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MacMillan Tells Of Fight with Herd Of Infuriated Walrus Washington, Aug. 6 (AP)—A fight with a herd of walrus was described by Commander MacMillan of the MacMillan Arctic expedition in a message received tonight by the National Geographic Society. The message, dated today, and relayed by A. A. Collins of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, related that "In a walrus hunt yesterday, three members of the Peary crew, in a Bowdoin…

#OTD #ArcticExploration news (1925) - to paraphrase, "sometimes you get the walrus, sometimes the walrus gets you..."

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August 6, 1862 – The Surgeons of Richmond To the Newspapers of Richmond.—We understand that the Confederate Surgeons at the camp of the conscripts near this City, are in the habit of charging a fee of ten dollars for examining substitutes. The conscription law provides for substitutes, and it would seem to us that the conscript is entitled to have his substitute examined without being required to pay a fee for it.

#OTD #CivilWar #History news - Army sawbones in Richmond getting a bit of cash on the side?

06.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Weird Tibetan Scenes Shown Motion Pictures of Little Traveled Land Are Seen Great temples with roofs of solid gold, a huge lake of solid salt, weirdly impressive rituals of a barbaric religion, strange people and animals—these were some of the wonder of Tibet shown by motion pictures In the Italian room of The Olympic Hotel Tuesday night.

#OTD #History news (1925) - scenes from #Tibet shown in motion picture.

05.08.2025 19:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
August 5, 1862 – Saloon Keeper’s Lament A saloon keeper in Cleveland, (Ohio,) in scarcity of change, conceived the idea of issuing tickets "good for one drink" to regular customers, when he couldn't change their money.—In printing the tickets, the printer made a mistake, as the saloon keeper discovered to his cost, after distributing a large amount of them. The ticket read "good for one drunk. A number of two-fisted drinkers, who got hold of some of the tickets, have been indulging in a series of drunks ever since, greatly to the pecuniary loss of the "salooner." Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, VA

August 5, 1862 – Saloon Keeper’s Lament

A saloon keeper in Cleveland, (Ohio,) in scarcity of change, conceived the idea of issuing tickets "good for one drink" to regular customers, when he couldn't change their money.—In printing the tickets, the printer made a mistake, as the saloon keeper…

05.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the tradition of sailors from time immemorial, I'm sure some of it made its way to wardroom and below decks! But not too much, as the cargo & ship were auctioned and prize money shared among the crew, and the authorities would be reviewing manifests, etc.

05.08.2025 12:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
August 4, 1862 – Arrival of Prizes New York, August 2—The French bark, Harriet Rolli, which was taken by our forces while running the blockade at New Orleans with a cargo of wines and brandies and arrived to-day under command of Capt. Conant, of the Mass. 4th regiment. She has 33 sick soldiers.

#OTD #CivilWar #NavalHistory news - Attempted blockade runners captured and brought to port.

04.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Klan Disorders Rock Bay State GUNS BLAZE, DOZEN HURT IN KKK RIOT Police of Three Towns Unable to Restore Order in Massachusetts Battle STATE TROOPS CALLED Band of Klansmen Besieged in Cellar, Rescued From Mob of 500 Rioters West Wood, Mass., Aug. 3. (AP)—Injury to a dozen or more persons, the wrecking of a farm house in the Islington district here, and the arrest of three men for carrying concealed weapons was the aftermath of the Ku Klux Klan's first attempt to hold a meeting in the district since the state police stopped supplying guards for Klan gatherings.

#OTD #History news (1925) - 500 anti-Klan protestors battle Klan gathering in "first attempt to hold a meeting .. since the state police stopped supplying guards for Klan gatherings."

03.08.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Break Alien Smuggling Ring CHIEF JAILED AND GANG HALTED Captain Hanson Says “All Is Tight” in Del Rio District. A large smuggling ring with headquarters at Monterey, and operating solely for the purpose of smuggling aliens into this country, is believed to have been broken up with the arrest at Del Rio of a man who is believed to be the head of the smugglers, according to Captain W.

#OTD #History news (1925) - Back when "alien" roundups "included Italians, three Germans, two Greeks, and two Poles."

02.08.2025 22:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago".

The Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago".

#OTD #Aviation #History (1925) - The "Chicago", veteran of the historic around-the-world flight, to be moved to the Smithsonian.

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01.08.2025 19:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
August 1, 1862 – Dispatch from the Gunboat Arkansas The following is the dispatch in the Richmond Whig from the commander of the rebel gunboat Arkansas: Vicksburg, July 15, 1862. We engaged today, from six to eight a. m., with the enemy's fleet above Vicksburg, consisting of four or more iron clad vessels and two heavy sloops-of-war, and four gunboats and seven or eight rams. We drove an iron-clad ashore, with colors down and disabled, blew up a ram, burned one vessel and damaged several others.

