Good morning.
We’ll have rain today in the Whippet City, with a high of fifty-nine. We can expect between a quarter and a half inch of rain.
Server upgrade: Over the night, my sites saw their second server upgrade in a year, to keep up with traffic. FREE WHITEWATER, Daily Wisconsin, and Daily Adams now have a spiffy new server, replacing an earlier upgrade from 2012.
Everything’s working properly. I owe it all to the very fine people who host these sites, who have always provided the best care one could find. They’ve stood behind me for years, and I with them. Many thanks, Annette.
On this day in 1914, combatants begin digging trenches along the front lines during World War I:
In the wake of the Battle of the Marne—during which Allied troops halted the steady German push through Belgium and France that had proceeded over the first month of World War I—a conflict both sides had expected to be short and decisive turns longer and bloodier, as Allied and German forces begin digging the first trenches on the Western Front on September 15, 1914.
The trench system on the Western Front in World War I—fixed from the winter of 1914 to the spring of 1918—eventually stretched from the North Sea coast of Belgium southward through France, with a bulge outwards to contain the much-contested Ypres salient. Running in front of such French towns as Soissons, Reims, Verdun, St. Mihiel and Nancy, the system finally reached its southernmost point in Alsace, at the Swiss border. In total the trenches built during World War I, laid end-to-end, would stretch some 25,000 miles—12,000 of those miles occupied by the Allies, and the rest by the Central Powers.
On this day in 1832, a treaty with the Ho Chunk is inked:
1832 – Ho-Chunk Treaty Signed
On this date a a treaty was signed between the Ho-Chunk and the United States that stipulated that the Ho-Chunk cede lands lying to the south and east of the Wisconsin river as well as lands around the Fox river of Green Bay. [Source:Oklahoma State University Library]