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The Daily Colonist, September 16, 1914

Tue, 2014/09/16 - 8:42am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

News from the European fronts continues to be more of the same. The Germans are in retreat and the Austrians are in disarray. Most of the news is about the German push toward Paris being a failure, but no real details and virtually nothing new since yesterday.

• Austrians drafting younger men
• Canada sending cavalry
• Financial cost of the war
• Irish independence postponed
• Ukrainian interment picking up steam
• Records replacing cylinders


The Daily Colonist, September 15, 1914

Mon, 2014/09/15 - 8:07am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

• German retreats
• Germans capture trans-Pacific cable relay station
• 1916 Olympics likely to be cancelled
• Ads that caught my eye


Addendum to The Daily Colonist for September 13, 1914

Sat, 2014/09/13 - 1:45pm

#dailycolonist1914 - This is too good not to give its own post. In the summary of the fighting in Galicia (a province of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire) the paper makes an aside to characterize the Galician people, saying that anyone who has...


The Daily Colonist, September 13, 1914

Sat, 2014/09/13 - 9:58am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

The war reporting is frustratingly vague again: an advance here, a retreat there, nothing substantial and all of it happening on an abstract, unimaginable scale. German news reporting is lampooned as ridiculous propaganda and the Germans are made out to be callous villains while the Austrians are cowards.

• Aerial battle over France
• Canadian troops to be deployed
• New moon discovered around Jupiter
• and more...


The Daily Colonist, September 12, 1914

Fri, 2014/09/12 - 8:31am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

Once again the news from the Western and Russian fronts is sweeping in scope, vague, and doesn't really say anything. Topics I've picked out today include:
• censorship
• suspicious activity in Calgary
• Deepest, darkest Africa
• and some local interest and beautiful illustrations.


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