Tuesday, June 03, 2014

A careful balancing of weighty and diverse factors

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Netanyahu is pushing a bill allowing the forcible feeding of Palestinian prisoners (there is a major hunger-strike among prisoners bein...

Today -100: June 3, 1914: Of legal strikes, dynamite, political pacification, lepers, and mayflowers

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The House of Representatives accepts an amendment to the anti-trust bill legalizing peaceful strikes, picketing, and boycotts. Two su...
Monday, June 02, 2014

Today -100: June 2, 1914: They do not seem to be aware of the fact that the Constitutionalists are conquerors

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The ABC envoys tell the Constitutionalists that they’ll only be allowed to attend the Niagara conference if they have a cease-fire with...
Sunday, June 01, 2014

They’re heeeere!

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The Church of England objects to a high speed rail plan because it would require the removal of three consecrated burial grounds. Wel...

Today -100: June 1, 1914: Of tallying costs and playing football

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The Colorado coal strike has a known death count of 66: 18 strikers, 10 mine guards, 19 scabs, 2 militiamen and various non-combatants,...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Today -100: May 31, 1914: Of surrenders, tango foot, black princes, paines, immigrants, and disgusted Germans

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Headline of the Day -100 ( LA Times ): “Surrender of Wilson.” Woodrow Wilson gives a Memorial Day speech at Arlington Cemetery. He ha...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Today -100: May 30, 1914: Of Irish empresses, beer, re-elections, and royal elevators

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The ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in the Saint Lawrence River after colliding with a Norwegian coal ship in the fog (the captain...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Today -100: May 29, 1914: Of commissions, tea, and TeleVista

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The Niagara conference will, after all, name a five-man commission to govern Mexico, which the US promises to give “moral support.” Th...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Today -100: May 28, 1914: Of recruiting, ypirangas, and mice

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Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan tells a banquet of the National Foreign Trade Convention that the US government won’t necessa...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Longer than many Americans expected

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Today Obama made a statement on Afghanistan. He plans to pull the last troops out a couple of weeks before leaving office, he says. ...
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Today -100: May 27, 1914: Of plans of pacification, unbroken heads, horses, the unfit, and rivers

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More rumors about Huerta being about to resign and flee the country, possibly on the German ship Ypiranga, which still has a cargo full...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Today -100: May 26, 1914: Let the curtain ring down on this contemptible farce

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The Irish Home Rule Bill’s third reading passes the House of Commons 351-274. It will set up an Irish parliament and a senate, which w...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Today -100: May 25, 1914: Of chains, free love, returning princes, wider religions (whatever that means), and whistling

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Headline of the Day -100: “Sylvia Pankhurst Marches in Chains.” Just out for a little Sunday stroll, chained to 15 other women. Othe...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Today -100: May 24, 1914: Of con artists, fleeing princes, panaceas, mummies, and Paris trends

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Two con men are arrested for raising funds ostensibly for a orphanage in Syria. The interesting thing is that the first people they sc...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Today -100: May 23, 1914: I think women are angels

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The British government acquires a large stake in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, to secure a large supply of oil for the Royal Navy. Oi...
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Today -100: May 22, 1914: Of mud, arsenals, non-ritual murders, and non-vice-presidents

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Headline of the Day -100 (LA Times): “Militants Roll Police in Mud.” British suffragists attempt to present a petition to the king at...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Today -100: May 21, 1914: Of prohibition, certified babies, arson, and evil postcards

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Supporters of a prohibition amendment to the Constitution give up for this session, unable to overcome states’ rights objections. Pan...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Today -100: May 20, 1914: Of opera houses, contributions, revolting Albanians, and sewing queens

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The Prussian Diet is discussing Kaiser Wilhelm’s demand for money for his new Royal Court Opera, which is funny because when the Diet o...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Today -100: May 19, 1914: Of oil taxes, secret elections, looting and looping

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Huerta has supposedly authorized his delegates to the talks at Niagara to negotiate his resignation. But only if it’s absolutely neces...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Today -100: May 18, 1914: Of pacification in Mexico and Colorado, and grandstanding

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The talk in Washington is that America’s little sojourn in Mexico won’t be over when Huerta is overthrown, but that its forces will nee...