#OTD #CivilWar #NavalHistory - Confederate ironclad loose among Federal fleet above Vicksburg.

01.08.2025 15:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Infuriated at Loss of Favorite Pipe, Philadelphia Man Runs Wild Seventy-Year-Old Fighter Holds 40 Policemen At Bay For Two Hours—Throws Tear Bombs Back At Officers—Finally Dies After Ten Bullet Wounds. By The Associated Press. Philadelphia. July 31—Riddled by ten bullets after he had held 40 policemen at bay for two hours in his home last night. Joseph Marino, nearly 70 years old, died early today. Marino became incensed at missing a favorite pipe, his wife said, and chased her to the street with a revolver, firing wildly.

#OTD news 1925 - Must have been some pipe!

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July 31, 1862 – Southern Union Regiments A regiment of Union men of North Alabama is organizing in General Buell's army, and will soon be full and equipped for service under the Stars and Stripes. A regiment composed of Arkansas men is already organized and attached to the army of Gen. Curtis. Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee each have large forces in the Union Service. A good many men have been recruited in North Carolina and some in Florida and Louisiana.

#OTD #CivilWar news - Not all Southerners embrace secession and "Stood for The Union!"

31.07.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Fascist WASPs"

I see what you did there...

30.07.2025 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's 2025, I'd frankly be surprised if the wasps *weren't* radioactive...

30.07.2025 19:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chicago Hotel Bandits Slain or Captured in Bloody Battle HOTEL CLERK IS ALSO KILLED IN BOLD ROBBERY ON GOLD COAST Death Penalty Will Be Asked by Crowe for Pair Captured After Spectacular Holdup. CHICAGO, July 30.—(By The Associated Press.)—In movie thriller style, a robber crew, masked and bristling with pistols and shotguns, invaded the exclusive Drake hotel In Chicago’s “Gold Coast” at tea time yesterday, enacting scenes of killing and sanguinary gun fighting that extended subsequently for an hour over northside boulevards.

#OTD #TrueCrime news (1925) - ”We're from Texas and I want everybody’s hands up quick!"

Could have been worse, could have been Florida Man...

30.07.2025 19:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
July 30, 1862 – The Lines East of the Blue Ridge Our advices from Gordonsville yesterday represent that everything continued quiet, the enemy having made no further demonstration above Richmond since his harmless dash upon the Central Railroad on Wednesday last. Gen. Pope has accumulated an army of over 30,000 men in the counties immediately this side of the Blue Ridge, and evidently designs some offensive operation, the nature of which may shortly transpire.

#OTD #CivilWar #History news - The front remains quiet but a Federal operation likely afoot.

30.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did someone make a bet about how many engines they could stick on it?... 😀

29.07.2025 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
July 29, 1862 – Potomac Gunboats These valuable, and, at the same time, saucy-looking crafts, who so suddenly departed from among us early yesterday morning, have not as yet returned. They are, in all probability, continuing their search for the rebel nests, and, when found, will doubtless give them notice to vacate. Evening Star, Washington, DC

#OTD #CivilWar #NavalHistory news - Saucy union gunboats doing what saucy gunboats do while having an outing on the Potomac!

29.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
July 28, 1862 – Latest by Evening Papers The Tribune's Washington dispatch says a German printer boy who has been a year getting from New Orleans via Richmond, where he was imprisoned three months, has arrived here. He estimates the number of fighting men at Richmond at 70,000, and confirms the report that four divisions under Longstreet, Ewell, Hill and Jackson are stationed along the railroad from Staunton to Gordonsville, and at Louisa Court House, under Stonewall Jackson, numbering in all.

#OTD #CivilWar #history news - a round up of items from the evening papers.

#c19th

28.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Freaky Storms Hit Many Points In New England Two to 3-Inch Rainfall Within Few Hours—Strong Wind in Some Localities Waterville Sewer Overloaded, Damage to Stocks in Basements—Old Orchard Amusement Booth Carried Away by Wind—Man Badly Hurt at Manchester, N. H.—Houses, Barns and Factories Hit by Lightning in Granite State Waterville, Me., July 22—(AP)—Following several hours of heavy rain, the most severe thunderstorm of the season occurred here tonight, causing such a flood of water that the city sewers were overloaded and some of the store basements filled to a depth of several feet, damaging considerable stocks.

