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.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Oil Lands For The Navy.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 17, 1912:
Steps Are Being Taken to Insure Fuel for Future Warships.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.— The navy is taking no chance of being left without fuel oil after having practically decided to discard coal as a steam maker in future battleships and cruisers. Therefore the Navy Department has caused the Department of Justice to begin suit against some of the California railroad companies to vacate their patents to about 37,000 acres of oil land in the Elk Hills region in order that the tract may be used as a source of oil supply for the navy.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, September 17, 2012

Oil Lands For The Navy.

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