Tuesday, October 27, 1874. Proclaiming Thanksgiving.

October 27, 1874

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

We are reminded by the changing seasons that it is time to pause in our daily avocations and offer thanks to Almighty God for the mercies and abundance of the year which is drawing to a close.

The blessings of free government continue to be vouchsafed to us; the earth has responded to the labor of the husbandman; the land has been free from pestilence; internal order is being maintained, and peace with other powers has prevailed.

It is fitting that at stated periods we should cease from our accustomed pursuits and from the turmoil of our daily lives and unite in thankfulness for the blessings of the past and in the cultivation of kindly feelings toward each other.

Now, therefore, recognizing these considerations, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do recommend to all citizens to assemble in their respective places of worship on Thursday, the 26th day of November next, and express their thanks for the mercy and favor of Almighty God, and, laying aside all political contentions and all secular occupations, to observe such day as a day of rest, thanksgiving, and praise.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 27th day of October, A.D. 1874, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-ninth.

U.S. GRANT.

By the President:

HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.

Last edition:

Saturday, October 24, 1874. Domestic terrorists.

Labels: 1870s, 1874, American Terrorist Organizations, Ku Klux Klan, Racism, Terrorism, The American South

Best Posts of the Week of October 20, 2024.

The best posts of the week of October 20, 2024

Friday, October 20, 1944. "This is the Voice of Freedom, General MacArthur speaking. People of the Philippines: I have returned."

The 2024 Election, Part XXVI. The Early Voting Edition.

Monday, October 23, 1944. The Largest Naval Battle In History.

Blog Mirror: Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke on Voting.

Small Arms and Light Crew Served Weapons Collection, National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

Wednesday, October 25, 1944. The biggest day of the biggest naval battle in history.

World War Two U.S. Airborne Displays, National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

The 2024 Election, Part XXVII. Heading for the Last Roundup

A complete betrayal of the people of Wyoming.

Wars and Rumors of War, 2024. Part 8. Wider wars.

Tuesday, October 26, 1909. Korean assassins, US pilot, Hookworms, and the passing of O. O. Howard.

Thursday, October 26, 1944. End of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

Last edition:

Best Post of the week of October 13, 2024.

The Aerodrome: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

The Aerodrome: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. National Museum of Milita...:   

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

 

A Mig-21 at the National Museum of Military Vehicles in Dubois, Wyoming.

The Mig 21 was one of the greatest of the Cold War fighters.

Last edition:

World War Two U.S. Airborne Displays, National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Airborne, Artillery, Clothing, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Operation Overlord, Weapons, World War Two, Wyoming (Dubois)

Thursday, October 26, 1944. End of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Damaged  Japanese cruiser Kumano bombed by planes of Task Force 38 on 26 October 1944,

The Battle of Leyte Gulf ended as a complete Japanese defeat, effectively ending the Imperial Japanese Navy as a cohesive force.  On this day the Japanese lost the cruisers Abukuma, Kinu and Noshiro, destroyers Hayashimo, Nowaki and Uranami and submarine I-26.

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria's youngest child, died at age 87.

Gertrude Tompkins Silver and the P-51D she was flying disappeared in a delivery flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.

She was 33 years old and had jointed the WASPs after a boyfriend died fighting in the RAF.  She was the only WASP pilot to be classified as missing during the Second World War.

Sarah Sundin notes in her blog:

German 20th Mountain Army begins scorched-earth retreat in Finnmark region of northern Norway; 43,000 will be evicted & evacuated, their homes destroyed.

Last edition:

Wednesday, October 25, 1944. The biggest day of the biggest naval battle in history.

Labels: Australian Navy, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle off Samar, Imperial Japanese Navy, Italy, Norway, Red Army, Romania, U.S. Navy, World War Two

Today in World War II History—October 26, 1939 & 1944

Today in World War II History—October 26, 1939 & 1944: 80 Years Ago—Oct. 26, 1944: The Battle of Leyte Gulf concludes with a decisive US victory, despite heavy Japanese kamikaze attacks.

Sunday, October 24, 1924. A glimpse of Natrona County.

