A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Roosevelt Elector Resigns.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 21, 1912:
John Y. Chisholm of Illinois Silent on His Action.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 20.— John Y. Chisholm of Bloomington tendered today to Secretary of State Doyle his resignation as a Republican Elector, but gave no reason for his action. Chisholm is one of the Roosevelt leaders in his district.
As the resignation was not sworn to Secretary Doyle notified Mr. Chisholm it could not be accepted until this fault was corrected.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Roosevelt Elector Resigns.

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