The Daily Colonist, September 13, 1914

#dailycolonist1914 - 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.

• Details of an aerial battle over Troyes, France.\240
• Canadian troops now overseas are about to be sent into the front, waiting for transport.
• New Jovian moon discovered, 9th so far [Officially this moon will be designated Jupiter iX until 1955, when it is unofficially named "Hades". In 1975 it will be officially named "Sinope" by the IAU. 13 moons were discoved before the arrival of Voyager I, which discoved three more. Better telescopes and techniques like the ones used to identify exoplanets have now raised the total count of Jovian moons to 67.]
• Whaling ships return for the winter after a successful season.
• 2-page map of Europe printed. Also avaiable for sale for 35¢ (or mailed anywhere in Canada, Great Britiain or the United Stated for 50¢).
• The children's section once again has a nice summary of the week's events [again written at a level that would be considered "college level" today, and featuring an interesting tangent on "civilizing Africa" that speaks volumes of the racism inherent in colonialism.]
• And lastly, a collection advertisments that caught my eye for being beautiful or interesting, including a "celebrity endorsemnt" of Brovril by polar explorer Ernest Shackelton [At the time polar explorers had the same sort of cachet as Astronauts did in the 1960s, eg. remember Christopher Robin's "expotition to the north pole" in Winne the Pooh.]

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Source: http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/140913/daily-colonist-september-13-1914

Addendum to The Daily Colonist for September 13, 1914

#dailycolonist1914 - This is too good not to give its own post. In the summary of the fighting in Galicia (a province of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire) the paper makes an aside to characterize the Galician people, saying that anyone who has...

...lived in the prairies know the Galicians, who during the past 10 years have come in the thousands to help the farmers. The women, as well the men work in the fields, and many of the girls are very pretty. The men are quarrelsome and are but too apt to use knives or other weapons. They are however, industrious and quick to learn. Their native land is now being laid waste by the trampling feet of Russian and Austrian armies.

All four of my paternal great-grandparents were ethnic Ukrainians from Galicia, so I absolutely had to share it in a post of its own. "Barrick", of course, is an English name and there is a long story as to why my father chose to anglicise his name, this sort of racism being no small part of that. Back in 191 simply having white skin did not make you "white". "White" only applied to natives of the United Kingdom, and even at that being Scottish, Welsh or Irish was second to being English, with Catholic Irish being less than Protestant Irish. "The wogs being at Calais" was the saying, Calais being a French city across the English Channel from Dover. If you don't know what a "wog" is, well, that's probably a good thing.\240

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Source: http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/140913/addendum-daily-colonist-september-13-1914