Friday, July 04, 2014

Today -100: July 4, 1914: Of vice consuls, idle children, more plane crashes, chamberlains, fusions, and stabbed mayors

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The Mexican rebels arrest the British vice consul at Zacatecas, George St. Clair Douglas, for allegedly assisting the federales. Headl...
Thursday, July 03, 2014

Today -100: July 3, 1914: Of funerals, faulty poisons, pardons, and freak vegetables

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No foreign royalty will be attending the Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s funeral, presumably for security reasons. Today Princip admits he...
Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Today -100: July 2, 1914: There are still people who feel and think as I do!

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More anti-Serb rioting in Bosnia. Headline of the Day -100 ( L.A. Times ): “Prinzip Exults in His Guilt.” Gavrilo Princip tells a co...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Today -100: July 1, 1914: The most idealistic men get into the worst messes

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Here’s a surprise: anti-Serb demonstrations in Vienna. Franz Ferdinand was insured for $12 million, Sophie for $6 million. You don’t ...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

Today -100: June 30, 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is still dead

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The NYT thinks that Austrian reactions to the assassinations yesterday “are likely further to embitter the relations” between Austria ...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Today -100: June 29, 1914: Do you think Sarajevo is full of assassins?

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s 83-year-old Kaiser Franz Josef I and heir to his throne, is assassinat...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Today -100: June 28, 1914: The blood of the murdered is on his head

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After a fact-finding visit to Albania, George Fred Williams, the US ambassador to Greece and Montenegro, resigns so he can freely speak...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

Today -100: June 27, 1914: Of volunteers, old cars, plane crashes, races, moose herds, and bribery

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Some private citizens in Vienna are raising a volunteer army to fight for Prince William of Albania. However, they’re recruiting from a...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Today -100: June 26, 1914: Of unjust and obnoxious discrimination, verboten signs, butchers, bathtubs, and fires

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The State Department took ten months to respond to Japan’s complaint about California’s racist alien land law (“unjust and obnoxious di...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Today -100: June 25, 1914: Merely the belated payment of blackmail with an apology to the blackmailers

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Pancho Villa’s army captures Zacatecas. At the Niagara conference, the US and Huerta delegates sign a protocol. The US waives any wa...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Today -100: June 24, 1914: Of battleships, dancing, mashers, home rule, and dynamite

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The House votes to sell a couple of old battleships to Greece and use the proceeds to build a shiny new dreadnought. Turkey is not bes...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

Today -100: June 23, 1914: Of informal talks, strong white parties, and American soil

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There will be informal talks between the Huerta, Carranza, and US delegates (in other words, the Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean ambas...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Today -100: June 22, 1914: Of inheritable blood, flaming brides, and universal peace

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The Supreme Court rules on whether relatives of former slaves can inherit their property. The property of non-slaves in Tennessee who ...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Today -100: June 21, 1914: Of deputations, guns & teapots, oh the humanity, homesteads, happy train wrecks, beheadings, beleidigungen, and elevators

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Prime Minister Herbert Asquith meets Sylvia Pankhurst’s deputation of working women, although Sylvia, debilitated from hunger-striking,...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Today -100: June 20, 1914: I have never found a man with a tail, but I still have hopes

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Two Russian military aviators die in airplane accidents. Honestly, could war really increase the fatality rate for these guys? 25 la...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Today -100: June 19, 1914: Of yielding, civil wars within civil wars, neutrals, gunboats, treaties, assassination plots, ethnic cleansing, and damaged kaisers

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Headline of the Day -100: “Asquith Yields to Suffragettes.” The prime minister agrees to meet a deputation of East End working-class w...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Today -100: June 18, 1914: Woodrow Wilson forgets about the Jews

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Parliament authorizes the Admiralty to invest $11 million in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, to ensure plentiful oil supplies for the Nav...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Today -100: June 17, 1914: Of races, ex-republics, civil wars within civil wars, and massacres

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Over 1,000 cops protect the races at Ascot (and the king and queen) against possible suffragette disruption. The Italian general strik...
Monday, June 16, 2014

The height of folly

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John McCain says it would be the “height of folly” to partner with Iran to stabilize Iraq. John McCain – bad choice of partner – folly....

Today -100: June 16, 1914: A man is a fool who attempts to avoid the income tax

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Dr. Charles Mercier, a British psychiatrist and public supporter of the forcible feeding of suffragette prisoners, has a letter in the L...