Madero crossed back into Mexico from Texas to assume command of Mexican revolutionaries, and to evade a U.S. warrant for his arrest.
John Browning was issued a patent:
The House of Representatives approved a controversial reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Canada, by a 221-92 margin.
Niobrara County, Wyoming, was established.
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Rebecca Bextel has accidentally done Wyomingites a huge favor:
Donor: Two checks given to Bextel were intended for pair of Wyoming Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers: Don Grasso, the donor who wrote checks that activist Rebecca Bextel distributed, identified 10 people he intended to support. Speaker of the House Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, and Wyoming Freedom Caucus leader Rep. John Bear, R-Gillette, were among them. It's unknown whether either received their intended $1,500.
Her blunder in dispensing checks on the legislative floor reveals something that people tracking things should already know. We have our current populist regime in the legislature due to carpetbagger cash, although the amounts handed out here were not huge.
And the recipients?
I’ve been involved in the Freedom Caucus, both nationally and within the state, and I know these people. I’ve gotten involved and think they are good people.
Grasso.
Cosmetic surgery, save for genuine restorative purposes, or genuine medical reasons, ought to be banned.
People who claim to be "Constitutional Lawyers" are no such thing, unless they are public defenders. Anyone claiming that title, who isn't, should be sentenced to a term of being a public defender in Dayton, Ohio for their natural lives, plus twenty years.
Seriously, that's a flaming bullshit claim. Ain't no such thing.
If you look like you are 30, when you are 60, due to cosmetic surgery, you are a deeply insecure weenie.
If you are male, and live in a rural area, and don't hunt or fish seriously, you are an insecure weenie and should move to Greenwich Village.
Boxing is a brutal sport, but it's beautiful.
Fleetwood Mac seriously sucks. Of their songs that suck, Landslide sucks the most.
A twenty something single man giving a lecture on "the fertility crisis" is a freakin' joke. Geez man, get married and get a real job.
If you have to think about the hairstyle a man is evidencing, he's a weenie.
If a man has perfectly combed hair at all times (think Mike Johnson), he's a weenie.
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior since 1933, resigned in protest after President Truman said that Ickes could have been "wrong" in testimony given to a U.S. Senate committee about Truman's nominee for Undersecretary of the Navy.
Ickes wrote to Truman saying, in part; "I cannot stay on when you, in effect, have expressed a lack of confidence in me."
His overall resignation letter was some 2,000 words in length and reflected a growing dispute with Truman. Ickes was known for his combative nature.
Ickes had been appointed to the position by Franklin Roosevelt at a time at which the largely unknown Ickes was a progressive Republican. Under Roosevelt, he was also head of the Public Works Administration. He'd come up almost out of nowhere at the time as he'd not been nationally known at the time of his appointment, and was already 59 years old. He was over 70 years old at the time of his resignation.
He also had an unusual personal life. He'd married divorcee Anna Wilmarth Thompson in 1911, who was just about his own age. They had one son, and he was the stepfather to her two children by a prior marriage. They also had an adopted son. She was killed in an automobile accident in 1937. His adopted son Wilmarth killed himself on the anniversary of her death a year later.
At age 64 he remarried 25 year old Jane Dahlman, the younger sister of his adopted son's wife. The couple had two more children, one of whom became Deputy Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton.
The Calles government in Mexico ordered all Catholic schools to close.
This is no longer the case and Catholic schools are once again common in Mexico.
The U.S. issued its first Air Mail stamp.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Governor of Texas.
Department of State,
Washington, February 13, 1911.
Your telegram of the 10th instant. Department informed by Embassy at Mexico City that Mexican Government does not just now desire to ask for permission to move troops over United States territory.
Huntington Wilson
Troops under Jose Luis Moya took Durango. 55 years old, and therefore into advanced years by the standards of the day, he was an unusual example of a wealthy man who joined the revolution. He'd lose his life in its service in May, 1911.
Today In Wyoming's History: February 13: 1911 Campbell County created.
A coal and hydrocarbons producing county, the population of the county has grown by a factor of nearly ten since my birth, and doubled since I graduated from high school. I vividly recall going there for swim meets in the late 70s and early 80s at which time it was an incredibly rough county.
Nicaragua's President Juan José Estrada declared martial law after an explosion in Managua destroyed a large quantity of arms and ammunition.
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William McKinley was formally declared the winner of the 1900 Presidential election, as a joint session of United States Congress witnessed the formal counting of the electoral votes.
Hmmm. . . seems like that went so smoothly.
