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| 1914 Boston Braves were the come from behind team. |
Rainy & cool all day. Wore overcoat & went down on the car. Read in the aft.
Cliff dropped in in eve & we played H.L.J.&G. He beat 4-6.
Took bath and to bed.
Germans captured Antwerp a few days ago - now marching toward Ostend. Belgians and allies in successful retreat.
World series - Boston has won 2 games from Philadelphia.
Author note: the teams in the series are the Boston Braves and the Philadelphia Athletics. Also I finally found out that H. L. J. & G stands for High Low Jack and Game. It's a card game.
Oct 13
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| Minneapolis YMCA |
Quite cold in morning & evening. Cleaned up in mid of day. Wore overcoat took car. Went down town in aft. bought (word unclear) sweater for $4.95, 2 pr. 25 cents wool sox for 38 cents & a pair of W. L. Douglas shoes for $3.50. Thought that I lost a dollar but after getting home in eve. found it in my pocketbook.
Walked up to Y.M. & had bean supper. City Attorney talked on honesty. Did not stay for discussion.
Came home with Stan and George. Did lessons and to bed.
Boston has won 4 games (the series)
Cool. Antwerp and the Belgian resistance was key to WWI as a whole. The Schlieffen plan (German operational plan at the start of the war) was to quickly run through Belgium and overwhelm French forces in the first days of the war and before the Russians could mobilize to create a second front. The Belgians put up an unexpectedly fierce fight and delayed the German for weeks. That gave the French and British enough time to prepare for the Battle of the Marne which is pretty much where German forward momentum stopped for the rest of the war. Trench warfare began at this point. The Russians also mobilized much more quickly than the Germans predicted. The future of the war was in many ways set by the first couple of weeks in Belgium. The Belgian king, who led his forces and fought from a slice of held ground throughout the war while the queen worked as a field nurse, tried to broker a "no victors, no vanquished" peace, but both sides turned it down: decisions which had pretty horrific consequences.
ReplyDeleteDo you think the comment about rattling the bones refers to dicing? Did you notice the sign advertising Burlesk? The spelling has certainly been spruced up since then.
ReplyDeleteIn my research I've seen lots of crazy spellings of both Burlesque and Vaudeville. It must have taken them awhile to nail it down.
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