Wed, 2014/09/24 - 3:44pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today
Tue, 2014/09/23 - 8:48am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
The articles and ads that caught my eye today:
• Canadians keen to be dispatched to front
• Serbian army captures Sarajevo
• Italian saber-rattling
• [Meanwhile, on the moon]
• Smart shoes, sweaters for fall, and good advice in today's ads...
Mon, 2014/09/22 - 8:45am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• British troops dispatched to China,
• Demonstrations in Italy,
• Nietzsche blamed for everything,
• More...
Sat, 2014/09/20 - 9:46am
#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
It's Sunday in 1914, and there are some interesting things in the paper and the magazine section today, both from a 1914 point of view and a 2014 point of view:
Fri, 2014/09/19 - 8:30am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
• Aeroplane over Antwerp, "escaped in the direction of Wilryck"
• Government of Britain decides to cancel pension to cousin of Queen Victoria living in Germany.
• Mention that "German's Trenches Are Formidable"
• Notices for Germans and Austrio-Hungarians to register are multiplying.
• Ads that caught my eye.
Thu, 2014/09/18 - 11:18am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
• Tensions rising between Germany and Italy
• Chinese immigration curtailed
• more news and some advertising excerpts...
Wed, 2014/09/17 - 10:32am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• Rheims retaken, Germans pushed well back from Paris
• 40,000 Canadians to fight overseas
• Black-out regulations for London questioned
• Cowichan Fall Fair
• Hilarious attempt to market American beer
Tue, 2014/09/16 - 8:42am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
News from the European fronts continues to be more of the same. The Germans are in retreat and the Austrians are in disarray. Most of the news is about the German push toward Paris being a failure, but no real details and virtually nothing new since yesterday.
• Austrians drafting younger men
• Canada sending cavalry
• Financial cost of the war
• Irish independence postponed
• Ukrainian interment picking up steam
• Records replacing cylinders
Mon, 2014/09/15 - 8:07am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
• German retreats
• Germans capture trans-Pacific cable relay station
• 1916 Olympics likely to be cancelled
• Ads that caught my eye
Sat, 2014/09/13 - 9:58am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
The war reporting is frustratingly vague again: an advance here, a retreat there, nothing substantial and all of it happening on an abstract, unimaginable scale. German news reporting is lampooned as ridiculous propaganda and the Germans are made out to be callous villains while the Austrians are cowards.
• Aerial battle over France
• Canadian troops to be deployed
• New moon discovered around Jupiter
• and more...
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