A scene now so rare, that this one is a museum. A railroad roundhouse.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Surgarmill
Couvi posted this item on his grandfather's sugarmill on his site. Fits in with the theme here, and very interesting.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
When horses were a major economic factor.
When horse were a major economic factor.
Not all that long ago, really. Wyoming had a horse boom as late as 1914-1918. We had a remount station up until World War Two, and the Remount program was operating in the state as late as the Second World War.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Saturday, January 14, 1911. Bay of Whales.
In keeping with the photograph above, sort of, the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen, arrived at the Bay of Whales.
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Wednesday, January 11, 1911 Mrs. Geo. R. Peabody and "Mauchi".
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Wednesday, January 11, 1911 Mrs. Geo. R. Peabody and "Mauchi".
Mrs. Geo. R. Peabody and "Mauchi"
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Saturday, January 7, 1911. The first downhill skiing race took place at Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
The first downhill skiing race took place at Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
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Monday, January 2, 1911. "Ahí te van las hojas, mándame más tamales"
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Joseph M. Carey, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pascual Orozco, Porfirio Díaz, Wyoming
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Monday, January 2, 1911. "Ahí te van las hojas, mándame más tamales"
Troops under the command of Maderoista Pascual Orozco, Jr. ambushed Federal troops at Cañon de Mal Paso. After the battle, Orozco ordered his men to gather up all the caps and clothing of the dead Federals and sent them to Porfirio Díaz with the taunt, "Ahí te van las hojas, mándame más tamales" ("Here are the wrappers, send me more tamales.")
Joseph M. Carey took office as Governor of Wyoming.
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Sunday, January 1, 1911
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Saturday, December 31, 1910. New Years Eve.
The first year of the decade of the 10s came to an end.
New Years is big with sporting events, and was even in 1910.
December 31, 1910: Georges Vezina made his debut with the Montreal Canadiens.
The first year of the 1910s showed the hints, as indeed had all of the 1900s, of what was soon to be a great bloodletting, but the world was not there yet. What was there, however, was the Mexican Revolution, which had broken out and in which fighting was now pitched, even though the war had just begun.
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Friday, December 30, 1910. "Race Suicide".
Labels: 1910, 1910s, children, Maderistas, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Outer space, Pronatalism, Science, Sex, Theodore Roosevelt
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Friday, December 30, 1910. "Race Suicide".
Cornell University Professor Walter F. Willcox delivered his address, "The Change in the Proportion of Children in the United States and the Birth-Rate in France During the Nineteenth Century", to a meeting of the American Statistical Association in St. Louis. In it, he posed as hyperbole that statistically if the trend continued, births would cease by 2015.
The paper variant:
This was taken for what it was, a statistical example, by listeners, but Theodore Roosevelt used the talk to boost his talking points on "race suicide", which essentially held that the WASP class was dooming itself to extinction due to its lower birth rate.. The concept, long held in repute, has revived during the Second Trump Administration, probably making this one of the very few points that MAGA and Theodore Roosevelt agree upon. It's the basis, to some degree of the Pronatalist movement, which likewise holds that European American women are not having enough children.
Anglican minister and astronomer T.H.E.C. Espin became the first human to see the birth of the new star.
Rancher Luis Moya declared for Madero and began to assemble an armed force.
The New York Times reported that Federal troops had defeated Maderistas in battle the day prior.
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Thursday, December 29, 1910. Oklahoma City became the capital of Oklahoma, replacing Guthrie.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Thursday, December 29, 1910. Oklahoma City became the capital of Oklahoma, replacing Guthrie.
Oklahoma City became the capital of Oklahoma, replacing Guthrie.
Sides were squaring off for a major battle in Mexico.
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Saturday, December 24, 1910. Chinese democratic aspirations.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Saturday, December 24, 1910. Chinese democratic aspirations.
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"Christmas Eve (1910) in the Pack" From Robert Scott's 1910 expedition.
