Sep. 23rd, 2014

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#dailycolonist1914 - 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 [It's all fun and games until you lose and eye, and maybe half your face, and lie rotting in a ditch.]
  • Serbian army captures Sarajevo (where this all started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand less than two months ago.)
  • Italian saber-rattling
  • [Meanwhile, on the moon] British cruiser Pegasus is trapped in the harbour of Zanzibar [a name still synonymous with, "far away."]
  • Smart shoes, sweaters for fall, and good advice in today's ads.

http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1914


Source: http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/140923/daily-colonist-september-23-1914

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