Michael R. Barrick's blog
Tue, 2014/10/21 - 11:23am
Tue, 2014/10/21 - 8:42am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
German attempts to advance along the coast of Belgium toward the English Channel continue to not go well. Serbians have taken forts in Sarajevo (and even though that's were the war started, it does seem like a side-show now.)
• An estimated two million Belgians are refugees outside Belgium
• Body washed ashore near Carmanah
• Bomb explodes in Montréal.
• Proposal to build "airships of all types" in Victoria.
• Miss Frankie Seigel, "first-rate blackface comedian of the Bert Williams type" to perform at Pantages Theatre.
• "More Reports of Atrocities" by Germans at length and in gruesome detail.
Mon, 2014/10/20 - 10:23pm
Mon, 2014/10/20 - 11:23am
Mon, 2014/10/20 - 8:43am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• German advance toward French ports on the English Channel still stymied.
• Hundreds of thousands of Belgian refugees in England and Netherlands. Those still in Belgium facing starvation.
• Trade negotiations for British Columbia to provide lumber to Australia at a preferential within-the-Empire rate going well.
Sun, 2014/10/19 - 10:23pm
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