Saturday, August 31, 2013

What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price?

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Believing it was important to speak to the American people about our forthcoming not-at-all-a-war with Syria at a time when they would b...
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Today -100: August 31, 1913: Of capitals and lockouts

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The European Powers have decided that Albania’s capital will be Elbassan, a small crappy town several days’ mule-ride from the coast (th...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Today -100: August 30, 1913: Of lynchings, gypsies, protecting American women, detestable harridans, splendid cannibals, and letters to the editor

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The Jennings, Louisiana, police chief and other town notables are arrested for accessory in the lynching of Joseph Comeaux, who was of ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Today -100: August 29, 1913: Of governors on burros

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Headline of the Day -100: “25 Governors Race Down a Mountain.” On burros, yet. Proquest Typo of the Day -100, for an LA Times stor...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Today -100: August 28, 1913: Of dueling governors, strikebreakers, horses, confidential agents, and the settled fortune of the distracted country, and brides of the wind

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The lower house of the NY Legislature accepts messages from Acting Gov. Martin Glynn, thus formally recognizing him and not Sulzer as th...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

What part of indisputable did you not understand?

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Jay Carney says it’s “preposterous” to doubt that there were chemical weapons attacks in Syria or that the government was responsible. ...
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Today -100: August 27, 1913: I am tired of being a girl

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There is a Carnegie Commission investigating atrocities during the Balkan Wars. First I’ve heard of it. Anyway, the Serbs are boycott...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Today -100: August 26, 1913: Of peons, the kind of government that best suits Mexico, holidays, and Arctic expeditions

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Headline of the Day -100: “Two Slain by Peons.” A couple of Europeans in Mexico. Er, the Europeans are the slayees, not the peons. ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Today -100: August 25, 1913: Slow news day

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Nothing of interest to report. Sorry readers. And sorry, websites & Facebook pages that copy off this feature. Don’t know how you...
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Today -100: August 24, 1913: Of Tammany muscle-flexing, birth strikes, and ray guns

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Evidently not satisfied with ousting a Democratic governor, Tammany Hall decides to replace the Democratic mayor of New York City, Willi...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Today -100: August 23, 1913: Of emigration, and x-ray skirts

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The Governor of the Austrian province of Galicia orders that all males under 36 attempting to emigrate be arrested and returned to thei...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Today -100: August 22, 1913: Of fighting guvs

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Avignon Albany: Since Sulzer won’t give up the Executive Chamber, Glynn has another one built on the floor above. Everyone in governm...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Today -100: August 21, 1913: Mud, mud, glorious mud

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The governor of Missouri claims that at least 250,000 men (including himself and, for some reason, the governor of Kansas) worked for f...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Today -100: August 20, 1913: What is the use of us going out to a demonstration for freedom and going unarmed?

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The NY attorney general issues an opinion that Glynn is governor. State employees will be informed that they must report to Glynn rath...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Today -100: August 19, 1913: Too lazy to read

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Mexican dictator Huerta gives the US until midnight to recognize his regime. French aviator Adolphe Pégoud bails out of his airplane...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Today -100: August 18, 1913: Thawed out

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Harry Thaw, murderer of architect Stanford White in the 1906 Crime of the Century, escapes from the booby hatch after his family bribes...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Today -100: August 17, 1913: Game of Thrones: Albany

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Martin Glynn, one of the contending governors of New York, signs several pay checks for members of the adjutant general’s staff, but th...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Today -100: August 16, 1913: You must give us the vote or you must kill us

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William Sulzer spends the day busily pretending he’s still governor of New York, transacting important business, although he refuses to...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Today -100: August 15, 1913: They told us New York had two governors, but the fact is it hasn’t any

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Game of Thrones: Albany. The first day of the Dueling Governors in New York. William Sulzer fitted a new lock on his inner office and...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

There can only be a political solution by bringing people together with a political solution

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John Kerry also has a statement about Egypt. First, he wants it known that “The United States strongly condemns today’s violence and ...