Put up for reasons that matter to me. 

Last edition:

Saturday, October 25, 1924. Contrasts.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Art, Girl Scouts, J. C. Leyendecker

Wednesday, October 26, 1774. The First Continental Congress concluded.

 Last edition:

Tuesday, October 25, 1774. Edenton Tea Party

Labels: 1774, 1770s, American Revolution, Colonial North America, First Continental Congress, Intolerable Acts, North Carolina, Women

Blog Mirror: The times when an average American consumed 90 bottles of whiskey a year

 

The times when an average American consumed 90 bottles of whiskey a year

Things wrong with this post by . . .

Dr. John Barrasso, our Senator:

Thousands of illegal aliens have registered to vote in our elections. Kamala Harris' administration has completely ignored this election security crisis. Proud to join @SenatorHagerty, @RepAndyBiggsAZ, and Wyoming to demand answers for American voters.

1.  It's not true, at least not in any actually significant sense.

2. There is not "Kamala Harris" "administration".  She's the VP, a position that has, frankly, about 0 power.

I imagine he knows all of this, and probably doesn't believe much of what he's stating like this.

Politics is a terrible business.

"First do no harm" (Primum non nocere).  Hippocrates.

“No one can prove that at times a lie is necessary”.  St. Thomas Aquinas.

Going Feral: A romantic feral nuisance in the news.

Going Feral: A romantic feral nuisance in the news.:   

A romantic feral nuisance in the news.

 

Wildlife rebounds from ecological ‘crisis’ following wild horse roundups on Wind River Reservation

Overpopulated wild horses are hurting sage grouse survival rates, Wyoming study finds

A complete betrayal of the people of Wyoming.

 

Wyoming Joins Idaho, Alaska in Support of Utah’s Federal Public Lands Claim 

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon has announced that the State of Wyoming has filed an amicus brief in support of Utah on their federal public lands claims pending before the US Supreme Court. Wyoming joined with the states of Idaho and Alaska, as well as the Arizona Legislature in the Amicus. 

The Governor issued the following statement: 

“Federal ownership of unappropriated land negatively impacts Western states’ ability to regulate local land uses.  I consistently preach that the best land management policies are developed by those who live close to the lands. As we have seen with the Rock Springs and Buffalo Resource Management Plans, the whims of the current Administration can have immense impacts on the states where those lands are located.

The well-established legal principle of multiple-use of public lands is sacred to Wyoming citizens, and that concept is something we have lost in this era of Washington, DC constantly curtailing their uses. Wyoming believes it is essential for the states to be recognized as the primary authority when it comes to unappropriated lands within our borders. The Federal government’s indefinite retention of millions of acres of land is a critical question that impacts all Western states, which is why Wyoming has filed this amicus.”

The brief may be found here. 

Utah is going to lose, and deserves to. There's no excuse whatsoever for Wyoming joining with Utah in this effort.

Cont:

Wyoming politicians signing on to this land grabbing effort:

Governor Mark Gordon.

Congressman Harriet Hageman.

Senators

Bo Biteman (R-Ranchester), Brian Boner (R-Douglas),

Tim French (R-Powell), Larry Hicks (R-Baggs), Bob Ide (R-Casper), John Kolb (R-Rock Springs), Dan Laursen (R-Powell), Troy McKeown (R-Gillette), Tim Salazar (R-Riverton), Cheri Steinmetz (R-Lingle).

Representatives

Bill Allemand (R-Midwest), John Bear (R-Gillette), Jeremy Haroldson (R-Wheatland), Scott Heiner (R-Green River), Ben Hornok (R-Cheyenne), Christopher Knapp (R-Gillette), Chip Neiman (R-Hulett), Pepper Ottman (R-Riverton), Sarah Penn (R-Lander), Rachel Rodriguez-Williams (R-Cody), Daniel Singh (R-Cheyenne), Allen Slagle (R-Newcastle), Scott Smith (R-Lingle), Tomi Strock (R-Douglas), Jeanette Ward (R-Casper), John Winter (R-Thermopolis).

