The Cheyenne State Leader for April 26, 1917: 30,000 Acres "Offered" on the Reservation

I've pretty much halted the daily newspaper updates from a century ago, while still posting some directly to the 100 Years Ago Today Subreddit.  This one is one I ran across that I'm posting here, as some thing linger and linger and linger.

The story, of course, to which I refer is the one noting that 30,000 acres were being opened up on the Reservation. 

Things like this happened all the time, and into the mid 20th Century, but the problems this has created have been endless.  It's shocking to read about now, but at the time, wasn't thought of as a problem by most.

British Officers' Luncheon in Wrecked Village, April 25, 1917

Sunday Morning Scene: Churches of the West: Saint Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Denver Colorado

Churches of the West: Saint Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Denver Colorado

This is Saint Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Denver Colorado. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a non-Chalcedonian (Oriental Orthodox) church. This church is located in north eastern Denver.

Launch of the USS New Mexico, April 23, 1917

John Walter Wilcox, Jr., U.S. Navy, and Margaret Cabeza DeBaca, daughter of Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca, governor of New Mexico. Margaret christened the battleship New Mexico.

Distributism at work . . .

Patrons lining up about two hours early for record store on Independent Record Store Day.

Quite a few more would be there before the store opened.

The Fallen of World War Two.

Best Post of the Week for the Week of April 10, 2017

Best Post of the Week for the week of April 10, 2017:

Wake Up America Day

 

Sunday Morning Scene: Ελληνορθόδοξοι Ύμνοι Μεγάλης Σαρακοστής στην αραβική από τη Χορωδία Επαρχίας Τριπόλεως του Λιβάνου.

French wounded

Published in the Sunday Oregonian on April 27, 1917.  The troops with the berets are Chasseurs Alpine, French mountain troops.

Loading boats with ammunition.

British Royal Artillery loading pontoon boats on the River Scarpe with shells near Saint-Laurent-Blangy, France, April 22, 1917 during the Battle of Arras.

British Cavalry, Surrey Yeomanry, at Vermand, April 21, 1917

British cavalry at Caulaincourt, April 21, 1917

Ruins of Caulaincourt Chateau, April 21, 1917

Goose Creek, Texas. April 20, 1917

Copyrighted on this day, 1917.

American Flag Day in London, April 20, 1917

The H3 Relaunched

Back on December 14 we ran this item about the 1916 beaching of the H3:

The Submarine H3 runs aground, leading to the ultimate loss of the USS Milwaukee. The U.S. submarine the H3, operating off of Eureka California with the H1 and H2, and their tender the USS Cheyenne, went off course in heavy fog and ran aground on this date (although some sources say it was December 16, this seems the better date however).

The H3 during one of the recovery attempts.

On this day in 1917 she was relaunched into Humboldt Bay.  She'd been taken overland to that location, supported by log rollers.  An earlier attempt to tow her back out to sea had resulted in the USS Milwaukee being wrecked.

 The H3 in 1922.

She'd serve until 1922 and was struck in 1930.  Her active service life was only nine years.

Wake Up America Day

Poster for, or maybe recalling, Wake Up American Patriot's Day in New York City. 

A lot of cities and towns across the nation were having patriotic rallies in April 1917.  New York had one that occurred on April 19th, the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775.  April 19 is celebrated as Lexington Day in some locations on the East Coast, or at least it was so celebrated.

The woman dressed as Paul Revere is likely Jean Earl Moehle who portrayed Revere in the event.  In some accounts she's cited as being an actress, but in others a suffragette. Whether or not she ever worked as an actress I don't know, but she was definitely a suffragette and therefore I think the citations to her being an actress are in error.

 

Moehle got a fair amount of camera time due to the event, although she'd been in the public eye before, including appearing with Inez Milholland Boissevain at an event in which she worked on a Maxwell car in 1914.  She wasn't the only feature of the event, of course.

Other riders at the Wake Up America Day event in New York.

 

Moehle, it might be noted, was working in France for the YMCA at some point during World War One and continued employment with the YMCA at least as late as 1920.

A feature of the event was the participation of various ethnic societies, which turned out to show their loyalty to the United States.

Another legacy of the Great War: Lex Anteinternet: The History of Income Tax Brackets.

 Brought in due to World War One:

Lex Anteinternet: The History of Income Tax Brackets.:  Early cartoon view of the restored income tax. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History Really interesting history of income tax ...

Yes, Tax Day!

The income tax was brought back (we had in during the Civil War as well) during the Great War, as wars are expensive, although in all fairness its hard to see how it could have been postponed indefinitely.

It's April 18 this year due a holiday that fell on Monday, April 17, in Washington D. C.

World War One may have brought the tax in, but frankly the modern state had clearly been coming in at the same time. There would have been no other easily discernible way to pay for that without an income tax.  

Church Army Hut Day, April 18, 1917

Some Gave All: The Black 14, University of Wyoming, Laramie Wyomi...

Some Gave All: The Black 14, University of Wyoming, Laramie Wyomi...: This is a monument to The Black 14 in the University of Wyoming's Student Union. The Black 14 were fourteen University of Wyom...

United lays an egg

Oh my.

An overbooking resulting in a passenger being removed by the Chicago PD (not quite as heroic of action as shows up on those Chicago centric law and fire shows) from a United Flight.

I don't think even a Katie Nolan video can live that one down.

Not even one with Pandas.



In fairness, I've flown a lot and because of where I am, I usually fly United.  I've never had any bad luck with United that was out of the ordinary for flying.