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.

Monday, August 5, 2013

American Held For Ransom.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 5, 1913:
Mexican Bandits Carry Engineer to Mountain Retreat.
EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 4.— G. Duthe, American power plant engineer of the lumber mills of the Madera Company at Pearson, Chihuahua, is a prisoner of Maximo Castillo's gang of bandits, who are holding him for a ransom in their mountain camp, two miles from that town, according to a report received at the local offices of the Pearson syndicate late this afternoon.
C. H. Cooper. Superintendent of the Pearson mill, was held up in his quarters last Wednesday night by five bandits of the same band and forced to open the company's safe and deliver 1,200 pesos to them.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, August 5, 2013

American Held For Ransom.

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