What I could find out about this day a hundred years ago:
It was a Thursday.
Mexico:
- Mexico agrees to return US soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Carrizal last week. They were Buffalo Soldiers (10th Cavalry) sent to Mexico take Pancho Villa, dead or alive. Villa had raided Columbus, New Mexico in March.
US:
- Iowa (pictured above):
- “I washed some this morning and gave the house a good cleaning up. Went to town in afternoon for an hour. I ironed late in afternoon and made fruit salad and fixed yeast to bake bread tomorrow. warm today.”
- St Joseph, Missouri:
- Otto Rohwedder is working on inventing sliced bread.
- Ruth Warrick is born. In 1941 she will play the first wife of Citizen Kane. From 1970 to 2005 she will play Phoebe Tyler on the television soap opera “All My Children”.
- Indiana:
- It is 27 degrees Celsius at Purdue University.
- Ohio:
- The Ringling Bros circus is in Elyria.
- New Jersey:
- The Victor Talking Machine Company records “Janet’s Choice” by Louise Homer:
- Washington, DC:
- The Boston Red Sox lose to the Washington Senators, 0 to 3.
- New York
- There are 49 new cases of polio.
- The “Ziegfeld Follies” is on Broadway, starring W.C. Fields and Fanny Brice.
- Chicago Tribune:
- “MEXICO GIVES UP CAPTIVES – Capital Sees Peril of War Growing Less”
- “Reason Why Of Death Tryst Haunts Orpet”
- “Cop Murdered: Twenty Negroes of the Eighth Regiment Are Held in Guardhouse”
- Marcus Garvey is on 38-state speaking tour.
- magazine covers:
Britain:
- Roger Casement, Irish nationalist and leader of the failed Easter Rising in April, is sentenced to death for treason.
- The British are working on inventing the tank.
Austria-Hungary:
- Loses Fort Mattassone to Italy.
- Loses 10,000 soldiers to Russia as prisoners of war.
Norway:
- Dead sailors from the Battle of Jutland four weeks ago are still washing ashore.
France:
Is fighting the Germans at Verdun. By Christmas 300,000 men will have died there
Y Day: The British are bombing the Germans to prepare for the Battle of the Somme.
Tolkien, second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, is on his way to the Battle of the Somme. He might be in this picture:
A New Zealand soldier:
“Fine but cloudy and old cold side. Went to Pont de Nieppe cemetery where i was told Cousin Nev was buried. Misinformed and he probably lies at Loos – 8 or 10 miles away. Large number of French, English and New Zealand graves – all in long rows. Most graves covered in growing flowers; but at present the NZ ones are only new and no flowers yet set. Sad sight to see all the newly made graves.”
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (The 2/4th Battalion), killed in action:
- Private Caleb (Kaleb) Arthur Wyatt, 26;
- Private Walter Edward Frank Smith;
- Lance Corporal William Henry Rimmer, 20;
- Lance Corporal Reginald Leslie Pink;
- Private Harry Parker;
- Lance Corporal Albert Norris, 21;
- Private (Signaller) Noah Davies Huzzey, 21;
- Lance Sergeant Victor Maurice Elliott, 29;
- Private George Gladstone Burge;
- Private Leslie Hine, 18, grave unknown, pictured below:
On Saturday the British will lose 19,240 men at the Battle of the Somme.
– Abagond, 2016.
Sources: Twitter: 100 Years Ago Today, Twitter: World War I Live, Tumblr: WWI covered live, Chicago Tribune, DIY History Iowa, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (The 2/4th Battalion), Stuff, Omniatlas, Black Past.
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This was an interesting post. Shame your readers only care to comment when you write something bad about White people.
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@ Quinn Nethers
” Shame your readers only care to comment when you write something bad about White people.”
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Actually, the “shame” is that there’s too LITTLE GOOD to write about regarding white people. White people have had a very long time to change that, yet they still haven’t!
Why do you suppose that is??
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@Fan…
I guess people like Quinn Nethers forget that people have lives outside of this blog that does not make them privy to every post that pops up. Besides, what can you add to a post you know little about?
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@ Sharina
“Besides, what can you add to a post you know little about?”
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Like the (cultural) goodness of white people/whiteness?
Apparently, little to nothing.
Perhaps Quinn might drive by again and share some good things about white people (as a group).
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This was an interesting post. Shame your readers only care to comment when you write something bad about White people. – Quinn Nethers
This is an interesting comment. Conversely, it’s a shame that Quinn Nethers only care to comment when Abagond write about something other than the inhumane conduct of white people as a group. Personally, I encourage you to comment when Abagond’s blog topic is in fact about a white cop that shoot an unarmed black man or a white male, privilege, college aged student rape an unconscious female or why is it a fact that when a white cop wrongfully kill an innocent black man, suddenly, the perpetrator becomes a millionaire almost overnight due to contributions for his so-called legal defense. While on the other hand, the victim’s family is struggling just to collect enough money to bury a dead family member.
Perhaps you could share some of your inner thoughts and enlighten us on this board the next time something happen. I’ll be waiting!
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@Quinn Nethers: You need to stop reading while “white” and being a drive by troll. There are many post that don’t always talk about intersectionality and race this blog has a variety of different topics it is not a one dimensional blog. Why do you do some binge reading instead of posting while ignorant.
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*don’t*^^^^
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The hysteric responses to my comment prove the observation. Heh.
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@ Quinn Nethers
I notice you didn’t make any specific comments on the subject matter of this post, either. Did you not think it was interesting enough to discuss? Or were you just using it as an excuse to fling accusations?
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@Quinn Nethers
It doesn’t prove anything other than you getting a response to you “observation”. Confirmation bias anyone?
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@ Abagond
Do you have any more details about this?
“Cop Murdered: Twenty Negroes of the Eighth Regiment Are Held in Guardhouse”
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@ Abagond
Oh, and in the Iowa journal entry? The handwriting’s difficult to read, but I think it’s fruit salad, not first salad. This would be very late in the year for the first lettuce to have just come up.
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@ Solitaire
The handwriting is unclear and fruit salad seems more likely. I updated the post. Good catch. Thanks!
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@ Solitaire
In Springfield, Illinois the night before, a police officer told a group of Black soldiers who had been drinking to “move off”. That led to a fight with one of the soldiers shooting the cop dead. The police did not know who did it, so they were locking up all the Black soldiers that were stationed nearby. The only clue was a hat that had apparently fallen off the murderer’s head.
More here:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1916/06/29/page/1/article/theyre-off-for-mexico-first-infantry-in-lead/
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These two Chicago Tribune headlines were both about Black soldiers:
But only when they committed a crime was their race brought up.
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@ Abagond
“The police did not know who did it, so they were locking up all the Black soldiers that were stationed nearby.”
I was wondering why so many were arrested. Sounds a lot like things now, doesn’t it? 😦
“But only when they committed a crime was their race brought up.”
Something else that hasn’t changed much. 😦
Thanks for the additional info and the link.
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The next time this type of post is done, I was wondering if we could also learn some things that was happening outside the US and Europe.
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