Sunday, March 31, 2019

Today -100: March 31, 1919: Of debses, vaccines, and corridors

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Toledo, Ohio officials bar Eugene Debs from giving his scheduled speech at Memorial Hall. The excluded crowd storms the Hall, although Deb...
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Saturday, March 30, 2019

Today -100: March 30, 1919: No man is more innocent of this war than I

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Headline of the Day -100:  Former kaiser Wilhelm II says he’d rather kill himself than be put on trial, because it would be sooo...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Today -100: March 29, 1919: It is the unquestionable right of every enlightened people to govern themselves

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Headlines of the Day -100:  Gen. Charles Mangin has been summoned to meet Clemenceau, and rumor says it’s to lead Allied forces a...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Today -100: March 28, 1919: Of covenants, vital policies, brightened Germans, and assassinations

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The draft of the League of Nations covenant is finished . They finally figured out that they can’t come back to it after the peace treaty i...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Today -100: March 27, 1919: Of leagues, blockades, disorders, and pickles

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The National American Woman’s Suffrage Association forms  a non-partisan league of women voters, but can’t decide on a name for it. It will...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Today -100: March 26, 1919: Of natural results, seditionaries, exiles, and vampires

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Count Károlyi explains his government’s resignation: “What has happened is a natural result of the blindness and ill-will with which it wa...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Today -100: March 25, 1919: Of plane trips, cunning plans, and Danzig

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US Navy seaplanes will join the race to be the first plane to cross the Atlantic, although they presumably won’t be competing for the Dail...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Today -100: March 24, 1919: Of soviet republics, French sufferings, and covenant lies

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Last week the Allies occupied much of Hungary with French, Czech and Romanian troops to prevent a Bolshevik republic being established. So ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Today -100: March 23, 1919: Of emperors, fascists, subways, and straw

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Austria again tells former Emperor Charles that he should leave the country, and he again ignores them. Benito Mussolini founds the Fasc...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Today -100: March 22, 1919: Such a thing is to be expected at the beginning of a campaign

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50 pro-League of Nations Democratic state legislators in Missouri challenge anti-League of Nations U.S. Sen. James Reed (also D): they’ll ...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Today -100: March 21, 1919: Of noses, divorces, and suffrage

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Headline of the Day -100: A Chicago Tribune reporter gets close enough to his subject to overhear the aforementioned royal schno...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Today -100: March 20, 1919: Of bourgeois disinfection, stiffness sickness, and enlightened rule from the outside

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Russia Rumor of the Day -100: a Menshevik revolution in Petrograd. Oh lord, here’s another one: typhoid fever is rampant in Petrograd, ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Today -100: March 19, 1919: Of plane trips and immoderate demands which cannot possibly be entertained

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More pilots are hoping to be the first to cross the Atlantic and win a £10,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail . The excellently named Har...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Today -100: March 18, 1919: Of plane trips, covenants, pretzels, and dead trees

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French Lt. Jean-Pierre Fontan will attempt the first trans-Atlantic flight, starting in Dakar, Senegal and heading for Brazil, 1,700 miles...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Today -100: March 17, 1919: Of Zapatas and Spartacists

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Mexican government troops push Zapata’s forces out of the state of Morelos. The NYT , while still claiming without providing any eviden...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Today -100: March 16, 1919: Of food

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Germany has agreed to the take-it-or-leave-it offer by which it will receive food in exchange for giving up merchant ships as well as futu...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Today -100: March 15, 1919: Of disputed islands, garbled dispatches, lynchings, and trained dogs

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The Peace Conference commission working on Italian-Greek border issues says the Dodecanese islands should properly go to Greece because th...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Today -100: March 14, 1919: This stolen property would burn in their hands

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German troops continue to use artillery and mine-throwers against Spartacist positions in the capital city, and are summarily executing pr...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Today -100: March 13, 1919: Of peasant workers, peace signings, and Beethoven

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New York police raid the hq of the Union of Russian Peasant Workers of America and arrest 200 suspected radicals (164 or 187 according to ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Today -100: March 12, 1919: Of kaiser-hanging, king-drowning, and trillions

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The Peace Conference is debating whether ex-kaiser Willy Hohenzollern can be put on trial for starting the war. The US thinks he can’t be....