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.

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...

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

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.

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

Something a bit different, for most of us, this Easter Sunday.

Best Post of the Week of April 9, 2017

The best post of the week of April 9, 2017. 

Friday Farming: Children and Teenagers working cattle: Lawton, Oklahoma. April 14, 1917. 

Yeoman's Laws of Behavior  (repeat here, as it was just being updated).

The Sunday State Leader for April 15, 1917: A plot against Pathfinder.

I've stopped the frequent updates of Wyoming newspapers here as the story I was really tracking, the Punitive Expedition, has closed out as a day to day item of concern.  Not that Mexico doesn't keep appearing, as this paper demonstrates.  But by mid April it finally seemed evident to everyone that the US was not going to be fighting Mexico as a stand in for Germany. We were really going to fight Germany.

Not that the papers don't remain interesting, and here's an example.

As far as I know, there was never a serious attempt to blow up Pathfinder Dam, but a story about a belief that there was hit the front page of this Cheyenne newspaper.  Lots of panicky stories like this were going around as people saw German agents everywhere.

As is also evident here, the war was giving a boost to prohibitionist.

U.S. Army issues corrected manuals, April 15, 1917

Showing how things were going, and of course with fresh experience from the Punitive Expedition in hand, the U.S. Army issued a set of corrected manuals just in time for training the greatly expanded Army that it was creating.  These included:

Infantry drill regulations, United States army, 1911 : corrected to April 15, 1917 (changes nos. 1 to 19).

Rules of Land Warfare, 1914. Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 and 2). War Department Document No. 467

Details about Small Arms Firing Manual, 1913:  Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos 1-18)

Manual of Interior Guard Duty, 1914:  Corrected to April 15, 1917 

Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1913, corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes nos. 1 to 55) 

Field service regulations, United States Army, 1914 : corrected to April 15, 1917 (changes nos. 1-6) 

A Manuel For Courts-Martial, U S Army, Corrected to April 15, 1917

There were most likely additional manuals in this corrected set.