situation, which understandably upset Colombia.
The ongoing balkanization of Central America is a major source of its ongoing difficulties today. Some of the territory which is now in independent states bordering Mexico should really be part of Mexico and the balance, perhaps absent Panama, one single state. This would, in fact, comport with the original hopes of those who severed those regions from Spain.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an investigation of all express train companies in the United States.
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Saturday, July 1, 1911. The Agadir Crisis commences.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Saturday, July 1, 1911. The Agadir Crisis commences.
Germany delivered the unwelcome news to France that Germany had dispatched the SMS Panther with troops to occupy Agadir, part of French Morocco, on the pretext that it was to protect German citizens there.
The action would bring Europe to the edge of war.
Australia introduced compulsory military service for men ages 12 to 26, although half were exempted in various ways.
The Jewish Literary Society was closed by Imperial authorities in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
It was a Saturday, and the Saturday before Independence Day.
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Friday, June 30, 1911. The Navy acquires an airplane.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Friday, June 30, 1911. The Navy acquires an airplane.
The U.S. Navy acquired a Curtiss A-1 Triad, becoming the first navy the world to acquire an airplane.
The Fuerzas Regulares Indigenas, the "Regulares" was founded as an infantry battalion in the Spanish Army. It was initially composed of Moroccan soldiers under the command of Spanish officers and it still sort of does in that the recruits are from two autonomous Spanish cities on the North African coast of Morocco.
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Thursday, June 29, 1911. Maryknoll.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thursday, June 29, 1911. Maryknoll.
The Catholic Foreign Missionary Society of America, the Maryknoll Society, was founded, with approval granted by Pope Pius X.
When I was a kid my parents received their magazine, something I have not thought of for decades.
Russia launched the Sevastopol. T he dreadnought was the largest warship in the world at the time.
Jewish fur buyers were admitted to the fur sales at Tyumen in Siberia for the first time following a request by the U.S. Embassy in Russia to Premier Pyotr Stolypin. The occupation was one traditionally occupied by Jews, but had been prohibited at Tyumen.
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Wednesday, June 26, 1911. Wisconsin income tax, First black NYPD policemen, Woodmen camp, Meteorite falls.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Egypt, Ethnicities, Fraternal Organizations, Mars, New York, New York (Buffalo), Outer space, panoramic, police, Taxes
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Wednesday, June 26, 1911. Wisconsin income tax, First black NYPD policemen, Woodmen camp, Meteorite falls.
Wisconsin's legislature approved a state income tax, the first state to do so.
The Nakhla meteorite, later determined to have a Martian origin, fell in Egypt at about 9:00 am, near the city of El-Nakhla outside of Alexandria, with 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of mass breaking into forty pieces. Some claim it shows signs of microbial alteration.
Samuel J. Battle was sworn in as the NYPD’s first Black police officer.
The Modern Woodmen of North America were camping in Buffalo, New York.
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Saturday, June 24, 1911. Zapata in Mexico City.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Communications and Road Miles
I had a fairly typical experience, and a bit of an odd experience, yesterday which calls to mind the topic of this blog.
Yesterday I went to my office, then to Sheridan Wyoming, then to Ranchester Wyoming, and back.
On the way to Ranchester, we passed two Rolls Royce touring cars. The Silver Ghost type of car, really old ones. They were, of course, premium touring cars in their day, which would have been basically the years on both sides of World War One. Huge automobiles.
The trip basically entailed about 170 miles of travel one way, or a grand trip, in one day of about 300 or so miles. We were home by dinner.
On the way back, I pulled over by the Midwest exit where there was cell reception to make a work call to an attorney in Gillette, WY. My son took this photograph while I was doing that.
What does this have to do with anything?
Well, in a century's time, communications and travel have been so revolutionized that they've radically impacted the way those in my field, in this location, do business. A century ago I would not have taken a day trip to Sheridan and Ranchester. For that matter, while I could easily have gone from Sheridan to Ranchester, most summers, a century ago, that would likely have pretty much been a day trip in and of itself. No, an attorney, if he ever had any cause to go to Sheridan from Casper, would have taken a train. Most likely, you'd take the train up one day, and back the next.