World War Two U.S. Airborne Displays, National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

Airborne display at the National Museum of Military Vehicles in Dubois, Wyoming.  Unfortunately, I just had my cell phone, so a lot of these photographs are not great.

This last series of uniform photographs demonstrates the actual colors (color batches varied) of the M1942 paratrooper uniform.  The uniform itself was already on the way towards being phased out in favor of he M1943 patterns of uniforms, but it was still the one issued during Operation Overlord.

Last edition:

Small Arms and Light Crew Served Weapons Collection, National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

Wednesday, October 25, 1944. The biggest day of the biggest naval battle in history.

The USS St. Lo, the first  U.S. ship to be sunk by a kamikaze during World War Two, moments after being hit.

The heaviest fighting in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Japanese effort to draw the U.S. Navy off of support for the invasion of Leyte and to destroy it, occurred.  The Battle  off Samar occurred as part of it.

The first mass use of kamikazes occured as part of the Japanese effort.   The escort carrier USS St. Lo was sunk by kamikazes, the first of 47 ships to be lost to such attacks during the war.

The U.S. escort carrier USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) prepares to launch Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighters during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944.  Japanese shells are splashing near the USS White Plains (CVE-66) in the background.  A rare example of an aircraft carrier launching aircraft while a surface vessel shells another one.

The Imperial Japanese Navy lost the aircraft carriers Chitose, Chiyoda and Zuikaku, battleships Fusō and Yamashiro, cruisers Chikuma, Chōkai and Suzuya and the destroyers Akizuki, Asagumo, Michishio, Wakaba and Yamagumo.

Lowering the flag on Zuikaku as she sinks.  She was the last of the aircraft carriers that participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor still afloat.  Half the crew would survive.

The Americans lost the escort carriers USS Gambier Bay and USS St. Lo and destroyers USS Hoel and USS Johnston. 

The Japanese battleship Yamato and a heavy cruiser at Samar.

The scale of the battle, and the intense fighting it involved, can hardly be imagined today.

The Red Army took the port town of Kirkenes, Norway.

Soviet forces completed clearing the Transylvania region of Romania.

8in howitzer being laid into place in France, October 25, 1944.

The Italian government of Ivanoe Bonomi was recognized.

Dog faces, October 25, 1944.

Last edition:

Tuesday, October 24, 1944. Leyte Gulf, day two.

Labels: "Wacht am Rhein", 1940s, 1944, Adolf Hitler, Australian Navy, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle of the Bulge, China Burma India Theater, Imperial Japanese Navy, Kamikaze, Philippines, U.S. Navy, World War Two

Today in World War II History—October 25, 1939 & 1944

Today in World War II History—October 25, 1939 & 1944: 85 Years Ago—Oct. 25, 1939: First main kamikaze attacks occur in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. On the ground at Leyte, Japanese take attack US ground troops.

Monday, October 25, 1824. Davy Crockett announces for office.

Davy Crockett announced his intention to run for the U.S. House of Representatives for Tennesee.

He lost the election.

Last edition:

Monday, October 4, 1824. The first Mexican Constitution.

Labels: 1820s, 1824, law, Mexico

Tuesday, October 25, 1774. Edenton Tea Party

Fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina, met and agreed to uphold the non-importation resolves passed in August 1774 by the North Carolina Provincial Congress in what is known as the Edenton Tea Party.

Last edition:

Friday, October 14, 1774. The Declaration of Resolves.

Labels: 1770s, 1774, American Revolution, Colonial North America, First Continental Congress, Intolerable Acts

Saturday, October 25, 1924. Contrasts.

 

Last edition:

Friday, October 24, 1924. Republicans, Monarchs and Fascists.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Belgium, Communism, Fascism, Germany, Ireland, Irish Free State, Monarchy, Romania, United Kingdom

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Back in the Saddle

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Back in the Saddle: The day finally came for me to get literally back in the saddle.  I have hardly ridden a horse this summer. New responsibilities have played...

Small Arms and Light Crew Served Weapons Collection, National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

This is a sample of the collection.  The collection is much larger than this.