#OTD 1925 - A reminder that 100 years ago, the storms we get all the time now were actually 100 year storms...

#Weather #Climatechange

23.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
July 23, 1862 – New Mortars at Boston Navy Yard At the Boston navy yard ten new thirteen inch mortars, weighing upward of seventeen thousand pounds each, have recently been received from Pittsburg, Pa. They are similar to those used in Commodore Porter's mortar flotilla. Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, VA

#OTD #CivilWar #NavalHistory news - Big guns delivered to Beantown

23.07.2025 15:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
July 21, 1862 – From Harrison’s Landing Headquarters Army Potomac, July 18.—A flag of truce went up yesterday from Turkey Island Creek, having on board Gen. Dix, who went to meet Gen. Hill for the purpose of making a permanent arrangement for an exchange of prisoners. The interview was highly satisfactory, but no conclusion being arrived at, the Hag of truce will return to-day, when Gen. Lee will be present.

July 21, 1862 – From Harrison’s Landing

Headquarters Army Potomac, July 18.—A flag of truce went up yesterday from Turkey Island Creek, having on board Gen. Dix, who went to meet Gen. Hill for the purpose of making a permanent arrangement for an exchange of prisoners. The interview was highly…

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July 19, 1862 – Gen. Pope Occupies Gordonsville GREAT SENSATION AMONG THE SECESH. New York, July 18.—The New York Tribunes Washington dispatch states: We have advices from Warrenton to-day. The news has been received that Gen. Hatch occupied Gordonsville. This has created great consternation among the leading rebels in Warrenton, who had not the least idea that Gen. Pope would reach that point without a great battle. Index, many of them said, would be held at all hazards, and that no Yankee army would be allowed to take it.

#OTD #CivilWar news - Pope occupies Gordonsville #Virginia, important #railroad junction.

#c19th

19.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Please Don’t Pick the Flowers It has been reported to us that certain persons make it a habit to pick the flowers in the public park. These persons ought to be informed that such action is in violation of the Police Regulations and may mean trouble if it is not stopped. Every good citizen will let the flowers remain on the trees in the park for city beautification.

#OTD news 1936 - the editors of the Avis want you to stop picking flowers from the park. You know who you are...

#USVI #History #ParksandRec

18.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
July 18, 1862 – Habits of General Halleck A correspondent writing from Corinth, Mississippi, sends the following in relation to the Commander in Chief of the Western armies: There is yet no sign of an immediate intention of General Halleck to leave Corinth. But with him what is apparently improbable today may be certain tomorrow. Events may forecast their shadows but the move ments of General Halleck do not.

#OTD #CivilWar news - on Gen. Halleck:

"Whatever his qualifications as a leader of armies in the field may be, it must be acknowledged that he discharges the general supervisory duties of his position with the utmost faithfulness,"

There's that, I guess.

18.07.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
July 17, 1862 – A Yankee Life-Preserver The Yankees, it would seem, go into battles as they would go into water, with life-preservers on. We have had exhibited to us one of these steel breast-plates found on the persons of prisoners, and taken from the dead bodies of the slain. It is in the shape of the two breasts of a vest, and is made up in its folds, being sewed between the cloth and the lining.

#OTD #CivilWar news - Union troops found to be using bullet proof vests. Efficiency was dubious to say the least.

#c19th

17.07.2025 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Reverend With Habit of Eloping Again Out of Sight South Bend. Ind. July 15—(AP)—The avowed intention of Rev. Wilson Culp of South Bend to bring an end to his career of elopments and devote the rest of his life to his wife and nine children has evidently been cast aside, as he has again disappeared. Mrs. Dorothy Culp his sister-in-law, of Napanee, Ind., is also missing.

#OTD 1925 -Bad religion? You decide. In the immortal words of Jimmy Buffett, "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa..."

16.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
July 16, 1862 – The Unknown Dead We copy the following sad article from the Richmond Enquirer. The impression is that the deceased was the gallant son of John C. Taylor, Esq., of Granville County. If so, it will be gratifying to the friends of the deceased, to be able to identify his body :—

#OTD #CivilWar News - Report of the death and burial of #NorthCarolina Capt. John Taylor

16.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Students Jeer Women Germans Break Up Meeting of Congress in Austria INNSBRUCK. Austria, July14 (AP).—A meeting of a women’s congress was broken up here last evening by interruptions caused by several hundred German Nationalist students, who whistled, stamped their feet and shouted jeering remarks whenever French or English women began to speak.

#OTD 1925 news - Men drown out women's voices.

I wish I could say things have improved in the public space in the last 100 years.

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