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.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Earthquake Upsets A Lamp.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 10, 1912:
And Three Hundred Houses Are Burned In a Turkish Town.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug:. 9.— The upsetting of a lamp by a severe earthquake to-day started a conflagration at Chorlu, on the Adrianople line. Three hundred houses have already been destroyed and the fire is still raging.
The shock drove all the inhabitants of this city into the streets, but little damage was done.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, August 10, 2012

Earthquake Upsets A Lamp.

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