Friday, June 30, 2017

Today -100: June 30, 1917: Of beer and wine, dumas, and activities of a sinister German character

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Woodrow Wilson intervenes in the Food Bill to prevent it banning beer and wine along with distilled spirits, although he will have the pow...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Today -100: June 29, 1917: Of premature news, arrests at the White House, and self-determination

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Secretary of War Newton Baker is pisssssssed that the news of the arrival in France of US troops was published yesterday. Suffragists tr...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Today -100: June 28, 1917: Over there

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The first US troops arrive in France. The Pan-Russian Congress of Soldiers’ and Workers’ Soviets votes against a separate peace with Ge...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Today -100: June 27, 1917: Of air raids

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The recent German raids on London by fixed-wing planes have led to demands for reprisals in kind on German towns, but Minister of War Lord ...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Today -100: June 26, 1917: Of pickets and prohibition

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The situation in front of the White House is escalating , with 12 suffragists arrested yesterday. Notably, only one of them is married. C...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Today -100: June 25, 1917: It would be better for you to face ten German bayonets than one tigree mother of Russia and the curse she lays upon you

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Headline of the Day -100: The Russian Women’s Battalions of Death issue an appeal/threat: “And you others, soldiers in name but J...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Today -100: June 24, 1917: The soviets are getting a little uppity

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The Pan-Russian Congress of Soldiers’ and Workers’ Soviets votes to dissolve the Council of the Empire and asks for the Duma to be dissolv...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Today -100: June 23, 1917: Loud and boisterous talking is the worst kind

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The Chicago City Council begins moves to impeach Mayor Big Bill Thompson. He is considered pro-German, won’t help raise the Liberty Loan, ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Today -100: June 22, 1917: Of former kings, women’s battalions of death, pickets, and who owns the news

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From exile, former Greek King Constantine I says he’s still the king. The NYT has an AP article on the Russian Women’s Battalion of Dea...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Today -100: June 21, 1917: America Is Not A Democracy

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Headline of the Day -100: As a delegation from Russia visits the White House, a suffrage banner hoisted by the National Woman’s Party...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Today -100: June 20, 1917: Of women’s suffrage, fecking rioting, and German titles

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The British House of Commons votes 214 to 17 for women’s suffrage, on an unequal basis. Even former Prime Minister Asquith votes for it. E...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Today -100: June 19, 1917: This disagreement will be resolved by a Marx Off to see who can interpret Marx faster, probably

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The All-Russian Congress of all Workers’ and Soldiers’ Soviets calls for a new treaty with the Allies aligning their war aims and rejectin...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Today -100: June 18, 1917: Meet Countess Sofia Panina, the woman pioneer you’ve never heard of

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Headline of the Day -100: When a Frenchman has to find something nice to say about an American, but he’s just so... American. ...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Today -100: June 17, 1917: We ask you to fight for our freedom equally with yours

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Woodrow Wilson gets tired of waiting for Congress to pass legislation authorizing a Food Administration, so he just goes ahead and tells H...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Today -100: June 16, 1917: Of anarchists and conscription

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Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman are arrested by the feds at the oxymoronic “anarchist headquarters” for conspiring to “aid, counsel, an...
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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Today -100: June 15, 1917: Deceitful peaces are the worst kind

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Headline of the Day -100: In a Flag Day address, Pres. Woodrow Wilson lays out the case for war against Germany, which “denied us t...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Today -100: June 14, 1917: Of air raids, glasses, and horses

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German planes bomb London, killing over 100 people. All civilians, Britain will claim . It was a daytime raid and – a detail the NYT misse...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Today -100: June 13, 1917: Of conscription, abdication, and rumors

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Sen. William Calder (R-NY) points out that basing conscription on districts’ population, as the Selective Draft Act envisions, means that ...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Today -100: June 12, 1917: We can put an end to disloyalty, and we are going to do it

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A policeman is killed at a banned Sinn Fein meeting in Dublin as the cops arrested speakers, including Count Plunkett, MP, because there i...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Today -100: June 11, 1917: Of the Women’s Battalion of Death

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Russian War Minister Kerensky’s wife Olga enlists in the Women’s Battalion of Death. This isn’t actually true, but I believe this is the f...