A very adventurous person, if they owned a car, might have driven up to Sheridan, but it would have taken all day. And you would have stayed upon arriving.
This year, I suspect, the travel by car of that type, on roads of that era, would have been impossible. Everything is flooding. I doubt a person could have driven in these conditions from Sheridan to Ranchester. You might have had to take the train to do that. The rail line does run though both towns, then up to Garryowen, and on to Billings. It did then as well.
Even in the mid 20th Century this would have been a long road trip, but you could have done it in a day.
But even the telephone aspect of this didn't exist when I first practiced law, some 20 years ago. That's entirely new. It effectively makes your car your office. As internet connections continue to improve, very often you have internet service darned near everywhere for that matter.
An improvement, or just the way things are?
Monday, June 6, 2011
Tuesday, June 6, 1911. Advancing on Baja.
The governor of Chihuahua announced that Madero's troops, now in Mexican federal service, and Federal troops would march on Baja California. He appealed to volunteers to help.
Mexican Gen. Manuel Mondragón Montenegro applied for a patent for a bayonet for his semi automatic rifle, which had been adopted by Mexico in 1908, although only a limited number of the rifles were in service by 1911.
Teenage and juvenile cigarette factory workers, Danville, Virginia, June 6, 1911.
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Monday, June 5, 1911. Colorado adopts its flag.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Monday, June 5, 1911. Colorado adopts its flag.
Colorado adopted its apparently popular flag. I've always thought this flag a bit lacking, but that's not the widespread view.
Ho Chi Minh boarded the French ship L'Admiral Latouche Tréville on his way to France. He'd taken a job on the ship as part of the kitchen staff.
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Saturday, June 3, 1911. Magonistas elect Mosby.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Baja California, Magonistas, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Personalities, Socialism
Friday, June 3, 2011
Saturday, June 3, 1911. Magonistas elect Mosby.
Curtiss Farnum biplane, Wenatchee, Washington, June 3, 1911
Jack Mosby, an IWW member, deserter from the United States Marine Corps, and son of the Confederal general, won an election for the position of Magonistas commander in Baja California, which the Magonistas had declared the region an independent People's Republic the day prior.
The Magonistas were struggling with internal politics and a lack of supplies, which was preventing them from advancing on Federal forces in the rest of Baja California, which they wished to take in defiance of the surrender of the Diaz government to Madero.
Delaware Water Gap, Pa., June 3, 1911.
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Friday, June 2, 1911. Post revolution journeys.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Florida, Florida (Fort Lauderdale), Francisco I. Madero, Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, panoramic, Railroads, Texas, Texas (El Paso), Texas (Houston)
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Friday, June 2, 1911. Post revolution journeys.
Madero left El Paso on a Southern Pacific train which took him to Spofford Junction, Texas. He crossed the border there into Mexico where he boarded another train on his trip to Mexico City to meet interim Mexican President de la Barra.
Prominent Porfiristas José Ives Limantour, Guillermo de Landa y Escandón and Leopoldo Batres left Mexico City en route to destinations in the United States and Europe where they'd go into exile.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was incorporated.
Houston, Texas, June 2, 1911.
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Wednesday, May 31, 1911. "Moriré en México"
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Wednesday, May 31, 1911. "Moriré en México"
Porfirio Díaz, declaring "Moriré en México" (I shall die in Mexico), departed the country forever on board the steamer Ypiranga.
His statement, which seems delusional now, was not wholly irrational. Large elements of the Mexican Army supported him, and Mexico's prior history had seen at least one exiled leader, Antonio López de Santa Anna, return.
The White Star liner RMS Titanic was launched from Belfast at 12:13 pm. The ship was incomplete and was towed to a berth to have its superstructure and the interior completed.
Terrorists bombed the Nicaraguan Army barracks at Fort La Loma, killing 130.
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Tuesday, May 30, 1911. The first Indianapolis 500.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Automobile racing, Automobiles, Crime, Mexican Revolution, Texas, Texas (Barstow)
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