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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(In the latter port of entry, some 3,500 US soldiers and civilians were based at Prince Rupert’s Acropolis Hill, nicknamed Little America by the locals. Among the soldiers stationed there to protect the accessway inland was my grandfather, who hailed from Las Vegas, New Mexico.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(This route was similar to that selected by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s commission engaged in 1938. Its cost was estimated at $25 million. After the war started, the project was realized with work materials and equipment shipped north overland from the States and through Prince Rupert.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1941 (Oct. 15): Also before the US entry into World War II, the Alaska Highway Commission, choosing between three routes (A – via mountains relatively coast to the coast; B – via the interior of British Columbia and Yukon; C – the prairie route further inland), selects route B.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1940 (Oct. 15): Draft registration began in the United States, with some 16 million men estimated as meeting the criteria for conscription. Though the US wouldn’t be in the war for another year, the first lottery for selecting draftees was held two weeks later.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(In Denver, cases spiked as a result of gatherings in open air assemblies. Manager of Health and Charity William H. Sharpley banned these, and set carrying limits on streetcars.)

Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(In Chicago, all theaters, movie houses, night schools, and public gatherings were closed indefinitely. Public resentment followed as reporting in the Chicago Tribune began to refer to Health Commissioner John Dill Robertson as “his highness.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1918 (Oct. 15): Over the coming week, Luna County, New Mexico, suffered a shortage of doctors when the health official for the county became bed-ridden with the flu.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(He promised the people that elections would again be fair, and that he wouldn’t run again after his term ended. Indeed, it could be argued he kept the latter promise - before the end of his term, he was overthrown in a US-sponsored coup by Gen. Victoriano Huerta and assassinated while in custody.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1911 (Oct. 15): Francisco I. Madero, recently victorious in getting Porfirio Diaz to resign, defeated radicals Francisco Leon de la Barra and Emilio Vazquez Gomez in elections for President of Mexico, obtaining an overwhelming 99 percent of the vote.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“These good people became tangled up in the sweet and silken threads of matrimony at Sandusky, Ohio, a half-century ago and now in the afternoon of life, as they sit hand in hand serenely watching rosy rays of light flashed upward by the setting sun, they form a most beautiful domestic tableau.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1897 (Oct. 15): The Santa Fe New Mexican, normally not a fan of the Democratic ex-governor, nevertheless reported: “Ex-Gov. and Mrs. Edmund G. Ross (born Fannie Lathrop) celebrated their golden wedding at Albuquerque on Friday.”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“Porfirio, faithful to his promise of capturing the criminal, handed him to Sheriff Cuningham of Santa Fe, and to Messrs. Joe Dougherty and Juan Navarro from Mora. The arrest was made at Grant Station. The arresters along with the criminal passed through Las Vegas at night on their way to Mora.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“Thomas Lucero was a fugitive on whose shoulders weighed the crime of having been one of those who so cowardly murdered former Sheriff John Dougherty in Mora.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1894 (Oct. 15): La Voz del Pueblo of Las Vegas reported: “Some time ago, Porfirio Trujillo, who was being held in prison, was released under the condition that he help capture Tomas Lucero.”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1893 (Oct. 15): The Plaza Hotel on Las Vegas’ Plaza Viejo closed down for some unknown reason after supper. The Santa Fe New Mexican wrote: “This leaves only the Depot Hotel with only half a dozen sleeping rooms and one or two second class hotels in the town.”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“Superintendent T. J. Helm of the Santa Fe Southern is smiling the smile of the just these days. His little road is now handling on an average of 40 cars of freight per week.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1892 (Oct. 15): The Santa Fe New Mexican reported: “The Cerrillos Coal Road began running branch trains yesterday over its White Ash spur. Some $30,000 will be paid out for labor among its employees today.”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“They also returned with the man’s rifle, which they found undisturbed in the house, a rope and some carpenter’s tools, leaving at his cabin a lot of camping goods.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“When the news was reported to Acting Marshal Van Leuven, he notified Justice of the Peace Denham and Frank Gibbs, the embalmer at Strong’s undertaking. They left about 7:30 o’clock at night for San Lorenzo Springs and returned with the body the next morning.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“The bed was not disturbed from a night’s sleep and getting his over-vest placed it over the face of the murdered man, leaving the body on the ground as it was found. They then returned to the camp and Mr. Pratt with his family drove rapidly into Albuquerque bringing the dreadful tidings.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“Mr. Whitcomb got out of the buggy and on going over to the body discovered that the whole of the right side of the jaw and chin, also a portion of that side of the face, was blown away. The gentlemen then entered the unfortunate man’s cabin, which they found in good repair.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“On nearing Wooton’s about 6 p.m., the latter’s horse, tied to the limb of a tree about 50 yards from the cabin, commenced neighing, but they continued on toward the cabin and were startled to find Daniel P. Wooton lying prone on his stomach at the wood pile and about 20 feet from the cabin.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“He sent a Mexican employee out to find the colt. After searching the mountains for several hours without success the Mexican returned to the camp. F.G. Pratt, newly arrived, suggested that after dinner he & Mr. Whitcomb could go over to the home of Daniel P. Wooton to see if the colt was there.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

#ThisDayIn 1891 (Oct. 15): The Albuquerque Weekly Citizen reports the gruesome murder of Daniel P. Wooton: “In the morning, Mr. Whitcomb of Camp Whitcomb near San Lorenzo Springs in the Sandia Mountains found that one of his young colts had strayed from its stable.”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 6h

(“It is a magnificent specimen of the national bird, and will soon occupy a conspicuous position in Mr. Liebschner’s meat market.” The Lincoln Golden Era reported: “Some talk of having a telephone line from Lincoln to Fort Stanton. Good idea.”)

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