Today -100: May 30, 1921: Of armistices and ticket choppers

An armistice is negotiated between Polish and German forces in Upper Silesia.

Horace Porter, the last living wartime aide to General Ulysses Grant, who witnessed Lee’s surrender, dies at 84. He was a general at 27, assistant secretary of war under Sec. Grant, personal secretary to Pres. Grant, then a railroad executive who invented the ticket chopper (which is what it sounds like, destroys used tickets so they can’t be re-used), then ambassador to France under McKinley & Roosevelt.

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