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.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Steamer Captain Arrested.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 11, 1912:
Accused of Failure to Comply with the Wireless Law.
BOSTON, Dec. 10.— Charged with failure to comply with the law regulating wireless communication from steamers, Capt. Frederick Shepherd of the British steamer Winifredian, from Liverpool, was arrested here to-day.
It was alleged the Captain had not arranged efficient communication between the bridge of the steamer and the operator. He was held in $500 for a hearing on Jan. 12.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Steamer Captain Arrested.

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