Today -100: April 2, 1915: Of separate peaces, German horse breeding, and visiting dictators

Chicago elections this year will be on Passover, but the Election Board will allow clerks to mark Orthodox Jews’ ballots for them.

Fog of War (Rumors, Propaganda and Just Plain Bullshit) of the Day -100: Austria is begging to make a separate peace.

Evidently not only is the food of the German people being rationed, so is that of German horses. But exceptions will be made for the oats of racing horses so that racing meets can go on, not for the amusement of the public but for “the serious and important purposes of German horse breeding”.

Woodrow Wilson will attempt to prevent Victoriano Huerta from returning to Mexico from the United States.

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