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, August 16, 2012

Rebels Behead American.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 16, 1912:
Headless Body of Rowan Ayers, Civil Engineer, Found Near Morelia.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15.— Beheaded by rebels after they had carried him away as a captive from a point near Morelia, the capital of Michicosa, was the fate of Rowan Ayers, an American civil engineer, according to official reports given out to-day by the Minister of War to American Ambassador Wilson.
The capture of Ayers was reported to the embassy several days ago, and Mr. Wilson requested the War Department to send out a detachment of troops, but word came from Morelia that a searching party had discovered the headless body of Ayers.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Rebels Behead American.

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