Today In Wyoming's History: February 13: ..1901 Stinkingwater River renamed the Shoshone River.
German troops fired on civilians at Youngqing, China.
African sleeping sickness was first noticed by British missionary doctors J. Howard Cook and Albert Cook.
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A person who will be regarded as a complete stooge.
Of course it starts with White Flash Jordan, a man who doesn't know how to wear a sports coat.
More recently it figured here, as the owners of the building commissioned some murals on the fire escape doors:
So how on earth does it end up in a political campaign?
Frankly, I have no idea, but the entire idea of it being built by "a Democrat" is a real wild one. The principal figure in the building being built was B. B. Brooks, who served as a Republican Governor for Wyoming, as we noted above. Brooks had his offices on the fifth floor of the building.
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This building has been continually occupied since 1917, and some of the businesses currently in it have been in the building since the 1940s although as earlier noted, one of them might have been in the building as early as 1917. Of the other two sisters, one is now the Townsend Justice Center which houses Natrona County's courts, and Wyo. Bank Bldg is an apartment building with a cafe on the street level.
All three buildings originally had, fwiw, massive period style lobbies which are sadly now all gone although you can catch glimpses of them, particularly in the Wyo. National Bank Bldg. The ConRoy once had a cigar store and magazine stand on the street level, after the lobby was taken out, and into the 50s, which explains the current appearance of its very small lobby today. Basically, the ConRoy and the Wyoming National Bank building were victims of "modernization" concepts in architecture from the 1950s and 1960s, at which time those buildings were forty years old and less, and nobody thought of them being particularly historic. The Townsend probably retained its architecture the longest, as it was a hotel originally, and up into the 70s when it closed. By that time it was pretty much a flop house with a popular cafe. I recall it as my father had lunch there until the cafe closed, which many other downtown businessmen and professionals did as well. It made for an odd place to go as a kid, which I sometimes did with my father, as the cafe was really popular, as was the adjoined Petroleum Club, but in the lobby the working girls were recovering from their prior night.
The ConRoy, on the other hand, has hummed on much like it has since 1917, although some of the notable early tenants, like the Casper Star Tribune, have moved on. The building was recently featured in the Oil City News when some of the equipment for a new elevator, replacing the one from the 1950s that replaced the one from 1917, was lifted by crane into the structure.
Anyhow, this is baffling. Of course, I only know of this as somebody else whose familiar with the building pointed it out to me and was horribly amused by it. I don't know that I am, as I like things to be accurate.
But why would a person do this, and how would such a wild rumor get started?
Plutarco Elías Calles nationalized all property of the Catholic church in Mexico.
The degree to which the leaders of the Mexican Revolution were anti Catholic in a very Catholic nation is hard to overestimate, although at the same time, particularly in some regions, Catholic viewpoints were very represented amongst the revolutionaries. Emiliano Zapata in particularly was notably Catholic.
Be that as it may, Madero was not a practicing Catholic and had peculiar spiritual views. He was in fact a spiritualist and a Mason. Still, his victory in the revolution, temporary though it was, was seen by Catholics as an opportunity to form a Mexican Catholic political party, which they did. The Church condemned Madero's assassination.
It was that killing that sparked the second stage of the revolution. Álvaro Obregón and Calles both featured prominently in that, and both were anti Catholic. Calles was also a Mason. In that phase of the revolution, moreover, democratic forces, which had brought about Madero's rise, started to wane and with the murder of Zapata and the victory of Carranza Mexico headed off in a much more radically leftist direction. In some ways the Mexican Revolution, in spite of its romantic portrayal in American cinema, was much more of a 20th Century European Revolution, many of which featured radically anti Catholic leaders against Catholic populations in favor of utopian leftism.
Calles fit that mold and was the sort example in the office of president of Mexico. His anti clerical laws would lead to the Cristero War the following year.
Mexico remains a very Catholic country to this day and the Mexican people are very Catholic. But like other religious communities, the period of anti religious domination hurt the religious nature of the people nonetheless and the culture of the country. Mexico has never really recovered from the anti religious views of the revolution. Ironically, one of the beneficiaries of that has been Protestant Millennialism which has been successful in drawing in religious Mexicans who are unchurched, a byproduct of the revolution.
Actor Leslie Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War Two as an aerial gunner, although he was not deployed overseas.
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The Bandelier National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico was established by President Wilson.
Bill Carlisle was still at large.
The Russians advanced to artillery range around Erzurum.
Senussi's withdrew near Bahariya after being spotted by aircraft.
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