Thursday, April 03, 2014

Today -100: April 3, 1914: Of thwarted sprots, home rule all round, fannies, and Torreón falls

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“General” Kelley of the unemployed army is convicted of vagrancy in Sacramento. His army marches on. The Tories decide to let Asqui...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Robust exercise

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Roberts, in his McCutcheon opinion: “To require one person to contribute at lower levels because he wants to support more candidates or ...

Today -100: April 2, 1914: Of policewomen, wotherspoons, aggressive women, rubbers & hinky dinks, and pure shoes

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Pittsburgh gets its first policewomen, four of them. They will look after young girls arriving in the city and investigate liquor law v...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Today -100: April 1, 1914: Ask not for whom the canal tolls...

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The bill repealing the exemption of American ships traveling between the coasts from Panama Canal tolls passes the House 247-162. Spea...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Today -100: March 31, 1914: Asquith has run away

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Sir John French, head of the Imperial General Staff, and Sir John Ewart, adjutant general to the Armed Forces, stick to their resignati...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Today -100: March 30, 1914: Of vice wars, censorship, espionage, plumes, currencies, traffic cops, and wild ballets

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Vice Headline of the Day -100: “Vice War in Alton Menaces Churches.” In a little local dispute over prohibition, the Alton, Illinois ...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Today -100: March 29, 1914: Of new countries, street cars, hissing, feudists, and the paraphernalia and pretensions of war

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Baja California has evidently seceded from Mexico. Headline of the Day -100: “3-Cent Fare Riots Averted.” A Toledo, Ohio ordinance...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Today -100: March 28, 1914: I don’t know of any assembly on the part of the working people that would be lawful

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Oregon Gov. Oswald West is still on his anti-saloon tear. He warns Salem’s Mayor Hilda Larson that if she doesn’t stop violations of l...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Today -100: March 27, 1914: Eat faster!

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The Massachusetts Legislature votes to hold a referendum on women’s suffrage, although it will take another vote in the Lege in 1915 fi...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Today -100: March 26, 1914: I repudiate the hellish suggestion!

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Parliament is told that when Secretary of State for War J.E.B. Seely gave Brig. Gen. Gough those written assurances that the government...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Today -100: March 25, 1914: Of volcanos, planning meals in Torreón, cheers against kings, and the double standard

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In Naples, panic ensues after some guy says he saw the giant statue of St. Januarius, patron saint of the city, change position and tur...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Today -100: March 24, 1914: Of the cavalry, the coercion of Ulster, superdreadnoughts, scabs, and Latin

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US cavalry and Mexican troops have a brief firefight at the border. The Federales were shooting at a smaller contingent of Constitutio...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Today -100: March 23, 1914: The soldiers have the bayonets, and I have nothing but the Constitution

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Sylvia Pankhurst and a thousand of her closest friends attempt to attend services at Westminster Abbey. Sylvia is carried on a stretch...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Normal

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So I saw in my Twitter feed that “Marsha and Glenna are married!”, without other context, and wondered if I was supposed to know who the...

Today -100: March 22, 1914: I am coming to have supper with you

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Sir Edward Carson says “The Government is attempting to cow Ulster by intimidation and provocation, but both will fail.” In truth, whi...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Today -100: March 21, 1914: Of mutinies, men who can shoot and will shoot when necessary, fireplaces, slemps, and fake Hawaiians

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The Curragh Mutiny: a few days ago, amidst rumors that Ulster Loyalists were planning to seize arms from military depots, orders were is...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Today -100: March 20, 1914: Of women and negro suffrage, divided armies, half-baked anarchists, and vulcanists (the most pacifist and logical of races)

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The Senate votes 35-34 in favor of a women’s suffrage amendment to the Constitution, well short of the necessary 2/3. Most of the deba...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Today -100: March 19, 1914: Of evil ferments, wahlweiber, rebels’ rears, scary geese, nickle calls, and sick Wilsons

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Pro- and anti-Caillaux students fight each other in Paris, as was the custom. The Annales politiques et littéraires says that things ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Today -100: March 18, 1914: The world is arming as it never armed before

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I see Britain is issuing a stamp to commemorate their depraved indifference for the safety and well-being of a minor, leading to his pr...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Today -100: March 17, 1914: Don’t touch me, I am a lady

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Three days after Le Figaro printed that letter from Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux to his first wife, his current wife Henriette shoo...