Saturday, January 14, 2017

Today -100: January 14, 1917: A series of tubes


A letter from Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association, gives anecdotal evidence for her claim that corruption and vote-buying were responsible for the defeat of women’s suffrage in state referenda.

The House votes to ignore the postmaster-general’s recommendations and restore pneumatic mail tube deliveries, because they’re awesome.

The US Justice Dept has heard that one person might be responsible for the explosions last week at two different New Jersey munitions factories. The evidence is pretty thin.

War is Hell, Sunday New York Times Magazine Edition:


The New York City Health Department is undertaking a crackdown on people who spit, issuing summonses to 206 alleged spitters in a single day.

Headline of the Day -100:  


Yeah, it’s a swim meet between the Princeton and University of Pennsylvania teams, but for a moment there...


Don't see comments? Click on the post title to view or post comments.

1 comment:

  1. If they had only known, the Justice Dept could have blamed those explosions Russian hackers.

    ReplyDelete