Tomorrow, November 11, is Veterans Day – originally Armistice Day, which marked the day the fighting ended in World War I in 1918. The agreement to stop fighting took effect at 11:00 AM, "on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."
Armistice Day was later changed to Veterans Day. It's kind of a shame, because the original meaning of the day – honoring the fallen of World War I, the "War to End All Wars" – has basically been forgotten by the general public, like so much of American history.
Nevertheless, I thought it would be interesting to look at an early Armistice Day front page of the Lorain Journal. The oldest one available was the 1922 edition, which was the fourth anniversary, and that is what you see below.
"CITY PAYS SILENT TRIBUTE TO DEAD ARMISTICE DAY" is the heading of the story acknowledging the remembrance. "Today at 12 noon, everyone in the city on the fourth anniversary of Armistice day, paused for two minutes and stood in silence as a tribute to the American soldiers who lost their lives in France during the World War.
"In celebration of the fourth anniversary of the signing of the armistice, the American Legion held a flag raising of the Oberlin avenue plant of the Ohio Public Service Co. at 2:30 this afternoon.
"Following the dedication of the new flag and flag pole at the Ohio Public Service Co. plant, the members of the American Legion marched to the monument at the corner of 5th street and West Erie avenue where they laid a wreath in honor of their fallen members as three volleys rang out from the firing squad.
"The Veterans of Foreign Wars held a smoker at the Moose lodge to commemorate the day.
"Elsewhere in the city American flags were displayed in honor of the day."
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A jailbreaking beauty in red britches on horseback evading the law; wasn't Randolph Scott in that?
I did enjoy the red britches story. The girl certainly did like horses.
I also noted the incomprehensible story about the mayor firing the safety director (termed the "Safer" in the headline). Perhaps the jump clarified why this occurred; page one surely did not.
A little bit more on the earthquake(s) that topped the news:
"1922, November 11, 04:33. A magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurred in the southern part of Atacama Province, central Chile. Locally, a 9 m (29.5 foot!) tsunami caused extensive damage. The tsunami arrived at Hilo, Hawaii in 14.5 hours. The period of oscillations was 20 minutes, and the height of the tsunami was 2.1 m (7 feet); many boats were washed away, and some damage was done. The wave reached Honolulu in 15.0 hours. The period of oscillations of the waves was 23 minutes, the height of the wave 0.3 m (1 foot)."
This, from: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official19221111043251_30/impact
"Aged Lorain Man Called By Death". Now that's a headline worthy of "The Onion." As a great philosopher said "Nobody gets out of life alive."
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