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.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Last Pacific Dike To Go.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 14, 1913:
Canal Open from Miraflores for Light Vessels Aug. 25.
PANAMA, Aug. 13.— The destruction of the last dike in the Pacific section of the Panama Canal between the Miraflores locks and the ocean will take place about Aug. 25.
The event will lack somewhat the spectacular features attending the dynamiting of the dike in the same locality some time ago, but will mark an important step toward the completion of the canal by establishing uninterrupted water communication for vessels of light draft between Miraflores and the Pacific.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Last Pacific Dike To Go.

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