We're Still Not Going Back -- November 15, 2024

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We're still not going back.

KPO to Give Special Armistice Day Music -- November 14, 2024

San Francisco Examiner, 11-November-1924

San Francisco's pioneering radio station KPO (now KNBR) broadcast a special music program on Armistice Day, 1924 (11-November 1924). The music was composed by "the talented blind composer" Joseph B Cary. I can't find much about Cary except that he wrote a popular song, "When Honey Sings an Old Time Tune."

And His Murderer Hanged by a Mob -- November 13, 2024

Fresno Bee, 02-November-1899

This victim might well have committed the crime, but he had a right to a fair trial instead of being hanged to a tree.

Fletcher Henderson -- November 12, 2024

Pittsburgh Courier, 01-November-1924

Fletcher Henderson led the most important jazz band in New York, which played for much of the year at the Savoy Ballroom. Louis Armstrong joined the band late in the year. The Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper, asked readers to vote for Henderson as "the most popular artist on radio."

Happy Veterans Day, 2024 -- November 11, 2024

San Francisco Examiner, 11-November-1924

Happy Veterans Day to all the veterans out there. Thank you for your service to our country.

California's Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco's Lincoln Park, was dedicated 100 years ago today, on Armistice Day, 11-November-1924. Philanthropist and irresistible force Alma Spreckels paid for the museum. The building is a copy of the French pavilion at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The pavilion was a reduced-scale model of the original Palace of the Legion of Honor,

Comic Book -- Two-Fisted Tales -- November 10, 2024

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Veterans Day is coming.

Two-Fisted Tales was a famous war comic from EC. This cover of this issue shows two Marines who have been through hell. The cover promises "A document of the action at the Changjin Reservoir." This battle, one of the Marine Corps' most famous, is more commonly called the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. If you have never heard of it, look it up.

Pulp -- War Stories -- November 9, 2024

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Veterans Day is coming.

Soldiers of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) at the front during World War One.