Sunday, May 18, 2025

Today -100: May 18, 1925: Log cabins


Bird Sim Coler, NYC commissioner for public welfare, laying the cornerstone of a hospital, says that with hospital births supplanting home ones, there will soon be no more presidents born in log cabins. In fact, the last president born in an actual log cabin was James Garfield, in 1831, but presidents were all born at home until Jimmy Carter, the first prez born in a hospital.

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  1. Best trivia fact I've ever heard. But what about the "revolt" reported in Russia on page 1? 60,000 soldiers in the Minsk region -- did that result in anything?

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    1. Western reporting on Russia in this period is prone to wishful thinking.

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