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, November 24, 2012

Threatens To Kill Wilson.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 24, 1912:
One-Armed Man Under Arrest Trailed President-Elect, It Is Said.
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., Nov. 23.— After threatening to kill President-elect Wilson If he ever got a chance, John Cohan, a one-armed man arrested here on a charge of disturbing the peace, was held by the police to-day pending instructions from Secret Service agents.
    Cohan admitted he was arrested in New Orleans when President Taft appeared in that city on his last tour of the country, and also was arrested in Chicago last Fall when Col. Roosevelt spoke there.
    Evidence was found tending to show that he shadowed Gov. Wilson in several cities in the recent campaign.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Threatens To Kill Wilson.

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