The Chinese National Assembly adopted a resolution denying the right of the Emperor to reject their demands for a democratic constitution, but would retract it two days later after there were indications that the Emperor was going to do this anyhow.
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Friday, December 23, 1910. The Padlock Bill.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, Catholic, Christianity, Conscription, Fascism, France, French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Populism, religion, Socialism, Spain
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Friday, December 23, 1910. The Padlock Bill.
Spain's Congress of Deputies banned the creation of any new Catholic religious orders for two years until a new concordat with the Vatican was to be reached.
The same bill brought in universal military conscription.
For the most part, most Americans play very little attention to Spanish politics in any one era, let alone in the early 20th Century. Historically minded people sort of pick up Spain with the Spanish Civil War and run through Franco, and that's about it. There was, however, a lot going on.
Something we don't note much now at all is that a wave of European anticlericalism commenced with the horrors of the failed French Revolution. While that revolution is still bizarrely celebrated, it descended into anarchy brought about by an urban French populist mob until that was effectively brought to an end by Napoleon. Napoleon carried on in the name of the spirit of the revolution, much like monder MAGA claim to honor the American Revolution, while at the same time suppressing it. France did bring the theoretical ideals of the revolution, however, to Europe at large, by force.
Every European revolution and populist movement after that for 150 years looked towards the French Revolution and brought, by and large, the worst of it with them, including anti clericalism, ignoring the example of the French themselves who continually worked to address the revolution while claiming not to betray it. As the Church stood in the way of the worst of the ideals of the French Revolution, left wing and populist movements continually sought to suppress it.
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Thursday, December 22, 1910. The Chicago Stockyards Fire.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, Aircraft, Blog Mirror, Disaster, France, Illinois (Chicago), September 11 Attacks, Women
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Thursday, December 22, 1910. The Chicago Stockyards Fire.
The event stood as the greatest loss of firefighters until 9/11.
And from This Day In Aviation:
22 December 1910: Hélène Dutrieu won the first Coupe Fémina by flying her Farman airplane 60.8 kilometers (37.8 miles) in 1 hour, 9 minutes at Étampes, about 48 kilometers (29 miles) southwest of Paris, France.
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Friday, December 16, 1910. Battle at La Junta.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Friday, December 16, 1910. Battle at La Junta.
Maderistas defeated government troops at La Junta.
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Thursday, December 15, 1910. New parishes and missions.
Labels: 1902, 1910, 1910s, 1911, 1929, Catholic, Christianity, Personalities, religion, Smoking, The roles of men and women, Wyoming (Douglas)
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, December 15, 1910. New parishes and missions.
Today In Wyoming's History: December 15: 1910 Bishop James A. Keane approved of the parish of St. James in Douglas, together with several missions.
Bishop Keane was Wyoming's third Catholic Bishop, and served in that role from 1902 to 1911, after which he was the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, where he served until his death in 1929.
New York City's Ritz-Carlton Hotel broke a gender barrier when it permitted a woman to smoke in its dining room.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
Monday, December 12, 1910. Supreme Court Nominations.
President Taft nominated Edward D. White for Chief Justice, and Joseph R. Lamar and Willis Van Devanter as associate justices of the United States Supreme Court.
Yes, all on the same day.
White was confirmed as Chief Justice on this day, something the current Senate would be utterly incapable of.
Willis Van Devanter had risen to this position due to his legal career in Wyoming, starting off as the attorney for the City of Cheyenne.
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Wednesday, December 7, 1910. Arresting your enemies.
Bolivian troops clashed with Peruvians in Guayabal, which was contested between the two states.
A headline in the New York Times:
MEXICO GETS US TO ARREST AZCONA; Enemy of Diaz Held Provisionally on Charge of Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses.
The headline referred to Juan Sánchez Azcona y Díaz Covarrubias
Azcona would go on to become a Maderoist and Carranzista
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Tuesday, December 6, 1910. Anti Trust.
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