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.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Navy Wireless Overland.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 27, 1912:
Mare Island Sends Radio Greetings to Arlington for First Time.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. — For the first time a wireless Christmas greeting was flashed last night from the Mare Island Navy Yard on the Pacific Coast to Washington.
The message was from Capt. Mayo, the Commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard, and was received by the giant radio station at Arlington. It conveyed the wishes of Capt. Mayo and other officers at the navy yard to the Secretary of the Navy and the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, for "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Navy Wireless Overland.

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